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Exclusive | An Offline L.A. Water Reservoir Has Repeatedly Needed Repairs - WSJ

2025-01-14


GitHub - Monkfishare/New_Yorker: The New Yorker epub/pdf 纽约客 Last year on branches/2024

2025-01-14


They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy. - The Atlantic

2025-01-14


Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs - WSJ — I don’t buy this article. Not every grad can get employment in Tech and Consulting. I wonder how many of these grads are trying to apply in the Midwest and South, in less fancy industries, and at smaller, private companies.

2025-01-15


Coach Prime to the Dallas Cowboys? A Potential Reunion Has the NFL Buzzing - WSJ — let’s make this happen!

2025-01-15


What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok | The New Yorker

2025-01-15


What Happened to Enrollment at Top Colleges After Affirmative Action Ended - The New York Times

2025-01-15


Delta Sky Club Access Gets More Exclusive - WSJ — The only domestic lounges that I like are the American Airlines Admirals Lounges.

2025-01-15


A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs - The Atlantic — Soap

2025-01-15


Jane Fonda, Yoga and ‘Pumping Iron’: How the 1970s Changed Fitness Forever - The New York Times

2025-01-15


What Happens When Your House Burns Down and You Still Have a Mortgage? - WSJ

2025-01-16


How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle? | The New Yorker

The Biden Administration’s recent actions include extending protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and blocking oil and gas drilling across more than six hundred million acres of federal waters. Donald Trump could immediately move to reverse these actions, but Biden has imposed burdens and costs to deter this. Biden has also been employing the timeworn entrenchment technique of “burrowing in” some of his political appointees, by converting their jobs to civil-service positions so that they can stay on permanently in the administrative state.

And this:

One way to understand the so-called deep state is that it is part of how our federal bureaucracy is supposed to work. The administrative state embodies a constant tension between the democratic accountability that comes with Presidential control, and the political independence of experts, which informs innumerable complicated regulations that govern our lives. That tension is a feature, not a bug. There is a well-recognized trade-off between democratic responsiveness and bureaucratic expertise, which would be terrifying to lose.

2025-01-16


The Pitt (TV series) - Wikipedia — ER is back! Noah Wyle is at the helm.

2025-01-16


An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election Results: Trump vs. Harris - The New York Times — This is amazing.

2025-01-16


How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle? | The New Yorker

The Biden Administration’s recent actions include extending protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and blocking oil and gas drilling across more than six hundred million acres of federal waters. Donald Trump could immediately move to reverse these actions, but Biden has imposed burdens and costs to deter this. Biden has also been employing the timeworn entrenchment technique of “burrowing in” some of his political appointees, by converting their jobs to civil-service positions so that they can stay on permanently in the administrative state.

And this:

One way to understand the so-called deep state is that it is part of how our federal bureaucracy is supposed to work. The administrative state embodies a constant tension between the democratic accountability that comes with Presidential control, and the political independence of experts, which informs innumerable complicated regulations that govern our lives. That tension is a feature, not a bug. There is a well-recognized trade-off between democratic responsiveness and bureaucratic expertise, which would be terrifying to lose.

Bucky’s Linked List


Why Breakfast Is Busting Your Food Budget - WSJ

2025-01-04


Biden Awards 18 Medals of Freedom, and Delivers One Unmistakable Message - The New York Times

2025-01-04


Girls Are Losing Ground to Boys Now at School, Test Scores Show - WSJ

2025-01-05


Are Ultra-Processed Foods Killing Us? | The New Yorker

2025-01-06


Healthcare Stocks Are Down and Out. Opportunities Abound. - WSJ

2025-01-06


The Cases Against Trump: A Guide - The Atlantic — Looks like Trump has won or will win in almost all of the cases.

2025-01-07


A Montana Hospital Let Dr. Thomas Weiner Continue Practicing Despite Concerns — ProPublica — Sad!

2025-01-07


The NFL’s Hottest New Offense Is the Oldest Trick in the Book - WSJ

What explains the success of these backs are defenses that have grown ripe for them to exploit. A league analysis earlier this year found that teams were placing two safeties deep on 63% of snaps, versus 44% in 2019, in order to counter downfield passing attacks. As part of this strategic shift, there have been fewer players lining up near the line of scrimmage.

2025-01-07


How much land do wildfires burn in the US? | USAFacts

2025-01-08


Which Americans are struggling to make ends meet? | USAFacts

2025-01-09


California Has Long Been Trump’s Punching Bag. Now Los Angeles Needs His Help. - WSJ

2025-01-09


Terry Tate, Office Linebacker - YouTube

2025-01-10


Southern California wildfires burn thousands of homes; fire weather ongoing - Los Angeles Times

2025-01-10


See How the Palisades Fire Turned Into a Historic Blaze - WSJ

2025-01-10


The Ravens still need Justin Tucker - ESPN

2025-01-10


Los Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and images | California wildfires | The Guardian

2025-01-10


I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time – Three Letter Acronym

2025-01-10


Palisades fire flare-up forces more evacuations as L.A. reels from staggering losses - Los Angeles Times

Law enforcement sources told The Times that it’s likely many of the small fires will turn out to have been the work of arson.

2025-01-11


Trump Is Right That Pax Americana Is Over - The Atlantic — This article encapsulates what I’ve be thinking since Election Day.

2025-01-11


What Matters More for Longevity: Genes or Lifestyle? - The New York Times

2025-01-11


John Fetterman: A Democrat Who Can Talk Trump, or a Reckless Maverick? - WSJ — Smart strategy. Keep your enemies close.

“It’s like our phasers are set at freakout,” Fetterman said of Democrats, using a “Star Trek” reference. “You have a right to react any way you want, but I’m not that guy, and I am here to have conversations with our nominees and look for the ways we can possibly be a part of the dialogue.”

2025-01-11


Apple CEO Tim Cook’s 2024 Pay Rises 18% to $74.6 Million - WSJ — I’ll say it: “Underpaid. A great deal for Apple shareholders.”

2025-01-11