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05.12.2025 22:55 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When Marge Simpson asked Frank Gehry to design a concert hall in Springfield:
05.12.2025 22:54 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0📻 PSA: On @marketplace.org tonight , @crampell.bsky.social and I join @kairyssdal.bsky.social for “The Weekly Wrap.”
05.12.2025 22:41 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Why is NPR letting this happen?!
05.12.2025 22:34 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Irony is dead
05.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 1675 🔁 231 💬 54 📌 4INBOX: “Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion”
Here is the official release:
Charlie Savage and Julian Barnes, in The Times:
05.12.2025 05:04 — 👍 67 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
The United States has assumed the presidency of the G20, promising to return it “to focusing on its core mission of driving economic growth and prosperity to produce results.”
The announcement includes a link to an official website, which is currently just this:
Brutal.
25.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Agreeing Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismisses the James Comey indictment without prejudice.
24.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
24.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 54 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0Shortly after he married fellow Harvard University Professor Elisa New, Larry Summers and his wife flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane to the Caribbean, and spent part of their honeymoon on Epstein’s private island, The Harvard Crimson reports.
20.11.2025 23:24 — 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
After he interviewed Jensen Huang, Ed Ludlow joined us on “The Big Take.”
20.11.2025 23:18 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0“Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein,” The Harvard Crimson reports.
20.11.2025 00:34 — 👍 276 🔁 74 💬 15 📌 11
After President Trump launched his trade war, a family-run lumber company that has been around for almost a century decided to close one of its mills.
"Liberation Day" "damn near liberated me from our business," Wilson Jones told Shawn Donnan. "I'm bitter about that."
After President Trump launched his trade war, a family-run lumber company that has been around for almost a century decided to close one of its mills.
"Liberation Day" "damn near liberated me from our business," Wilson Jones told Shawn Donnan. "I'm bitter about that."
The White House is readying the Sharpies. The end of the longest government shutdown in history is in sight.
13.11.2025 00:40 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
12.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 673 🔁 178 💬 17 📌 38
An update on the “American dream,” from NPR’s Scott Horsley:
11.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0He adds, “Family coverage refers to health insurance coverage for an employee and at least one family member (spouse and/or dependent children).”
11.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“The average family in the US currently pays $6,850 annually for health insurance, and the average annual payment for employers is $20,143,” Apollo’s Torsten Sløk writes, in a new note. “That is a total annual cost for health insurance per family of $26,993.”
11.11.2025 12:07 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 3The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline, according to AAA, is $3.084.
07.11.2025 01:24 — 👍 54 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 1I’m flying between Brazilian cities, and the flight attendant ends her introduction with a warning about the spread of measles.
“Vaccines save lives,” she says.
Next week’s cover of The New Yorker, “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez:
05.11.2025 09:27 — 👍 94 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0
Days after CBS cancelled John Dickerson’s show, and he announced his departure from the network, Dickerson was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award:
05.11.2025 00:08 — 👍 138 🔁 41 💬 9 📌 0
Our conversation, in full:
04.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”
03.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 1700 🔁 352 💬 18 📌 21
“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country.
Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.”
Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster.
I recently traveled there for @bloomberg.com:
Government Shutdown, Day 30
31.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1
