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1 week ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
PODCAST — 4 min read Indignity Morning Podcast No. 489: A new menace. AI-GENERATED SUMMARY: In this episode of the Indignity Morning Podcast, host Tom SCOCCA discusses various pressing news topics, including a critical analysis of Robert F.
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1 week ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
THE WORST THING WE READ™ — 9 min read THE WORST THING WE READ™ Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon of the federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled, in a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration by the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, that Donald Trump's executive order of March 27—which the president put out under the title "Addressing Risks From WilmerHale"—"must be struck down in its entirety as unconstitutional." Decisions like Leon's have been coming out...
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1 week ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
PODCAST — 4 min read Indignity Morning Podcast No. 488: Take a quick breath. AI-GENERATED SUMMARY: In this episode of the Indignity Morning Podcast, host Tom SCOCCA discusses recent events including SpaceX’s latest rocket launch challenges, Donald Trump’s media presence and political maneuvering, controversial pardons, immigration policy changes, and comparisons between political figures Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams.
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1 week ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
PODCAST — 4 min read Indignity Morning Podcast No. 487: Vaporous effusions.
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2 weeks ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
PODCAST — 4 min read Indignity Morning Podcast No. 486: Tucked inside dashes. AI-GENERATED SUMMARY: In this episode of the Indignity Morning Podcast, host Tom SCOCCA discusses President Trump’s recent economic policies, including tariffs and budget cuts, and their implications. He also delves into legal challenges faced by the Trump administration, particularly regarding the rule of law and independent agencies.
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2 weeks ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
PODCAST — 4 min read Indignity Morning Podcast No. 485: The headline desk’s dissociation powers. AI-GENERATED SUMMARY: In this episode of the Indignity Morning Podcast, host Tom SCOCCA discusses the latest news, including the passage of Trump’s budget plan, a controversial meeting between Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and the implications of current climate policies on the energy sector.
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2 weeks ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
SPORTS ANALYTICS DEP'T. The Worst Score in Baseball Is 5 to 2THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES lost to the Milwaukee Brewers last night by the score of 5–2. It was the fourth game they'd lost 5–2 this month. The Orioles lose lots of games by lots of different scores—they've lost 32 of the 48 games they've played, including losing to Cincinnati 24–2 and losing to the Yankees 15–3 and losing 7–0 two different times—but there is something distinctively dispiriting about losing 5–2.
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2 weeks ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
PODCAST — 4 min read
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2 weeks ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
— 2 min read GOOD AFTERNOON! HALF of Indignity is off the grid traveling until tomorrow—unhooked from the internet, can you imagine?—so we are publishing on an abbreviated schedule this week, picking back up in earnest tomorrow. In the meantime, here are today's and yesterday's reviews of yesterday's and Sunday's weather. No archival sandwiches, but I did have peanut butter and strawberry jam on white bread today. New York City, May 18, 2025★★★★ Clouds were strung together like beads.
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3 weeks ago | 
indignity.net | Tom Scocca
FOOD FRIDAY DEP'T. FOOD FRIDAY: The Morton Salt Is ClumpingEVERYBODY KNOWS YOU can't count on anything anymore—the Denver air traffic controllers lost radio contact with the planes for six minutes, or two minutes, the reports are conflicting, but there were 20 planes coming in silent to the world's sixth-busiest airport—but you don't really know what you've been counting on until you suddenly can't count on it. I opened a new canister of Morton Iodized Salt and went to use it and it was clumpy.