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interests: history, music, astrophysics, urban issues
interests: history, music, astrophysics, urban issues
Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring newrepublic.com/article/2037... via @newrepublic.com
Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring
The “contrarian” journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring newrepublic.com/article/2037... via @newrepublic.com
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Re-reposting this b/c I can't get enough
An ancient and magical amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea.
✨Merry Christmas everyone✨
National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me
#Archaeology
✨Merry Christmas everyone✨
National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me
#Archaeology
May 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Re-reposting this b/c I can't get enough
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York
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November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem! 🦋
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
AI Search Has A Citation Problem! 🦋
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Trump “Knew About the Girls,” Epstein Wrote in Private Emails newrepublic.com/post/203068/... via @newrepublic.com
Trump “Knew About the Girls,” Epstein Wrote in Private Emails
Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly mentioned Donald Trump in newly released private emails, including to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Trump “Knew About the Girls,” Epstein Wrote in Private Emails newrepublic.com/post/203068/... via @newrepublic.com
How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity
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How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity
The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity
popular.info/p/axios-and-...
popular.info/p/axios-and-...
When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/c...
When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is
When I saw the headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And if So, Can Conservative Feminism Fix It?” in The New York Times, my heart sank.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/c...
"The problem with serious writing is that it assumes there is something intrinsically meaningful about the world, which I think even bad comedy understands is totally mistaken." -- Adam Erlich Sachs
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"The problem with serious writing is that it assumes there is something intrinsically meaningful about the world, which I think even bad comedy understands is totally mistaken." -- Adam Erlich Sachs
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Assuming her security detail gets two weeks off per year, that’s enough to pay 23 people an annual salary of over $150k.
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Assuming her security detail gets two weeks off per year, that’s enough to pay 23 people an annual salary of over $150k.
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"Exododus": They got so excited about this poll at the Post that they're trembling at the keyboard
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Exododus": They got so excited about this poll at the Post that they're trembling at the keyboard
Trump’s Pardon of His Crypto Pal Is a New Height of Corruption newrepublic.com/article/2022... via @newrepublic.com
Trump’s Pardon of His Crypto Pal Is a New Height of Corruption
Let me know, America, when you’ve had enough.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Trump’s Pardon of His Crypto Pal Is a New Height of Corruption newrepublic.com/article/2022... via @newrepublic.com
The Growing Schism Between Bible Scholars and Israeli Nationalists newrepublic.com/article/2012... via @newrepublic.com
The Growing Schism Between Bible Scholars and Israeli Nationalists
Experts in biblical history say Zionists and their backers are ignoring inconvenient truths about the history of Israel.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The Growing Schism Between Bible Scholars and Israeli Nationalists newrepublic.com/article/2012... via @newrepublic.com
Zuckerberg -- Complicit in the police-state buildup: "The Justice Department asked Meta to take down a Facebook group where members shared information about ICE agents in Chicago. The tech company complied." (New York Times)
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Zuckerberg -- Complicit in the police-state buildup: "The Justice Department asked Meta to take down a Facebook group where members shared information about ICE agents in Chicago. The tech company complied." (New York Times)
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now newrepublic.com/article/2015... via @newrepublic.com
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now
László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?
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October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now newrepublic.com/article/2015... via @newrepublic.com
Fatties Go Wild
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Fatties Go Wild
"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude." -- George Orwell
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude." -- George Orwell
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian
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October 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
How “Antisemitism” Became a Weapon of the Right newrepublic.com/article/1997... via @newrepublic.com
How “Antisemitism” Became a Weapon of the Right
At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
How “Antisemitism” Became a Weapon of the Right newrepublic.com/article/1997... via @newrepublic.com
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus newrepublic.com/article/1992... via @newrepublic.com
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus newrepublic.com/article/1992... via @newrepublic.com
A perfectly argued riposte to the Doug Fords of the world and their maniacal anti-bike-path crusade: Petite reine et petite politique www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
Pistes cyclables | Petite reine et petite politique
Les voitures s’en sortiront bien. C’est le titre un brin railleur d’une nouvelle étude de l’Université McGill, qui montre qu’on pourrait doubler le nombre de pistes cyclables à Montréal sans que cela ...
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August 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A perfectly argued riposte to the Doug Fords of the world and their maniacal anti-bike-path crusade: Petite reine et petite politique www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
The 10 Percent Is in a Fit of Rage Over Airport Lounges newrepublic.com/article/1991... via @newrepublic.com
The 10 Percent Is in a Fit of Rage Over Airport Lounges
A clueless New York Times op-ed spotlights the haute bourgeoisie’s disappointed status-seeking—and its odd political commitments.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The 10 Percent Is in a Fit of Rage Over Airport Lounges newrepublic.com/article/1991... via @newrepublic.com
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“The American economy added a million new jobs in May and a billion new jobs in June,” Santos declared. “President Trump is creating jobs like crazy—he even gave one to Pete Hegseth.” (Satire) open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Trump Taps George Santos to Head Dept. Of Labor Statistics
Beltway insiders are calling it one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history.
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August 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“The American economy added a million new jobs in May and a billion new jobs in June,” Santos declared. “President Trump is creating jobs like crazy—he even gave one to Pete Hegseth.” (Satire) open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Hey I wrote about a thing that happened about fifteen news cycles ago
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Cartoon: Accident prone
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.�
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July 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hey I wrote about a thing that happened about fifteen news cycles ago
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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This piece is so good and on point. Thx @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
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July 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This piece is so good and on point. Thx @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
"Flood the zone" is brilliant strategy
The Atlantic's @cwarzel.bsky.social did have an excellent piece on the White House X account, so credit where credit is due. It just feels like this stuff blows away in the wind of daily monstrous activity. The "flood the zone" tactic is remarkably effective, and it's rather disheartening.
The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account
Welcome to the 4chan administration.
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July 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"Flood the zone" is brilliant strategy