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Editor, in your inbox every afternoon @Axios. Dad, pilot. Albany, NY 🍎
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Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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I'm looking for anyone that's work at a company that's either missed payroll -- or been late with paychecks. I want to hear what that's like and how that affected you. It's for a story I'm working on. [email protected]. You can also just DM me here or find me on Signal EmilyRPeck.71
January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love."

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
www.mprnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
NUUKLEAR WAR
TRUMP AND HIS TEAM ARE DISCUSSING A RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR ACQUIRING GREENLAND AND 'UTILIZING THE US MILITARY IS ALWAYS AN OPTION'- WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
January 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
HIGGS BO-GONE
Times: The British Museum is looking for a "treasure hunter" to track down the hundreds of gems, cameos and gold fragments allegedly stolen from storerooms by former curator Peter Higgs. The BM has recovered just 654 of the estimated 1,500 items stolen.

www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...
Treasure hunter wanted as British Museum races to find lost gold
An overstretched team are looking for a professional to help recover hundreds of missing items before they are destroyed or melted down
www.thetimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Gonna get this and become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. www.theverge.com/tech/846600/...
Dell made a big-ass 52-inch 6K Thunderbolt display
Slightly curved and overflowing with video inputs.
www.theverge.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
This is what the older kid up the street is for.
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Quick hit from me on the aviation angle — hundreds of flights canceled amid new FAA NOTAMs across Caribbean near Venezuela www.axios.com/2026/01/03/c...
Caribbean flights canceled as Trump strikes Venezuela
At least a few hundred flights have been canceled as of Saturday morning.
www.axios.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
January 2, 2026 at 12:40 AM
The year should start in the spring.
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The handwaving in the Stranger Things finale was just so outrageously lazy writing.
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes!
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Everyone knows Abraham Lincoln turned down the King of Siam's war elephants. What this theory presupposes is...what if he didn't?
Thirteen years ago that I discovered 1) the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln war elephants, and 2) he refused.

Consider, instead: what if he had not blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/d...
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gettin' real sick of the flu.
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ahoyhoy!
what's a good thing to say to someone for beginners
December 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Was once startled by the unexpected appearance of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Getting sworn in as mayor of Rochester in the abandoned subway
December 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Really gunning for that "best airport ham" SEO
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Flu Christmas sucks, but nothing hits like this.
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die. He had transferred his katra to Bones, and his body was resurrected by the powers of the Genesis Device.
December 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM