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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 20h

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

This is a little heavy-handed, but how else is she expected to learn what an actual journalist’s job involves?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

My recollection (I think from this episode) is that poorer New Yorkers are more likely to take the bus because so many of them live in neighborhoods that don’t have subways.

EPISODE 156: Should the Bus Be Free? With Yonah Freemark – The War on Cars

thewaroncars.org

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Although that’s kind of appropriate here; Trump wouldn’t actually create a new award, because he’s obsessed with the status symbols of the 1980s.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Great minds – or Gen Xers who need to find some cultural references from the current century?

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

The Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Excellence.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

I’d argue that “Liberty” drove policy pre-1781 and “Zionism” drove policy pre-1948. But after that they stopped being useful descriptors.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Why does Italian only borrow the worst words from English?

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Poor steward; has to work two jobs just to make ends meet.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Is the steward an apothecary, sir?

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

This is what happens when you just cut and paste from an old Eric Adams indictment.

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. On an official document?

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nitesho @nitesho.bsky.social · 2d

Last three Performances Tickets still available.

#TheAfricanCompanyPresentsRichardIII #rochesterny #theatre #drama #historical #MuCCC

www.muccc.org

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Pope Leo, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Excerpt from Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te by Pope Leo XIV:

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges."

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

"I could fix her (teach her to post better)"

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Reminds me of Chris Rock’s bit about how Shaq is rich, but the guy who pays Shaq is wealthy.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Report: Nothing Beats Seeing Yankees Lose At Home

NEW YORK—An exhaustive report drawing on data compiled over the past several decades and released Tuesday concluded that nothing beats seeing the New York Yankees lose at home. “After observing millio...

theonion.com

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

I miss the good old days when the only people who said things like “The Smurfs is an allegory for Communism” were college students who were stoned out of their minds.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

The Trump immigration plan.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Are you in the suburbs?

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

Actually, it’s called “Jewsplaining”

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

Me, sowing…

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 3d

Cycles ferried my cradle, sowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

36 times in the Tanakh. The unauthorized sequel that Johnson claims to follow probably adds a few more mentions.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

I’ve long thought of them as similar in that they both release way too much music, both new and old (Taylor’s Version is her equivalent of Dylan’s Bootleg Series), with an end of result of a handful of amazing songs surrounded by hours of forgettable nonsense.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

I found one thing I wanted, but it was a time-limited sale and I didn’t order in time. But there are actually slight deals on a couple of things my kid needs, which is nice.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

Do you live near Andrew Cuomo???

Was Cuomo’s expletive comments about Sukkot a slip of the tongue or something more?

During his 2006 run for attorney general, Cuomo reportedly mocked Jews and ‘their f***ing tree houses.’

forward.com

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 3d

There was a whole movie about Hughes in 2004 starring Leonardo DiCaprio! It won 5 Oscars and then immediately disappeared from everyone’s memory.

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