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Non-vintage champagne for all but me. Correspondre à: https://open.substack.com/pub/slaney/p/punctuality-and-mystery?r=a6d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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I know the Weimar comparisons are even TOO on the nose, but I do think everyone should go re-read Peter Gay’s Weimar Culture.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 7 days ago • 248 comments

www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I have slagged off the CRJ900 many a time, but someone needs to find those Bombardier engineers and kiss them on the mouth.

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Boy howdy, I picked a TIME to read Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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If you live in NYC, you have until Feb 14th to register as a Democrat so you can participate in our closed primaries, and vote Eric Adams out. According to @thecity.bsky.social, "unaffiliated independents outnumber Republicans in every borough except Staten Island" vote.nyc/page/party-a...

submitted 20 days ago • 26 comments

Sorry, Pamela Paul is named after PAMELA Pamela? Virtue Rewarded Pamela? And she...tells people? You would not be able to torture that out of me.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

For the latest issue of my new Substack, I wrote about football, nuclear war, eldritch horror, and what happens when men hang out. Plus Conclave! open.substack.com/pub/slaney/p...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

They cannot do this. They cannot do this because I, specifically, would be banned from Barry's Bootcamp for kicking some guy's phone out of his hands.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Not since Janine in The Babysitter’s Club (196).

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I always forget Jake Tapper moonlights as an author of political thrillers.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

“Natural masculine instincts” and it’s just a garden-variety anxiety disorder

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came across this tweet in the wild, everyone loves the wine-dark sea

submitted 35 days ago • 51 comments

Also: any sentence that starts with “folks” is about to be the most condescending bullshit.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking of Masha Gessen's article on Sarah Huckabee Sanders demanding the press corps share what they were thankful for on Thanksgiving. They meekly obeyed. "Her tone was menacing, the tone of a bully asking for a volunteer to be humiliated in front of the room." www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...

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That speech in Devil Wears Prada is not a substitute for having an actual politics!

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

You know what's a really good book? A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhair. Just apropos. www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-man-l...

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well that didn't take long!

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My husband's at LGA and it's on and people are CLAPPING AT THE SCREEN; I'm going to start smoking again.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Cortisol & dopamine & endorphins & serotonin, oh my!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I LOVED Conclave. (I do not think Stanley Tucci is a very good actor! The Tooch does not have the juice! But somehow this just made Ralph Fiennes even better.)

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Among the best actions films ever made. And JEANNE MOREAU!

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I do not need to go on the New York Times’s journey this time around. I do not need to go on the New York Times’s journey this time around. I do not need

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Reading Wuthering Heights for the first time in awhile and it’s like a three-day hangover.

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