Ted Mann
whereisted.bsky.social
Ted Mann
@whereisted.bsky.social
reporter @business, co-author of a book about mistakes. here we are.

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Democracy dies in dampness
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.

This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The richest guy in the world talks like the dumbest kid on the field trip.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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honestly might need to bring back elon inc just to chew over this one
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"In a video posted to Reddit of a 2023 meme-stock event in Florida, Pulte is presented with a trophy inscribed, 'Bill Pulte f----.' The other side bears the phrase 'only the young,' a rallying cry among some investors in meme stocks."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Housing Chief Bill Pulte Becomes a Potential Liability for Donald Trump
The US’s top mortgage regulator has frustrated many of Trump’s top aides, but the president himself likes Pulte’s pit-bull approach.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"use common sense" is an interesting standard of proof
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Someone is going to win the robotaxi war (not Tesla, obviously) and it's going to be a hell of a problem for cities and people who live there.
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.

If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.

www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
no notes.
“Scrivener - use AI.”

Scrivener: “I would prefer not to.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A student wrote me to say she will be late for class due to subway issues and my two suggested replies from google were ”so cute!” And “yum!” This is definitely a technology we want to rest our entire economy on.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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hanging at the National Press Club, a reminder
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
it's giving Rizzo '76
Kristi Noem on FIFA tourists: "Then they would go home. And go home in a timely manner."
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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What happens when Trump’s trade wars hit a family-owned North Carolina sawmill.

I took a roadtrip recently for @davidgura.bsky.social’s @bloomberg.com Big Take podcast.
www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
Big Take: How Trump Tariffs Ended a Small-Town Sawmill - Bloomberg
Understand every aspect of the global economy – and know how to make your next move.
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It was a highway bill.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.

US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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‘accomplice’ works just fine
Obviously the least of what’s going on here, but I think we can stop ID’ing Wolff as “journalist” if he was advising people he was “covering” on a pedophilia blackmail strategy
Epstein: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump..[VICITM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

Maxwell: “I’ve been thinking about that.”

💥

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJ’s case and weren’t collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"The tenement floor now lives on a scooter and in an app: delivery riders with plastic ponchos, rideshare drivers orbiting JFK at 2 a.m., home-health aides and night-shift nurses catching the dawn train. Many are immigrants; most are tired."
Every generation of New York politics has had its immigrant realignment. The Irish built Tammany, Jewish socialists built labor, Italians powered La Guardia--and now Mamdani is building something new out of bodegas, cabstands, and delivery apps.

www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-long-a...
The Long Arc of Immigrant Power in New York
What Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech shares with the Irish ward bosses and Jewish socialists who built the city’s first immigrant-powered coalitions.
www.waleed-shahid.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Either the original headline was crafted to gin up views or it was written with zero thought.

Or both, I suppose.
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
every time Bernard-Henri Levy pops into the timeline I reflect on how weird it must feel to get absolutely bodied by Garrison Keillor of all people
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Baltimore just legalized single-stair buildings up to 6 stories and duplexes and even quads in single-family zoned neighborhoods. Abundance, hon www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Mayor Scott signs controversial housing laws in effort to spur growth
A suite of housing and zoning reforms, once pie-in-the-sky dreams for some advocates, are now law in Baltimore, with Mayor Brandon Scott signing four bills Monday in a City Hall ceremony.
www.thebanner.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM