Every Trump Threat to Abandon NATO Hollows It Out

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For the first time since 2005, the Illinois Fighting Illini are back in the Final Four 🔥

I like that shirt, pal!

There is no Dana, only Zuul!

At the punk show when I couldn’t make out the lyrics

(Driving bass line and drums, singer growling): I’ve got an upset-upset-upset
(Guitars soar, reverb kicks in, moshing intensifies): TUMMMMMMMMY

This is such grim stuff. My old paper. It used to win Pulitzers.

Snagged tickets for the Hold Steady at the Empty Bottle in Chicago in the nick of time. What a rush!

C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, professors, journalists and others.

The CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.

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No, Trees Don’t Explode When It Gets Cold, but They Do Go Pop While the weight of freezing rain, ice and snow can damage branches, there is another kind of injury that comes with the extreme cold, experts say.

While the weight of freezing rain, ice and snow can damage branches, there is another kind of injury to trees that comes with the extreme cold, experts say.

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

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Official lyrics tbh

Caleb Williams had to grate some cheese after beating the Packers 🧀

They finally made Bachelor Chow!

The Kyle Farnsworth-Iowa mystery might have been just been solved 🕵️‍♂️

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

Video: Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol A six-month Times investigation has synchronized and mapped out thousands of videos and police radio communications from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, providing the most complete picture to date of what ha...

If you haven’t seen it, I cannot recommend more highly this NYT visual investigation of the Capitol riots. Six months and many journalists were involved. An incredibly comprehensive view of what happened.

To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It

My friends are in the Times! Reporter Victor Mather and photographer Vincent Alban (neither of whom I see on this platform) did a great job capturing what makes these adventures so much fun. [Gift link]

Spanish Woman Scorned, Then Loved, for Botched Fresco Restoration Dies at 94

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Lil Dizzy's for fried chicken that might ruin all other fried chicken. Turkey and the Wolf lives up to they hype. Latitude 29. Bar Tonique for great cocktails in a divey atmosphere. Jewel of the South. Saturn Bar. Coquette for a special occasion (wanting an amazing dinner).

THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE POP-TARTS CHOSE TO LIVE MAKES THE WHOLE THING WORSE SOMEHOW

CW: straw-goat carnage

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

This is great

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The Story of 8 Unforgettable Words About Apollo 11 (Published 2019)

Friends tell me that John Noble Wilford has died. A giant of American journalism and a genius of science writing across many disciplines, John wrote the most famous lede in the history of journalism: “ Men have landed and walked on the moon.” Godspeed, Noble John.
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It wasn’t very good. Counterproductive in fact.

Have run into chocolate chips in carrot cake upstate and … now we ask first.

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

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oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.