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Mike Calia
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Managing Editor, Business and Economy Unit, NBC News
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Barry Lyndon
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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New EPA Study Finds 98% Of U.S. Mop Water Fucking Nasty As Hell: Onion headline from 2017
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Jane Curtin, John Belushi and Bill Murray in a classic SNL sketch called "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave."
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Loved this
Cover of North Sun by Ethan Rutherford. Large bird head looking at you, shedding a tear in the icy ocean. Scrimshaw.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
Woody and Courtney in The People vs Larry Flynt
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from. (Partially, anyway!)
Timpano from Big Night, with Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Stock market sinks as AI and interest rate worries grip investors www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Another snapshot of the economy came courtesy of Walmart, which on Thursday reported strong sales and raised its outlook for the year. That strength points to cracks in the economy, though. Executives said the chain is luring more high-income shoppers who are looking for bargains, and noted that lower-income families are feeling more pressure. "As pocketbooks have been stretched, you're seeing more consumer dollars go to necessities versus discretionary items," Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey said on an earnings call Thursday morning. Walmart's stock closed 6.5% higher.
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Blood Meridian and H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers
The cover of HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers, a Dr. Seuss-style parody of the Lovecraft story
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Rolling into the weekend like
Mickey Mouse strutting through Port Authority
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Line chart: The richest households grew their wealth at a similar pace as the bottom 50 percent until the 1990s. The gap accelerated before the 2008 financial crisis and accelerated again after the Covid pandemic.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Did the NYT graphics team intentionally evoke Cthulhu?
NYT graphic showing investment in/from OpenAI Cthulhu
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Final shot of “Oppenheimer”
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Trump pardons convicted founder of crypto exchange Binance www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...
Binance also hired a new lobbyist in September, Charles McDowell, according to a public filing. McDowell is a friend of Donald Trump Jr., and he was photographed at the White House last week alongside the president's eldest son. On Oct. 20, McDowell's lobbying firm, Checkmate Government Relations, disclosed that Binance had paid the firm $450,000 for the prior month's work. According to the filing, McDowell lobbied the White House on an issue that his firm called "executive relief," in addition to crypto policy.
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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What’s the best one liner in movie history?
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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French 75s you say, Mr. Pynchon?
A brief excerpt from Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Deeply uncool
Johnny Cash flipping the bird
October 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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"Ethics."
September 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Yep
September 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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The Residents
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Starship Troopers is a classic.
September 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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September 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Still from Apocalypse Now featuring Dennis Hopper and wall graffiti saying “Our Motto: Apocalypse Now”
August 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM