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Dan Okrent

@okrent

"Daniel Okrent is many things."-NYTimes 4/16/20. 1. Chubby (even if less so). 2. Old. 3. Uneasy around animals. 4. Still doesn’t give a shit about the Oscars.

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America’s worst sports section finally jumps the shark: lead story, 1 ⅔ pages on people who have nothing to do with sports. nytimes.com/2023/03/21/spo…

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They must have spent the last five years making it America’s worst sports section so we wouldn’t miss it when they killed it. nytimes.com/2023/07/10/bus…

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Today’s NYT “sports” section: Two pages on Polynesian games, one on Australian women’s sports, one on a non-binary runner. No baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, golf, even no soccer. They might avoid further embarrassment (and reader rage) by shutting it down NOW.

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Until now I hadn’t really known of this piece of the recent history, the Netanyahu governments’ de facto alliance with Hamas, intended to prevent a real Palestinian state and 2-state solution. This is the distinguished Haaretz.com journalist Gidi Weitz. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Until now I hadn’t really known of this piece of the recent history, the Netanyahu governments’ de facto alliance with Hamas, intended to prevent a real Palestinian state and 2-state solution. This is the distinguished <a href="/haaretzcom/">Haaretz.com</a> journalist Gidi Weitz. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Media: George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 to @JakeTapper on #SCOTUS declining to expedite the #Trump immunity claim: "I don't think it's a big win" for #DonaldTrump, "I don't think it's a big deal at all. I don't think it's going to affect the schedule that much, and it's likely it shows the weakness

Media: <a href="/gtconway3d/">George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸</a> to @JakeTapper on #SCOTUS declining to expedite the #Trump immunity claim: "I don't think it's a big win" for #DonaldTrump, "I don't think it's a big deal at all. I don't think it's going to affect the schedule that much, and it's likely it shows the weakness
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If present trends continue, this Trump victory will swamp all the micro-explanations. Shapiro as VP wouldn't have changed this. Keeping Arab-Americans in Michigan wouldn't have changed this. It's all the big stuff -- defeat in Afghanistan, a porous border, inflation, and (yes,

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This is a map of the shift to Trump in NYC. The surge didn’t happen in places like the Upper West Side or Park Slope. It happened in Washington Heights, the West Bronx, Flushing, Richmond Hill, Bensonhurst—working class communities of color. 1/2

This is a map of the shift to Trump in NYC. 

The surge didn’t happen in places like the Upper West Side or Park Slope. 

It happened in Washington Heights, the West Bronx, Flushing, Richmond Hill, Bensonhurst—working class communities of color. 1/2
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