The stereotypes boil down to this: Pumpkin pie is favored by white northerners while sweet potato pie is a favorite among Black southerners. But for culinary historian and author Michael W. Twitty, the issue is more nuanced.

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

The Post’s live event blog also includes unverified speculation by LibsofTikTok and Tim Pool if you’re wondering how the paper that broke Watergate is handling a high-profile shooting in the city it ostensibly covers.

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

I really enjoyed getting into the weeds with Kate and Christine on what this month’s elections means (and doesn’t mean) for the future of transphobic political ads

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sexism upsets me for many reasons but one of them is that no one ever asks me to back them up in a brawl but I’d be so good at it

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“literary mid-off” Perfection.

Fuckin race to the bottom

underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog

biggest italian-american cliffhanger since the sopranos finale

you're really gonna post through it, okay

She’s also a way of devaluing the recent electoral wins and undercutting people for racism and “common sense strategy” If Dems were smarter than patronizing they’d make her earn them a majority first They won’t

“Oh she’s moderating!” Y’all don’t deserve democracy smdh

MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

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Blanket pardons. This is evil.

Republicans essentially plundering the national museum for trophies – a space shuttle, placed on free display for the world! – as if they were conquerors of some foreign capital. What, and I cannot stress this enough, the f––.

okay so here’s the idea: fundraiser for tbd new mexico org to keep people clothed/fed/housed/warm, selling glass guys, as pictured below. but this time they come with a one-of-a-kind lore zine, using a handmade tracery generator; i mail it to you with the guy.

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

I've been saying for months that experts are avoiding speaking to the press bc they're afraid of blowback from Trump.

Can’t wait until it’s the lead story on “60 Minutes”

I may just be an American bumpkin but how did the violent murder of a 15 year old trans girl get turned into a national campaign about how phones got her to self harm?

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social: “She has her first instance of transphobia, I found, in 2013, so she’s very early on this.” Yours truly: ‘“First instance of transphobia’ sounds like some sort of illness.” 😘👌🏼

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Auto generated subtitles getting it right.

I’m grateful that Zohran Mamdani speaks up for women who have been subjected to sexual harassment on the job, punished for reporting it through invasive litigation tactics, and silenced through defamation lawsuits.

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Uh, Congress?

Pretty much elected Democrat should be operating from the premise that Donald Trump is the antichrist

How has Tylenol not filed a lawsuit

This is from the most recent edition of the STATUS newsletter; an all-too-common gripe with the NYT is that as an institution, they exhibit little-to-no esprit de corps with the rest of the journalism industry.

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is this press pool so neutered that no one is going to ask any of these people a normal question

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it. See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

i put "capitulating to fascism" but yours is more succinct

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“Salt in the wound is Trump’s favorite flavor.” That kicker is still a kick in the gut, five years and a second Trump administration later.

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Roger Severino wrote the Health and Human Services chapter of Project 2025 and was once thought of as the worst potential pick for HHS secretary. This is the awesome piece that I read last year (oh gosh it was only last year) where I learned about him, his wife, and their whole awful deal.

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Donald Trump rode the escalator in the right way. by Ezra Klein

If you’re unfamiliar, “refrigerator mother” was a theory that kids became autistic bc their mother was cold & unloving.