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KellyBrouse at the former place. Cartoonist in the 216. Powered by Mount Holyoke⚡Slowly lurching toward your favorite city.🦖 kellykomics.com
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1/ Happiest of birthdays to Tom Hamilton, Cleveland Guardians play-by-play announcer --and 2025 Ford C. Frick honoree for his contributions to the game. (There's also a small shoutout to Jim "The Old Rosebud" Rosenhaus, his partner in the radio booth.) #GuardsBall ⚾🎂🎉
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Calling childcare "goodies" is some bonkers framing.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Improvised memorials are fascinating and powerful. This one offers a moving variation on the tributes left after collective (graffiti, notes, flowers at République after 11/13 in Paris) & personal (flyers seeking missing loved ones after 9/11 in NYC) traumas, ephemeral then preserved after the fact
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I've said it before-- he's the walking, talking embodiment of the line from Preston Sturges's 1940 film *The Great McGinty*: "If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish!" 🪼
"The message is not that Trump is innocent, it's that *everyone is guilty.* Everyone assaults women, cheats on their taxes, uses public office for private gain. Propriety and following the rules? That stuff is for suckers. In a world of grift and graft, the most corrupt man should be king."
Why Trump can't make the Epstein scandal go away
His ordinary scandal management techniques are not working.
www.publicnotice.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
❤️
“Good Vibrations” hits #1 on the UK charts today in 1966.

The song, David Leaf wrote, “redefined what a pop single could attempt, and in doing so redefined what American music could aspire to. .. The record doesn’t simply sit in pop history — it towers over it.”
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
oof
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
As Margaret Atwood says,
"Some people treat editors as the Room Service of literature. This is a mistake. A good editor's price is beyond rubies ..." 💎
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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THREAD.
I love old Habitat catalogues & managed to get hold of all the 70s ones before they got v pricey & collectable. Flicking through them, I wondered: "What are the true stories of the lives of the people in these photos?"

So I decided to write those stories.

You'll find them in the alt text.
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Now is the time to prepare to not set your house on fire this Thanksgiving.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...

Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!

The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.

This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Ewwwwwwwwww
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
my old professor Joe Ellis ❤️ #AmericanRevolurion
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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December 4, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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if you have a few spare coins, a local family could really use your help
My neighbors just up the street from us own A-squared pizza in Charlottesville, and their youngest was recently diagnosed with leukemia.

Their family is really nice, and this is a huge bummer right before the holidays. A GoFundMe has been set up for the family to help with everything.
Donate to Help Zoey Beat Leukemia, organized by Julie Bendle
Help Zoey Beat Leukemia Zoey is a precocious, funny, and determined 3-year-old who loves unicorn… Julie Bendle needs your support for Help Zoey Beat Leukemia
www.gofundme.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We should not forget that Alice Wong could only go to college because she had access to Medicaid. People with disabilities can only thrive and survive if society chooses to invest in them the way it invests in everyone else.
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/o...
Opinion | My Medicaid, My Life (Published 2017)
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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*monster truck rally voice* SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM

open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
The American Revolution on PBS
A Historians At The Movies/Ben Franklin’s World Watch Party
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
😄 "Because of me, male employees are no longer allowed to make lewd jokes, hold men-only work gatherings, or type with their p*nises. Yes, this has ruined the workplace, although it has also drastically reduced typos."
The New York Times published an op-ed video criticizing the effects of feminism on institutions and warning of the dangers of “toxic femininity.” It briefly ran with the title “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” The answer is yes. The culprit speaks up: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/n39luP
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM