@TimBalk

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Joined June 2012
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Sobering kicker to this @maiarcoleman story: nytimes.com/2026/10/04/nyreg…
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Just thinking about tomorrow. This is from twenty years ago, “I Just Called To Say I Love You,”wsj.com/articles/SB115774704… via @WSJ
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Markey, who at 80 is the oldest senator in Massachusetts history, holds off a generational challenge to win the Democratic nomination to extend his half century in Congress. @TimBalk nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/po…

Senator Ed Markey, 80, Turns Back Younger Challenger in Massachusetts

The oldest senator in Massachusetts history used a progressive message to beat Representative Seth Moulton, 47, defying calls for generational change.

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A nation mourns. @TimBalk on the demise of Beth nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/po…

Beth, the Beloved Vacuum of a 92-Year-Old Iowa Senator, Has Died

Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”

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WEEI
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WALK-OFF WIN FOR THE SWEEP!
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NEW: Mamdani's Big Bet A year after his primary win upended New York politics, Mamdani and co are back trying to topple more incumbents in Tuesday's House primaries and expand the democratic socialist ranks. It's already left deep bruises. w/@SallyGold nytimes.com/2026/06/21/nyreg…

Mamdani Burns Allies in Making a Big Bet for Congress and the Left (Gift Article)

The strength of the mayor’s political brand will be tested on Tuesday, when his slate of leftist congressional candidates takes aim at Democratic incumbents.

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Smokers Help Keep This Arts Hub Alive nytimes.com/2026/05/12/arts/…

Smokers Help Keep This Arts Hub Alive

A novel cigarette tax has generated $270 million for cultural organizations in the Cleveland area, which makes declining smoking rates “a double-edged sword.”

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NEW at NYT: How 10 Days Shook the House Map “Put bluntly, Republicans have roughly 10 more House seats that favor them than they did just 10 days ago” From me and @TimBalk nytimes.com/2026/05/09/us/po…

10 Days That Shook the House Map and Democratic Confidence

Republicans are charging ahead in the nation’s redistricting race, and showing new bullishness after months of growing midterm fears.

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Ruth Graham@publicroadApr 16
A new poll finds a sharp rise in the share of men under 30 who say that religion is “very important” to them. New from me and @RuthIgielnik (gift link): nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/po…
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Michael Gold@migoldApr 12
sometimes it is important to step back and capture the zeitgeist so i wrote about how Congress is behaving more and more like the Real Housewives
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Jonathan, believed to be 193 and the world’s oldest known tortoise, is still alive on St. Helena despite rumors of his death. Officials dismissed the reports as a hoax, saying he is “very much alive.”

World’s oldest tortoise very much alive despite death rumors

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I want to report a suspicious man in the park.
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Ben Mullin@BenMullinJan 14
NEWS w/ @DevlinBarrett: F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/po…

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation

It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.

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New York Survived Its 1975 Crisis. Will Trump Push It Back to the Brink? nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyreg… via @TimBalk

New York Survived Its 1975 Crisis. Will Trump Push It Back to the Brink?

The Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” stunned the city at a time of budgetary peril. New York’s finances are far stronger today, but antagonism from Washington poses a fresh risk.

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Mamdani Reflects on 9/11 as He Vies to Be New York’s First Muslim Mayor: nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyreg…

Mamdani Reflects on Life After 9/11 as a Muslim in New York City (Gift Article)

Ahead of the 24th anniversary of Sept. 11, Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner to be the city’s next mayor, spoke about the importance of honoring the victims and the persistent Islamophobia the attacks...

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Nearly $10 million in contraceptives were stranded in a Belgium warehouse when USAID shut down. Rather than donate or sell, the U.S. made plans to burn them. But now, nobody can even tell us where they are. w/@snolen @aurelienbrd nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world…

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed (Published 2025)

The U.S. government intends to incinerate $9.7 million in already-purchased birth control in Belgium after U.S.A.I.D shut down. Destruction may have already started.

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Gazans Are Dying of Starvation (Published 2025)

After 21 months of devastating conflict with Israel, Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians — the young, the old and the sick — are facing what aid groups say is impending famine.

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Line to get into the Iowa State Capitol. There is a public hearing on the bill to remove gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act at 9:30, and floor debate is expected later today. Info on the bill from earlier this week: iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025…
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Trump's aid freeze has closed two-thirds of the soup kitchens that feed 800,000 people in Sudan's war-torn capital. Story with @suilee and @farnazfassihi nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world…

How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze (Gift Article)

President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.

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It wasn’t just that the place was in flames. It was that it seemed to be in flames everywhere at once. nytimes.com/2025/01/08/us/lo…

‘It Was Biblical’: Ash and Flame Upend Life in Southern California (Published 2025)

Wind-whipped wildfire blew through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe, merging, psychically if not physically, into a kind of mega-catastrophe.

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