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"Severance" @ Grand Central Terminal mrnyc.blogspot.com/2025/01/s…
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Love it!!
Florida OJ, Tennessee whiskey, Georgia peanut butter. Inside Canada's plan for Trump's trade war: maximum pain for Red states. Our story on how Canada plans to retaliate, if Trump makes good on imposing tariffs on America's biggest trading partner. 🎁 nytimes.com/2025/01/17/world…
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Misleading hed. Agreeing politics are “broken” (87%), the economic system unfairly favors the rich (68%), Trump shouldn’t prosecute critics (73%), “immigrants strengthen the country” (56%) but would deport undocumenteds who are crooks (87%) is not “support for Trump’s policies.”
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David Lynch's NYC Department of Sanitation PSA mrnyc.blogspot.com/2025/01/d…
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Rest In Peace, David Lynch. It was an honor to have you on our team in NYC’s “War on Rats.”
In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York. RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.
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Rest in peace, David Lynch. There are many funny stories about the Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive auteur, ranging from his Mad Men fandom to campaigning for Laura Dern’s Oscar with a cow. Here are ten of the most wonderful. vulture.com/2025/01/david-ly…
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In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York. RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.
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David Lynch’s “most uncanny talent,” Howard Fishman writes, was his “ability to plug into the socket of our collective unconscious, generating sparks that light up the dark of our waking lives, offering glimpses of the great unknown we carry within.” nyer.cm/Xsr1M8Z
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Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
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All the filings are in and it’s official: we raised more money from more individual donors than any other campaign over the last fundraising period. In fact, more people donated to our campaign than the next six candidates *combined.*
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Photographer Pepe Diniz was a server at Raoul's for more than a decade, starting in the late '70s. He has published his photographs in the book "My Nights at Raoul's," which features stories of famous customers: bit.ly/3HB79lE
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Mullin: The only reason why I'm here and not in prison is because my wife loved me
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Amazing how much of what gets counted as "activity" and "life" in Manhattan was, in reality, just drivers from New Jersey
Replying to @typesfaster
This street was never empty pre Jan 5
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part of the reason nyc-discourse inspires such vehement reactions from people is that its existence is so singular within the US that any positive comment about it inherently highlights the perceived shortcomings of their own city, which is part of their identity
Quite literally "only in New York," like my god.
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End Credits for "Slaves of New York" (1989) mrnyc.blogspot.com/2025/01/e…
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