For all the fully-deserved criticism the NYT has gotten for its coverage decisions in recent years, I don’t think its headline writers have gotten nearly enough criticism.
This is actually a well-constructed piece (the real point is in the kicker), totally hung out to dry by an awful hed/dek.
This is actually a well-constructed piece (the real point is in the kicker), totally hung out to dry by an awful hed/dek.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
For all the fully-deserved criticism the NYT has gotten for its coverage decisions in recent years, I don’t think its headline writers have gotten nearly enough criticism.
This is actually a well-constructed piece (the real point is in the kicker), totally hung out to dry by an awful hed/dek.
This is actually a well-constructed piece (the real point is in the kicker), totally hung out to dry by an awful hed/dek.
If I’ve got my timeline right, this is Larry Summers emailing his buddy Jeff Epstein for advice on how to creep on younger women *a couple days* after the publication of the Miami Herald piece that made him the country’s most infamous sexual predator.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
If I’ve got my timeline right, this is Larry Summers emailing his buddy Jeff Epstein for advice on how to creep on younger women *a couple days* after the publication of the Miami Herald piece that made him the country’s most infamous sexual predator.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Please, people. It’s Friday. We don’t have to do this.
if you try to talk to me about olivia nuzzi i will treat it as a hostile threat and respond accordingly
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Please, people. It’s Friday. We don’t have to do this.
I’d never heard of the writer in question (whose identity I immediately surmised) before I signed up for this app. I’ve still never read anything he’s written. I’ve never heard his name spoken IRL. I really don’t need to be informed the second he publishes a new piece — I’ll just assume it’s bad.
I really think that the best way to stop an intellectually anemic stylistically milquetoast bad-faith paycheck troll from winning is to stop turning every quarter-assed essay he publishes into the quote-tweet Super Bowl, but by all means, keep fighting your battle as you see fit
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I’d never heard of the writer in question (whose identity I immediately surmised) before I signed up for this app. I’ve still never read anything he’s written. I’ve never heard his name spoken IRL. I really don’t need to be informed the second he publishes a new piece — I’ll just assume it’s bad.
This is driving me nuts. He’s definitely not saying that Trump had Thanksgiving with him at his house *while president* in 2017, which is surely something someone could easily disprove. Dumb to pick this up instead of the 500 more incriminating things in those emails.
Why are the Dems spreading fake stuff when there is so much real stuff? The email just seems to be Epstein saying Trump was down in Palm Beach that holiday.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is driving me nuts. He’s definitely not saying that Trump had Thanksgiving with him at his house *while president* in 2017, which is surely something someone could easily disprove. Dumb to pick this up instead of the 500 more incriminating things in those emails.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
Of all the shitty assholes inexplicably given positions of power and influence in liberal institutions for decades, Larry Summers is certainly one of the dumbest.
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Of all the shitty assholes inexplicably given positions of power and influence in liberal institutions for decades, Larry Summers is certainly one of the dumbest.
The absolute worst part of my previous job was when @willharrisinva.bsky.social would file an 8,000-word interview, I would go in intending to give it a ruthless edit, and somehow I couldn’t find anything to cut.
Will is a GOAT-level interviewer. Listen to his podcast.
Will is a GOAT-level interviewer. Listen to his podcast.
Given that this podcast has only been in existence for a few days, what's it gonna hurt to drop two episodes during the first week? So here's Ep. 2 of "Letting Them Talk with Will Harris," wherein I let Mitch Easter talk.
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Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 2 - Mitch Easter
Because this podcast is new enough that it can't hurt to drop two episodes during its first week of existence.
willharris.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The absolute worst part of my previous job was when @willharrisinva.bsky.social would file an 8,000-word interview, I would go in intending to give it a ruthless edit, and somehow I couldn’t find anything to cut.
Will is a GOAT-level interviewer. Listen to his podcast.
Will is a GOAT-level interviewer. Listen to his podcast.
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Taylor Momsen doing “Rusty Cage” with Soundgarden… I was clearly not familiar with her game.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Taylor Momsen doing “Rusty Cage” with Soundgarden… I was clearly not familiar with her game.
What’s more impressive to the NYT’s political numbers guy: winning a VA gubernatorial race by 2 points with 3.3.M turnout, or winning a VA gubernatorial race by 14 points with 3.4M turnout? The answer may surprise you…
GM, Nate Cohn at his best sports pundit last night, already making up reasons why this one doesn't count
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What’s more impressive to the NYT’s political numbers guy: winning a VA gubernatorial race by 2 points with 3.3.M turnout, or winning a VA gubernatorial race by 14 points with 3.4M turnout? The answer may surprise you…
Just to be clear, this was the *only* thing on the CA ballot. There was no reason to return your ballot except to vote on this.
Holy shit, the Prop 50 turnout was massive! NYT projecting 10.6 million votes, CA GOV 2022 was 10.9M votes.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Just to be clear, this was the *only* thing on the CA ballot. There was no reason to return your ballot except to vote on this.
I attended my first Dodger game as a little kid in the first night of the LA riots.
It’s genuinely astonishing how normal it’s become since then to see video of cops openly clubbing people, on camera, in situations where no crimes are being committed and they’re in no personal danger whatsoever.
It’s genuinely astonishing how normal it’s become since then to see video of cops openly clubbing people, on camera, in situations where no crimes are being committed and they’re in no personal danger whatsoever.
LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I attended my first Dodger game as a little kid in the first night of the LA riots.
It’s genuinely astonishing how normal it’s become since then to see video of cops openly clubbing people, on camera, in situations where no crimes are being committed and they’re in no personal danger whatsoever.
It’s genuinely astonishing how normal it’s become since then to see video of cops openly clubbing people, on camera, in situations where no crimes are being committed and they’re in no personal danger whatsoever.
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parents 8 years from now: yoshinobu yamamoto you go to your room this instant!
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
parents 8 years from now: yoshinobu yamamoto you go to your room this instant!
Yamamoto for mayor.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Yamamoto for mayor.
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America’s game.
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
America’s game.
Between the last two Waxahatchee records, the Plains album, and her songs on this one, Katie Crutchfield is probably America’s greatest songwriter at the moment.
Snocaps reviewed: meet Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook’s Americana supergroup
Snocaps reviewed: meet Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook's Americana supergroup
Snocaps debut album reviewed: scrappy Americana supergroup founded by Waxahatachee, MJ Lenderman and others
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October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Between the last two Waxahatchee records, the Plains album, and her songs on this one, Katie Crutchfield is probably America’s greatest songwriter at the moment.
If I’m ever named publisher of the NYT due to some hilarious probate court mix-up, one of my Day One policies will be an automatic additional round of edits for any article that mentions an Ivy League university, to be conducted by myself.
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If I’m ever named publisher of the NYT due to some hilarious probate court mix-up, one of my Day One policies will be an automatic additional round of edits for any article that mentions an Ivy League university, to be conducted by myself.
One of the great joys of marrying into a very large, close-knit family was having an ever-expanding group of people start referring to me as “tío.”
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of the great joys of marrying into a very large, close-knit family was having an ever-expanding group of people start referring to me as “tío.”
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.