RuthAnn Ledgerwood
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Be firm in your own small, static, limited / orbit and the shark-jaws of outer circumstance / will spit you forth.
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Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.
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I can't imagine what Calbiri has to do with diversity, but I fear here is one thing I agree with Marco Rubio on. Calbiri sucks.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I can't imagine what Calbiri has to do with diversity, but I fear here is one thing I agree with Marco Rubio on. Calbiri sucks.
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I don't know if I've ever hated the first hour of a movie as much as I hated the first hour of "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning."
Overall, what a baffling film.
Overall, what a baffling film.
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I don't know if I've ever hated the first hour of a movie as much as I hated the first hour of "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning."
Overall, what a baffling film.
Overall, what a baffling film.
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Coming home for the holidays means your mom wants to stream some period drama no one has ever heard of titled some shit like “The Pealing Bells of Melloncollie” and you better believe she’s gonna let you know Olivia Colman is in it
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Coming home for the holidays means your mom wants to stream some period drama no one has ever heard of titled some shit like “The Pealing Bells of Melloncollie” and you better believe she’s gonna let you know Olivia Colman is in it
The number one thing a person with a Nazi tattoo does not do is pass the smell test.
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The number one thing a person with a Nazi tattoo does not do is pass the smell test.
Now, I have a high respect for timeliness, but a statement like this is mostly just revealing a lack of knowledge about how most cultures outside of the (northern) United States relate to time and schedules.
We really are the outliers!
We really are the outliers!
Being late to everything means you’re a bad person. A key narcissistic personality trait: letting other people know they and their time are not important compared to whatever you feel like doing at a given moment.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Now, I have a high respect for timeliness, but a statement like this is mostly just revealing a lack of knowledge about how most cultures outside of the (northern) United States relate to time and schedules.
We really are the outliers!
We really are the outliers!
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Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.
fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.
fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.
Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.
fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.
fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.
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How it started: How it’s going:
October 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
How it started: How it’s going:
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Diane Keaton’s ability to show you a character’s vulnerability was as striking as her gift for showing you what can lie beneath such sensitivity, including neediness at its rawest and most acutely exposed, our chief film critic Manohla Dargis writes.
Often Overlooked, Diane Keaton Was Essential to ‘The Godfather’ Saga
The star’s emotional transparency and expressive eyes helped us see the Corleones as both fascinating and repellent, just as her character did.
nyti.ms
October 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Diane Keaton’s ability to show you a character’s vulnerability was as striking as her gift for showing you what can lie beneath such sensitivity, including neediness at its rawest and most acutely exposed, our chief film critic Manohla Dargis writes.
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“Hidden here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging or complex. It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working-class people by middle-class gatekeepers…”
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Hidden here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging or complex. It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working-class people by middle-class gatekeepers…”
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
FYI: this is what it's like to read the ChatGPT essays.
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
FYI: this is what it's like to read the ChatGPT essays.
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
This woman wrote the most racist book (Her Father's Daughter) I ever unwittingly encountered. I had read her Girl of Limberlost and Freckles, which both have shades of eugenics in small doses—you know, the way it occasionally pops up in literature of the early 1900s.
I wouldn't bet on this one.
I wouldn't bet on this one.
worrying book I saw in Scotland that sounds like a confession I do not want to read
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This woman wrote the most racist book (Her Father's Daughter) I ever unwittingly encountered. I had read her Girl of Limberlost and Freckles, which both have shades of eugenics in small doses—you know, the way it occasionally pops up in literature of the early 1900s.
I wouldn't bet on this one.
I wouldn't bet on this one.
The world is full of many evil things, but the one that weighs heaviest on me this evening is the current season of Project Runway, which should have been blasted into oblivion or burned in hell, take your pick.
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The world is full of many evil things, but the one that weighs heaviest on me this evening is the current season of Project Runway, which should have been blasted into oblivion or burned in hell, take your pick.
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I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
September 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
I have been trying to break my Duolingo streak since Friday, and Duo notifications keep telling me I've been using Streak Freezes (the cap is 2-3?), and to log back in to preserve my 2225 days streak before it's gone.
Baby, let it be gone! It's been five days!
Baby, let it be gone! It's been five days!
September 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I have been trying to break my Duolingo streak since Friday, and Duo notifications keep telling me I've been using Streak Freezes (the cap is 2-3?), and to log back in to preserve my 2225 days streak before it's gone.
Baby, let it be gone! It's been five days!
Baby, let it be gone! It's been five days!
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Many will have a more comprehensive look at his career. I wanted to do something short on the elusiveness he gave to his characters that made them interesting conundrums rather than a blank
No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were." Hubbell, you absolute coward!
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No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were." Hubbell, you absolute coward!
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In appreciation: Robert Redford’s elusiveness on screen made him a more complicated actor
No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were.”
www.chicagotribune.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Many will have a more comprehensive look at his career. I wanted to do something short on the elusiveness he gave to his characters that made them interesting conundrums rather than a blank
No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were." Hubbell, you absolute coward!
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No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were." Hubbell, you absolute coward!
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The murder of Charlie Kirk, as well as the lifework of Charlie Kirk, deserve strong condemnation, and it is evidence of the broken morality and abandoned civic responsibility of the people around us that they will only address the former.
I've never thought there was a bad time to be honest about the fact that a horrible person is/was horrible. But after this week's whitewashing of Kirk by the media and political commentariat, it feels not just permissible but essential to fight both sentimentality and dishonesty at top volume.
September 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The murder of Charlie Kirk, as well as the lifework of Charlie Kirk, deserve strong condemnation, and it is evidence of the broken morality and abandoned civic responsibility of the people around us that they will only address the former.
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You don’t understand. The person using the state monopoly on violence to settle old vendettas is psychologically damaged
September 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
You don’t understand. The person using the state monopoly on violence to settle old vendettas is psychologically damaged
Is the news the place for understatement?
The "NYT should use stronger language" debate is eternal; this reads to me like understatement, for readers who will intuit that Adams and his team are full of shit.
This seems less like "a closely guarded secret" and more like "a blatant lie by the mayor to his constituents" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...
September 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Is the news the place for understatement?
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The amazing thing about being a joyless lefty scold is I’m doing it all in pursuit of joy 💅
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The amazing thing about being a joyless lefty scold is I’m doing it all in pursuit of joy 💅
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Totally cool to come away from the interrogation with “huh, I genuinely like this thing for pure reasons disconnected from the contaminating effects of capital, heteropatriarchy, and white supremacy” (for a start) but “let people like things” when punching upwards is a recipe for capitulation
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Totally cool to come away from the interrogation with “huh, I genuinely like this thing for pure reasons disconnected from the contaminating effects of capital, heteropatriarchy, and white supremacy” (for a start) but “let people like things” when punching upwards is a recipe for capitulation
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No, actually, it’s sort of massively important to interrogate people’s aesthetic & artistic preferences whenever they align excessively with the monoculture, especially when the social-issues upshot of engagement is made explicit
I would maybe just let people enjoy what they enjoy without being so harsh. Social issues are one thing, subjective opinions about books/art are another. No need to shame individuals for liking what they like
It’s so embarrassing when ppl say HP was important to their childhood so they can’t let it go. Did it open a love of books & you went on to devour millions more books? Or is it just that you took one step into total brand capture before your brain was fully formed & even now you wish to remain
September 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
No, actually, it’s sort of massively important to interrogate people’s aesthetic & artistic preferences whenever they align excessively with the monoculture, especially when the social-issues upshot of engagement is made explicit