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I'll remember Joy Ann Reid for her role in trashing the Left and convincing a whole swath of MSNBC liberals of the myth that class issues were antithetical to racial justice issues. Exploiting that divide helped the centrists win and we all lost thanks to people like her.

They chose an arrangement from Les Misérables, you fucking moron. The story is about an anti-monarchist insurrection, the Paris Uprising of 1832. They protested this sham administration right under your nose 😂

This is the problem with de-baathification

Colin Farrell realized too late that exercise is bad for you if you've recently had COVID: "I went out about a week after testing negative and I started running again and I messed myself up and got the long COVID for about six months."

Being a large corporation is great because when you steal money from people instead of prison or even a punitive fine you just say “oops sorry jk” and payback what you stole and everyone moves on. This option, weirdly, is not available for people who shoplift razors from CVS.

We love it when libs in Philly do everything they can to slam the most progressive DA we’ve had don’t we folks? Note: Larry is far from perfect, I’m just wondering how long these jackasses get to coast on the “hating Bernie bros” garbage.

The AG still not releasing the EPSTEIN FILES is weird and raises the question of who she might be protecting 🤔

A US citizens was killed in the explosion. It's horrible. But important to note it happened in Mexico, over 100 miles from the Texas border.

eat shit, Elon

Tiffany Fong excitedly buying dinner for her parents after her $21,000 payout only to learn shortly later that the only reason she got that much money was because the site's owner wanted to impregnate her out of wedlock feels like a Jane Austen subplot

Simple path to success: identify a customer base with a psychological disorder, then lie to them

Before the '90s, nobody recorded much detail on what went into landfill - even at sites for industrial waste. So, we don't really know how toxic the waste they contain is. And, when they flood, chemicals from landfill may be washed into surrounding homes. theguardian.com/environment/20…

YIMBY’a when a gathering location is something young rich white men like (bars, escape rooms, gourmet coffee): “This is a Third Place. We need more of these.” When it’s a Harlem community garden enjoyed by Black seniors and children: “Bulldoze it. Build something for meeeee.”

Democrats, who ran on and governed with Yglesias-approved policies, are now in freefall somehow. Obviously if they are to launch a comeback they will need to adopt more Yglesias-approved policies

It’s been explained to me that the NYT endorsement is partially won through private campaigning by a few powerful people connected to the Times. This is pretty common knowledge in certain circles as I’ve heard over the years.

“This will be the sixth time we have created the worst Jurassic Park sequel, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.”

I talked to KCRW about how, since the 1980s, politicians have framed homelessness as individual pathology—a tactic to conceal its economic roots, justify removing unhoused people from public space, and divert focus from a system that both creates and profits off this precarity.

via Hell Gate, the NYT essentially firing its music, classical, TV and theater reviewers to make room for... influencers? (one merit of the weekly review tied to the release calendar as a format is that it levels the playing field for writers who aren't careerist maniacs)

(writers who are employable because they're good at "go[ing] beyond the the traditional review" and "experiment[ing] with other platforms" are good at pitching and networking and many such people, even at the Times, are glib hacks with resting heart rates of 120 BPM)