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Features writer, New York Magazine.

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PHILADELPHIA —
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Fauci, now on the cover of InStyle magazine.
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The most succinct explanation of this tangled mess I’ve seen.
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THERES A LITERAL ZEBRA WALKING EAST ON 56th STREET RIGHT NOW
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I would pay money to attend this dinner party.
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Anti-war protestors disrupting the Biden Obama Clinton fundraiser from inside Radio City Hall.
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Sadly, I'm not a helicopter.
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Where are your overhead shots, Shawn?
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Drudge banner right now is something to behold...
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On the Amtrak that just pulled into Wilmington, the whole train erupts into applause.
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Prompts on the conservative dating app "The Right Stuff" ...
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I stopped this nice woman at 79th & Lex to tell her I thought her bag was cool. “My sister used to work at the Times!” she said. She was Jill Abramson’s sister.
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After two hard-fought years of sobriety, my cousin relapsed two days before Thanksgiving. Funeral is next week. McKinsey is unspeakably heinous.
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What
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The beans have been spilled.
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Hillary Clinton says she wants to see Trump's phone records "to see whether he was talking to Putin the day that the insurgents invaded our Capitol."
@HillaryClinton
Hillary Clinton
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. @SpeakerPelosi and I agree: Congress needs to establish an investigative body like the 9/11 Commission to determine Trump's ties to Putin so we can repair the damage to our national security and prevent a puppet from occupying the presidency ever again.
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Waltz in on Friday, do experimental drugs for 72 hours straight and leave Monday afternoon feeling "20 years younger".... Walter Reed, or Berghain? You decide!
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A moment of silence in Washington. #DCProtests
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Fox has never been so interesting. They’re all so confused.
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Chief Elio's correspondent here, reporting on the Godzilla from Wasilla currently wreaking havoc on the Upper East Side.
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One member of the mob on her run inside the Capitol: “A little peppery, but you should go in there, it’s beautiful. I thanked them for their hospitality — most of them are on our side, the Capitol police.”
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If not now, when?
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(My mom thought she was Tina Fey.)
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Once bumped into him drinking with firefighters on Mulberry street one 9/11 a few years back. It was really cool — until my mom blurted out, “You’re that guy from the Adam Sandler movies!” Can’t bring her anywhere.
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The NYT newsroom is threatening to walk off the job next week.
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Maureen Dowd
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Went up to Vermont to interview Bernie.
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A Philly goodbye to the last coterie of Trump supporters outside of the Convention Center, where an old Trump speech is being played.
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Arch street 🔈
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Police have ceded a chunk of Lafayette Sq to hundreds of protestors outside of the WH. Somewhere holed up inside is the president, live tweeting the revolt. #DCProtests
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Sarah Palin returns to Elio’s:
@ScooterCasterNY
Oliya Scootercaster 🛴
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#HappeningNow Sarah Palin seen dining at a Manhattan restaurant. She is in the city for a trial against the NYT @nytimes , which was reportedly delayed due to her testing positive for Covid19, 2 days ago, according to Forbes
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Dowd: Your greatest regret is that you never had sex with Che Guevara. Fonda: No, I don’t think about him. Who I do think about, and what is a great regret is Marvin Gaye. He wanted to and I didn’t. I was married to Tom.
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Every episode of Succession is the same
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I spoke to this guy at the capitol riot who turned out to be a police chief. He didn't like what was happening, so he left. I printed his quote and then everything went to hell in the small town he's looked after for 3 decades. My feature for @NYMag :
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I asked @SebGorka if he would talk to Rolling Stone. “That fucking rag,” he snarled. “I wipe my ass with it.” 😥
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"Suburban women will you please like me?" an indignant Trump pleads in PA. "I saved your damn neighborhood!"
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Beyond parody
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New York Post
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AOC wears "Tax the Rich" dress to Met Gala
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Local skater kids, posted up in Freedom plaza, watching the MAGA crowds stream past. “Man these people are sore losers. It’s over yo.”
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The latest in downtown DC: Cops had to seize 16th between H and Eye to control the fires. With the authorities tied up there — and still guarding Lafayette — crowds took off west down H, tagging everything in sight and shattering storefronts of restaurants and hotels. #DCProtests
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@Sulliview “So, tell me, how do you all know each other?”
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Every person I’ve interviewed genuinely believes the results of the election can and will be overturned. “He has the greatest legal minds behind him,” says announcer. (Giuliani was put in charge of legal efforts today).
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Rage clicks culture is so wack, but I really wonder WTF the LA Times was thinking when it published this. I'd ask the writer, but he just blocked me.
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Shawn McCreesh
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When your 15 minutes are up:
@MaryLTrump
Mary L. Trump
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It is not time to move on.
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SPOTTED having dinner at Elio’s on the Upper East Side, days before her lawsuit against The New York Times kicks off: Sarah Palin
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Shawn McCreesh
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Will never forget having a drink in Dupont Circle with a Trump White House staffer on January 5th and saying, "I already covered the MAGA march on DC, I don't feel like the thing tomorrow will be as crazy." "I don't know," replied the staffer, "it could get pretty wild."
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Shawn McCreesh
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Some great cigarettes: The cig after the plane lands The just got out of the subway cig The cig after a big meal The nervous breakdown cig The I’m in Paris and can smoke in restaurants cig The car cig
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Some great beers: The airport beer The kitchen beer while she’s getting ready The hotel balcony 7pm beer The straight to the pub from work beer The Sunday afternoon beer garden beer The Friday before Christmas beer(s)
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Someone keeps pushing this narrative... who could it be
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This is getting weird.
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19 year old Jersey girl, on Market st: “This was my first time voting and I can’t even tell you how excited I am to have a woman in the White House.”
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Gray Rat outside the Gray Lady today.
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Every few years, there's another Zebra incident on here and this tweet comes back to haunt me.
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Shawn McCreesh
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THERES A LITERAL ZEBRA WALKING EAST ON 56th STREET RIGHT NOW
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@jdawsey1 Yeah but what
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Jill Abramson on Davos: “It was — and is, a corrupt circle-jerk.” @semaforben
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Here's a piece I wrote about opiates — what they've done to my hometown and the people I love, and why it feels like the crisis is getting worse all the time.
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After four very cool years at the Times, I'm so thrilled to be joining the insanely talented team at New York Magazine. "Dream job" is putting it lightly.
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You just know the cover of the New York Post tomorrow is gonna be a good one.
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Most say Fox News is as good as dead to them now. “I’ll never watch it again,” says one North Carolina woman. “And I watched it all day every day, at work, at home, constantly. Never. Again.”
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Poor Hannity. He just wants Trump to riff on Kamala, but the conversation keeps drifting to... knife-wielding MS-13 assassins; the Rebar inside the Wall; the Pulitzer prizes, and Hillary.
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Even for this website, this clip is genuinely outrageous.
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Daily Caller
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Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt says January 6 was “profoundly more dangerous than the 9/11 attacks” and “in the end… likely to kill a lot more Americans” including “the casualties of the wars that lasted 20 years following it”
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Talking to GQ about my finest work.
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BILL BRATTON on his old boss, Giuliani: “I can’t understand how he allowed himself to be subsumed by Trump. He’s made a caricature of himself and he’s lost the image of America’s mayor.”
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Spotted at Cindy Adams’s 94th birthday party at her Park Avenue apartment: Kathy Hochul, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, Woody and Soon Yi, Al Sharpton, Kellyanne Conway, Bill O’Reilly, Don Lemon, Robert Thomson, Keith Poole, Al Sharpton. It was like the New York Post come alive.
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As with so much of the Trump era, today was shocking but not surprising. My @NYMag dispatch from the Capitol:
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Shawn McCreesh
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I think my favorite moment of the weekend was when @Olivianuzzi and I asked secret service if we had time to sneak out for a smoke before the president arrived, and one agent turned to another and asked, "Do we have an ETA on Celtic?" It was so Washington!
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This comes from a friend who was prompted by these questions, among others, while attempting to set up her profile on the app.
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My dispatch from the "million MAGA march," starring the Proud Boys, Antifa, Alex Jones, Sebastian Gorka, Trump's motorcade and thousands of anguished voters who truly believe the election can be reversed. And who will "never, ever" watch Fox News again.
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Wrote long about what it's like when opiates hijack your high school. Since filing just a few months ago, two more friends mentioned in this story have overdosed. Covid will disappear eventually but heroin and fentanyl are here to stay.
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“I think the nouveaux riches Obamas are seriously tone-deaf,” says André Leon Talley⁩. “The Obamas are in Marie-Antoinette, tacky, let-them-eat-cake mode.” When Monsieur Vogue is saying you’re too Marie Antoinette, you know you’re in trouble.
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@TaylorLorenz tim burton if he was born in 2005
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Along Eye street between 16th and 17th cars have been set ablaze, trees are burning and the BB&T has been graffitied with 666. #DCProtests
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Protestors marching from the DOJ to the Reflecting Pool
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Now I’m never going to get a good table.
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You can’t convince me this was made by a human being.
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Will trauma counselors be standing by, too?
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And this, becuz, Philly.
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She loves this dirty town! My profile of Risa Heller, the hyper-connected, power-gossiping superflack nested high inside the Woolworth Building. Reporters beware.
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Shawn McCreesh
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This @maggieNYT story reminds me of 16' when Clinton commentators said concerns were less about her health than her stealth. Trump's trip to Walter Reed has never been explained.
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In this issue of New York Magazine, my profile of Walter Isaacson, who spent the last two years as Elon Musk's shadow.
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Washington’s establishment was torched, tear gassed and set upon by a mob. But it survived. And now? It wants to PARTY.
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Shawn McCreesh
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Powerlunching with the original Power Girl for @NYMag ’s “It Girl” issue.
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The person who just made sure she was photographed reading a book about "not giving a fuck" now wants to represent 20 million people in congress? Seems weird.
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Devastating.
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Here's a piece I wrote about opiates — what they've done to my hometown and the people I love, and why it feels like the crisis is getting worse all the time.
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Park Avenue columnist summit: Cindy meets Maureen. Only in New York kids, only in New York.
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Winslet spent time in Kensington to witness the depths of the opioid crisis in Philly. She saw a young man “who had been amputated from the knee down on his right leg, and he was injecting into the toes of the other foot.” “I was really staggered.”
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MoDo getting her Masters today from Columbia. Just another New York Times reporter with an Ivy League degree…
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Saturday night in Iowa. Negative Nine degrees. Donald Trump arrives to the Hotel Fort Des Moines; meanwhile, by the bar, a man proposes to Laura Loomer.
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This has happened three more times, so far.
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@ebruenig I've been talking about opening a bar called "Cancellot" so at least there's somewhere for them to hang. No judgments, no rules. I picture it looking a lot like the place in Dusk Till Dawn.
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So much hyannisfreude.
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@DefiantLs
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If I have to watch some action go down at Mount Rushmore, I’d rather it be because North By Northwest is on TV.
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Group prayer begins.
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“People in Trumpworld have begun to refer to the group that is loyally sticking with Mr. Trump as the ‘dead enders.’” ⁦ @anniekarni ⁩ surveys the skeleton crew that remains.
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