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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · 26d

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · 26d

At Curriculum Night at the middle school, the social sciences teacher was telling us about the current unit on the Columbian Exchange. The slide said "Three cultures meet," referring to European/African/indigenous. It took every ounce of self control not to yell AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · 29d

I was telling my 12yo about Task and said, "It's about an FBI agent and a robber."

Her: "Do they fall in love?"

Me: "Um, I don't think so."

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Sep 4

Clicked on this article hoping for an announcement that Gap was bringing back its fragrance line from the 90s but nope [throws laptop out of window in anger]

www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Exclusive | Gap and Old Navy Want to Sell You Cosmetics

Old Navy will roll out new beauty products this fall, and Gap stores will add fragrances next year.

www.wsj.com

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 27

I saw my doc yesterday and she said, if 100 perimenopausal women came through the office today, you would hear 100 different symptoms 😩

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 27

This reminds me of @caseynewton.bsky.social's erstwhile game show podcast, Converge, where he did a recurring bit asking each guest what they would put on the blockchain. That podcast is from like 5 years ago but I still think about this gag, mostly bc what is the blockchain anyway

George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 26

I don't even know why you would want to do this

*LUTNICK: COMMERCE TO SOON ISSUE STATISTICS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN
*LUTNICK: ISSUING GDP ON THE BLOCKCHAIN
*LUTNICK: IRONING OUT THE DETAILS ON USING BLOCKCHAIN FOR GDP

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 27

All I wanted to do yesterday was pick up my KATABASIS pre-order from the bookstore and start reading. But instead I ended up doing an emergency episode about what's happening at the Fed. Which was, I suppose, its own kind of descent into the underworld.

www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Trump's unprecedented attack on the Fed : The Indicator from Planet Money

Last night, President Donald Trump posted a letter firing Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook. The reason? She was accused of listing two properties as her primary residences, which potentially g...

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 20

I never learned any of this until much later in life either! I don't think it's covered in any depth in American public schools. I did this episode last year and it taught me more about that period than 12 years of history class as a kid: www.npr.org/2024/10/31/1...

The U.S. once banned Chinese immigrants — and it paid an economic price : The Indicator from Planet Money

In 1880, the Chinese were the biggest group of immigrants in the western U.S. But Sinophobic sentiments crystallized into racist policies and eventually the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The rational...

www.npr.org

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 20

A Palantir exec has a WSJ op-ed today arguing that Harvard should expel Chinese students. What if, and I'm just spitballing here, there was some kind of legislation...that banned Chinese people from the U.S., full stop? We could call it, I don't know, the Chinese Exclusion Act...?

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 19

Devastated that neither Chicago daily has a film critic anymore. Thanks for a great run, Michael Phillips! I was always too nervous to introduce myself when I saw you in the elevator at Tribune Tower (which is now luxury condos)

www.thewrap.com/chicago-trib...

Chicago Tribune Eliminates Film Critic Role, Michael Phillips Takes Buyout

"To all the humans on this insanely compromised platform: Thanks for reading," the writer shares on X

www.thewrap.com

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 8

omg when I was re-watching that promo today, I had that thought! Glad others are on it lol

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 8

I would read the world's longest oral history of this WB promo!

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 5

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVINS

George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 5

Bessent out of Fed sweepstakes

*TRUMP: WARSH IS VERY GOOD
*TRUMP: BOTH KEVINS ARE VERY GOOD, OTHERS ARE ALSO GOOD
*TRUMP: TWO OTHER PEOPLE ASIDE FROM THE TWO KEVINS IN MIND
*TRUMP: I LOVE SCOTT, BUT HE WANTS TO STAY AT TREASURY
*TRUMP: COULD USE KUGLER VACANCY TO PICK FUTURE FED CHAIR

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Aug 3

Was explaining the Mary Magadalene/Jesus ❤️ theory to my 12yo and she deadpanned, "Hmmm, disciples to lovers"

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mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social · Aug 1

an incredibly earnest and apolitical post for Vogue about what we lose if (when?) we lose public radio
www.vogue.com/article/what...

What We’d Lose Without Public Radio

www.vogue.com

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · Aug 2

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is perfection!!!

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hear me out—a romance where the jumbotron thing happens, and the rock star feels bad and reaches out to the jilted wife and sparks fly!

My other idea is THE DATING COMMITTEE, about 2 economists on the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee who fall in love while arguing about if we're in a recession

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · Jul 11

Alec-Nevala Lee interviewed me for NYT! The story mentions Lovecraft (my thesis was on women, eugenics & HPL), how weird it was when they optioned Mexican Gothic, & that I don't watch superhero flicks (sorry! I gorge on Sinners & Nosferatu, not Marvel. mmm... Horror)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b...

A Best-Selling Horror Writer’s Biggest Fear? Being Recognized.

www.nytimes.com

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Jun 12

Friendship is magic 💖

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Jun 10

I knew you would appreciate the Seinfeld reference!!!

Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Jun 10

Happy Pub Day to my better half, Alec Nevala-Lee! His biography of Nobel-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, COLLISIONS, is out today and you should read it if you are into

✅ Oppenheimer / Manhattan Project / WW2
✅ Dinosaurs
✅ the Keith Hernandez episode of Seinfeld

bookshop.org/p/books/coll...

Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

bookshop.org

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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congrats to Broadway producer Hunter Arnold, who just won a Tony for Best Musical for Maybe Happy Ending. I'm sure this is his second proudest moment after coming on The Indicator to talk to me about the economics of Broadway!

www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1...

There's one business like show business : The Indicator from Planet Money

There's no business like show business. Or is there? It turns out the business of producing a Broadway hit shares a few things in common with the business of investing in tech start-ups. Today on the ...

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