Perhaps letting men whose fathers didn’t love them define real masculinity might not turn out well for society.

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I accept this moment of joy knowing the Blue Jays have ushered the Yankees out of the postseason.

if you simply do not like the vibe on this website, that's fine. i'm not a big fan of the "open cesspool of neo-nazis" vibe on X: The Everything App. but this ideologically-driven desire to present every person who uses this app as hysterical and unreasonable is kind of pathetic

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

I'm a believer in smart policy, but all the finger-pointing in the LA firestorm about hydrant flows and LAFD budgets seems like arguing about the adequacy of Hiroshima's 1945 building code standards. It's a way to evade the big questions.

Billionaires and the political party that advocates for them have branded consumer protection as wasteful big government spending. Fraud will get much more prevalent and consequential in the coming years.

Every December, for the past 17 years, I've been fortunate enough to put together collections of amazing images of outer space for a Space Telescope Advent Calendar. I just posted Day 1 of this year's edition, & will also share this year's images here on Bluesky. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

It’s me, @mariabamford.bsky.social I’ve just left Twitter. I’m a comedian and had used Twitter to connect with fans and other comedians. I’m not sure how to let people know I’m here. Ha-ha.

Twitter was just a practice run. If Trump wins, global democracy could suffer the same fate: #emuskulation. Here's how. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My MSG show will be MUCH funnier.

Trump has hacked the media by lying so relentlessly and egregiously that whoppers that could be career-ending for other politicians don’t even rouse our fact-checkers. He claims American towns are occupied by migrants in every one of his speeches and it elicits yawns. We need to wake the fuck up.