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Inside The Spin Room, Where the Twirling Finally Stops
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I have sat through enough press briefings to know the choreography by heart. A question goes in, a pirouette comes out, and everybody applauds the footwork so loudly that nobody notices the question is still standing there, unanswered, holding its coat. At some point you stop being annoyed and start taking notes. That is how The Spin Room was born.
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Inside The Spin Room, Where the Twirling Finally Stops
James @
I have sat through enough press briefings to know the choreography by heart. A question goes in, a pirouette comes out, and everybody applauds the footwork so loudly that nobody notices the question is still standing there, unanswered, holding its coat. At some point you stop being annoyed and start taking notes. That is how The Spin Room was born. -
Soft Shirts for Hard Truths ~ The Spin Room Fills Up
James @
Somewhere this week, a podium said something with a perfectly straight face, and somewhere else a fact-checker quietly put an ice pack on their wrist. I am not going to repeat the line (you heard it, you blinked, you laughed a beat later than you wanted to). I am just going to tell you what we did about it: we made shirts. -
You Can't Gerrymander the Ocean (and Other Things We Put on Shirts)
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Somewhere right now, a man is yelling at a tide chart. The tide, famously, is not taking the meeting.