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reporter @business . lapsed philadelphian. co-author of Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

Joined March 2013
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Ted Mann
10 months
Let him go. #IStandWithEvan
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Andrew Cuomo spent $1 billion to build a factory for Elon Musk — a would be solar panel factory that was supposed to save Buffalo. What the state got in return: “the biggest economic development boondoggle in American history.” From @bykowicz and me.
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lol AP got around Microsoft no-commenting them on Bing by asking Bing
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we know this much: it would be really funny to hear Cuomo’s new position on who is responsible for the subway
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katie honan
5 months
New poll from @slingshotstrat finds former Gov. Cuomo would win a hypothetical election if @NYCMayor steps down. Approval for the mayor among the 600 registered voters polled is at 36% (Quinnipiac polled 1,297 registered voters, for contrast, and he had a 28% approval)
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Ted Mann
10 months
Our colleague Evan Gershkovich has been unjustly held by Russia for 16 long weeks. With help from the National Press Club, we are reading his work for 24 straight hours. Please tune in, share his story, and join us in demanding that he be set free. #IStandwithEvan
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Paul Beckett
10 months
Here is the link for the next 24 hours of Evan Gershkovich’s colleagues, family and friends reading his excellent journalism - please tune in often to discover his work. #IStandWithEvan
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Day 1. So happy to be here. Still so bad at photos. @business
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3 months
While we wait to hear what they're going to do to the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau, a reminder that this isn't a startup that burned through its seed corn with no plan. Dow Jones' publisher was boasting about record profit margins to investors less than a month ago.
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Management confirms "restructuring" of @WSJ DC Bureau. Staff meeting today at 10:30. @IAPE1096 will be there.
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Ted Mann
8 months
The subways’ vulnerability to rain-driven floods has been painfully obvious at least since the floods in 2007. There has been some improvement, but it’s wild to see how spotty the hardening of the system has been in all this time.
@NYCTSubway
NYCT Subway
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There is only extremely limited subway service available because of heavy flooding caused by rainfall. Service may be suspended on certain stations. Check to see if service is running at your station.
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8 months
POISON IVY: DeSantis and Ramaswamy are the latest Republicans to lambaste higher ed in search of populist clout. They would also really like to remind you that they went to Harvard and Yale. from @bykowicz and me
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1 year
Elon Musk says he can revolutionize tunnel-building. Mayors across the country take note. Hijinks, and not much tunneling, ensue. @bykowicz and me on the Boring Company, and whether there’s anything there.
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1 year
RIP Russell Banks. 'The Sweet Hereafter' is perfect. And so is this, which he found abandoned in an upstate library doing research for 'Cloudsplitter,' and which I found procrastinating in the stack on a bad Baldwin thesis. May I present the fountain(s) of youth.
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11 months
a truly classic NYC pissing match is unfolding, with all the necessary ingredients involved: real estate, money, political egos, and everyone not wanting James Dolan to be happy if they can help it
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Stefanos Chen
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The latest bid to rebuild Penn Station would demolish a theater on the west side of Madison Square Garden and encase the arena in a neoclassical-inspired stone podium. Expected cost: $6B, about a billion less than the MTA's proposal (w/ @danarubinstein )
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3 months
Disgraceful of Carlson to suggest Evan was “breaking [their] law.” He wasn’t. Carlson knows that. Evan is a law-abiding, decent reporter being held hostage for geopolitical leverage. He should be released immediately. #iStandwithEvan
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Michael M. Grynbaum
3 months
Tucker Carlson asks Putin if he's willing to release @evangershkovich "and we'll bring him back to the United States." Putin is noncommittal. Carlson: "He's a kid, and maybe he was breaking your law in some way, but he's not a super spy."
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1 year
imagine stumbling on this scene and thinking the concrete and green paint were in the wrong
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3 months
Still fun. ⁦ @joe_palazzolo ⁩ ⁦ @khadeeja_safdar
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11 months
@nycsouthpaw it was formative for me as a reporter to realize that a core fact in a SC case (assumed true even in the dissent) could be totally false. and this seems substantially worse than that.
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1 year
chisel “traits of an armed person” into the wall of the cop speak hall of fame
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Stephon Dingle WJZ
1 year
NEW: Baltimore Police say the person shot was 17 years old, saying he was displaying traits of an armed person before he took off running. Officers rendered aid and the 17 year old is in critical condition. @wjz
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1 year
63 days ago, Russia took our colleague Evan Gershkovich prisoner. It's part of a pattern of cynical hostage diplomacy. Repeat his name, read his work, and join us in demanding that he be free. #IStandwithEvan
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Ted Mann
1 year
Our colleague, Evan Gershkovich, has been held by Russia on bogus charges for eight weeks. Share his name, spread his story. Demand that he be freed. #IStandWithEvan
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Ted Mann
2 months
Well, this is great. Congratulations @bykowicz ! No one works harder, thinks more creatively about stories, or more consistently makes her coworkers’ stories better. (I would know.) The Banner is so lucky to have you.
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Ted Mann
8 months
Such calm and grace. We are proud to call him a colleague. Let him go. #IStandwithEvan
@BBCSteveR
Steve Rosenberg
8 months
Just seen Evan Gershkovich at an appeal hearing in Moscow.
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Ted Mann
1 year
The debate over congestion pricing in New York City has been going on for a literal human generation. Sitting congressmen from the NYC burbs pretending they don't understand its most basic elements is very weird. (Same goes for not understanding what an operating subsidy is.)
@RepJoshG
Rep Josh Gottheimer
1 year
I’m calling for a congressional oversight hearing to demand answers from the @MTA and require testimony, under oath, from the MTA CEO on how $15 billion COVID tax dollars were squandered, & why the MTA is hitting families with the #CongestionTax . @1010Wins
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To refresh the Acela, Amtrak spent $2 billion for a fleet of brand-new trains. There's a problem: getting them to run on the same old railroad. Why the new Acelas are running *years* late:
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1 year
after Enron, a friend of a friend came back from her job at Arthur Andersen with a box of corporate branded candies we called them the indict mints
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Eliot Brown
1 year
Silicon Valley Bank cheese boards: now going for $200
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2 years
the national anthem
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1 year
tired: I have a bridge I'd like to sell you wired:
@RyanQuarlesKY
Ryan Quarles
1 year
Friends of Louisville, imagine an infrastructure project that would transform our Commonwealth’s largest city into the modern age with a tunnel project that will connect Jefferson County, reduce traffic congestion, and will expand our tourism opportunities.
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Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon is facing new legal demands from women who accuse him of sexual assault, including a previously unreported allegation of assault from 2011, and a 1986 allegation of rape. From @joe_palazzolo and me
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1 year
“They will take down the worst ac­tors here and there, but their bread is but­tered by peo­ple like Alex Jones. Alex Jones made them a lot of money.” The quiet battle between Twitter and Facebook and the families of Sandy Hook.
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Ted Mann
7 months
This is really great.
@juliaioffe
Julia Ioffe
7 months
The final episode of my podcast about Putin’s childhood, “About a Boy,” is out today! I hope you like listening to it as much as I loved making it.
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10 months
the edit page casually suggesting, based on no evidence, that the president is directing prosecution decisions about charging Donald Trump
@BGrueskin
Bill Grueskin
10 months
"At least Watergate involved a burglary." -- WSJ edit page on the superseding indictment alleging Trump plotted to destroy evidence
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You could be forgiven for thinking Amtrak’s plans to overhaul Baltimore’s Penn Station would remain the stuff of renderings and wishful thinking. But here, as elsewhere, a trickle of investment has become a flood, and a new station is rising.
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6 months
Chuck Schumer, a bit unintentionally, with the sad truth of what gets built and why in American infrastructure: “With so much money already there, there’s virtually no chance it won’t be completed,” Mr. Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, said in a brief interview.
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Vince McMahon has been accused of abuse and sex trafficking by a former WWE employee he offered $3 million for her silence. Suing to break her NDA, she alleges a pattern of coercion, battery and degrading acts. from @khadeeja_safdar w @joe_palazzolo and me
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1 year
"This is not really the M.O. in D.C., a town where careerism enabled by professional childcare is the norm. I can count with the fingers on one, maybe two hands the number of times a male colleague has brought his kid to a 'grown-up' political event."
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8 months
One day I hope to be as flexible as a New Jersey politician's understanding of the verb "exonerate."
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4 months
Important context to the UFT trying to kill congestion pricing (and a huge new stream of mass transit funding) on behalf of the tiny minority of workers who drive into Manhattan -->
@ndhapple
Nolan Hicks
4 months
And for those with long-ish memories, six years ago: "Time for some more parking problems in the Big Apple. In an election-year gift, the de Blasio administration is issuing up to 50,000 more car placards to [DOE workers]"
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It's an admirable goal, but my goodness, "straightening" is doing a lot of lifting here... You and whose property acquisition fund.
@Bobby4Brooklyn
Assemblymember Robert Carroll
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If the necessary upgrades were made (straightening and route wide electrification) NYC to Montreal would become extremely popular. Average speed of 90mph would easily make it more desirable than plane or driving. NYC to Albany is already one of Amtrak’s most popular routes.
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Ted Mann
9 months
the stars, they’re just like us
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John Hudson
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Putin says Prigozhin was a “talented person” who “made serious mistakes.”
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@TheAmaraReport @IAPE1096 @WSJ you are great, and you deserved much better than this
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Ted Mann
9 months
seems like a call for a trans-Pacific partnership of some sort
@Linda_McMahon
Linda McMahon
9 months
China has signed up 155 Countries (out of 195) and 32 International Organizations for the BRI -Bridges – Roads Initiative. This accounts for half the world populations and half the world’s GDP. When will America Stand Up and Take Notice?
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. @NewsCorp 's Dow Jones unit, which publishes @WSJ , has seen nice revenue growth in recent years. Employees, not so much. I’m supporting the @IAPE1096 proposal to bring our wages back to where they were before the pandemic! $NWSA #IAPEStrong
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Ted Mann
8 months
Someone had an accident.
@MattLaslo
Matt Laslo
8 months
Found on a baby changing table in restroom underneath House floor: “Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant,” from Rep. @mattgaetz , Sept. 15, 2023, 11:22am
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11 months
@WesleyLowery I know you know, but to be clear, the actual newsroom isn’t engaged in crisis comms for anybody.
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2 years
@adamlisberg @2AvSagas @MTA for less than $11 billion they should have combined the two railroads they own or at least made them share the largest train station in the world
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2 years
smh, hubble
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hmm "He had a genius for victimization, which he would fall back on in response to criticism of his policies or of his personal behavior or to investigations into accusations that swirled around him"
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1 year
Just finished my friend @NKingofDC ’s American Ramble, a book about a guy who walked out of his house in Washington and didn’t stop until he reached New York. Which is to say it is a book about a lot of thoughts and people, and the marks both of those leave on the land.
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That's... that's Vince McMahon's music... scoop from @laurenthomas
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inspector general generally inspected
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The Wall Street Journal
1 year
A federal regulator has suspended its inspector general after an oversight body found that he engaged in “substantial misconduct,” including wasting government funds, outing whistleblowers and disparaging employees
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1 year
Don’t look away. Russia has taken our friend and colleague hostage. #FreeEvan
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David Enrich
1 year
Such an outrageous, upsetting situation.
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Ted Mann
10 months
poverty is a barely escapable racket, part one million or so nothing makes it clearer than the policy choices that compel low-income workers to own cars
@marincogan
Marin Cogan
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An auto-dependent society puts tremendous pressure on low-income people to own cars. A car can eat up someone’s budget, expose them to predatory lenders who hurt their credit, or worse. And they're getting more expensive. My latest for @voxdotcom
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Karen was the epitome of the happy warrior: so kind and so dedicated to the cause.
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Ken Doyle
1 year
Karen Hobert Flynn, Common Cause leader and CT reformer, dies
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“He has never cared about America, its citizens, its future or anything but himself." Smart @jdawsey1 look at all the former Trumpers who fear his return to power, and how little his supporters seem to care.
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@tomgara the Hazy center is essentially a monument to Dad Vibes so much plaque reading, so much opportunity for half remembered history channel riffing. huge ass things all over the place. Daddymandias.
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11 months
furthermore: She preferred, she said, to remain unmarried, explaining that “men are awfully hard work for very little reward.”
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5 months
the take we were waiting for, setting up the tree now
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Walter Hickey
5 months
wild that Michael Caine was in The Muppet Christmas Carol and it's still not even close to the best Christmas movie he was in, which is obviously Children of Men
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1 year
strange but true!
@BGrueskin
Bill Grueskin
1 year
Time for another installment of, "The Man Who Wrote This Paragraph For The WSJ Edit Page Used to Run The WSJ Newsroom, Believe It Or Not."
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@joe_palazzolo McMahon has told people he isn't going to pay, fumed about being advised to retire, and talked about making a comeback...
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10 months
the cringey rapping character in a mandatory corporate don't-get-phished training video
@dnvolz
Dustin Volz
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new meme just dropped
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9 months
“It’s too soon to negotiate about AI” when every creative industry’s workers are trying to determine how much economic damage it will do to their people. Come on.
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IAPE TNG/CWA 1096
9 months
That moment when mgmt says it can't respond to your contract proposal on AI, because the company is still reviewing the effects of AI, and then announces a new EVP of AI. 🤔
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7 months
“Everyone’s having to do layoffs.” Really? Why?
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IAPE TNG/CWA 1096
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"Everyone's having to do layoffs" is never a valid justification for layoffs. #WSJHongKong
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1 year
I can’t believe I’m learning that our style is “the c-word” from something other than a Preet Bharara wiretap in Albany.
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News business bean counters keep doing dumb things. This is a huge loss for New York.
@ndhapple
Nolan Hicks
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Two mayors, two govs, two MTA chairs and god knows how many budgets — proud of the stories on billion dollar stations, unequal COVID and mpox vaccine access, kids left in lead-tainted apartments, and unsafe shelters. It’s been a good run. Got laid off. Will be at the bar.
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It’s about protecting the kids, you see.
@HenryJGomez
Henry J. Gomez
1 year
“A Black reporter from the Beacon Journal assigned to cover the event left, for his own safety, after being called a racial slur several times by protesters.”
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Happy Earth Day to Oklahoma Republicans, who got mad at banks over ESG, banned the big ones for being oil "boycotters," and thereby racked up $185 million in excess municipal borrowing costs in less than two years. (They are, now, um, rethinking things.)
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New trains parked in the yard. Old ones idled to be stripped for parts. The new Acela is running late. It has cost Amtrak $140 million and counting…
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8 months
an AR-15 salesman contemplates the slaughter of 20 children with his product:
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@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
8 months
Americans own more than 20 million AR-15 rifles. How did a once-disdained weapon become an icon of the culture wars—and a huge moneymaker for the gun industry?
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@daveweigel this was a funny line to listen to after spending part of the day in a room full of remember-that-guy Trump minor characters nodding sagely at abolishing the FBI and the ATF oh, there’s policy all right…
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1 year
What it was like to raise an allegation that you have been sexually assaulted at the WWE:
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1 year
Reminder: @abrahamjoseph got Rita Chatterton on the record about her rape allegations earlier this year, along with a source who remembered hearing her account at the time. We spoke to two people who also recall her telling them about it.
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good explainer here of a rule that is also a guiding principle on the news side of The Wall Street Journal: no surprises.
@dicktofel
Richard Tofel
11 months
Just out: ⁦ @propublica ⁩ editors on Alito’s pre-buttal, the additional questions it raises, the 2 million page views so far for their story about his ethics, and why they will continue to send “no surprises” letters.
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@2AvSagas and he’s been quite consistent on it. Burgum dropped a reference to “road diets” in a visit to the WSJ Washington bureau years ago, during one of the Trump infrastructure weeks. I was amazed.
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11 months
Our colleague, Evan Gershkovich, has been held by Russia on trumped up charges for 84 days and counting. Read his work, share his story, join us in demanding that he be freed. #IStandwithEvan
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This is like a punishment for stealing something very small and stupid from Olympus.
@AlecMacGillis
Alec MacGillis
4 months
"Inside the small venue, Sting played classics like 'Every Breath You Take' and 'Roxanne' to a crowd that included executives from Uber Technologies, , OpenAI and Goldman Sachs."
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@2AvSagas Agreed, same goes for the work in places like W Broadway in lower Manhattan. But even post-Sandy so much effort went into posing next to pretend tunnel plugs that looked like canvas boobs as compared to things like raising or gating air grates…
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This was a warm, funny, tough, and decent man. I miss him already.
@2AvSagas
Second Ave. Sagas
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Former MTA Capital Construction Head Dr. Michael Horodniceanu passed away yesterday. He was known for his bowties and garrulous personality.
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“Ever generous, he bequeaths to us his craving for sensation. Just because there is nothing original under the sun doesn’t mean that adventurous souls should not be over the moon.”
@NewYorker
The New Yorker
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Should you wish to tackle the collected works of the great Romantic poet Lord Byron, now is the time, as the bicentenary of his death draws near, Anthony Lane writes.
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Read @mollyesque on Trump and the Republican Party. Or enjoy in gif form!
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1 year
@fordm shoulda just let it rip like he was identifying some marathon bomb suspects or something
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@MarketUrbanism I’m stuck on Monserrate accusing literally anyone or thing of “running amok”
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1 year
this rules
@benpershing
Ben Pershing
1 year
"Mississippi Today’s entire staff and several supporters gathered at Hal & Mal’s in downtown Jackson for the announcement"
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Ted Mann
9 months
Bosses aren't going to wait until AI has matured enough to not completely suck before using it to replace human workers. This is why @IAPE1096 and our journalism union brethren are demanding protections for our people NOW. "Wait and see" isn't an acceptable answer.
@scavendish
Steve Cavendish
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Yup, that's a Gannett paper running AI-generated high school football stories. Yup, it's terrible.
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8 months
please forward to any edgelord da Vincis you know who like to say that tunnels aren’t affected by weather
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2 years
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1 year
"Jezebel began on an internet whose casual sexism is a little shocking to revisit today. The biggest joke in America was Britney Spears’s pain, and the signature move of the top gossip blogger, Perez Hilton, was drawing semen on female celebrities’ faces."
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1 year
Baby Bus, hell yeah
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Dogged local reporting on the Boring Company’s effort to shield a public works project from legally required transparency. (The project is dead.)
@AnnieOnRecord
Annie Blanks
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The city of Kyle approved a Professional Services Agreement in May with Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. that included this bizarre clause, essentially banning city officials from speaking about TBC without TBC’s permission.
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