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TGIF: Shutdown Blues
President Donald Trump dances after delivering remarks during the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary celebration. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)
Three cheers for Palantir, a ceasefire emerges, Katie Porter goes full diva, the assassin’s homecoming, James Bond hangs up his strap, German perma-workers, and Canadian organs are up for grabs.
By Nellie Bowles
10.10.25 — TGIF
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Hello, and welcome back. You may not recognize me with my face transplant and Brazilian butt lift, but I’m still here. I’m the same old me—it’s just that now I wear this cheetah fur around my shoulders and I’m considering buying a de Kooning. As an investment! We’re still going to have fun here, though, guys, I’m still one of the gang. Like: Isn’t it a …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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