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martynwendell.bsky.social
Senior associate editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Dad newsletter: https://martynwendell.substack.com/
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which way, 23-year-old man

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Icymi

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It’s Friday night—as good a time as any to overcome your hangups and eat the kiwi like a tomato, skin and all

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My latest is also my first byline at @thebulwark.com - a look at Murray Kempton and a new anthology of his work by @sevenstories.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-late-g...

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and what a great review it is: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-late-g...

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We've had one phenomenology pope before, and he went on to become a saint. I reviewed a terrific book about the Catholic phenomenological tradition for the Hedgehog Review in 2019; tolle lege hedgehogreview.com/issues/eatin... (if you hit the paywall but want to read, send me a message...)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

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"By the end of the piece, Kempton has used Eisenhower’s skill at cards to throw light from new angles on the man’s political repertoire." They don't make columnists like they used to. @rozmilner.bsky.social reviews Murray Kempton's "Going Around":

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i think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions

submitted 3 days ago • 365 comments

great review of the new Murray Kempton collection from @rozmilner.bsky.social here

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Think of it—1.4 billion White Sox fans . . .

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to me personally, this just gets better and better

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word on the street

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that's quite a photo

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Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.

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Nice article about us in Vanity Fair today, ICYI www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Don't have anything new to say about AI here. One thing I will say is that higher ed has long been broken. If elites had spent more time thinking through the point of education and how well we really do it than stoking woke panic, maybe we wouldn't be staring at this abyss. nymag.com/intelligence...

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It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.

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feel as though I ended up with an inadvertent protagonist fit today

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I wish there were a visual compendium somewhere of monumental civic architecture in children's media, enormous subterranean sewer complexes especially

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“All human beings by nature stretch themselves out towards knowing.” On my experience wrestling with Aristotle's 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 via the @catherineproject.bsky.social - and my recovery from same. #ClassicsBluesky #philsky sloopie72.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a...

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Sometime just rediscovered this and now I'm sad again that this doesn't and will never exist.

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Kennedy’s assertions are bunk, but they also rest on a more foundational error: an assumption that a life is only worth what it can give back to society. @ivanplis.bsky.social on RFK Jr. and disability: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

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"Not enough people are saying..." Sorry, but I need to stop you there. You are saying it, and you—[cups poster's face]—you are enough

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"Today, in its words and deeds, the government seems to treat autistic life as a deadly infection while dismissing the very real threat of preventable disease as merely the cost of liberty. This is exactly backwards." Excellent piece by @ivanplis.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

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dread

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excellent, disturbing story

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“But Kennedy’s assertions also rest on a more foundational error: an assumption that a life is only worth what it can give back to society.” Bingo.

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Great piece.

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I’m in @thebulwark.com! Writing about how RFK’s idea of disability — from vaccine-preventable disease to autism and beyond — is out of sync with disabled Americans’ reality. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Great thread

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

hostile work ethic

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a prominently Lacoste-branded shirt that says "tee for two" on it next to an image of two golfers? that's very "pun croc"

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Trump’s troll balloon in action

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