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Billy Joel
U2
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Britney Spears
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Alabama Shakes
Tiesto
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cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
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Simon & Garfunkel
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I feel like this for me, specifically
thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I mean, I'd love that to be true, but Nuzzi was a fêted political reporter at New York Mag for years and Lizza was likewise at the New Yorker for quite a while. these are not generally thought of as crank institutions!
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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this fuckin guy ...dropping allegations of journalistic malpractice and source betrayal in separate piece meal events like it’s delicious media gossip and then writing, “we haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events”
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
TIL the origin of "cocktail"
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Good Fortune was a funny premise and carried by Keke's charisma & Keanu's charm and hotness but needed some editing.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I couldn't tell what the Google banner was so I clicked on it and it's a link to their AI to help me make Thanksgiving dinner
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I couldn't tell what the Google banner was so I clicked on it and it's a link to their AI to help me make Thanksgiving dinner
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm trying to understand what word "[his]" replaced in the final quote
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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RFK Jr. is neither a joke nor a well-intentioned proponent of public health with a few kooky beliefs. He's a menace, evil even by the standards of Trump's inner circle, and the failure of the political press to convey this is maddening
I actually think it’s okay to take a ridiculous scandal seriously when it involves a wingnut conspiracy theorist in charge of things like vaccine policy and pandemic preparedness

Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻‍♀️
She never misses a beat, of course, but Marina's first paragraph this week is *chef's kiss*

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
5 texts from Mark Kelly today seems excessive
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I wanna run for congress on a straight Impeach Emil Bove platform
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Humphrey Bogart, 1940
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In a way it's like how the LE phone scams rely on keeping you on your phone every second and not letting you talk to anyone else or research anything.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I expect folks to start realizing funnelling all the money to six friendless sociopaths was a bad idea aaaany day now
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Atomic Blonde has been added to Hulu.
Repeat
Atomic Blonde has been added to Hulu.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🎶stay cation all I ever wanted
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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And the only reason we never knew some of the stuff that mattered was because other orgs were covering it up and enabling it way back when! Wild!
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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And, of course, the only reason so much of this messy domestic dispute is playing out in public was because Simon & Schuster enabled all of it rather than taking a writeoff on an advance gone bad.
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.

Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.

Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM