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Jennie Coughlin
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@nytimes Metro audience editor, occasional running reporter, slow runner, Red Sox fan, herder of mobbed-up plot bunnies. Working on a data analysis/data viz master's at CUNY Grad Center
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The indictments have been unsealed and have some 👀 details. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Screenshot of a New York Times live blog post by William Rashbaum that reads: The rigged poker games sanctioned by organized crime featured an elaborate high-tech scheme that involved “cheating teams” whose members worked together to beat the victims, according to one of the indictments. While the victims thought they were playing in a “straight” illegal card game game “gambling against other participants on equal footing,” in reality the defendants and their co-conspirators, who were the other players in the game, worked together on the teams. They used advanced wireless technologies to read the cards dealt in each hand and then pass that information to the defendants and co-conspirators.
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I have a feeling Andrew Cuomo's answer to this question might get almost as much discussion as his bagel answer in the primary edition of 10 Questions.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
Screenshot from a New York Times article with this text: 8. Yankees or Mets? No. Never. I was governor of New York. Yankees, Mets, Jets, Giants, Bills — all children of the family. Love them all the same.
September 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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One of the reporters has responded to questions people have about the timing of yesterday's story, in comments on the story.
Screenshot of a comment Reporter Bianco Pallaro posted in comments on the NYT file: The decision about when to publish depends greatly on the amount and quality of reporting we have at any given time. This report is part of our continuing investigation into China's covert influence campaigns in America. It was originally intended to be part of a broader story that we are still working on, but we felt it was important to publish now, given the news on Wednesday about Winnie Greco.
August 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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For folks who have been questioning the timing of this story, one of the reporters has added this explanation in the story comments.
Screenshot of a comment Reporter Bianco Pallaro posted in comments on the NYT file: The decision about when to publish depends greatly on the amount and quality of reporting we have at any given time. This report is part of our continuing investigation into China's covert influence campaigns in America. It was originally intended to be part of a broader story that we are still working on, but we felt it was important to publish now, given the news on Wednesday about Winnie Greco.
August 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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One allegation in the statement of facts is that part of the deal with the Argento siblings included Lewis-Martin getting a speaking role on a TV show and the promise of help to get her membership in the Screen Actors Guild.
Screenshot of text that reads: In exchange for her inappropriate and illegal intervention, the ARGENTOS and BROADWAY STAGES gave LEWIS-MARTIN a string of benefits, including a $2500 payment; over $10,000 worth of catering services for an event hosted by LEWIS-MARTIN at Gracie Mansion in August 2024; a speaking role in an episode of Godfather of Harlem, which made LEWIS-MARTIN eligible to join the Screen Actors Guild; $806.31 for that appearance; promises to help LEWIS-MARTIN become a member of the Screen Actors Guild; and TONY ARGENTO’s promise to be LEWIS-MARTIN’s “agent” and get her additional speaking roles in Godfather of Harlem and Blue Bloods.
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Seen on my run this morning and I just had to stop for a picture.
A fire hydrant painted white with rainbow stripes over the top in an homage to the gas tank in Boston with green grass painted along the bottom with the bronze Make Way for Ducklings statues in the grass.
July 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A light-hearted analogy to explain ranked-choice voting with a zinger at the end. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/n...
Screenshot of a New York Times article that says: The ins and outs of ranked-choice voting Imagine a barbecue joint where every customer gets a metal tray with five compartments of varying size and fills it with any of roughly a dozen choices. At night’s end, the restaurant determines its favored dish based on what was picked. That, in a nutshell, is how ranked-choice voting works. So who wouldn’t fill up their tray? New York City voters, that’s who. In 2021, one of every eight voters selected only one candidate. Half of those people listed Eric Adams. Back to the barbecue pit. Many voters walked away with only one thing in their tray. And for those who chose Adams, a sort-of-vegetarian, you didn’t even get brisket.
May 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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After a hectic week of news, I’m spending today geeking out at USATF indoor nationals at Ocean Breeze.
Indoor track with alternating light gray and dark gray lanes and a green infield.
February 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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More updates: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Screenshot of a Ben Wiser reporter update from a New York Times live blog that reads: The federal prosecutors in Manhattan who had been involved in Mr. Adams’s case sent a letter to Judge Ho Friday evening indicating they were withdrawing from the case. They included Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor who resigned from the Southern District in protest of Mr. Bove’s order to drop charges, and three others: Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom.
February 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Read this and more live coverage of the Eric Adams case and fallout in the DOJ here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Screenshot of a reporter update from Devlin Barrett, Adam Goldman and Glenn Thrush in the New York Times live blog about the Eric Adams case, which reads: On Friday morning, Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, stepped up his pressure campaign. Bove held a group discussion with the entire public integrity section, roughly two dozen lawyers after Thursday’s resignations, looking for someone to sign a court document seeking dismissal of the charges against Adams, according to people familiar with the matter. The prospect of immediate resignations or firings hangs over every conversation about the issue.
February 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Read the full letter www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Screenshot of a paragraph from a letter that reads: Second, you indicated that the prosecution team is aware of your communications with the Justice Department, is supportive of your approach, and is unwilling to comply with the order to dismiss the case. Accordingly, the AUSAs principally responsible for this case are being placed on off-duty, administrative leave pending investigations by the Office ofthe Attorney General and the Office of Professional Responsibility, both of which will also evaluate your conduct.
February 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Spending the day at The Armory for the Millrose Games, which has to be one of the best track meets out there.
A blue indoor track with red lanes on the infield. Bleachers surround the track one level up from the ground. Many athletes are warming up. A suspended LED display above the track states the is the Millrose Games at the Nike Track and Field Center at the Armory. Red girders arch across the vaulted ceiling and lights are suspended above the track.
February 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Went for a run after work today and it was a nice bit of mental decompression.
Sun setting behind leafless trees around a frozen lake. The sky has streaks of clouds gilded by the setting sun and the colors reflect off the ice of the lake.
February 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Not sure why BlueSky isn’t showing the real headline, but screenshotting because I think it’s better.
New York Times homepage screenshot showing four kids in Buffalo Bills jerseys playing football in the snow in front of a house with the headline “Hawaii Has ‘Aloha.’ In Buffalo, It’s ‘Go Bills.’”
January 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Tea, yarn, a Christmas playlist and peace. Not a bad start to the day. (Peace will only last until my siblings and their families show up, and then regularly scheduled Christmas chaos will resume.)
A Christmas tree decorated with colored lights and ornaments with a giant gnome tree-topper. Presents ring the base of the tree, which is flanked by an armchair and end table.
December 24, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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Moe is lit and guarding 15 kinds of Christmas cookies, so I’m officially Home for Christmas. (My parents’ house is best described as whimsical around Christmas.)
A pink and purple stuffed dragon has colored Christmas lights wound around him as he stands next to and decorates a Christmas tree that has Grinch legs sticking out of it.
December 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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Screenshot of a reporter update by New York Times reporter Andy Newman that reads "The man who was detained at McDonald's showed the police the same fake New Jersey identification that the man believed to be the gunman presented when he checked into a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Nov. 24, a senior law enforcement official said."
December 9, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Even in the rain, Lightscape by @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social is lovely.
An archway of small, white lights in the dark that stretches into the distance.
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Quote with your most kudos’d AO3 fic. This was the “Let’s knock off the fiction writing rust with 10K-15K of this rogue plot bunny” in a new fandom that turned in a series of stories that added up to 500K words.
AO3 screenshot of an NCIS FanFiction story called Razor’s Edge.
November 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Earlier than I thought, actually
September 16, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Vance got asked about the threats this morning.
Live blog post: JD Vance said on CBS News that if he stopped accusing Haitian migrants of eating pets because of the bomb threats of the past few days, it would be allowing a “heckler’s veto.” He said the media should “ignore” the bomb threats and focus on Kamala Harris’s immigration policies.
September 15, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Actually, I started by scouting out the original Brooklyn Poly and Brooklyn College downtown locations, although the Poly building was demolished years ago and replaced with a DOE building.
66 Court Street in Brooklyn. Pre-war high rise made of yellow brick with a metal and granite facade on the first three floors and an arched entry on the Court Street side.
September 12, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Started my long weekend with a field trip to the New York Transit Museum to understand what subway cars on the BMT Brighton Line would look like in WW2.
Interior of a World War 2-era subway car with dark red floor, woven rattan bench seats and white metal poles for people standing to hold. Bare light bulbs in the roof of the car provide light. The car is painted olive drab green.
September 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Cover of Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. Dark green background with sepia-toned illustrations of a female mallard duck and 6 ducklings.
August 23, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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I saw a poster for that today at the Gray Gables train station today
Poster advertising the New Haven Railroad Cranberry service daily between Buzzards Bay and Boston
July 19, 2024 at 10:00 PM