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ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars' e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

so insane to see all of these editorial boards treat Zohran the way i presume they treat all of the people of color they work with

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recently i have been thinking about "decency" a lot because i think it is like empathy but also has connotations of honesty, rectitude, and pro-social behavior, which are all concepts i really like

thomas jefferson wrote some vehement denunciations of people like thomas jefferson

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

None of the people in that conversation can offer answers that are true or useful or compassionate to the questions and concerns they’re attempting to address, because they are all locked into a cis and heterosexual paradigm of life and society and see LGBTQ people as evidence of the problem

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

if you liked this great story about how zohran's campaign and youth outreach, you should 1) donate to the gofundme started by TV's laid-off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido... and 2) hire lex, who i genuinely believe is a generational talent as a politics writer

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Deeply moving to see this first family.

This imagined defense by Cheney ("What I Got Right About the Iraq War") from The Onion in 2023 ought to run as a sidebar to every obit that's published this week: is.gd/mzdB9j

If you haven't read Homeland by Richard Beck, I HIGHLY recommend it today. I recommend it every day but as I go to the polls to vote for a Muslim mayoral candidate and decline to pour one out for a dead homie, today is an especially good day for it

in many ways Aiyana IS Teen Vogue and Teen Vogue is Aiyana. The idea that she was laid off today is painful to even fathom. Please follow her and offer her everything.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Two marathon Sundays ago our best friend officiated our wedding and this morning he is running the marathon so we got to cheer for him on the steps of our church ❤️

I don’t think we should view this outside the context of DOGE, where young men were drafted into being shock troops for incredibly immoral and illegal actions because they lacked the judgement or experience to say “hey we shouldn’t do this, I might go to jail”

usha: jd, what are the 'christmas adventurers'?

One reason why I’ll always argue for liberal arts education is that without it, you may fail to perceive conversations that are happening all around you—between buildings in cities, works in museums, albums you listen to…

the question of whether they’re valuable is ideological, has to do with what someone thinks is worth their time—is part of a good life

books aren’t obsolete, they’re increasingly rarefied, and it doesn’t always break down neatly along class lines

bowling was a automation-driven fad that drove a bubble! it's closely parallel to the videogame arcades Putnam would consider atomized.

I've been slowly making my way through Bowling Alone this year and my take has been that Putnam seems like wayyyy too weird and unpleasant dude to have any real understanding dude about how and why people decide to live in community

OK GUYS IM READY FOR THE HALLOWEEN PARTY WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MY COSTUME DO YOU LIKE IT

Ok gotta say that explicitly adding "Go to church" as a part of the success sequence is a new one for me, even if it was previously implicit. a sign that they have totally given up on inventing secular rationales for how good living is supposed to work

in history books, this will either be seen as the moment when culture began to recover or the beginning of our irrevocable slide into getting AI slop ported directly into all our orifices

Anyway I agree that it’s Time to Actually Finish Reconstruction

There HAS to be a story behind this insane statement, and man do I want to hear it. i am salivating for the goss

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

this is a bingo. democrats allowed the "data" people to take over when their most successful candidates - obama, bill clinton - were the emotion people. hell, even joe biden was no wonk. biden was at his best as "regular joe."

This is the “dispensational” part of “premillenial dispensationalism,” i.e. you don’t need to believe in the causal claims about the rapture to believe that God’s favor for certain groups of people should be taken more seriously than earthly concerns about living people

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food. He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

Usually I get more work done in the office, but some days I am so busy at home that the 80 min round trip to the office would cause a cascading, catastrophic failure to the house of cards and that is my schedule. productivity is work at home (crazy busy) >>> work in office >>> work at home (lazy)

Wow, this is some straight up VDARE shit. Even my most David Barton–ass public school teachers would have never DREAMED of saying something like this

Man it really is so upsetting that Google just doesn’t work anymore. Used to do such incredible things with it and now! Not at all

Cash me at the book party telling all the esteemed women “you know Molly Roden Winter?? The witty son in her open marriage memoir has a band that sounds like only the silly parts of The Rolling Stones”

i've been obsessed with Gramicci for forever because the logo looks like the ICP Running Man, so in college people thought my weird cargo pants were actually ICP x Gramsci, which was great

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Dan Brown was SPITTIN’

Lmao these are great story ideas….if you’re a staff writer at a magazine who has to come up with 10 ideas in a week and always have to toss in a few extremely dumb ones to make people laugh

unabashed fine arts, including literature, in public schools

I finished out a busy week with a fun one: this Louvre expert is not laughing at your memes! She is too busy coming up with a somewhat plausible theory about how this happened www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. What happened next will shock you

The British obsession with using CBT for things that are semi-conscious processes at best is something I will never stop finding abhorrent! I read NHS-approved CBT booklets in my spare time because they are so odd

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this