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Ted Mann

@whereisted.bsky.social
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reporter @business, co-author of a book about mistakes. here we are. tmann55@bloomberg.net // whereisted.01 on signal www.harpercollins.com/products/ligh…

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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 3h
Jimmy Swaggart cinematic universe-ass name
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18h
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 05/10/2026
Does Tesla board member James Murdoch know that this is no longer Tesla's mission statement? www.vanityfair.com/story/james-...
a screenshot from a vanity fair article about james and kathryn murdoch. the highlighted section reads: "a company that is, you know, dedicated to accelerating the world’s transition to renewable energy.”
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.)
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New York City has recorded the fewest murders through September since before 1960, Baltimore since 1962, Philadelphia and Detroit since 1964, Oakland since 1967, and New Orleans since 1969.
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/10/2026
this is completely unhinged, even by Trump's standards.
Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?

We did earlier.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026
. 9 year old me having just watched the phillies-braves the shadow (1994) broadcast booth on VHS 🤝 incapable of shutting the fuck up about the shadow
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen. Schmitt not knowing the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes & spending government money to make a big chart he then takes down as his error becomes obvious is Vonnegut x DeLillo x Terry Gilliam in real time
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"From 9,000 miles away, she still placed the family’s Amazon orders. Still required the kids to check in with her when they came home. Still tracked their location on a GPS app. She yearned for more than these fragments of motherhood." www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
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A Maryland mother’s deportation to Vietnam forces an agonizing choice
Forced 9,000 miles from her family, Melissa Tran confronts what comes next for her U.S.-born children.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An infuriating story, incredibly well told. (Also, not really the point, but Tamale Hatchet is an incredible band name.)
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
Can you imagine Percy Shelley reading Frankenstein for the first time
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
non-vaporware TBMs hit different
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 25/09/2026
a culture where highbrow ppl are obsessed with tony soprano and lowerbrow ppl are obsessed with being walter white is in retrospect BEGGING for a strongman
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Ok, our new AI writing app is almost ready to go. Sure, we spelled 'Hemingway' wrong, but at least we captured some of the bleakness in the slogan, right?"
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even if he’s lying, I think it’s bad that the richest and most powerful people in the world aspire to be babies functionally
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
no, no, he is busy erasing the skills that we used to have, so there will be room for some other skills, which will be made up at some point.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is after China porch-pirated the military’s f-35 parts delivery
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“shape of you” by ed sheeran is from the perspective of a dog … he’s in love with the shape of you because it’s all he can see with his dog eyes
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Minneapolis architect of record for the $250 million Kennedy Center renovation, ATSR, is best known for accidentally designing a school to look like the Millennium Falcon
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
"I make the rules now, and you mustn’t defy me!" — President Donald Trump
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Anguished, Screaming Trump Bans Father’s Ghost From Press Room For Silently Pointing At Him
WASHINGTON—Forcefully closing his eyes, grasping his head with both hands, and repeatedly screaming to be left alone, a visibly anguished President Donald Trump was observed Thursday banning the ghost...
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Even the curt ones are also kind, if they’re any good, and none of the truly unkind ones are good.
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Jon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Something to know is the MTA project below (rebuild GCT train-shed) is a 15-year effort. So this will happen well past a Mamdani 2nd term While in office, Mamdani *could* do median 🚲 lanes on Park Ave S & make the GG viaducts car-free so we aren't looking at an 11-block stub bikeway in the 2040s
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
all paths to office run through Sid Rosenberg. Just ask this guy.
Ad for Andrew Cuomo’s appearance on Rosenberg’s show
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
it's way, way too late in the game to be falling for this one...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
however much you think the iran war is sapping u.s. military readiness, it's probably more than that. a free link for you, the people www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Iran Blockade’s Growing Price Tag Is Draining America’s Global Military Power
The cost of naval operations since the buildup began in January has topped $7.1 billion — not including all the US assets being used to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Drive Through Rich Neighborhood Exposes Dad’s Shortcomings As Provider theonion.com/drive-through-rich-nei…
Drive Through Rich Neighborhood Exposes Dad’s Shortcomings As Provider
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
His work demonstrated not just apathy but outright hostility of the police toward the citizens they were obligated to keep safe. A dark revelation, but essential to making any real reform actually work. RIP.
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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"My patients with silicosis, I wish they only had lung cancer... Lung cancer can be cut out." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well, one presidential primary candidate thought so, before he didn’t.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(and the sheer ineptitude of it all)
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The people the administration is chasing away...
A quote: "We just went to school. We just paid taxes. We worked and we waited for three years and we thought, ‘Oh, we finally found our home.'"
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"An economic growth story built on immigration is being unwound in Houston." Been waiting for this Businessweek deep dive from @sdonnan.bsky.social and Catarina Saraiva on how the Trump immigration crackdown is punishing the Sun Belt, especially Houston. 🎁link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Slowing the Sun Belt’s Population Growth
In Houston, the shock waves are being felt in restaurants, schools and the housing market.
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Take it from a guy who just wrote a history of the culture wars… this is an insane headline with no basis in reality whatsoever
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
God the memory of that play, that year. Being blown away by Linda Emond, and by the writing, and walking out into the eerie sadness of that winter in the city.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The concept outlined here — called recursive self-improvement (RSI) — seems much more plausible than AI consciousness or human-style cognition. Which is to say, much more frightening.
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the moon report 🌗 @seachanger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
people were driving tractors over Dixie Chicks CDs in the street
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Strangelove : RFK Jr :: Citizen Kane : Trump watching satire on male folly like it's a youtube how-to
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Black and Harris, meanwhile, get ample room to state their case. And so they do, often about each other, until we don’t care anymore." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Reinvention of Apollo Is Bigger Than Its Scandals
William Cohan chronicles the private equity giant’s colorful past. But its push into the savings of the upper middle class makes its future more consequential.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
snubbing CHOP is like dissing the phanatic
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Liam Knox @liamknox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Scoop: The DOJ is scrutinizing elite public high school admissions for racial discrimination, including at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science in NYC, expanding the Trump admin’s education pressure campaign beyond higher ed. Free link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Elite Public High Schools To Get a Taste of Trump’s College Crusade
The Trump administration is scrutinizing some of the country’s most elite public high schools over whether their admissions practices discriminate based on race.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maria Bartiromo? The New York University trustee?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces…
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
me on a date
Data sitting down, speaking to Geordi La Forge, who is standing on the left side of the frame. caption reads, "You may experience the emptiness with me if you wish."
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