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Lauren O'Neal
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Nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. I put the chic in Chicago Manual of Style.
The last line is "Reader, I barleyed him."
My mother in law has this book on her coffee table and the first sentence of chapter 1 is, “one cannot spend 35 years looking at barley without acquiring an enormous amount of observations”
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
How stupid is it possible to be
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I love receiving multiple Republican fundraising texts addressed to my dad every day. And I love how no amount of unsubscribing or reporting as spam does anything to stop it.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Wait OK so Epstein was advising Larry Summers on how to sexually harass his student while simultaneously emailing Summers' wife about the book Lolita. The emails were sent just a few weeks apart.
ELISA NEW IS LARRY SUMMERS'S WIFE????? I'm gonna have a something attack.
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Rich elites / people with rich elite donors being like, "Hold on a second now, I don't think we really need to expose the dark secrets of rich elites."
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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republicans believe poor people deserve to suffer because they're lazy and weak, whereas the democrats have a much lengthier explanation
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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It's as important to stop this as the stuff at the top. Because it's all the same system. This is where Epstein's victims and clients come from. Virginia Giuffre was prey to Maxwell bc she'd been abused all her life & had nowhere to turn. Perps are so brazen bc they're told over & over it's fine.
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.

www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:

Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Matt Gaetz was just sitting there doing nothing when all of a sudden his political career was upended by a homeless teenager!
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Just checkin' the facts!
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas:

"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Imagine what an actual opposition party could do right now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Guys, stop reading the Epstein emails, it clearly states at the end of each one that we're not allowed to.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"For some reason, I feel compelled to assert that the class of people I'm directly abusing and exploiting are naturally inferior to me..."
Larry Summers hanging around frightened and sexually trafficked teenage girls: wow your calculus skills suck
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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jeffery epstein, fresh from his busy day of illegal sexual trafficking with the most powerful politicians and figures in the world: time to email my friends about this on my gmail account
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Not only did a different Lauren O'Neal use my email address to sign up for a Bath & Body Works reward account, she spelled her own name wrong while doing so.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
After being up all last night coughing, I figured taking a Sudafed with the rest of my cold meds could only help. I have now been lying in bed awake for three straight hours.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Me writing the script where James Bond dramatically dies: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me writing the script for the next James Bond movie: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM