Graham Starr
@gstarr.bsky.social
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same graham but over here now. Reporter/editor. Mostly tech, health care, media. Adweek, TIME, Bloomberg, Business Insider, NYT, NYMag, &c. Here to share things I read. 🔗 https://graham.substack.com/
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Related from yesterday's Money Stuff newsletter www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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“And why haven’t I ever also found myself in the same setting, the subtext of the piece becomes.... an unattainable fantasy. Something I want and am hurt by longing for.” observer.com/2025/08/art-...
The Promise and Impossibility of Belonging in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Most Beloved Work
If the piece makes a visitor out of its viewer, the show itself is a fantastic host.
observer.com
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really good post
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today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R
The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R
'One Battle After Another' as a car movie
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SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left."

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/govern...
Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown
Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.
www.wired.com
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Great ad campaign from the dictionary
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Interesting from @pbump.com's latest post, based on Pew data:

Married voters were about 15 to 25 points to the right of unmarried voters, across gender lines www.pbump.net/o/digging-de...
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this thread!
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Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:
Case 1:25-cv-10685-WGY Document 261
Filed 09/30/25
Page 1 of 161
Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers)
1 9/S UNE 2025
TRUMP HAS PARDONS
AND TANKS..
WHAT DO
You
HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States -- you and me --have our magnificent Constitution.
Here's how that works out in a
specific case --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- HARVARD FACULTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AT NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY, RUTGERS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, and
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiffs,
)
CIVIL ACTION NO.
25-10685-WGY
v.
MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KRISTI NOEM, in her official
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Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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this story is terrifying
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Years ago, I was working on what seemed like a fun little story on fruitarians and then after like two phone calls, I learned it was deadly. Food 'purity' is a myth www.thecut.com/article/karo....
The Woman Who Ate Only Fruit
Karolina Krzyzak went to Bali to meet the raw-vegan influencers she’d followed for years. She never made it back home.
www.thecut.com
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who is asking for this
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Press warned to back up as DHS police take lawmakers were taken away in zip ties, among them Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other state reps including Bobby Carol, Marcela Mitayanes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas,... story TK
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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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FCC chair Brendan Carr said he wanted “to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing” and called on other broadcasters to act similarly variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Important to note with the Kimmel news that ABC pulled the show after regional affiliate Nexstar threatened to not air the show because of Kimmel’s remarks about Kirk.

Nexstar is currently trying to buy Tegna, a competitor, for $6.2 billion, and needs Trump’s FCC to approve this deal.
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This is it. This is the chart.

One thing recent jobs reports have shown is that an increasing share of unemployed workers are staying unemployed for longer—or dropping out of the workforce completely.

What's more: It's increasingly affecting college grads www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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ballaban.bsky.social
I know economics isn't the most captivating topic in the world right now, but we're teetering on the edge of a recession (if we're not already in one). @amorrow.bsky.social points out that this whole thing is propped up by just a few AI bubble stocks and rich people spending, and that's about it