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Allen Salkin

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Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had breakfast with the great journalist @allensalkin.com to celebrate the stunning triumph of “Gerbil,” his podcast on rumors, memory, gossip and, yes a rodent — it is SO GREAT in ways that will astound and delight! open.spotify.com/show/4ghcOeW...
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Huey @hughperduper.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@pressherald.com is this true, that you take Susan Collins suggestions for headlines?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I have never once been asked for ID in my many visits using an Olive Garden Pasta Pass.
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 12/07/2026
Russia is known for surreptitiously poisoning and killing political enemies. Iran has made its intentions known to assassinate American political figures. "A brief and sudden illness."
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Portland Press Herald prints a letter from a Susan Collins county campaign chair saying how great Collins is, without disclosing the writer's campaign role. Hard to think of another publication with less respect for its readers...except maybe Bangor Daily News? Close call. #MEpolitics
Portland Press Herald letter headline: Susan Collins has well proven she’s worthy of reelection | Letter
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“anyone who lives in new york city and wants to say they’re a new yorker counts as a new yorker whether they’ve lived here for 30 yrs or 30 min” is, unfortunately, a hill I will die on, this is and always has been the one truly good and genuinely meaningful defining quality of this place
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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My son just told me that his favorite time of day is the half hour I spend reading to him before bed. I'm gonna try holding onto this feeling forever 🥹
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/06/2026
The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo. There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.
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24/7 renewables could happen sooner than you think
Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds.
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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The cost of Solar panels and batteries has come down massively over the last 2-4 years. We should have these systems everywhere! Oil is a necessary evil, for now. But we need to rapidly move to renewables everywhere.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/05/2026
A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.
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Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.
How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Yet more fantastic renewable energy news, a million homes powered by clean, green energy. The cure to all your fossil fuel price gauging. We should have started this decades ago, but oil companies have so much power in politics.
Picture of a large solar farm , with enough energy to power 1 million homes.
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Wraith LaFrentz 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It's a very Bluesky thing that this post about the Timberwolves win took off and it has zero to do with sports and everything to do w people just liking the wolf howling
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is absolutely insane and grossly irresponsible! Among other reasons because the piece concludes that the answer is 'no'! Wondering why Susan Collins keeps winning in Maine despite being unpopular? This. This is why. Debased local media stack the deck for her over and over. #MEpolitics
WMTW headline: Does a new Graham Platner ad use antisemitic rhetoric?
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is a willfully distorted view of reality. Platner put out a five-page energy PLAN and Susan Collins answered a question shouted at her by a reporter that happened to touch on energy. Maine's legacy media will 'both sides' anything under any circumstance. Utterly dysfunctional. #MEpolitics
News Center Maine headline: Maine Senate candidates outline priorities on energy, national issues
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 03/05/2026
Guys, I made a decision: peanuts are nuts.
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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
France passed a law in 2022 requiring car parks to install #solar. * Applies if ≥80 spaces * Must cover at least 50% of area * Exemptions (grid constraints, heritage sites) We did it with disabled spaces why not solar? There are obstacles but none are strong enough to justify not doing it at all!
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What a great concept
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Current FCC rules prohibit foreign investors from owning >25% of company that holds US broadcast licenses. However, foreign investors (mostly Gulf funds) expected to indirectly own nearly 50% of Paramount equity post-WB deal. And Paramount now asking FCC to approve "up to 100%" foreign ownership
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/04/2026
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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Law Murray 📘 @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Detroit Pistons joined Twitter in October 2008 And they haven’t won a home playoff game ever since
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
As a woman with a female gaze, simply do not do this. We don’t want this. We want Magnum PI. We want ‘79 Knicks. We want to see what your leg day do.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 28/03/2026
J Tolkan, not author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, dies. Actor, who looked like Gollum, was 94.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
As far as we can tell not a single Maine outlet has picked up this story. Sort of gives the game away. #MEpolitics
MSN headline:

Senator caught breaking stock law she championed

22 hours ago — Senator caught breaking stock law she championed ... For more than a decade, Susan Collins positioned herself as a defender of transparency in
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/03/2026
New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins. Pick your fix and vote here: nyc.gov/madness
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...
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"I Will Not Comply": Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System's Board
Rutherford County Library System's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 12/03/2026
War is not Peace.
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Law Murray 📘 @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bennedict Mathurin was on a Pacers team that started 10-15, earned #4, got through Brook Lopez's Bucks and Darius Garland's Cavs, and made it all the way to G7 of NBA Finals Asked Benn about parallels to Clippers trajectory, connecting with Garland He thinks LAC can make Finals
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women’s Day!
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:
Text saying "You've read your last free article."
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Sinclair station in Maine running a headline reflecting pretty much the opposite of Susan Collins actual stance tells you where the politics of ICE are at the moment. Trying to occupy every position on the ideological spectrum simultaneously is a difficult task in 2026. #MEpolitics
WGME headline: Collins says some ICE policy changes needed as DHS funding fight continues
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 11/02/2026
Read my new article that is about Epstein and maybe YOU. YEAH YOU.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 04/02/2026
"nimbler". What bullshit. Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 12/01/2026
Must we go through this?
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 23/12/2025
Happy #festivus Revolutionary idea this year: for once let's NOT AIR OUR GRIEVANCES! Every day is Festivus now. Too many feats of strength. Too little tinsel. I am grateful I wrote this book and have had so many pleasurable experiences with the "holiday."
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 15/12/2025
We were under siege and only had enough fuel to last a day, but it miraculously lasted eight. We are being asked to endure again, and trying to look for light, I say we will.
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 06/12/2025
Real people dressed in costumes.
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 21/11/2025
The Amazon rainforest, origin of the cacao bean, is giving life to a nascent craft chocolate movement in Brazil. Chocolate Grows Up in the Land of Its Birth: the Amazon www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/c...
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Chocolate Grows Up in the Land of Its Birth: the Amazon
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever.  

At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. 

Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Listen to more Nina Simone.
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 05/11/2025
"when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership ."
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 29/10/2025
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...
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A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra by Gabriel Pascal (1945)
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 13/10/2025
Great argument by @hirschorn.bsky.social Do I think that approach would work in Arkansas? I sure do, and in Cedar Rapids or Sioux County, Iowa. Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
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Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 11/10/2025
You have to read yesterday and today's stories by Keith Bradsher in the Times all the way top to bottom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
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How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains
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Allen Salkin @allensalkin.com · 06/10/2025
They say I'm funny.
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