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Dan Saltzstein

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Deputy Editor, Projects and Collaborations, NYTimes. Queens, NYC, cocktail and rye enthusiast. Ruthless cosmopolitan.

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My understanding is that if he wins VA (very likely), WI (still likely), PA (somewhat less likely) and MI (one more notch less likely), he wins (by the slimmest of margins but he wins, assuming all else goes as usual). Doesn’t need to win GA, NC, NV, etc, in this scenario

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Probably a stupid question but I’m not seeing whether this was unanimous or not. Or is it an order, not a decision and there’s no breakdown of votes?

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Trying to lift my spirits my spirits by watching the S3 premiere of the award-winning comedy THE BEAR! What a laugh-riot!

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The three facts I remember about the GMF are 1) it was up to 25 feet deep (!), 2) moved at up at 35 mph (!!), and 3) for many years afterward, people said the whole neighborhood would smell like molasses in the summer (!!!)

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I don’t agree with you about the show I assume you’re talking about, but I bet I think this about shows you wouldn’t agree with me on!

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I believe it started as Stephen Ayyyeee Smith

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Sarah’s first response here would’ve been my #1 (Matt Bell writes about it well in “Refuse to Be Done). So I’ll add: over-report. Even fiction. Have a lot of fodder that you likely won’t use.

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Mine would’ve been your first here. Matt Bell writes about it well in “Refuse to Be Done.” (I think he calls it the island technique.) Applies to all writing imo!

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Ha! They are definitely classics of the generation. Mine was from Brooklyn. Yours?

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My dad, who died about a month and a half ago at 94, didn’t go a day in his last few years without saying “getting old ain’t for sissies.” It was part of a rotation that also included “write if you get work!” and “don’t take any wooden nickels.” I miss him.

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I saw one (with an ad wrap on it no less!) on the UWS. A kid next to me said to his mom, look at that car! Her: Yeah. [sigh] That’s a [sarcastic tone that might have as well been air quotes and an eyeroll] cybertruck.

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You know that genre of Instagram reel/Tiktok where it’s someone asking themselves how to say certain words in a language and then stringing them together? I saw one in Arabic and it was epic. Like, a string of 16 words with slight differences in intonation but otherwise sounded the same.

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In the country with the second-most oil production 😕

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For context 50C is 122F

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Worth noting that, for a few years, Sarid was *Minister of Education*

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Stork: I have a baby. Pigeon: I have the mail. Canary: I have bad news.

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Right. (I actually followed all of that, so 👏👏👏)

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It’s hard to imagine this wouldn’t lead to many lawsuits, no? It’s basically barring immunocompromised people from public transit, at minimum.

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We eventually got one of those. A lot of ducking under the cord when someone was cooking or washing dishes.

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Oh. Maybe not then. (Italy correspondent maybe?)

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More likely to be a hometowner in the newsroom and a slack message

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Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I used to have to regularly untangle my wall phone’s cord

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there it is.

"The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...

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There’s a very short list of things I’ll tell strangers on the street but “lease your dog, it’s not safe for other dogs or yours” is at the top of the list

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As written, that sentence says that the entire prison was cooled for $4mil, not just the geriatric wing. Am I reading that right?

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I think guer gets a spot here (separate from gor)

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I’ve always been convinced this is never going to happen, which is terrible news for the MTA and its riders (and I live in Queens and own a car!)

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Happy pride! I wrote about the food that makes you gay, from jokes about ice cream to worries about soy, the long history of colonial fears about bodies and selves being able to change via food, and why that needn't be feared at all www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

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That’s a great lede, @jayasax.bsky.social and Wiz K. saying you need to break up a banana or else it’s sus is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

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