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Executive Editor, Asheville Watchdog. Ex-NYT. Books, Banjo, Beisbol, 1A. www.avlwatchdog.org

163 Followers 169 Following 65 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 week ago

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

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2 weeks ago

This is not normal.

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1 month ago

Seen elsewhere:

Bad Bunny had 45 more rushing yards than the Patriots last Sunday.

Yards while carrying the football:
Patriots - 79
Bad Bunny - 124

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1 month ago

Well the Super Bowl stays with an NFC team that's also a bird team.

Go Birds.

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1 month ago

The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.

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Aug 19, 2021
Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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lizzie johnson
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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lizzie johnson
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Jan 25
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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1 month ago

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

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1 month ago
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How it started How it's going

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1 month ago

Trump: I'm gonna keep boring you with this speech until you either give me Greenland or bite a cyanide pill #Davos

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2 months ago
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Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78

Sugar Magnolia, Truckin' ... Bob Weir R.I.P. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

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2 months ago

And extrajudicial detention centers for DHS and ICE

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Jan 1.
Jan 3.

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2 months ago
world-class chud tom brady wearing a single glove on his right hand and a big headset on his head while broadcasting the eagles vs bills game

my demands are simple, mr. bond

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2 months ago

Is Tom Brady in the pocket of Big Leather Glove

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2 months ago

Fly 🦅🦅🦅 fly!

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2 months ago
King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

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2 months ago

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

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2 months ago

This, 1000X

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Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.

Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869

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3 months ago
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In case you have never seen this.

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3 months ago

Happy 82nd Birthday to Keith "Aging Gracefully" Richards.

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3 months ago
dailypenn

YEAR IN REVIEW
Four Penn alumni in the national spotlight in 2025

dailypenn From the Oval Office to courtrooms, several Penn alumni made national headlines this year - repeatedly tying the University to high-profile controversies.
Swipe for a look at four alumni who stepped into the national spotlight in 2025, and continue reading at the link in our bio.

I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...

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3 months ago

Surprised it wasn't Cyrillic

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3 months ago

Maybe the nurses shouldn't let him read the newspaper any more. It upsets him.

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3 months ago
Comic. [Three chess games next to each other. There is a diagonal yellow grid highlight from the pawn in the top left corner of the third chessboard to the bottom of the middle chessboard where there’s a clear path. The player positioned near that bottom section has moved to look at the third chessboard.] [caption] It doesn’t happen often because it requires micrometer precision, but if two chess boards are *perfectly* aligned, it’s actually legal to move pieces between them.

Chessboard Alignment

xkcd.com/3177/

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3 months ago
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Saquon Barkley's TD run on the standard ESPN broadcast and the Monsters Inc broadcast

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3 months ago
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John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92

John Noble Wilford was a journalist/alchemist who transformed science into poetry. And now I like to think that he is "out there, far, far away where Earth is a mere pinpoint of light and the Sun is a pale disk of diminishing consequence..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...

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3 months ago
The Phanatic in Severance. He’s in a white hallway opposite the 4 main cast members. His work is mysterious and important.

Phillies photoshops until baseball is back - November 29

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3 months ago

Even in a mirror image, Hegseth is a kcid.

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3 months ago

An exciting new Bluesky feature is that any time you write "checks notes" it sends a 10-volt shock through your keyboard

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