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Maggie Astor

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Reporter at The New York Times writing about U.S. politics. NYT Guild steward. Previously: climate and covid coverage. Always: cats, gymnastics. No, not one of those Astors.
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I wanted to give "wife" as a clue for WEDDING and FLAG but then I wondered if my not-online friends would know about Martha-Ann Alito
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It's like a tuberculosis ward on this flight
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Just a completely unserious creature
A four-part time lapse
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A four-part time lapse
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He would not have done that and that's why his life is like this
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I have never experienced this level of relaxation in my entire life
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Here's Matlock (ps. I know the cartoon behind him is creepy looking, but it's just a kid sitting on the beach on a 20-year-old souvenir t-shirt from a beach motel)
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"He didn't chain himself to the desk" is the actual democratic standard in my inbox right now
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It kills me to leave Joscelyn out, but as we wait for the selection committee to decide... final answer
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Second night of Olympic Trials is starting, kindly pray for everybody's achilles tendons
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After the past month and a half, I've decided to give up on wanting specific gymnasts to make the Olympic team because it's not working well
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Jfc that was hard. I feel validated because I don't think I've ever seen only 62% of people guess correctly when there was one possible word left. Wordle 1,106 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Tonight, I will be pretending this is the most important thing in the world. Tonight, the campaign doesn't exist. SCOTUS doesn't exist. Only fucking this. I need this.
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discussing the state of pre-Olympics injuries with my fellow gymnastics fan coworker
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That appears to be a short excerpt that was on the homepage this morning and is gone now. Article explicitly says he's responsible for ending Roe. This is the intro; the rest goes into more detail. Not sure what you mean by downplaying on Biden. That line was about Trump; Biden has his own section.
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Each topic starts with a brief comparison, and then you can delve deeper. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Click on one of the sub-topics — say, "transfer of power" from the screenshot above — and there's much more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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For fuck's sake it is MIDNIGHT
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Excited to spend the next 30 minutes of my life going through the exact same training as the past five years
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I just... come on, guys. What are we doing here
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OK, it's not the EXACT same training as last year, they changed Twitter to X
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I've been looking forward to this delivery for weeks: I got 42 old t-shirts that I'd kept only for sentimental/nostalgia reasons made into a quilt
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When one room is air-conditioned but uncarpeted, and the other is carpeted but un-air-conditioned, and it's the middle of a heat wave, we all have to make choices
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And, with similar pride of place — Cat-mandu lives. The end.