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My hometown has 1258 people. 1100 NYT members have signed the pledge to walk out. I’m just a small town girl letting that sink in today.
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WALK LEFT STAND RIGHT THIS IS A UNIVERSAL RULE
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Canadian escalator culture is absolutely top-flight and spoils us for the rest of the world. Look at this nonsense. It’s a wonder I’m not in a Qatari jail.
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people in Chicago when you say you do not want Malort
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This week's cover story:
The EU has a spy problem, writes , who digs into why it's so difficult to catch them. Brilliantly illustrated by .
Check out politico.eu — or grab a copy in Brussels — Thursday morning.
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This week's cover: A blow-by-blow account of just how Washington managed to chase Huawei out of Europe, by and .
Artwork by the always-fabulous .
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i can’t just “pivot to instagram.” i don’t want to live on an app that makes me feel bad about myself. i want to live on app that makes me feel bad about the world.
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“then he let anyone pay $8 for a blue check and suddenly there were these fake verified pope accounts posting ‘love too eat waffles after sex’ but then later the arrests started”
“but grandpa? wasn’t that funny?”
[averting teary gaze from hellscape] “it was … so fuckin funny”
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This week's cover: It's on Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and the dysfunctional relationship at the heart of the EU.
Featuring artwork by the great .
In print and online Thursday morning.
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The writing has been on the wall for some time, yes, but it is still appalling once you see the wall this close up:
Next year, only one of the four largest cities in Alabama will have a newspaper.
Also also ICYMI: Hauntingly beautiful illustration by , and clever, always precise art direction by Arnau Busquets Guàrdia, made last week’s cover really sing. (Clearly I am no longer needed here!)
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Beautiful cover art by Danlin Zhang (lnkd.in/eGrWqDmV) @danlinz_art for @POLITICOEurope, just out this weekend. Read the article on Politico.EU
#network #activists #underground #editorial #editorialillustration #danlinzhang #politics #art #illustrationzone #Roe
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And while tearing up a page and rebuilding it from scratch 20 minutes before deadline isn’t quite the same rush as, say, a World Series cover, doing so on a shared screen does get the adrenaline pumping!
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My interest in/knowledge of hockey began and ended with Eric Lindros.
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WITHOUT stating your age, who was the first hockey player you loved?? 
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This week's cover: Will the real Emmanuel Macron please stand up?!
Illustration by , who was such an absolute pleasure to work with from start to finish.
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This week's cover story: Vladimir Putin tops POLITICO's inaugural Green 28 list.
Cover illustration: Kumé Pather
Green "28" type:
Portraits:
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It took a war criminal to speed up Europe’s green revolution.
Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has forced Europe to finally break its fossil fuel addiction.
For this reason, he has topped our inaugural #POLITICOGreen28 list.
Read more here: politi.co/3TiTL9p
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This would look really good on an armband.
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Which other profile picture designs did you reject in favour of this, @Telegraph?
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Walked into a diner with a buddy today and said to the hostess, "You have two handsome men here for breakfast," and without missing a beat she said, "Plus you two?" Full credit, diner lady. Absolute lethality.
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An investigation by & ’s visual forensics team shows how the firing of 40+ munitions—incl. tear gas, flash bangs and flares—by Indonesian police at soccer fans prompted a crushing rush for limited stadium exits that left 130 dead: wapo.st/3ykWbwo
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NEW WORK:
Was lucky enough to work on another cover for
This time a couple of portraits.
Was a joy to work on, to say the least
Thank you for having me on board
Till next time! 👍
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This week’s cover story: and on the von der Leyen paradox — how the very qualities that are serving her well in the U.S are rubbing many in Brussels the wrong way. With a terrific portrait by .
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Who's joining me in Washington in a few weeks?
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Join SND IRL Oct. 21-22 in Washington D.C. for a weekend of design!
To learn more about SND Honors and Designing Success and to reserve your spots, visit snd.org.
Be sure to hurry — spots are limited for both events!
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.: unafraid to ask (and answer) the important questions.
8 things to know about the environmental impact of ‘unprecedented’ Nord Stream leaks by and politico.eu/article/8-thin
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Brevity is confidence.
Length, apparently, is fear.
So, what is paying your employees to buy six copies each of your middling book? defector.com/axios-book-six
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🗞️ Our covers from the past few weeks have been soooo different from each other — all impactful in very distinct ways.
They've all had fantastic artwork though, both on the front page and inside.
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When indie bands go bad
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This week’s cover:
Veni, vidi, veto: Giorgia Meloni’s march on Brussels. Photo-illustration by Anthony Gerace.
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Americans are talking a lot about their mental health these days — their own, their families’, their friends’. Those conversations are important and timely. At , we want to add something to them.
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Now that we have a king, these sorts of events will all take much longer, since he can only move along the floor one square at a time. #queensfuneral
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What a shame — but what an incredible run Outlook had, setting the standard under Carlos for what a newspaper section about thought could be.
I had the short-lived privilege of filling in for on that desk a decade ago and still look back on it so fondly.
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In a brief editor’s note appearing on page B5 of the @washingtonpost Outlook section, executive editor @SallyBuzbee announces her decision to close down the Sunday Outlook section after nearly 70 years. I will miss it.
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Really unique skill set here
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The state of our industry, right here.
The last full-time job I had that paid this little was in 1998, as a sports copy editor in Pleasanton (where I had a two-hour commute because I could only afford to live — with a roommate — in STOCKTON). snd.org/jobs-2/#!board
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brother at least open a good cookbook and learn ways to properly cook the brussels
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