Jake Cline

Jake Cline

@jakecline.bsky.social

Writer, editor, book critic. Bylines, etc., at jakecline.net. I live in Miami.

365 Followers 621 Following 168 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Burgers and a side of affordable housing at this Miami restaurant Matt Kuscher finds a way to stash hidden elements into his Kush burger and beer restaurants: a milkshake bar that looks like his mother’s 1980s kitchen, a Chapulín Colorado-themed bathroom, a cocktail...

Matt Kuscher finds a way to stash hidden elements into his Kush burger and beer restaurants, like a milkshake bar.
Now, he’s adding a new element: affordable housing.
Kuscher worked with Omni CRA to build 10 affordable apartments above his restaurant.
carlosfrias.com/blog%2Fsocia...

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2 days ago

Almost makes sense after achieving nothing in a war without reason to say it’s kind of fulfilled its purpose and move on.

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3 days ago

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

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4 days ago

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

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Mr. Junod pushed the edges at a time when a big story in a monthly was read by everyone. In 1997, he sent shock waves through Hollywood when he slyly outed the actor Kevin Spacey in a cover story. In 2001, he made up parts of an interview with the R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe because he found him boring in real life. Some journalists and media critics felt Mr. Junod had crossed the line. He reveled in the controversy.

Wait, what?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/s...

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1 week ago
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Miami’s ancient Indigenous sites face an uncertain future The city’s building boom has revealed many artefacts and human remains, but the pace of development has made study and preservation challenging

“Miami is seen as this brand-new party city with little history, but that is partially because all the precolonial landscapes from ancestral times have been destroyed or remain hidden.”

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Hegseth has offered more clarity on his war on the Boy Scouts than on the current war with Iran.

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Hegseth strikes deal with Scouts: Girls allowed for now, DEI is banned
In announcing the Pentagon’s agreement with Scouting America, the defense secretary assailed the group for welcoming transgender children but stopped short of saying they would be denied entry.

At least we know in the hours before the attack Hegseth was laser focused on keeping Americans safe

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My dad was a gun violence victim. Do we care enough to change? My father is gone. I have to remind myself of this sometimes, even on days like this, the sixth anniversary of the day he was shot and killed.

My dad was yet another gun violence victim. Why does America not care enough to make a change? carlosfrias.com/blog%2Fsocia...

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call (202) 224-3121 & you'll get connected to your representatives

my heart is so heavy

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Rep Jim Himes (D-CT), top Democrat on House Intelligence Committee:

“Everything I have heard from the Administration before and after these strikes on Iran confirms this is a war of choice with no strategic endgame…”

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The first US president in history to announce a war while wearing a baseball cap.

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) will sit together at Trump's state of the union tonight

Khanna and Massie teamed to pass law requiring Epstein files release

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2 weeks ago

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.

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2 weeks ago
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Speaking at the inaugural 'Board of Peace' meeting, US President Trump praised the “magnificent” B-2 bombers that “totally decimated the nuclear potential” of Iran last summer, saying they helped bring peace to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years.

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3 weeks ago
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Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223 “I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it.”

“This is all a masquerade.” —Joy Williams

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3 weeks ago
Senate Bill 706 (2026) - The Florida Senate

The FL Senate Transportation Committee is composed of 6 Republicans & 3 Democrats.

The FL Senate Community Affairs Committee is composed of 5 Republicans, 2 Democrats, & 1 NPA.

The bill that facilitates renaming Palm Beach Intl. Airport after Trump was passed unanimously by both committees.

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3 weeks ago

Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.

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3 weeks ago

(1,2) Serious question for @AGPamBondi. Rather than address the victims yesterday, you screamed at members of Congress about crimes that happened in their districts. You blamed them.

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3 weeks ago
Mitchell sits on a window ledge. A wonderful light is coming in through that window.

Remembering Joan Mitchell on her birthday 🎂
📷 Walter Silver, 1950s
NYPL digital collection

"When I first heard Charlie Parker in Chicago, I could see he *was* a symphony. We were all trying to bring that spirit, that spontaneous energy, into our work."

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1 month ago
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

Becca Rothfeld: “But even if no newspaper can succeed entirely in cultivating the public that it imagines, it can still succeed to a greater or lesser degree—and Book World did succeed.”

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1 month ago

Puerto Ricans dancing on electrical poles is about as big a political statement you could make at a Super Bowl halftime show. The only way that could have been more explicit is if Bad Bunny started tossing rolls of paper towels to the dancers

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From The New York Times:

After Bad Bunny said "God bless America" in English, he added in Spanish, "Be it Chile, Argentina..." and the countries of Latin America, suggesting he meant America broadly, not only the United States. (He also said
"United States" in English and Canada.)
Bad Bunny closed by saying "my motherland Puerto Rico" in both Spanish and English. And just before he spiked a football he was carrying - imprinted with the phrase "Together, We Are America" — he said in Spanish, "We're still here."
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"Only Time," 2001: A solemn hymn for our nation's collective mourning.

"Only Time," 2026: Butt jokes.

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Bad Bunny and entourage at end of Super Bowl halftime show all in white with flags of the Americas and with sign reading THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE Bad Bunny and crew with tambourines and fireworks

This entire final sequence. Like a painting

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Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR

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Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.

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You know Bezos is a first-rate intelligence because he can insist that "The Post has an essential journalistic mission" but also that "The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus” without even slowing the yacht.

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Washington Post publisher Will Lewis abruptly resigns amid criticism of staff cuts Departure comes days after newspaper laid off nearly one-third of staff, including more than 300 journalists

“Lewis also faced criticism when a former Post sports reporter published a photo of him at the festivities for Sunday’s Super Bowl, even after the Post largely destroyed its sports section, laying off writers who cover football.”

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