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he may be the former prime minister but at the end of the day his name is still Justin
Culture@notgwendalupe
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau at Coachella (2026)
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i really like that every year or two we get a new weird bird that totally destabilizes the entire city and briefly sends even the most bird-agnostic (or, hell, even bird-hostile!) into an ornithological frenzy
Noel Y. Calingasan • NYC@nyclovesnyc
New Yorkers and tourists are flocking to Bryant Park to get a glimpse of New York City’s hottest bird this spring, the American Woodcock. These elusive, well-camouflaged birds pause during their migration to forage for earthworms, presenting a unique urban birding opportunity.
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In 2003, a German film crew followed a nomadic family in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The film, The Story of the Weeping Camel, was nominated for an Oscar.
A mother camel had rejected her newborn after a brutal two-day labour. Without her milk, the calf would die.
The family knew one option. They sent their two young sons on a journey across the desert to find a musician who could perform a ritual called Hoos, a chanting ceremony passed down for centuries specifically for this moment.
The musician came. The ritual was performed. The mother camel wept real tears and turned to her calf for the first time.
The film crew had gone to document a way of life. They had no idea they would capture that.
UNESCO added the Hoos ritual to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015, alongside flamenco, the Mediterranean diet, and the art of Neapolitan pizza making.
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Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing, groceries and health care.
Here's a look at the middle-class suburbanites who sell their blood plasma to get by financially:
nytimes.com/2026/03/20/bus…
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The world holds so much misery that miserable hearts forget the face of happiness.
They grow comfortable being sore losers, so when they see real sportsmanship it unsettles them! like holy water touching a demon. Because clapping for someone else’s victory requires something many people never learned…how to win with grace & pure joy, and how to lose with grace, chin up & dignity.
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US forces killed Mazen Dana in front of me and other journalists. The sound of the shots is still vivid. After his body was removed, a colleague put Mazen’s blood-spattered camera in our car to take to Reuters. Mazen had a wife and 4 children. Can confirm it was “not a great” day
Gus Carter@GusCarter
Extraordinary email from Paul Bremer, the US bureaucrat who ran Iraq from 2003-4, to his wife.
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I reported this story and have been working around the clock since Saturday to cover the deaths and obtain definitive evidence so that we can confidently assign responsibility. We've been reviewing photos of the dust covered bodies of children and verifying their names against the names scrawled on little coffins. We've been debunking false claims about the attack and that the harrowing cemetery photo isn't real. And while it appeared obvious to many early on that the U.S. or Israel hit the school, it takes days to sift through, pinpoint and analyze the evidence. It took four days before a new satellite image we ordered came through so we could confidently assess the damage and the types of weapons used. All that reporting and cross checking and the production of the visuals showing it takes time. But it ultimately allows us to more confidently assert U.S. responsibility, explain our rationale and add to the body of reporting that officials should be challenged with. It's easy to critique a headline, and I agree language matters, but you diminish the reporting. We're not justifying anything, we're stating where the reporting points responsibility, and quoting legal experts on the laws of armed conflict. Here's a gift link nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…
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PACK THE INBOX! Today we flooded the email boxes of @nytimes management to let them know we are committed to all five of our priorities. We want to see them come to the table ready to negotiate seriously on each one.
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The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017-25 and the number of US billionaires jumped 50% to more than 900. Overall, the top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the GDP of the US and China combined. @ktbenner nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/…
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Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion
Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million
Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million
Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion
Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million
Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5
@JeffBezos
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This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."


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A powerful @chashomans dispatch from his hometown:
Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis
nytimes.com/2026/01/25/mag…

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#selection-1617.266-1617.523" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/interactive/20…
impressively reported and embarrassing

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