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Chris Almeida

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wrote a story for @newyorker.com on house bands and why live music is cool

The End of the Late-Night Band

Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.

www.newyorker.com

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Dave Wilson @dwil.bsky.social · 1d

Son of an old-school East Texas ball coach who was raised the Lobo Way, the tall tales of Haynes King explain his rise to being the toughest sumbitch out there. Story with the great @adavidhalejoint.bsky.social
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'Toughest player I've ever seen': The Legend of Haynes King

Stories about how the quarterback became one of the quirkiest, toughest and most insatiable players in college football.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

Even by the standards of a Chotiner'ing, this was brutal to read.

Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 3d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 9d

this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery

Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15d

The problem of tech people not understanding why normal people do things is longstanding, but in this case: people who read long business stories do it *because* they want the stuff the company might not want to tell you. The audience for anything else is just the subject’s friends and employees

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · 21d

Woof.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 24d

The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview

NPR @npr.org · 24d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 29d

This is simply not true and has never been true! People—pretty understandably—hate being told they’re wrong, or full of shit, or being harmed or ostracized for their words and actions. There’s nothing new or partisan or principled about this, it’s just contested social mores.

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Sep 27

The Park Slope Dad Band has been playing for at least three hours at the block party on my street. I dig it but it is a little on the nose that they've now played "Creep" twice.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Sep 24

I am aware that a lot of super rich people have a majority of their cash in assets that aren’t liquid, but in terms of a super rich guy with cash in your pocket and in the bank that u can just use, I just don’t understand what you do if you make more than, say, five million dollars a year

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Sep 23

No it was actually about the Star Wars movies!

Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Sep 18

Well well well

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Dave Wilson @dwil.bsky.social · Sep 18

An ode to the last Iron Skillet, which gave us real spite, a Game of the Century, Dan Jenkins, suffered through lean years and was just getting good! (And whose trophy secretly broke and was replaced by a Lodge skillet from a hardware store right before the 2018 game.)
www.espn.com/college-foot...

'Bragging rights for all eternity': An ode to the Iron Skillet rivalry

Looking back at the history of the SMU-TCU grudge match before its 104th, and potentially final, edition.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 17

Oh, you know the ones.

Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · Sep 17

And what sort of difficult speakers or ideas do you mean?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 11

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Sep 7

This will probably look silly in 10 years but it’s hard to imagine what it would look like for two people to be better than this at tennis

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Dan Moore @danmoore.bsky.social · Sep 7

Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans.

#DawgPound

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith

The Dawg Pound has witnessed 30 years of futility. Will the team's bid for the burbs test the loyal fanbase?

www.espn.com

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm working on it

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Sep 4

ah yes "shit-kicking anti-establishment" is what i think of when someone gets bought by the son of one of the world's richest men

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can start getting ready for CBS News guided by Bari Weiss of the Free Press. This is from Dylan Byers. [Paywall likely]

"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Sep 3

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Sep 3

NY Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi says "Zohran Mamdani and every other Democratic Socialist should create their own party because I don't want that in my party."

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 31

What will it mean for culture when the live television band, something that has been an American institution for 70 years, goes extinct?

The End of the Late-Night Band

Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.

www.newyorker.com

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wrote a story for @newyorker.com on house bands and why live music is cool

The End of the Late-Night Band

Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.

www.newyorker.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 29

In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department

Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

www.newyorker.com

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Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nobody knows whether or not Arch Manning will live up to the hype this season.

"He ain't even pissed a drop yet," Grandpa Archie told @dwil.bsky.social.

But: people are still stealing his photo off the wall of an Austin burger joint. Everybody's already watching.

The five stories that explain why Arch Manning was built for this moment

How did the Texas quarterback learn to handle the pressure he's facing as the most famous college football player in the country?

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · Aug 25

Watching fiction spread about a great American city where countless people live normal lives feeling safe every day isn't new, but the military occupation of the city on those grounds is a fresh take on it

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · Aug 25

I legitimately want to know where Trump administration officials are going in Washington, D.C., where they feel so frightened all the time.

This is a safe, clean city, by and large. I really want to know where they're visiting, because they're not the same places I'm going or my friends/family go.

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