RT @bcamcrane: Almost got robbed by a source while investigating this $44 million book publishing scam for @BW. Enjoy! .

Spotted on the side of the subway

"Gentlemen may talk of the age of chivalry, but remember the ploughmen, poachers and pickpockets whom they lead. It is with these sad instruments that your great warriors and kings have been doing their murderous work in the world.".

It is well to watch glorious Barry Lyndon in a snug armchair at home, but it's a very different thing to see it first hand

A genuinely nauseating piece of accountability journalism -- it features, for example, bubbling geysers of trash juice --from @mslaurabliss and @rachaeldottle

"The administration has pulled back federal funding, arrested foreign students and attempted to dictate the makeup of the student body — all part of Miller’s vision to protect Western civilization"

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A great twist in the ugly Epstein story: a top Wall Street figure just chose to go through a hearing that ended up revealing new and gruesome details about Epstein’s “family.” By @harrynwilson, @jonny_browning, @avabmorrison and me. Gift link! .

For the heads: Dick’s Picks Vol 4, on sale for the last four minutes — maybe the finest Dark Star in the history of the cosmos???

My list is one of the 100 best lists of the 21st century. My list could beat up your list. My list is more thoughtful than your list. My list is more filmic than your list. My list is more informed than your list. My list is wittier than your list. My list is just joking. My list.

My cinematic empire of mad hot departed old men

Can report that Jay Tarses of the Jay and Rachel Tarses Emergency Exit co-starred in the early Jim Carrey vehicle The Duck Factory (he’s pictured at top left). Plus, he co-wrote personal favorite The Muppets Take Manhattan. Good job, Jay, and great door

One of the best walls in Mass MoCA

RT @ev_rat: You couldn't put down a William Langewiesche story, whether you went in caring about the subject or not. "The Shipbreakers" was….

RT @NYMag: The accusation that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza — likely hundreds, maybe even thousands — has become all but undenia….

RT @11thHour: TONIGHT: Downtown LA is again under curfew as protests continue -- the White House hypes its China trade agreement that looks….

RT @malonebarry: Al Jazeera has published the names of every journalist killed since Oct 7th. 231 Palestinian journalists have been slaug….

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@sridinats has asked me to apologize for the phrase "lede paragraph." I am sorry.

I didn't know that I needed to read about the commercialization of Mid throughout the global landscape until I read @pat_clark's new piece in @BW. Annoyingly though it does mean I can no longer claim to have fit the most food details in a lede paragraph