Yannick LeJacq
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you must investigate! you must not talk nonsense!
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Alex Shephard
22 days ago
I wrote about Bari Weiss
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
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Bari Weissās Big Secret Is That Sheās Boring
The ācontrarianā journalistās new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203758/bari-weiss-cbs-news-strategy
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can't ever seem to stop playing dead cells, maybe I will make it all the way to 5 boss cells
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Jason Koebler
about 1 month ago
1) this from
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is good as always 2) as she lays out, part of the problem is there is an entire class of journalist and of publication that is obsessedā¦OBSESSED with access. if access can be taken away then you need to pull punches
www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
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Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizza-rfk-jr-trump
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Danny Brown is very good
about 1 month ago
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Finally read this book, wish I had a long time ago. Highly highly recommend!!!
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Peter
about 1 month ago
this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card
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onion person
about 1 month ago
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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Linda Holmes
about 2 months ago
People should use their SNAP benefits for whatever they think they need. Both because any effort you make to micromanage purchases is inefficient and cumbersome and because people who need help arenāt obligated to perform for or satisfy others in order to eat.
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Brian Goldstone
about 2 months ago
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employedābut in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Sarah Iannarone
2 months ago
I, too, was gobsmacked by the news of D'Angelo's death at age 52. As with Phife Dawg, 45, from complications from diabetes, these men were in middle-age, not geriatric. There is most certainly systemic and institutional racism at play.
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
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Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Helps Explain Why.
The unrelenting stress of fighting systemic racism can alter a bodyās normal functioning until it starts to wear down. The theory, known as John Henryism, helps explain racial health disparities.
https://www.propublica.org/article/black-men-have-the-shortest-lifespans-of-any-americans-this-theory-helps-explain-why
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Prisonculture
2 months ago
One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.
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Andrew Lawrence
2 months ago
every single tech idea is like āsoon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employersā spreadsheetsā
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Anna Merlan
2 months ago
You simply have to read this
@juliannemcshane.bsky.social
and
@kieraevebutler.bsky.social
joint and not just because there's way more levitation in it than you would think possible. The Archangel Michael is also somehow involved
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normieāuntil he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ladapo-florida-anti-vaccine-mysticism-brianna/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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rax ālevon honkersā king
2 months ago
if iām trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and iām struggling with that transition, what i like to do is think about it until i figure out what to do. controversial stuff i know
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Finally started this book tonight and it's definitely living up to the hype
3 months ago
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I saw Clipse perform last night and it was so good it almost restored my faith in humanity
4 months ago
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Misty Bentz
4 months ago
I took a native plant conservation class through the State Botanical Garden of Georgia last weekend, and our instructor threaded a lot of memes throughout her lessons. This one was my favorite š± šŗ
#nativeplants
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)
5 months ago
This really feels like a defining post of our time
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god I can't wait to leave the US
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5 months ago
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Michael Clemens
5 months ago
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
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local blogger
5 months ago
"I was wrong" is one of the most rare phrases you will ever see on the internet (ESPECIALLY on social media) and even then, nine times out of ten it's followed by the word "BUT" and then you get gems like this
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all the other predators watching their buddy fight with Arnold on a giant TV:
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5 months ago
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it's really silly to try to pin down one single culprit for something like differences in weight between different populations, especially when it's obviously very bad for Americans that our food is much less healthy AND we move much less than other countries
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Stephen
5 months ago
One of the key strengths of MAGA is that, like Sartre's antisemite, they are sincere about nothing while being capricious and cruel about everything, so it's basically impossible to have a public debate about their positions, since they don't have any sustained positions.
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Michael Hobbes
5 months ago
Bari says her website's mission is to promote "ideological diversity" and "open debate" but this entire piece is just smearing someone for holding beliefs she disagrees with.
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aa far as I can tell her entire beat is just trying to damage Zohran, I'm sure Bari is gonna have a whole team on this beat by the end of August
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August J. Pollak
5 months ago
Hulk Hogan truly was the real America: an icon you were dutifully instructed to adore as a child and then every single piece of information about what he was, what he did, and what he thought about things made you hate him more and more, and in a way, yourself for falling for it.
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Evan Narcisse
5 months ago
The complicated joy of outliving someone you used to watch on TV who wound up helping destroy one of the best places you ever worked, and hastened the decline of the American journalism ecosystem
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RIP Hulk Hogan. Thank you for Thunder in Paradise and playing your part in making professional journalism go extinct š«”
5 months ago
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Bruno J. Navarro
5 months ago
guess their tagline was a promise
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Gwen Adora āļø
11 months ago
āporn is dangerousā is fascist propaganda
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WIRED
5 months ago
Donald Trumpās own strategists and advisers arenāt sure the presidentās base will survive Jeffrey Epsteinās ghost.
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Bring On the MAGA Revolt
Donald Trumpās own strategists and advisers arenāt sure the presidentās base will survive Jeffrey Epsteinās ghost.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-epstein-maga-revolt/
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the new Islanders is great
5 months ago
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incredible that Bari Weiss can extend her grievances from college to being mad at someone who DIDN'T EVEN GET INTO THE SCHOOL
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Carrie Brown
5 months ago
"Iāve learned through faculty reviews that allowed me to compare my own workload to (senior male) colleaguesā at elite schools, Iāve paid forward a few lifetimesā worth of service, and I have no desire to keep sacrificing myself for institutions I no longer trust or regard as sustainable."
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We finally got around to discussing The Liver King, one of my all-time manosphere icons, and perhaps the most vivid example of a core dynamic of the manosphere, which is the way it peddles extreme eating disorder content with little to no pushback from anyone:
open.substack.com/pub/machopod...
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Episode 10: Liver King
"No shoes, no shirt, no problems." ā Kenny Chesney
https://open.substack.com/pub/machopod/p/episode-10-liver-king?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2cvqc
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Ypsilanti District Library
5 months ago
Because everyone deserves a shot šÆ
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
5 months ago
Me, logging onto a Teams meetingā
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Brian Goldstone
5 months ago
While writing There Is No Place for Us, what I wanted most was for readers to feel the fury I carried throughout my reportingāthe outrage, the horror at what this country forces our neighbors to endure. This review by
@lilysanca.bsky.social
says everything I hoped the book would convey, and more:
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Youāre Not Angry Enough About Homelessness in America
Homelessness is increasingly caused by soaring rents and low wages, not laziness or personal failures. The solution is strong government intervention to house everyone and to end landlordsā control ov...
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/youre-not-angry-enough-about-homelessness-in-america
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one of the weirdest things about games culture is the intense institutional and peer pressure to remain exclusively and relentlessly fixated *only and ever* on video games, and thus interpolate all of reality and your experience through games. leaving the industry genuinely felt like leaving a cult
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Little Pooter
6 months ago
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this is already out of date (which is kind of inevitable tbf) but
@tonyhawk.bsky.social
Yuri and I talked about Elon on our latest episode of MACHO POD, with a focus on his mental health and drug use, the latter of which explains a lot about his world view
open.substack.com/pub/machopod...
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Episode 9: Elon
This episode is also about ketamine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/machopod/p/episode-9-elon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2cvqc
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I wonder what Elon's official biographers think, having both published their books well before the darkest, strangest, and most interesting part of his life story even began.
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Cooper Lund
6 months ago
Hereās the bottom line for whatās going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what heās doing to the algorithm that you canāt so easily see, and what itās doing to you
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noticed this in a profound way since moving to Ohio; last time I went back to NYC a friend mocked me for "living in a flyover state." He defended it by saying he'd probably be killed if he moved to the midwest because he's gay, as if openly gay people only live in New York and California š¤·
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s. e. smith
6 months ago
I don't have much to add to the 'you voted for this haha' conversation that people haven't already said, but something I think a lot about is the real lack of solidarity I see with communities in the South after disasters and the profound lack of understanding about who actually lives there.
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Joshua J. Friedman
6 months ago
I love that former NYT public editor
@sulliview.bsky.social
is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like itās on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdaniās mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like itās on a crusade against Mamdani
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-wreck-zohran-mamdanis-mayoral-bid
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Kosher ranch soup š
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