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Man Forced To Come Up With 45 Seconds Of Facial Expressions While Waitress Lists Off Specials https://theonion.com/man-forced-to-come-up-with-45-seconds-of-facial-express-1819577896/
April 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Man Forced To Come Up With 45 Seconds Of Facial Expressions While Waitress Lists Off Specials https://theonion.com/man-forced-to-come-up-with-45-seconds-of-facial-express-1819577896/
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Turnout in the US has never gotten above 64% of the eligible population, and what a lot of people would have you believe is that no campaign in history has ever taken the bold leftist stances that would inspire a mass movement among those nonvoters, and that is simply not ever going to be right.
April 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Turnout in the US has never gotten above 64% of the eligible population, and what a lot of people would have you believe is that no campaign in history has ever taken the bold leftist stances that would inspire a mass movement among those nonvoters, and that is simply not ever going to be right.
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Not all of the problems in the world were caused by early 20 something feminist bloggers in 2014 but for a certain set of terminally online reactionary centrists, they are. It's like gamergate but with the veneer of respectability offered by publishing in the Atlantic.
March 23, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Not all of the problems in the world were caused by early 20 something feminist bloggers in 2014 but for a certain set of terminally online reactionary centrists, they are. It's like gamergate but with the veneer of respectability offered by publishing in the Atlantic.
“How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days”, 2026 remake
Black Mirror episode where a woman discovers her boyfriend has been betting against their relationship lasting on the prediction markets and becomes determined to spoil his bet.
March 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
“How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days”, 2026 remake
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a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes
March 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes
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My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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DinoCon is more mindful of attendees’ safety than Harvard or MIT or Yale or Stanford (etc.) are of their students’ safety
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
February 10, 2026 at 1:50 AM
DinoCon is more mindful of attendees’ safety than Harvard or MIT or Yale or Stanford (etc.) are of their students’ safety
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
(and some of those students are still legal minors, unlike the DinoCon participants)
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#IFJBlog #USA: "Autocrats start their assault on dismantling democracy by targeting a free and independent press"
President of @newsguild.org , @jschleuss.com, tells us more about the state of press freedom in the US and unions’ roles under autocratic regimes
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
President of @newsguild.org , @jschleuss.com, tells us more about the state of press freedom in the US and unions’ roles under autocratic regimes
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
#IFJBlog- "Autocrats start by targeting the press" / IFJ
The arrest of former CNN anchor and journalist Don Lemon on 29 January 2026, after he entered a Minnesota church and filmed anti-immigration enforcement protesters as they disrupted a service, is anot...
www.ifj.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:03 AM
#IFJBlog #USA: "Autocrats start their assault on dismantling democracy by targeting a free and independent press"
President of @newsguild.org , @jschleuss.com, tells us more about the state of press freedom in the US and unions’ roles under autocratic regimes
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
President of @newsguild.org , @jschleuss.com, tells us more about the state of press freedom in the US and unions’ roles under autocratic regimes
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
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Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.
February 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.
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In "A House of Dynamite," the worst movie I saw in 2025, President Idris Elba starts talking about a podcast he listens to moments before a nuclear missile levels Chicago and everyone in the theater laughed.
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In "A House of Dynamite," the worst movie I saw in 2025, President Idris Elba starts talking about a podcast he listens to moments before a nuclear missile levels Chicago and everyone in the theater laughed.
Skill issue
I see a lot of visualizations of one year of a person's online dating (a 21M from London in this case). Seems miserable. Is getting drunk in a bar or club making a comeback as a dating strategy? Source: buff.ly/ZvAbOdz
January 28, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Skill issue
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you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
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Go back to obsessing about baseball, stats nerds, I am begging you.
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Go back to obsessing about baseball, stats nerds, I am begging you.
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a lot of political “scandal” coverage is just the media making a decision about whether public opinion needs a corrective
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
a lot of political “scandal” coverage is just the media making a decision about whether public opinion needs a corrective
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
October 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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100 percent this. There is never a context in which a campus shooting is anything other than horrifying.
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
100 percent this. There is never a context in which a campus shooting is anything other than horrifying.
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Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
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I hate when politicians and pundits and academics with zero experience growing up working class or living a working class life talk authoritatively about the working class; leave us alone, this shit is hard enough without being tokenized or weaponized or studied like exotic zoo animals
August 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I hate when politicians and pundits and academics with zero experience growing up working class or living a working class life talk authoritatively about the working class; leave us alone, this shit is hard enough without being tokenized or weaponized or studied like exotic zoo animals
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my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
"This whole thing is just such bulls**t": Not every Democrat wants to talk about Epstein
"I don't think this issue is big outside the Beltway," one prominent centrist House Democrat told Axios.
www.axios.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
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there are many things going on here but i will also add that if you read the letter this guy is not actually rich, he just says he's going to be rich by the time he's 40. he says he works from home "doing something similar to trading markets" which to be sounds like either crypto or unemployed
NEW COLUMN: He’s tall, he’s jacked and he’s on track to be a millionaire before 40. So why are all these women dating men who aren’t nearly as desirable as him?
ASK DR. NERDLOVE: I’m Tall, Hot and Rich. Why Are Women Passing Me Up For Inferior Men?
www.doctornerdlove.c...
ASK DR. NERDLOVE: I’m Tall, Hot and Rich. Why Are Women Passing Me Up For Inferior Men?
www.doctornerdlove.c...
I'm Tall, Hot and Rich. Why Are Women Passing Me Up For Inferior Men?
He's tall, he's jacked and he's on track to be a millionaire before 40. So why are all these women dating men who aren't nearly as desirable as him?
www.doctornerdlove.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
there are many things going on here but i will also add that if you read the letter this guy is not actually rich, he just says he's going to be rich by the time he's 40. he says he works from home "doing something similar to trading markets" which to be sounds like either crypto or unemployed
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Youth pastor voice: You know who else took on a globally important leadership role at the age of 33?
June 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Youth pastor voice: You know who else took on a globally important leadership role at the age of 33?
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when i buy whiskey from the ABC store, that's like the soviet union, to me.
June 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
when i buy whiskey from the ABC store, that's like the soviet union, to me.
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It's a lovely idea but primary the fuck out of them just to be sure
The best part of the Mamdani win is that a bunch of octogenarian Democratic officials might finally be realizing that it's long past time they pass the torch.
June 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's a lovely idea but primary the fuck out of them just to be sure