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Ben Walsh

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1 year

a huge red flag for exactly how bad Dianne Feinstein's health is, is that the entire conversation about it could be forestalled by her being wheeled into a room and pressing the "yes" button... and she's not able to do that

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me, personally? I would have drawn a slightly curved, dotted line with an arrow going up from florida to new york, but then again I'm just an amateur

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the median voter wants double-digit deflation, a booming economy, a tight labor market except for low-level service workers, and rising home prices except when they want to buy and frankly, is that too much to ask for?

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Tim Walz is going to casually drop that he listens to history podcasts about the Napoleonic-era and a *very* specific group of guys in their 30's are going to lose their minds

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Ben Walsh

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1 year

there's a moment in the Enron doc Smartest Guys In the Room where they talk about how as the company got more successful, Jeff Skilling became more macho, less nerdy. got lasiks and ditched his glasses, started riding motocross etc. all the other enron guys started doing the same

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

we must rise together to demand pseudoephedrine-based decongestants in every pharmacy NOW

Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸

@mattdpearce

2 years

Oh my god can we make some cold medicine that actually works

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

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the dual income trap is very real for parents: one parent has to work to pay for childcare, the other parent has to work to pay for berries

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

been thinking about that as we see the tech elite get ripped, into combat sports, etc

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 months

if they can convict Bob Menendez of taking gold bars for using his position as a US Senator to do favors for the Egyptian government, they can do it you

Joe Weisenthal

@TheStalwart

2 months

*SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ CONVICTED BY JURY AT CORRUPTION TRIAL

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

America, the Bland: Across the country, new developments are starting to look the same, raising fears that cities are losing their unique charm

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

the last thing you see before you agree to an IMF package that forces you to restructure your economy

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

1 year

Matty Healy in newly shared photo.

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

If I worked in a newsroom funded by Raytheon, United Health and ConocoPhilips, I'd sit this out

Adam Wren

@adamwren

2 years

David Sirota’s The Lever is fundraising off of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.

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1 year

"NYC grew by more than 629,000 people between 2010 and 2020. Yet, during the same period, we only built 206,000 housing units. The numbers don’t add up. We should be building housing like the life of our city depends on it, because it does."

There are Just Two Big Issues in New York’s Elections; We Need Voters and Candidates to Prioritize...

Housing in focus (photo: Mayor's Office) On June 27, most people in this city will do nothing out of the ordinary. More than three-quarters of New Yorke...

www.gothamgazette.com

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

@tomgara reminds me a bit of canada goose, which got popular selling a product designed to last for a decade+ and then had a corporate freak out when sales slowed

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

"there's no way I can comply with that" is so funny because the dress code change doesn't forcing joe manchin to wear carhartts and a hoodie on the Senate floor

Ursula Perano

@UrsulaPerano

1 year

Manchin tells me he spoke to Fetterman today about the Senate dress code change “I said ‘John, I think it’s wrong & there's no way I can comply with that’…Wanted to tell him directly that I totally oppose it & I will do everything I can to try to hold the decorum of the Senate”

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

tyler cowen food post: DC is such an underrated restaurant city! for instance, there's this great Burmese place in a strip mall an hour and 45 minute drive away

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

my *~--% popularism *~--% platform: - illegal to make the chip bag bigger, more expensive but with less chips - one cord charges all mobile electronic devices - real sudafed in every pharmacy, no ID required, *not* locked up

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

the garbage they replaced old school sudafed with literally works as well as sugar water but has non of the positive side effects of sugar water

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

a top 5 classic Mnuchin moment was during his first day of confirmation hearings, he said, yes he'd love to hire more IRS auditors because their work was revenue positive and increasing tax adherence is a positive thing the next day, he walked it back entirely ;)

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2 years

Imagine how bad it must feel — you’ve just single-handedly dragged your team back into a World Cup Final twice and lost on penalties and then, Emmanuel Macron tries to hug you

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

@Forever_Wario @lodgepolepines oh the person who practices anesthesiology, the science of keeping a person half dead for hours at a time and then bringing them fully back to life with only minor sides effects gets paid... more than 2x median wage?

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

another working class commuter whose penury keeps them from being able to afford a front license plate

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@turbovax

1 year

This Lambo is parked on Bowery for Official Sheriff Business

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

a wild thing you learn as a parent is that there are zero decongestants that work on kids under ~7. I assumed it was b/c of wild side effects, but no: the ones that work on adults do no work on young kids and modern science somehow can't crack "decongestants for toddlers"

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

@chrisecrowley @daveweigel @nkulw the voice thing is directionally right but "the chainsmokers... DJ Khalid... That's pretty much every genre of music you need" is 100% KP

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

tragic to see Zuckerberg somehow at this moment not do what he does best and just make a blindingly exact copy a competitor's product

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

Not to be that guy but this is a Fox News outlet doing fake news. The actually story is about a VOLUNTARY City pilot program to work with restaurants to install smoke scrubbers and the one pizza shop owner they talk to about it praises the scrubbers effectiveness

New York Post

@nypost

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Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%

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1 year

i hadn't considered the noise itself of pickleball an issue, but it clearly is. one way to address it would be to use a soft, bouncy ball, but with proportionally larger courts and a different kind of racquet

Shattered Nerves, Sleepless Nights: Pickleball Noise Is Driving Everyone Nuts (Published 2023)

The incessant pop-pop-pop of the fast-growing sport has brought on a nationwide scourge of unneighborly clashes, petitions, calls to the police and lawsuits, with no solution in sight.

www.nytimes.com

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

imagine Janet Yellen got so high she caused a mini recession for no reason in 2016 and got Trump elected

Seung Min Kim

@seungminkim

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Janet Yellen: “There was this delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties.” “I learned that later,” she continued.

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@tysonbrody this literally happened in Australia -- they we're fearful of firing a bunch ministers etc and then they did it once and it was ok actually and now they do it all the time

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

Naples FL women writes a letter to the NY Post editor complaining about weed smoke in NYC

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10 months

@MC_of_A leftist millennials have been waiting for decades for this opportunity, and the turnabout is finally here: text your boomer parents and say "interesting tom friedman column today. well worth reading"

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

@sethmpk pop quiz hotshot, what city is this???

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

I was in the office at 6:30am for a couple of years. it really sucked but the trick is there is not trick. just get up.

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

@bucephalus424 Amazing to see the torch passed from the UofC in real time

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

11 months

@JakeAnbinder i 100% don't get the fast food delivery thing but I do think it's underappreciated that one of the most successful silicon valley tech innovations of the ZIRP money hose era was "actually, mcdonald's is not easy enough for americans to order and eat"

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It’s legitimately funny that as a CEO, Zuckerberg is all in on ‘the future is a dorky headset that lets you float in a pretend fish tank with your friends’ and IRL Zuck wants to bludgeon a commercial rival in front of a cheering crowd

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1 year

@robinsonmeyer yes but.. this on the NYT liveblog last night that was the story on the homepage

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10 months

@jbarro we love our savers

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2 years

@daveweigel And then do it if he says “yes”?

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1 year

@MC_of_A "this is vaguely sloppy and doesn't help the user experience but is not yet, on its own, catastrophic as far as we can tell," the Elon Musk Twitter Story

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2 years

to it's credit, the piece does point out that building codes designed to "preserve character" push everything to this specific style, because builders economize in common ways around similar constraints

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

the "Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art" sounds like something an account with the display name Yung Stalin on Edibles made up as a joke

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Ben Walsh

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2 years

"we want to preserve the unique character of our charming city" so you want 4 story mixed use buildings with no setback and limited FAR to accomodate 2 parking spaces per residential unit? "yes"

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1 year

a chart of "bank failures" comparing 2008-9 to 2023 that doesn't include Bear Stearns and Lehman (because they weren't "banks") and Wachovia (because it didn't "fail" is kind of useless

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Ben Walsh

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2 years

the funniest version of "preserving local charm" I've ever seen is Sedona, AZ. ate a mcdonald's that was a totally ordinary mcdonald's, except it had fake adobe shingles and the golden arches were teal because apparently all signs have to be teal there

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Ben Walsh

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1 year

10 minutes seems pretty long to explain how to use an alarm clock

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Ben Walsh

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1 year

the American public can't handle the truth*** about UFOs ***stressed-out sleep-deprived Naval pilots are routinely juiced on modafinil

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

"a seat on a private jet is of no value because the private jet owner was prepared to fly with it empty" is a first ballot HOF "this is what your brain looks like on the George Mason Economics Dept"-moment

Chris Hayes

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1 year

I LOVE the notion that the seat on the private jet would have been empty so it doesn’t count. That’s how you know you’re dealing with a straight-shooter with good judgment.

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completely forgot that Paul Giamatti played Ben Bernanke in Too Big to Fail with community theater-level hair and markup

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Ben Walsh

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1 year

for all the complaining about working class car commuters, one of *THE* most common car commutes in NYC is UES --> Midtown

Jon Orcutt

@jonorcutt

1 year

During work on the Bloomberg proposal in 2008, analysts found it was revenue-positive to shrink the charging zone from 86th St to 60th St bec so many drove from the UES into Midtown

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Ben Walsh

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1 year

The conservative media fixation on “woke culture”, particularly in the workplace, makes a lot more sense when you consider that Ailes, O’Reilly and Carlson were fired for what you could euphemistically call “HR issues”

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

11 months

the core, correct point, Josh makes here is that lots of people are *dramatically* underestimating the number of adult Americans who would see dramatic health benefits from these drugs

Josh Barro

@jbarro

11 months

I wrote about why I think weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are being under-hyped. We’re on the cusp of a huge, positive change in health and well-being, which will also help the economy.

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

glad to see one of the least discussed and most significant issues on the internet being addressed: Amazon is a bad website

Shira Ovide

@ShiraOvide

2 years

Search Amazon for a cat bed, and almost every product you see paid to be there. One is a dog bed. Another cost $389. @geoffreyfowler shows you how Amazon sold out customers' trust and made shopping worse.

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Ben Walsh

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@SMTuffy yeah, the uniformity ain't the problem ;)

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2 years

thick glasses... double-breasted camel overcoat... silk scarf -- it's giving the BBC's adaptation of Smiley's People (1982)

Rachel Scott

@rachelvscott

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NEW: George Santos tells me he will NOT resign w/ @LaleeIbssa

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it's perfect he does both the libertarian thing of drastically miscounting the cost of driving and also the tenured professor thing of making personal consumption choices based on near total daytime schedule autonomy

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1 year

Well he does say if you actually read him that the best form of rule is a sort of anarcho-populist republic where the people wield violence to constrain the formation of a ruling elite

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@byzantinemporia

1 year

Was Machiavelli right about anything? (No) Thread.

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Tim Walz definitely thinks the Eagles are underrated

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@Liamjsm it's unconstitutional for the "sale" price to be the same as the "deal" price

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why is it that throughout the midwest, if you order "hash browns" you get a very uniform, wonderful thing that is like a massive ConAgra gentile latke but everywhere else in the country you have no idea what you are getting and it might be the dreaded "home fried potato"

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@BenDWalsh

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feel like there's an uptick recently in saying things like "this is my responsibility... this is on me" when you are announcing that you're firing someone else

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Zaslav's email to staff announcing Chris Licht's departure

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it's gonna be really funny when a car crashes into this

penryn

@0xPenryn

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wait why the fuck does nyc get a The Bean now

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it'd be funny if what people were worried about with index funds actually happened with AI

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@chrislhayes we're talking about a guy who lied about being a landlord to appear rich. I'm totally open to the idea that he's a money laundering/foreign+dirty money conduit but the base case here is that he's just broke and faked being rich like he faked everything else

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@BenDWalsh

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@TheStalwart @IrvingSwisher @_SidVerma insightful point in a research note: "the Fed took away the punch bowl but the kids found a case of White Claw in the garage"

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"Elon should focus on delivering value to shareholders and the world by focusing on making great EVs and developing space exploration tech" has a distinct "Mr. President, put down the phone, stop tweeting, and do what the people elected you to do" vibe

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@GScottShand @PEWilliams_ @whstancil that people are actually paying $7 for McDonald's fries to be delivered further validate my pet theory that the amid the billions of dollars of VC investment during the ZIRP era, the most enduring business was, somehow, McD's was not convenient enough

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

@jbouie pretty clear that the thing lots of elite media pundits think is his advantage – ability to seize culture war narratives for media coverage – is actually an indication of weakness

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

we can't let tall buildings shape New York City's skyline

Ben Carlos Thypin

@SoBendito

1 year

Elected officials speak critically about new housing construction without invoking some Asian menace challenge

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@markgongloff let's not make any assumptions until we have reporting to back it up

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@BenDWalsh

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@tysonbrody ... "highly trafficked"

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just store them in the East River

NYPD says not enough space to tow every 'ghost car' in NYC

The NYPD is pointing fingers at a 2021 decision to remove a 250,000-square-foot tow pound on Manhattan's West Side.

gothamist.com

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

yiiiiikes

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@BenDWalsh

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amazing that Messi's final years have come to this: play in the Saudi domestic league or be managed by Phil Neville

Simon Evans

@sgevans

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As rumours of a bid for Lionel Messi continue to swirl - Phil Neville's Inter Miami have slumped to the bottom of the Eastern Conference:

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I do sort of think that the WHO saying "diet coke gives you cancer" does sort of undermine the effectiveness of the WHO saying "a sedentary lifestyle with large amounts of processed sugar and red meat makes cancer more likely"

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so @lizrhoffman has the goods on a big question in the business of sports: what's the deal with 777 partners the answer: it's a captive insurer taking insane risk with a bunch of self-dealing heaped on top

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another top 5 classic Mnuchin moment was when a reporter asked him about his Transition Lenses® and he responded by saying his classes did indeed contain a "technology" that made them darken and lighten based on light conditions

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@BenDWalsh

2 years

“They are Treasury super powers and I will leave it at that” is such a great Mnuchin line and I can’t believe I missed it at the time

Carlos Mucha

@mucha_carlos

7 years

Tsy superpowers @stevenmnuchin1 refers to: #MintTheCoin , issue consols & accept a large gift

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the chaotic gray-zone roll-out of legalish weed in New York isn't a failure, it's exactly what the state wants. 1) creates employment for regulatory fixers and new coercion/soft corruption opportunities 2) allows for a "crackdown" when convenient, further strengthening #1

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@TheStalwart it's amazing. the man is now buying road bikes and lycra

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2 years

@chrislhayes that assumes there was money! it appears that he was running a classic scam PAC, sure, but all the "personal loans" to his campaign and attestations of personal wealth are 100% undocumented

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@patrick_hruby @JHWeissmann There’s a CLASSIC Frontline version of it

The Lost Children of Rockdale County (1999)

"The Lost Children of Rockdale County" explores how a 1996 syphilis outbreak in a well-off Atlanta suburb affected over 200 teenagers and revealed their live...

www.youtube.com

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

@TheStalwart ok that's good

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

1 year

funny how it's only ever goys and never Jews who collect Nazi artifacts in order to "declare a commitment to never letter evil triumph again" or whatever

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

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@willystaley amusingly enough, if you're not "gatekeeping" your sandwich spot, you're probably "gentrifying" it

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

11 months

Gothamist has done a particularly bad job covering this

Shabazz Stuart

@ShabazzStuart

11 months

Worth repeating. NYC has implemented a plan to remove 95% of trash bags off the curb (after years of negative coverage) and the local press is focused on: -A few residents in Harlem complaining about ugly bins -$45 This is why nice things don't happen.

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Noma closing is very important, because while I've never eaten there, it has trained and influenced chefs at dozens of restaurants I've never eaten at

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verb choice!

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2 years

absolutely classic set of @ryangrim segues here

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@BenDWalsh

1 year

Eric Adams isn't good at running New York and doesn't care to be. "hire enough lifeguards" is an extremely low bar of administrative competence and the mayor can't meet it

katie honan

@katie_honan

1 year

An update on lifeguard staffing -- To fully staff all beaches and pools, @NYCParks would like 1,400 LGs Last year they had between 800-900 lifeguards Right now there are 480 lifeguards -- 280 returning, 200 new recruits all still in training (like getting CPR certified)

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Ben Walsh

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2 years

Congrats to Cristiano on joining LIV Golf

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@BenDWalsh

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Santos’s glasses (which we have no confirmation yet are actuall Rx) are so big and chunky they make him look a bit like a middle schooler wearing a spy disguise, which is not the ideal aesthetic given his circumstances

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@dylanmatt thankfully science has proven that "lifting heavy weights until you are very uncomfortable" is not the only form of exercise :)

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Ben Walsh

@BenDWalsh

2 years

the Saudis immediately upstaging Qatar with one of the greatest World cup upsets in recent decades is a bizarre plot twist to this sportswashing rivalry

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

2 years

Leaked documents expose stunning plan to wage financial war on Qatar — and steal World Cup from me & @bendwalsh

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Ben Walsh

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2 years

"Etiquette is for setting other people at ease... [NYMag's] conception of etiquette is selfish: It’s about self-soothing" I'd add – questions of etiquette tend to resolve themselves pretty quickly you have basic empathy and respect other people's humanity

Josh Barro

@jbarro

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I wrote about why I hated that NYMag etiquette cover story.

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