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New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were "kissing my ass"; Musk called it "First-class groveling" (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-m
New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were "kissing my ass"; Musk called it "First-class groveling" (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-m
New book: Bezos told Trump that WaPo had been one of his worst investments and "the people there are terrible"; Trump told associates Bezos was "kissing my ass" (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-m
Chief Justice Roberts has been bulldozing through Supreme Court judgments on behalf of the GOP, based not on constitutionality, but entirely on his own politics.
It's nothing but a massively unethical power grab & NYT has published the receipts.
#scotus #johnroberts
From Wired, haha.
Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-mark-zuckerberg-and-jeff-bezos-by-showing-off-fawning-texts/
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[Thread] A dashboard shows the past 25 years of NYT coverage, across 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, and 26K reporters; Israel-Gaza dominates international coverage (Ted Alcorn/@tedalcorn)
https://x.com/tedalcorn/status/2043760109302464583
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While getting to today's answer some other tricky words were occurring to me (none that fit today's clues) that would be challenging to get to. Not that NYT needs any help coming up w/ tricky words!
Internal email: in a "periodic reminder", NYT tells freelancers they must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated by AI tools (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-york-time…
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Sad news that Marjane Satrapi of Persepolis passed away. Very strange that the NYT did not mention that she died of sadness after her husband's death. Why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/world/middleeast/marjane-satrapi-dead.html vs
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The result that should really cause you to update your beliefs about this year’s midterms is not in the topline or the Times’ official reporting, but hidden deep in the poll’s crosstabs.
A big story of the 2024 election was that Donald Trump made inroads with non-voters who traditionally leaned Democratic, and even got some of them to turn out for him.
But now it’s looking like he has squandered those gains and put his party on the path to midterm defeat in the House
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Hey America, your President just spent $1 billion of your money in order to NOT get more energy from offshore wind.
TotalEnergies accepts $1B offshore wind buyout, pivots to oil and gas in US 😠 https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administra…
"White House Warned Staff Not to Engage in Insider Trading Amid War With Iran"
Except the people with whom the president has an agreement of some sort. 🙄
#sarcasm #InsiderTrading #corruption #NYT
NYT's profile of Medvi, glorified as a two-employee startup with $1B in revenue, ignored info that the startup is a warning sign, not a poster child, for AI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-back-story-behind-the-first-18
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The NYT says "a correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition" after a print headline "misstated" NATO's name as the "North American Treaty Organization" (@nytimespr)
https://x.com/nytimespr/status/2040142477215056082
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Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…
What ICE's racial profiling looks like.
This is not supposed to happen in USA, but SCOTUS says it's OK. 🤷♂️
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#ICE #bigotry #profiling #NYT
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#Wordle #WordPuzzle #Not_NYT
Left-Wordle.c…