Marc Tracy
@marcatracy.bsky.social
Reporter at New York Times. [email protected]. I'll play through it.
It is incredibly difficult for people (myself and everyone reading this included) to appreciate how wealthy the small handful of very wealthiest Americans are, not just compared to us, but compared to *other unimaginably wealthy people* bsky.app/profile/benw...
“My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?... I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” – Musk, arguing for $1T
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It is incredibly difficult for people (myself and everyone reading this included) to appreciate how wealthy the small handful of very wealthiest Americans are, not just compared to us, but compared to *other unimaginably wealthy people* bsky.app/profile/benw...
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Nice to see the launch of "Replay Booth" a new sport history podcast by @joshuablevin.bsky.social (formerly of
@slate.com ).
There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it.
www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...
@slate.com ).
There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it.
www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...
Replay Booth, Episode 1: Wilbur Huckle for President
Two mysterious Mets-related buttons kick off a 60-year journey, with stops at the Republican Convention, a tiny town in rural Texas, and the courtroom where Donald Trump got fined $355 million.
www.replaybooth.show
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nice to see the launch of "Replay Booth" a new sport history podcast by @joshuablevin.bsky.social (formerly of
@slate.com ).
There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it.
www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...
@slate.com ).
There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it.
www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...
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That's cute, the Prince gets to sit in front of a king
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
That's cute, the Prince gets to sit in front of a king
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"Ruin the Friendship" as a rewrite of "Lycidas"
October 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Ruin the Friendship" as a rewrite of "Lycidas"
Not that long ago, I feel, Kansas's two Republican U.S. Senators would have spoken out against this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
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October 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not that long ago, I feel, Kansas's two Republican U.S. Senators would have spoken out against this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
Last year I wrote a High Holy Day amplifier playlist. Hope it still hits a year later! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/a...
Is It Too Late Now to Say Sorry? 8 Songs for the High Holy Days.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Last year I wrote a High Holy Day amplifier playlist. Hope it still hits a year later! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/a...
It's indeed happening in Broadview bsky.app/profile/notu...
On Saturday, September 27, US Air Force veteran Dana Briggs was arrested outside of the Broadview ICE detention facility. He is being charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.
September 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It's indeed happening in Broadview bsky.app/profile/notu...
September 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
September 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
TIL the chairman of the Democratic Party of the country's third-largest blue state has a completely different full-time job than doing that (he runs day camps) bsky.app/profile/dasc...
If the road to democratic renewal runs through better parties, and the formal Democratic Party is run by Jay Jacobs and his ilk, then we need a massive effort to unfuck the state parties and the "Bermuda triangle" of the DNC www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...
New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor
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September 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
TIL the chairman of the Democratic Party of the country's third-largest blue state has a completely different full-time job than doing that (he runs day camps) bsky.app/profile/dasc...
But has Mort Rifkin weighed in on whom he's voting for in November?
September 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
But has Mort Rifkin weighed in on whom he's voting for in November?
Need an onion article about the guy who puts his bag down at a table in the coffee shop before getting in line for a coffee
September 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Need an onion article about the guy who puts his bag down at a table in the coffee shop before getting in line for a coffee
Still laughing at the Christgau line (the Marcus line surely the most famous sentence in the history of rock criticism) files.slack.com/files-tmb/T0...
September 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Still laughing at the Christgau line (the Marcus line surely the most famous sentence in the history of rock criticism) files.slack.com/files-tmb/T0...
Decoder Ring is so good bsky.app/profile/kati...
Congrats to 4 (!!) @slate.com podcasts -- Decoder Ring, Death, Sex & Money, Slow Burn and Political Gabfest -- for making Left of Dial’s list of the 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time (voted on by 300 audio creators, podcast hosts, writers, etc.)
www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...
www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...
August 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Decoder Ring is so good bsky.app/profile/kati...
I know there are anti-SLAPP laws and of course the First Amendment, but it seems like the greatest hurdle to this tactic turns out always to have been unenforceable prosocial norms, perhaps with the stick of shaming, as well as nobody's being quite this wealthy bsky.app/profile/kate...
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
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July 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I know there are anti-SLAPP laws and of course the First Amendment, but it seems like the greatest hurdle to this tactic turns out always to have been unenforceable prosocial norms, perhaps with the stick of shaming, as well as nobody's being quite this wealthy bsky.app/profile/kate...
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New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
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The largest question facing America is “who was President when?”
July 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The largest question facing America is “who was President when?”
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Second-order consequences of party hollowness all ricocheting against each other even as Mamdani is actually doing the contemporary left version of old-time street-level politics.
it is interesting to see large parts of the new york city and national democratic establishment line up behind mamdani as the party's nominee for mayor; to see influential insiders complain about mamdani; and to see how this all shakes out in public perception to "democrats are hostile to mamdani"
July 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Second-order consequences of party hollowness all ricocheting against each other even as Mamdani is actually doing the contemporary left version of old-time street-level politics.
"Five Votes Down" (1999) bsky.app/profile/davi...
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans
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July 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Five Votes Down" (1999) bsky.app/profile/davi...
I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
The Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel
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July 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
Latest @zacmccrary.bsky.social podcast episode with Mamdani cm Morris Katz a delight propolitics.substack.com/p/morris-kat...
Morris Katz on the Pro Politics Podcast
The lead media strategist for Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral campaign on the candidates, strategies, tactics, media & more that led to the monumental primary upset of Mamdani over Cuomo
propolitics.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Latest @zacmccrary.bsky.social podcast episode with Mamdani cm Morris Katz a delight propolitics.substack.com/p/morris-kat...
Rainy for a week in the middle of June in New York should be illegal
June 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Rainy for a week in the middle of June in New York should be illegal