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Senior Editor for THE Atlantic. You have to overemphasize "THE" like in THE Ohio State, otherwise you're not allowed to pay for our shitty articles.
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Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 14 hours ago • 214 comments

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

submitted 12 hours ago • 76 comments

I wonder how big the riots will be if they convict Luigi after all this fuckery.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Disabled replies so people would stop posting pictures and stories of thousands of murdered Palestinian children.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Democrats: "We can't figure out how we lost in 2024!" Also Democrats:

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Everyday I'm astounded that this idiot says dumber and dumber things. It's actually going to be real fun to watch the Mavericks lose for the next 3 decades.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

This is basically my entire book in chart form

submitted 11 days ago • 511 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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I’m starting to see otherwise careful outlets whose reporting I really appreciate & admire refer to Starlink as a whole separate business run by Musk. Folks, it’s part of SpaceX and you should NOT make that mistake.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

As long as political staff and advisors in the Democratic Party are just lobbyists waiting for their dream job, they'll continue to fail upwards and lead us into hell.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Can't wait for Elon to say, "Some of you may die but that's a risk I'm willing to take" and the media to go, "Elon bravely takes brunt of risks"

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you kicked a guy out of your french chateau because he said he didn't like bari weiss and in the process claimed you were the victim of language policing. isn't the problem your inability to accept that you and your cohorts have coddled minds?

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Oh no now I can't see what this moron said how will I ever recover

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Are people surprised the guy who got rich by creating a website that failed almost immediately after he sold it, then oversaw *decades* of sexual misconduct at his new org, then finally sold his prized possession to Miriam Adelson is a fucking moron piece of shit? Why are you surprised?

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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

don’t know if this a real account or not but it’s tweeting like it is and i think it would be great if we made @doge-reporting.bsky.social the most blocked account on here

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

Hey if any editor out there wants like 1500 words on Paul Ingrassia and his stolen charity, groyper associations, Mar-a-Lago adventures, friendship with DC’s US attorney Ed Martin, and his vast connections to Andrew Tate, I can write it in my sleep.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments