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@jodyrosen And in fact (as @JenSeniorNY has pointed out) the journal where "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" was published, The Journal of Biosocial Science, was until 1968 known as The Eugenics Review.

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NBC's auto-transcription could be better.

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Also notable that Cleveland teachers in LaFleur were not fired in so many words but were required to notify the local school board that they were pregnant and then resign—a situation that would be consistent with the records in Warren's case.

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A famous Supreme Court case -- Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur (1974) -- struck down a school district's policy that forced teachers to take unpaid leaves if they were four months pregnant. The teachers in the case filed their lawsuits in 1971.

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@alexburnsNYT How do you get "wants Gillibrand blackballed" from "hopes [she] does not get the nod"?

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@nycsouthpaw Also satisfying:

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This did not work out like Bethany Mandel had hoped

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@KatiePhang 48 were excused because they said they couldn't be fair and impartial; the additional 9 were because of scheduling conflicts

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@rscharf_ @Law360 @frankrunyeon @stewartbishop Hooray! I was hoping someone was attending this hearing—thanks for your work

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@cmclymer @seungminkim Her name is Seung Min, but agreed!

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"More Kierkegaard!"

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What were they yelling?

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"Sometimes I tell myself that my new beat is justice, as opposed to the Supreme Court. And my new beat now seems to make it impossible to cover the old one." —Dahlia Lithwick, breaking my heart

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@KFILE If you listen again, she says “In appropriate circumstances,” as in yes, under the right circumstances. (Not that any such circumstances exist.)

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@dankois The TV listings alone were genius.

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@poniewozik And then his response: I'll do my best, but I'm a busy guy!

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@pixelatedboat They're also sleeping better than ever thanks to Casper

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@sarahjeong @sdpowell1 "Why is Horace Scudder greater than Moses?" Thomas Bailey Aldrich would ask his fellow salon-goers. The answer: "Moses dried up the Red Sea once only; Scudder dries up the Atlantic monthly."

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@sarahjeong @sdpowell1 True! Per Ellery Sedgwick's history of The Atlantic (pp. 109–110), the issue sold very well at first, but then "public curiosity was satiated and succeeded by righteous indignation. ... In 1870 circulation was down to 35,000, a loss of at least 15,000 from its peak in 1865."

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@davidfrum "I can't advise you in my favour because I think it would be beastly for you, but think how nice it would be for me. I am restless & moody & misanthropic & lazy & have no money except what I earn & if I got ill you would starve. In fact it's a lousy proposition."

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@maggieNYT I'm trying to think of any story I've read that attributes a story to "officials" without naming the country they represent.

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@rachsyme Amazing. Do you know if his dancing style was inspired by any particular life experience—e.g., dancing at a particular kind of concert at a formative time? Or does it just flow naturally from his personality?

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@K8brannen That's a helpful clarification. I found it very odd that the NYT piece neither explained what "unusual manner" meant nor included a clause like "—though our sources declined to give specifics."

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@michaelbierut Have you seen this? I find it weirdly captivating.

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@JessicaHuseman I'm so sorry he got scraped up! I hope you don't mind me responding like a fact-checker to say that hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol are out of favor in the medical community. These days the consensus is that you should just use soap and water.

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@AlyssaRosenberg Respectfully, this is a straw-man argument. No one disagrees with your points—It's just very unlikely that they apply. Those preemptively objecting to the Harper's/Roiphe piece aren't attacking journalistic norms; they're worried that these norms are being violated.

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@hels I fear that means you missed @samstein 's excellent headline work:

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@AaronBlake In what sense is this "breaking"? Bloomberg reported it last week.

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@BCDreyer PSYCHOSIS. WE'RE COMMITTED.

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@sarahjeong @sdpowell1 By the way, I highly recommend this book. Among its highlights are a memorable scene in which James Russell Lowell's hat, stuffed with manuscripts, blows into the Charles River, and another where an aggrieved former editor tells bitter jokes at a salon at his successor's expense.

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@mattdpearce Speaking of identifying heroes, @ProPublicaIL did admirable reporting here:

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@jodyavirgan I refuse to believe we have less podcast-listening time than we used to, when everyone agrees we're doing more cooking and dishwashing than ever before

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@runolgarun @emilynussbaum @thedailybeast In case you're curious, here's the history of "Meats," taught since 1926.

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@SopanDeb He's repurposed his own boast about being able to shoot someone on 5th Avenue! Except now it's a bad thing.

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@Nicole_Cliffe Road-Kill Squirrel Remembered As Frantic, Indecisive

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@MSNBC @Popehat Psst, @Popehat : this is recycled from the other day, I’m afraid, when Sondland’s lawyer mentioned something S said in his original testimony. No further development or revision yet.

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@alexburnsNYT Fair enough—but there's a difference between one (even powerful) person's snub and launching a campaign for all others to snub.

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@DLind (*hereafter)

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@Max_Fisher Excellent compromise: get a $40 Hario manual burr grinder. Superb grind quality but costs as little as cheap blade grinder. Tiring to do forever, but fine for a while.

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@JamesFallows Seems like he must be alluding to Chad Wolf's statement last night that Americans returning to the US will have to travel through certain airports with enhanced screening, but the official guidance with the list of airports hasn't even been released yet.

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@Olivianuzzi Is that really meant to look like a coffee mug? It looks so much like a foaming mug of beer

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@JamesFallows Agreed. The degree of difference between "member of the intelligence community" and "CIA officer" is very slight in terms of public understanding but very large in terms of likelihood of being outed and threatened.

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@aseitzwald It was a joke

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@emilynussbaum Glad you're starting to feel better! The Airbnb situation reminds me of Dan Savage's line about STIs—that disclosing illness can freak some people out, but most who are infected are blissfully ignorant of it, so those who know they're sick and take precautions are the best risks.

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@lizkimtweets If only he had a cooling center!

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@ASFleischman Hmmmm. I think this may be fake—not seeing it on TS.

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@jbouie I think this is the reporter/publication that did the original reporting.

I Found Roy Moore’s Jewish Attorney — And He’s A Friend Of Doug Jones

The Jewish lawyer Roy Moore's attorney offered up as proof that the family is good with Jews is Richard Jaffe, a Birmingham native.

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@ddale8 When Biden was telling the story in the 1980s, he identified Corn Pop's gang as the "Golden Dragon Head Chompers." (From Life magazine, October 1987.)

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@KatyTurNBC Leave it to Trump to correct her with the wrong number.

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@CT_Bergstrom @jwoodgett @splette Forgive the ignorant layperson's question, but is the health-care system capacity really stable across time as represented by the horizontal dotted line? Or is system capacity something that a delayed peak allows professionals to increase in response to the pandemic?

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@ForecasterEnten Talk with @NateSilver538 : not long ago he was tweeting that he didn't understand why Comey wasn't getting MORE blame.

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@Susan_Hennessey Looking forward to the all-caps era of @Susan_Hennessey and @qjurecic

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@JessicaHuseman This is such an intriguing puzzle. My best guess is that this sign isn't about an ADA regulation (which doesn't make sense) but one of the few laws that requires a changing table in the men's room if you have one in the women's room. Are you in a federal building or back in NY?

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@jodyavirgan You'd think we'd have reached a time when we'd all be able to distinguish between someone's so-so tweets and their actual work.

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@TheMichaelMoran That would be Nikita Konkin

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@AMRichardson1 @BOENYC Here's the best way to let the authorities know.

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@AlxThomp This is three years old, and it's not from a campaign event.

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@pixelatedboat So you ADMIT he did it

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Marco Rubio at CNN town hall: To get rid of the AR-15, because of loopholes, "you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle in the country!" (ENTIRE CROWD CHEERS) Rubio: "Fair enough."

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You can't improve on a classic. @paultough

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@BCDreyer EPILEPSY. WE'RE SHAKING IT.

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@davidhogg111 Alex Dubinsky was apparently the student in charge of the sit-in and was posting videos to his Facebook page earlier. You could keep an eye on it.

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@qjurecic @MikhailaRFogel It's true! It's a general Senate rule (not impeachment-specific). The exemption for milk exists because of the following 1966 colloquy (per Riddick):

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@innercitypress Oh my goodness, you aren’t doing this on a full keyboard?

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@natsfert @HarryBallzak11 @Dona_what @JessicaHuseman Thanks, @natsfert . I did my best to phrase it respectfully and deferentially! @JessicaHuseman knows that I think well of her and her work.

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@poniewozik Definitely touch that microphone right in front of your mouth too

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@leoncrawl As a father of daughters ...

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@EWAEmily Yes! I'm hoping they have friends named Independent Claws and Dependent Claws.

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@nycsouthpaw I'm sad they removed the Community Note telling people to buy the crappy product for much less from a non-advertiser

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@BCDreyer I believe it was a comic set phrase of the time—something you say when someone's getting fresh. Burns and Allen did a short film called "Oh, My Operation," and here's a cartoon where the phrase is used against a lothario (at 2:10):

In My Merry Oldsmobile (1932)

This Fleischer Studios sing-along cartoon contains a surprising amount of immodest imagery. Lovely "Lucille" is menaced by a mustachioed villain/voyeur but t...

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@michaelbierut Agreed. I've always had a soft spot for Saul Bass's contribution. That confidently casual lettering!

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Listen, people: the avocado did not get its name from an Aztec word for "testicle." The original Aztec word meant "avocado." Secondarily, it was sometimes used metaphorically as slang for "testicle." Not the same thing. cc: @bgzimmer

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@davebinnig Online version here:

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The greatest cultural product to come out of 9/11 was The Onion's TV listings

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@JessicaHuseman Scanning app + shredder

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@rachsyme "On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." —E. B. White, 1948

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@JessicaHuseman Yes, but then do dinosaur mini-golf for balance.

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@Sarcher @ElieNYC Can we get someone to design WPA- or WWII-style "Do your part: Zoom the holidays" posters? I've been dreaming about this.

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@mattzollerseitz The Fugitive

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New lows in policymaking, but new highs in acronym-making

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@JessicaHuseman The Obama-era federal law, in the grand tradition of absurd acronyms, was called the Bathrooms Accessible In Every Situation Act, abbreviated as the BABIES Act—though someone apparently forgot to add a second "B" word

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@StephanieEbbert Thanks, @StephanieEbbert . I guess what's hardest to figure out is when you write phrases like "The evidence is all right in front of them," whether you're suggesting this genuinely or whether you mean this with some irony, since you've shown that their evidence is flimsy.

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@frankrunyeon @Law360 FYI, I'm not seeing this filing from today(ish) in your spreadsheet/docket

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@HeerJeet I've wondered whether that quip was apocryphal, but it's real! (About books rather than newspapers, though.)

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@HeerJeet

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@JessicaHuseman Here's the reporter/publication that did the original reporting to find the Jewish lawyer, if you're curious. For some reason, the Examiner report is getting all the links, but I think it's just piggybacking off this.

I Found Roy Moore’s Jewish Attorney — And He’s A Friend Of Doug Jones

The Jewish lawyer Roy Moore's attorney offered up as proof that the family is good with Jews is Richard Jaffe, a Birmingham native.

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There's no question that @RepThomasMassie gets played by @allanmcleod in the movie version of this mess, right?

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@meganamram Today was the day Megan Amram finally became president.

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@poniewozik I agree that the editors were right not to wring the voice out of that lede, but just a couple of minor editorial touches could have made it much easier to read, I think.

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@edburmila I wish the subsidies were even more generous, of course, but there really are many people who can get covered for a monthly premium of $10 or less:

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@margeincharge I want Netflix to revive Great News and give it six more seasons.

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@fivefifths cannibowlism

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@mattyglesias The hed's already been changed, thankfully. "Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries"

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@msanchezMIA Terrific reporting. Should we be pestering WSJ with complaints for not citing you guys in their story tonight? Are they piggybacking off your work without giving proper credit, or were you both working on the same story simultaneously? Please tell me how angry to be!

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@Popehat @nypost Better hed online, for what it's worth:

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“How many senators would enjoy a Trump rally? That’s probably your whip count for calling Hunter,” a Republican senator said, requesting anonymity to speak candidly.

‘End this’: Republicans poised to call no witnesses during Trump impeachment trial in Senate -...

Senate Republicans do not expect to call witnesses President Trump might want to hear from most in an impeachment trial, conceding there are not the votes to summon key figures such as Hunter Biden...

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Peak @foodcoop

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@TheDweck More like accepting the virus's opening bid and trying to sell it to us as a big win

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@JessicaHuseman

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@davidfrum It's a marvelous quote—though Waugh wrote "beastly," not "nasty."

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@Racheldoesstuff I’d always assumed the expression originally came from the world of professional auditioning, where the feeling of competition (and high stakes) would be appropriate.

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Exciting times for @stronglang

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump attacks protections for immigrants from "shithole" countries in Oval Office meeting, by @jdawsey1 .

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