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Some personal news: Thrilled about this new challenge with a great group of colleagues.

I wrote about the unfortunate Olympic mascot plush toy shortage befalling Milan — and how I eventually found one: nytimes.com/2026/02/16/wor…

Hitting pause on NYFW to share one of the most delightful Olympic stories I have had the pleasure to report. If you want a moment of cheer, read this - nytimes.com/2026/02/14/sty…

Olympians eat a lot of pasta. Roughly 1300 pounds of it are being served every day in the athletes' villages. I wrote about the pleasures of carbo-loading in Italy: nytimes.com/2026/02/09/wor…

Job Alert: Come join us on @nytimes's award-winning Russia team. nytco.com/careers/job-li…

Some news: McClatchy is shutting down their D.C. bureau and laying off some staffers, including a few reporters who cover Congress and the White House.

“The exhilaration of the last few days of the campaign is like little else, but so is the anxiety,”@ZohranKMamdani said during the game. “Somebody described it to me once like playing tennis but not being able to see the score until the last minute." nytimes.com/2025/11/03/nyr…

@VinodSreeharsha Vinod.

Happy Diwali fellow travelers. May lightness overcome darkness (e.g. the Dodgers lose the World Series; them getting swept would be the ultimate setback for darkness.)

They met at the Israeli Embassy in Washington and fell in love. He was about to take her to Jerusalem to meet his family and bought an engagement ring to propose while there. Then the two were gunned down in DC. @johnjyoon @IKershner Natan Odenheimer nytimes.com/2025/05/22/wor…

Bukele, a former adman, sells El Salvador as safe and prosperous. But its economy is the worst in Central America. And its people, while glad to have gangs off the streets, now fear the government. This is the El Salvador Bukele doesn't want you to see latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Word of the day: Retaliate

A lot has happened at the L.A. Times, some of it taking the focus away from our excellent journalism. If you want to know what's really going on, I'd suggest you keep an eye on the Guild Eagle. First issue written by me: latguild.com/news/2025/2/11…

One of the best. A sad time at my beloved LA Times.

Congrats @SimonChauchard!

Quite an @latimes front page today. - 24 hours that changed L.A.: latimes.com/politics/story… - Altadena evacuation orders: latimes.com/california/sto… - History of Black Altadena: latimes.com/california/sto… - Nursing home evacuations: latimes.com/california/sto…

@BasharatPeer @nkreports @TIME Congrats @nkreports !

This year begins with terrific journalism news. The brilliant @nkreports returns to @TIME as Executive Editor. Good things do happen to decent, lovely people. time.com/7204307/time-n…

@wstrobel @washingtonpost Congrats to you and The Post!

News! 🚨 👇 Psyched to be joining the @washingtonpost and working with their outstanding natsec team at such a critical time!!! x.com/washpostpr/sta…

In Gaza, Israel severely weakened its system meant to protect civilians, adopted flawed methods to assess civilian risk and routinely failed to conduct post-strike reviews of civilian harm. Incredible story by @PatrickKingsley & team. Proud to work w them nytimes.com/2024/12/26/wor…

Outplayed, outmatched, and outgunned: The unravelling of IRI strategy in the Levant 🧵

100 days ago, two friends and I launched a new Daily Ranking Game called Quintalist.  The goal is to correctly identify the Top 5 answers to a question in 5 tries or fewer. Celebrating our 100th puzzle today! Check it out at quintalist.com. @QuintalistGame #quintalist

@nancyayoussef Speaking after three Halloween bags of skittles, yes

Asking as someone who just polished off her 2nd lunch today. Can we at least agree, America, that any calorie consumed b/t now and when they elex is officially over doesn't count?