Shane O'Neill
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Y'all ever heard of "Madonna?"
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Get a load of this sassy fella. (Seriously, do. Shane is the best.)
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First advice column!! Gift link! Say More: Am I having too much sex?
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Can we forgive Madonna after "Confessions II" ? (gift link)
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We are all Madonna now
The darkness of āConfessions IIā has somehow made Madge relatable.
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Gift link!
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Stronger than Ozempic. Not exactly legal. āRetaā has entered the chat.
People are buying retatrutide online to lose weight. Is it safe? Maybe. Popular? Oh, yes.
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SPA FOR SALE. SOMEONE, PLEASE!!!
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https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/300-Schermerhorn-St-Brooklyn-NY/40334869/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Free drag name: Ladybeard Johnson
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OMG shoes (gift link)
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Why ridiculous shoes are suddenly everywhere
Why your feed is full of silly, outrageous and outright ugly footwear ā from Valentino pig hoofs to Chanel half-sandals.
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about 1 month ago
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We need a rewrite! My mayor Muslim My bagel Jewish __________________ Knicks in Five. I'll start!
about 1 month ago
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Take your modal auxiliary verbs and shove 'em, NYT Games!!
about 2 months ago
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Free drag name: Will Smithsonian
about 2 months ago
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Celery seeds FTW
about 2 months ago
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p sure I have plantar fasciitis. Now seeking foot fetishists with VERY particular tastes.
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Gift link!
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Column | The best-dressed women at Cannes were over 50
The film festival has a reputation for celebrating grandes dames. This year on the red carpet, the tradition continued, with scene-stealing looks from Demi Moore, Cate Blanchett and Sharon Stone.
https://wapo.st/4uWQjEm
about 2 months ago
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HARK: If a place has great bagels, they shall have bad coffee. As it is written, so it shall be.
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Why 'The Comeback' is the best show about work ever. (Gift link!)
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Column | Why āThe Comebackā was the most important show about work on TV
āThe Comeback,ā which stars Lisa Kudrow and just wrapped up, explored the harsh realities of pursuing your dream, highlighting the humiliations, risks and trade-offs.
https://wapo.st/4wjUwDC
2 months ago
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The only people left in the West Village are man-on-the-street tiktok hosts and women with center parts stepping into traffic while staring at their phones.
3 months ago
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Thoughts on "Devil Wears Prada 2" with
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Analysis | Did Big Fashionās buy-in ruin āThe Devil Wears Prada 2ā?
The fashion world is all in on āThe Devil Wears Prada 2.ā Did that compromise the plucky tone set by Lauren Weisbergerās novel and its film adaptation 20 years ago?
https://wapo.st/4dehdl1
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What do your pants reveal about your age?
Take our quiz to find out what your preference for jeans, sweats or khakis says about your generational style.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/interactive/2026/pants-gen-z-millennial-boomer/?itid=sf_style_package-1_1_4
3 months ago
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Both ayahuasca and motorcycles are sounding "interesting" to me. Why did I think my midlife crisis would be better than this?
3 months ago
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Is Gen Z Catholic-maxxing? gift link:
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Why Catholicism is drawing in Gen Z men
Young men in their 20s and 30s are increasingly drawn to the Catholic church as they seek truth, beauty and, yes, girlfriends.
https://wapo.st/4c6t7fd
4 months ago
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Cultura
4 months ago
This is a great educational video sharing stories and the history of the Stonewall Uprising.
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I called the White House. My phone read "Epstein Island."
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Post reporters called the White House. Some saw āEpstein Islandā on the screen.
Washington Post journalists who called the White House switchboard using Google Pixel Android phones saw āEpstein Islandā on their screens Thursday.
https://wapo.st/40Yjlqs
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I just learned that Agosto Machado died. A warm, funny, brilliant and irreverent artist. I met him making this video, in which he generously shared his experience attending Judy Garland's funeral *AND* the Stonewall Rebellion on the same day. Rest in Power.
youtu.be/S7jnzOMxb14?...
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The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And Thatās O.K. | NYT Celebrating Pride
YouTube video by The New York Times
https://youtu.be/S7jnzOMxb14?si=8OQLo-vPXMnvxyyW
4 months ago
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Google is mocking me.
4 months ago
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Who else is ready to watch several seasons of "Mrs. Hat"?
4 months ago
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Gift link!
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A luauās last night shows Hawaiiās changing tourist tastes
Paradise Cove was an anomaly when it brought tourist-friendly luaus to then-rural Kapolei, Hawaii, 47 years ago. But the nature of tourism there has changed.
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4 months ago
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Why can't I profile Justin Vivian Bond every day of my life?
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JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: THE SHOW MUST GO ON
The cabaret legend and multidisciplinary artist Justin Vivian Bond has a lot to do. So donāt waste her time.
https://usa.10magazine.com/justin-vivian-bond-the-show-must-go-on/
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Gift link!
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Analysis | How the Gen Z pout became armor against millennial cringe
The so-called Gen Z pout blends the allure of the millennial duck face with the disaffection of the Gen Z stare.
https://wapo.st/3PvzMI4
4 months ago
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Today is a great day to listen to the cranberries' "no need to argue" the whole way through. āļø
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4 months ago
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I'm ready to do a reverse of Barbara Ehernreichās āNickel and Dimedā where i spend a year on a billionaire's assets and find out whether or not it corrupts me.
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Drew Harwell
5 months ago
At least 175 people, many of them children, were killed in an airstrike Saturday on a girls' elementary school in Iran
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Iranians mourn children, teachers killed in school strike
Iran buries children killed in missile strike on girlsā school
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2026/iran-school-attack-funeral/
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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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āBut functionally, thereās no real difference between myself and Zara Larsson.ā -Every gay manās brain
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Best, worst and weirdest of the red carpet. Gift link!
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Analysis | The best, worst and weirdest looks at the Actor Awards
Kate Hudson and Michael B. Jordan were among the best-dressed celebrities on SAGās 2026 Actor Awards red carpet.
https://wapo.st/4l4oSEN
5 months ago
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My review of the Gucci show: Iām just glad that Demna is fucking with the legacy of a house I donāt particularly care about. Do whatever you want to Gucci!
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5 months ago
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Maxie-Maxxing.
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Maxie's World INTRO!
YouTube video by _NilsHaxard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVx5RJlazuU
5 months ago
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Hey, with all the bad news in the world, at least most online video platforms can handle a variety of aspect ratios these days. Iām taking the good news wherever I can.
5 months ago
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I can tell it's time for me to get a cat because I'm in a car that smells like a litterbox and all I feel is jealousy.
5 months ago
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MPR News
5 months ago
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. āHe canāt sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, āDaddy, Daddy,āā Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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āHeās not the sameā: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/09/father-of-liam-conejo-ramos-says-he-continues-to-suffer-after-ice-detention-release
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And on top of EVERYTHING else, the Crayola adult coloring pages website is just DREADFULLY slow.
5 months ago
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I am absolutely at my limit for the least cool people in the world trying to tell me how to remain relevant in my profession.
5 months ago
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Senator Bernie Sanders
5 months ago
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Ron Charles
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After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Iāve Been Laid Off. Iām Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, Iām suddenly on my own ā and still writing about books.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-186865843
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nitasha tiku
5 months ago
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
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. Iām also among 100ās of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valleyās political power
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Melissa Gira Grant
5 months ago
would sincerely like never to post one of these again. (and solidarity w our union siblings)
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5 months ago
We stand with you,
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Bryan Curtis
5 months ago
Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
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Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change
https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-sports-department-death
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Nick Miroff
5 months ago
"The Post is all of our āweāāthe journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
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The Murder of The Washington Post
Todayās layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/washington-post-layoffs-bezos/685872/?gift=Tsjgy5hc-Y7tsZCY3EHYrfU8LcnGVgg4S1po8UHldbk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Joseph Menn
5 months ago
I cannot count the number of insanely talented colleagues that were ousted today, but Heather is a brilliant writer on tech and absolutely hilarious as a bonus.
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