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erin mccann
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Weather at The New York Times. Now in SF after four years in London. Brooklyn before that.

Find me: https://instagram.com/mccannercat
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I have a phone full of photos I’m sort of proud of, and a year’s worth of adventures I haven’t really posted anywhere, so I’m going to semi-randomly try to post one a day through the end of the year to this thread.

Today: Ballachulish, Scotland, in May, while hiking the West Highland Way.
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Change in Headline
January 24, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Minnesota has been A1 on the Times and WashPo nearly everyday for the last two and a half weeks, but still complaints of no mainstream coverage.
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Roses are red,
Potatoes have eyes,
January 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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genuinely stunning image
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Tonight, I folded a pile of laundry that began accumulating before Christmas.
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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This kid is awesome, actual hero.
January 23, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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g.w. murray building, herington, kansas, 1977
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Inexplicably learned a thing about the band New Radicals tonight, who broke up in 1999 and spent 20 years resisting offers for a reunion until …
January 23, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Not now exploding trees, we’re busy
I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and have experienced some major cold snaps but this is the first time I've heard about exploding trees.
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has formally asked President Donald Trump to release her from prison with almost six years left to serve on her term.
Elizabeth Holmes Asks Trump for Early Prison Release After Fraud
Disgraced Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes has formally asked President Donald Trump to release her from prison with almost six years left to serve on her term.
bloom.bg
January 22, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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:: rubs eyes tiredly ::
June 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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For @flaminghydra.com I wrote about the most riveting book I've read so far this year, which is, of course, a 624-page guide to New York City written in 1939 by a branch of the Works Progress Administration as part of a New Deal program to employ out-of-work writers flaminghydra.com/new-york-for...
New York, Forever Lost and Found
When I first moved to New York in 2009, the very first night I lay down to sleep in a coffin-narrow room in Harlem, I had a maddening sense of wonderful things happening just out of my reach: all the ...
flaminghydra.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Tuesday.
What a week, huh?
EXCLUSIVE: Germany has joined France in saying it will ask the European Commission to explore unleashing the EU's so-called trade "bazooka" in response to Trump's threat to seize Greenland, according to five diplomats with knowledge of the situation.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
January 20, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Sounds like a you problem, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella
January 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
January 20, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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'The Daily Wire also reported that all of the paper’s content “will be written by active-duty service members,” which alarmed the civilian staff who currently write stories.'

www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/m...
Pentagon moves to turn independent military outlet into a ‘mouthpiece,’ advocates warn | CNN Business
The Trump administration is exerting political pressure on Stars & Stripes, the independent military newspaper that informs US servicemembers worldwide.
www.cnn.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Kennedy, obsessed with vaxxed/unvaxxed studies that would not be approved by US ethical review boards, planned to fund one in West Africa — one that would have caused unnecessary disease and death for extremely vulnerable children. After negative media attention, it was canceled. Coverage matters.
BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM