Dan Saltzstein

Or, I don’t know, go for a walk

Jim Carrey in the Truman Show, looking up

Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts

“Mr. Trump was first told of the cuts by Ms. Hochul during a phone call on Sunday evening, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.”

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Notable New Yorkers on the City’s Arts Scene, 25 Years Out

In the first piece from our Future of New York series, we asked a bunch of cultural smarties, including @shteyngart.bsky.social @minjinlee.bsky.social @mobrowne.bsky.social @sloanecrosley.bsky.social, to look ahead to 2050.

Although I don’t speak other languages, sometimes I’ll say a phrase in front of someone if I think they might be talking about me just to put the fear of god in them

I get the hair thing but manscaping?! It’s just too much.

The Body Scout Check out The Body Scout - <p><b>In this "timeless and original" sci-fi thriller (<i>New York Times</i>), a hardboiled baseball scout must solve the murder of his brother in a world transformed by bod...

I should remember to promote this every playoff season: bookshop.org/a/88357/9780...

Something like this happened to me too: I had my doctor call in a prescription (asthma) but they couldn’t find it initially. They clearly wanted to give me the vaccine but were stumped. I finally suggested they looks at my scripts and they found one for an asthma inhaler. I got my vaccine.

In Greenwich Village, dollar slices actually cost upwards of $1.50!!!

You're thinking of Shlomo Katznelson.

The Onion Made an Absolutely Unhinged Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary "Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile" is a very silly deep dive on a very serious issue. In the current media landscape, it’s a wonder it even got made.

VERY FUNNY SCOOP: The Onion made a 20-minute Epstein/Trump mockumentary called “Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.” I got a sneak peek and it is gloriously dumb. Read about it/watch the trailer here: www.wired.com/story/the-on...

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Senior editor: 150k-180k Business and tech editor: 180k-230k

The Free Press is hiring with high salaries.

Yes. Let’s make this a human rights offense.

Thank you, yes. I will run on this, and only this, in 2028.

My flaming hot take is that there should be legal ramifications if a T-shirt ordered online that says it’s soft is not, in fact, soft.

Oh yeeeaaah. (They regularly appear at my local farmers market but they are so expensive and shrink down like spinach.)

Some news.

Walgreens confirms to me that they, too, will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription nationwide if CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations. (Please note that, for both CVS and Walgreens, this change is still contingent on that formal adoption!)

Explainer has been updated to reflect this.

Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access A push to require prescriptions for every COVID shot failed in a split vote.

This is an entertaining and informative writeup of the shambolic CDC Covid meeting. The anti-vax nitwits came one vote short of making all Americans who want a Covid booster get a prescription for it.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Totoro holding an umbrella in Paris Street: Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte.

adding fictional characters to art: thread

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world."
-Drew Weissman

Heal quickly!

Don’t wait for a response before the thanks. I’ve had some success with this!

Ok, I’m not saying it’s always going to work or be comfortable to say, esp for women, but I’ve been workshopping some anti-manspreading language on the subway and I think I’ve got something promising: “Excuse me. Would you mind moving your legs so I’ve got a little more room? Thanks.”