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Jared McGee says crowd noise at Ryan Field against Duke disrupted hot read call from quarterback, resulted in botched play
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Sobering kicker to this @maiarcoleman story:
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Just thinking about tomorrow. This is from twenty years ago, “I Just Called To Say I Love You,”wsj.com/articles/SB115774704… via @WSJ
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Markey, who at 80 is the oldest senator in Massachusetts history, holds off a generational challenge to win the Democratic nomination to extend his half century in Congress. @TimBalk nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/po…
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A nation mourns. @TimBalk on the demise of Beth nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/po…
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NEW: Mamdani's Big Bet
A year after his primary win upended New York politics, Mamdani and co are back trying to topple more incumbents in Tuesday's House primaries and expand the democratic socialist ranks. It's already left deep bruises.
w/@SallyGold
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NEW at NYT: How 10 Days Shook the House Map
“Put bluntly, Republicans have roughly 10 more House seats that favor them than they did just 10 days ago”
From me and @TimBalk
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A new poll finds a sharp rise in the share of men under 30 who say that religion is “very important” to them. New from me and @RuthIgielnik (gift link): nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/po…
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sometimes it is important to step back and capture the zeitgeist
so i wrote about how Congress is behaving more and more like the Real Housewives
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Jonathan, believed to be 193 and the world’s oldest known tortoise, is still alive on St. Helena despite rumors of his death. Officials dismissed the reports as a hoax, saying he is “very much alive.”
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NEWS w/ @DevlinBarrett: F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
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New York Survived Its 1975 Crisis. Will Trump Push It Back to the Brink? nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyreg… via @TimBalk
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Mamdani Reflects on 9/11 as He Vies to Be New York’s First Muslim Mayor: nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyreg…
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Nearly $10 million in contraceptives were stranded in a Belgium warehouse when USAID shut down.
Rather than donate or sell, the U.S. made plans to burn them.
But now, nobody can even tell us where they are.
w/@snolen @aurelienbrd
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Line to get into the Iowa State Capitol. There is a public hearing on the bill to remove gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act at 9:30, and floor debate is expected later today. Info on the bill from earlier this week: iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025…
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Trump's aid freeze has closed two-thirds of the soup kitchens that feed 800,000 people in Sudan's war-torn capital.
Story with @suilee and @farnazfassihi nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world…
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It wasn’t just that the place was in flames. It was that it seemed to be in flames everywhere at once. nytimes.com/2025/01/08/us/lo…
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