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Published: December 14, 2025 22:09

12 hours after CBS aired their EIC asking Erika Kirke why those mean bitter feminists hate mothers so much [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 14, 2025 01:24

Beautiful campus and lovely people. Horrified by the news today. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 14, 2025 01:07

Saw Blue Moon and made the mistake of reading Lorenz Hart's Wikipedia page

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Published: December 13, 2025 15:58

Is Sontag right about this

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Published: December 12, 2025 21:38

Realize I'm probably late to this (and I probably already know the answer) but why exactly is the NYT editorial board running a weeklong sponcon for defense contractors

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Published: December 12, 2025 14:30

Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative…

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Published: December 12, 2025 13:37

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Published: December 12, 2025 00:50

Will this make it less scary [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 11, 2025 18:29

Starting a timer on how long it takes for Goofy and Spiderman to tell kids that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 11, 2025 13:43

Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines…

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Published: December 11, 2025 13:27

Flew through this book last night in one sitting. It's a collection of German people's dreams during the rise of Hitler in the 30s, collected by a Jewish communist journalist who fled the country in 1939.

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Published: December 11, 2025 13:17

He's replacing John Dickerson [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 10, 2025 17:28

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Published: December 10, 2025 17:19

Should really be seen in the same vein as that Oklahoma student or the Cinnabon racist in that the new ladder of success in conservative media is how artfully you can construct the circumstances of your own cancellation [contains quote post or other…

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Published: December 10, 2025 15:53

He's also wrong on principle in that the very purpose of a Constitution and legal rights in a democracy is protecting them from public opinion [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 10, 2025 14:44

Reporting indicates this isn't even true but note the standalone charge DHS is making that the man is a "sodomite" and thus should be deported

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Published: December 10, 2025 14:13

Not the Lockheed Martin rainbow knee highs [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 10, 2025 14:07

I understand these devices as a better alternative to being locked up but it's horrendous this is actually the best case scenario our system can offer [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 9, 2025 00:13

"anyway, congrats to the happy couple" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 8, 2025 15:48

I really do think if she had waited like five years she (and we) would be in better shape to learn anything from this (assuming anything can be) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 7, 2025 22:31

The four words every girl wants to hear

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Published: December 7, 2025 20:32

Second verse same as the first [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 7, 2025 17:20

That's right [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 7, 2025 14:56

Et tu Gloria [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 7, 2025 13:41

I keep returning to Astra Taylor's construction (the title of her fantastic book) "Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone." It's really the perfect way of explaining liberalism's false but necessary promises

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Published: December 7, 2025 13:08

Something that just occurred to me is for all Hegseth's machismo prostrating it's like a classically cowardly thing to kill defenseless men in war. Like by millennia-old standards of honor.

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Published: December 6, 2025 23:40

Gender [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 6, 2025 20:52

"Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”…

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Published: December 6, 2025 19:53

Update

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Published: December 6, 2025 15:37

Lazy sick day 🤧👾🔫🏍️

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Published: December 5, 2025 18:53

Remember the character Diabate from last night's Pluribus? And how he delighted in having all these people treat him like a God? Even though it was obvious to everyone, including him, it was all bullshit? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 5, 2025 13:31

🌨️

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Published: December 5, 2025 01:16

The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 5, 2025 00:15

It's because he's so trans inclusive [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 5, 2025 00:05

I would bet the moon this thing is never getting built [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:42

"Taken together, these results suggest that optimizing persuasiveness may come at some cost to truthfulness" 🤔 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 4, 2025 20:24

Every excerpt I read of Nuzzi's book stresses me out because I too try and fail to invest every mundane detail of my life with meaning

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Published: December 4, 2025 19:50

So there's this thing called Title VII [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 4, 2025 15:38

It's with the heaviest of hearts that I'll be blogging this [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 4, 2025 15:05

I've always appreciated that my apartments walls are a nice warm off white (contrasted here with the strict white windowpane) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 4, 2025 01:58

Wait WHAT [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 4, 2025 01:28

Almost fifty years since Renee Richards fought for the right to play. The New York Times covered the controversy closely, running this collection of responses from their readers that sounds like it could be run today [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: December 4, 2025 00:33

Not with a bang but a wager

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Published: December 3, 2025 23:44

That's right

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Published: December 3, 2025 23:33

Take a stand, Nancy

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Published: December 3, 2025 22:12

Long year

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Published: December 3, 2025 17:29

The day by day report was creepy [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 3, 2025 16:29

Yeah I actually don't hate this and it's centered on the country rather than him. Like the ballroom is bullshit but this is mostly fine [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 2, 2025 21:51

I try not to be a "history will judge" kind of person but I do hope the TikTok ban is one day understood as one of the most explicit attacks on free speech this country has ever attempted [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 2, 2025 19:45

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics [contains…

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Published: December 2, 2025 17:37

They've presented no evidence this is the case btw. Like he's probably a war criminal even if loads of fentanyl was on the boats (unlikely best I can tell) but this is just the hunt for WMDs after the invasion began [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: December 2, 2025 17:15

In which all these criticisms are given equal weight and everyone is being ideological but me [contains quote post or other embedded content]