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I’ll give him that the hed is a little annoying in what I’m assuming is an attempt to be archly both-sidesy but it’s not nearly enough to complain about in this way

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 3h

If it looked so insignificant to me that I figured it had to be the guy who made the tackle, then no

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 3h

He stepped over the man’s foot!!!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 3h

One of the most bullshit taunting penalties I’ve ever seen in Mizzou-Bama just now

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15h

Waiting for Godot with Keanu and @alexwinter.com was so, so good, which just makes the guy who got mad it wasn’t a musical much more funny

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 2d

I’m seeing Godot on Friday and now the entire time I’m gonna be imagining this guy waiting for the show tunes to start

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 1d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

It really is, especially since I figured that he’d correct some of this if he was intent on staying in?

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

The sort of telling thing about this, I think, is that this disparity would be pretty obvious to anyone—the candidate, his staffers, anyone—that even just rides the bus occasionally. The bus way over-indexes on elderly or disabled passengers because it requires less walking and stair-climbing.

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 1d

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Still mystified when I meet northerners who think Auburn and Clemson are private even though I thought Syracuse was public for most of my adult life

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 2d

Dabo Swinney, Shane Beamer, and Scott Satterfield all get comped country club memberships. FOIAball got their initiation fees and invoices.

Plus, we obtained actual NIL data from the CSC.

This week's FREE newsletter is literally jam-packed with scoops.

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Head coaches get country club memberships—here's what it costs

Initiation fees and invoices for Dabo Swinney and more. Plus, NIL GO numbers.

foiaball.beehiiv.com

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Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 1d

L.A. announced that it has arrested a suspected arsonist for January's Palisades Fire. But that's changed little for residents, and it hasn't changed how much I miss my loved one who died in the fire. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

L.A. Might Finally Know Who Started the Palisades Fire

But it still doesn’t feel like closure.

www.theatlantic.com

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“Sam,” and in some cases, “Samuel” @insideoutside15.bsky.social · 1d

Put Eric Adams on Inside The NBA

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

channel-6.ghost.io

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 2d

lol oh no I wonder how many times that happened

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