Edward Colby

Assistant Editor @Newsday. Experienced journalist with range. Runner. Boston sports fan.

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Street sweeper comes through, smoker promptly finishes cigarette and throws it in the street

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Reporter: “In your second call with the president, did Mr. Trump outright say or insinuate at any point that Canada should become the 51st state?”

Canadian PM Carney: “He did not.”

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No Suffolk-to-Suffolk flights forthcoming. Sad. https://t.co/yJwDxJEvkn @Newsday

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@Elizabethcanuck @crampell I see that “c”!

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@BostonSatire My ancestors would be very mad at you for saying this.

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Today in New York I drove behind a yellow delivery van for Mensch Lumber

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@NBCNews This is an excellent, detailed and nuanced explainer

[NBC News @NBCNews]

What we know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. https://t.co/PCLEDiupAC

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Donald Trump plans to replace acting IRS commissioner Gary Shapley three days after he was selected for the position. The development comes amid an increasingly public spat between Elon Musk and Treasury Department officials.

https://t.co/Zyb4A3x3W7

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@AP Rework the ending since 2425 is, now, four centuries from now. @AP

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@AP Wow.

However, this sentence needs a tweak: “Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.”

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@joseiswriting Wow! Congratulations.

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Only Trump could make Harvard the underdog.

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@esthercrawford Yes, and … we’ve stayed at the party 3 years too long. “Decent discourse!!!”

[Esther Crawford ✨ @esthercrawford]

Deliberately exposing yourself to high-quality thinkers who disagree with you is the best way to continually pressure-test your beliefs, it’s also the opposite of what fundamentalism in all its forms suggests you do (cloister together with people who believe “correctly”)

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@megansarahj #mood

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Hi @nyrr, what years do the apple mile markers harken back to?

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Trump I: I didn’t get the U.S. into any wars

Trump II: Trade war on the world

[Childs Walker @ChildsWalker]

Today is my last at the Baltimore Sun after 24 years. Thanks to every colleague, editor, source and reader who made it fun and hard and helped me get better.

It hurt to watch a great civic institution crumble, but I got to do the work I wanted for the paper I grew up reading.

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Incredible word heard on "Fresh Air": kerflooey