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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 2d

👩‍🚒 Folks I know it's a bad day but here we've got ourselves @isaacbutler.bsky.social on DDL! 👩‍🚒 slate.com/culture/2025...

He Might Be the Greatest Actor of All Time—and the Most Misunderstood

Only one performer has won three Best Actor Oscars. Is it fair that he’s also a joke?

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 9d

Sent me back to this banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcOU...

Release Your Client List, Cuomo.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 9d

"Hope you're well"

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election.

In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible
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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 20d

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 20d

Democrats have been doing events in red states and districts for MONTHS. Bernie Sanders' tour has been in West Virginia, Louisiana and Montana. Khanna, Casar, Booker, Murphy, etc. held town halls in districts with GOP representatives. But those don't count because they weren't in the right building?

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 24d

Whomstever buys this, please preserve it! welcometotwinpeaks.com/lynch/david-...

Live Inside A Dream: David Lynch's Hollywood Hills Home For Sale

I've written before about iconic homes hitting the market, like the Palmer house, or David Lynch's former Philadelphia home. But this one hits differently. The Agency's Marc Silver has

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 26d

Something more people should know about measles is that it depletes the memory stores of the immune system, which can put kids at risk of serious complications for years after they've ostensibly recovered from the virus.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 26d

A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery

The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 26d

Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore

An airport banner with an image of a folding laptop paralleled to a hot dog that reads "feeding fans faster with AI"

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 29d

Gen X is obviously the worst generation but at least we all had the bootleg cassette of the 1985 Rockpalast show www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5M...

R.E.M. - 10/02/85 Germany 7. Driver 8

YouTube video by REMchout

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Sep 7

Generally don't love it when my 8yo plays Minecraft but right now he's using it to design a campaign HQ for Zohran so it's fine

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Sep 3

This piece is wonderful—a little sunshine in dark times. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department

Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Sep 3

Josh I'm holding you in my heart at this time

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Sep 3

The kidlit equivalent of expired Lunchables left out in the sun

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Sep 3

Rowling is a shitbag but also! HP is NOT GOOD. This isn’t one of those mildly nuanced “oh but Polanski is a genius” situations — HP is derivative, mediocre, critically insubstantial, even with a generous poptimism handicap. Its single outstanding quality as a cultural artifact is its ubiquity.

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Aug 29

The only explanation Dr. Dunkel has seen, he said, is a paragraph on the institute’s website, which was updated Aug. 21 and states a rationale of optimizing resources for “maximum impact.” The Trump administration has slashed funding for the National Institutes of Health, of which the National Cancer Institute is a part, though it’s not clear whether this decision was connected to those cuts.

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, which has conducted dozens of trials since it was established in 1999 by the National Cancer Institute, has six active trials; five are related to treatment. These are early phase trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of novel therapies for pediatric brain cancers — mostly “the very highest-risk types” of these cancers, said Dr. John Prensner, a pediatric neuro-oncologist at the University of Michigan, which is not a member of the consortium.

“These are the ones that have very poor outcomes, often in relapsed patients who haven’t responded to prior therapy, and patients for whom the chance of survival is very low,” he said.

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Aug 28

do they have antidepressants in europe

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 28

RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

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Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Aug 25

David this is lovely thank you for it

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · Aug 24

A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 20

NEW: For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited theories linking vaccines to autism.

Now, scientists studying the condition fear he has preconceived notions that will harm the field and taint new funding for research.
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Aug 16

Can someone explain to me how admitting girls into Scouting America is symptomatic of the "boy crisis of 2025"

"In other cases, previously male-serving institutions have gone coed while their sister organizations have remained single-sex. Boy Scouts no longer exists, having rebranded as Scouting America after the controversial decision to admit girls. Of the roughly one million scouts in the movement today, around 20 percent are girls. But there are also more than a million girls in Girl Scouts, which remains a single-sex organization. All told, there are now 50 percent more girls than boys in scouting."

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Aug 13

One of the most dispiriting things about our current state of affairs is how much of the barbarism is just unaccountable bureaucratic rule following sucking up innocent people into an unfeeling machine and traumatizing them for life

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal

Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Aug 5

People plugging their entire skulls into A.I. makes me think of this old Believer interview with Harold Ramis

Ramis: I can’t tell you how many people have told me, “When I go to the movies, I don’t want to think.”

Believer interviewer: Does that offend you as a filmmaker?

Ramis: It offends me as a human being. Why wouldn’t you want to think? What does that mean? Why not just shoot yourself in the fucking head?

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · Aug 4

We have collectively lost our mind

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · Aug 4

At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.

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