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Future historians might wonder: 'How did leading news orgs help the public understand the surprising US recovery from pandemic econ collapse, and resulting surge in inflation?'

Well, here's one illustration:

nytimes.com/2024/01/20/bus…

(Story much more nuanced than the hed.)

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Great piece in Reasons to be Cheerful by Hannah Wallace, on accelerating movement to get rid of dirtiest equipment still in legal use.

reasonstobecheerful.world/make-america-r…

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Channel-surfing. Every place I check is giving us 'how will it play in New Hampshire?' guesstimates about Trump, Haley, DeS etc messages.

Please, pretty please: Enough!!

fallows.substack.com/p/election-cou…

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A brief history of my alma mater:
When the Abell family sold the Baltimore Sun to an out-of-town newspaper chain, we fretted, but were told that Times Mirror was a good chain, not like Gannett or whatever. We would be fine.
When the good chain brought in an out-of-town...

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Pundits, please be careful. Bret Stephens The New York Times today whacks Joe Biden for 'absurdly wasteful Covid relief funds.' As proof, he links to an AP storydetailing that the waste was from Trump era bills that the Biden administration cleaned up. nytimes.com/2024/01/15/opi… Washington Monthly

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This is a really amazing article by Geoff Edgers, from front page of Sunday WaPo. Narrative journalism at a high level.

washingtonpost.com/style/interact…

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By me:

How you change when you keep learning new things.

Featuring: novice pilot in his 50s, pianist in her 100s.

fallows.substack.com/p/podcast-how-…

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You do have to admire the discipline here.

(Trump's lawyer now is flat-out arguing the opposite of what Team Trump claimed during impeachment. This is a 'seeming contradiction' in the same way the Alaska Airlines issue was a 'seeming equipment problem.' )

You do have to admire the discipline here. (Trump's lawyer now is flat-out arguing the opposite of what Team Trump claimed during impeachment. This is a 'seeming contradiction' in the same way the Alaska Airlines issue was a 'seeming equipment problem.' )
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This competition about who can be tougher about selling LAND to China is really stupid.

(They're going to take the land away—like the pandas they have repatriated? They're suddenly going to spy from some farmland in a way they can't do already?)

This is 'Idiocracy' come to life

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