Jenét Morrow

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

An autistic man called police for a wellness check. He was fatally shot. Alex LaMorie, 25, had recently moved to a community in Maryland for people with disabilities, and was shot after police say he approached officers while holding a knife.

"Every parent of a child with autism knows this is their worst nightmare," his mother said.
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Close-up of a wire-haired dachshund puppy on the arm of a man wearing a chunky green jumper

Hold me closer tiny dachshund

I just bought Ollie the other day. It's has the same ingredients as the Japanese ones and also has fluoride.

Truly, this man's scatological touch is unmatched. He is undefeated in ruining everything.

I am on assignment in DC.

America.

Please pick a non-wackass president. This place is so limp and sauceless and subdued. 😩 It wasn't always like this!

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Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

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A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

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Hard Feelings The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.

Incredibly moving piece on the tensions of Iranian diaspora.

My colleague and friend Narges Bajoghli identifies an “anguished double consciousness”: deep loathing for the Iranian regime but unwillingness to celebrate the war’s deaths and destruction.

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I filled up today and was annoyed by the cost.

Then I remembered there are people with their loved ones killed, homes destroyed, or entire families wiped out.

The price we pay.

A nuisance to some; a burden to others.

The price they pay.

Everything.

When greedy, disgusting freaks rule us all.

The fact that I used to disco nap so I could *leave the house in the middle of the night* and not come home until after I ate breakfast somewhere is unreal to me

Just wait until your 50s. Then it's day drinking and home by 5pm. 😉😁

Weird weird energy today. I mean, it's been weird for a long time. But super weird today.

Big. www.billboard.com/music/chart-... The Paradox's 'Get the Message' Is No. 1 on Alternative Airplay Chart

🤣🤣🤣

Truly! 😩

Qatar Airways to Operate Limited Repatriation Flights After Airspace Partially Reopens Flights will begin repatriating stranded passengers to destinations including London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Frankfurt.

Qatar Airways to Operate Limited Repatriation Flights After Airspace | CN Traveler
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Finally finished this 🧶

cont. “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan — who had a lot success building show around a few antiheroes — talked about this last year: Fictional villains may be more “fun and they’re easier to write well” — and they may seem “sexier” — “but maybe we could use a few more George Baileys.”

2. I do think Hollywood has been especially enamored with the antihero in the last couple of decades, to the exclusion of other kinds of protagonists. When there’s not a good mix, I think it can start to feel weird, even subconsciously, and maybe that fuels an increase in “this is problematic” POVs

I have a different perspective on this because I think a few things are happening

1. People have always argued about movies! That’s good movies should provoke reactions! I think pearl-clutching can seem more widespread when we see it in posts vs. having a convo with a few people after a movie

Couldn't agree with you more on this. Even as a politically jaded person, it's a favorite of mine. Plus, I loves me some Jean Arthur.

Column: In 1939, ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ took on a corrupt federal government. It wouldn’t have a chance today. A film about an underdog facing down a corrupt federal government hijacked by an unelected captain tycoon? Talk about timely

For me, a different Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart role comes to mind: Jeff Smith of 1939’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”

I worry most think of it as impossibly square by today’s standards (if they’ve seen it at all) but it’s really worth watching and thinking about the issues it contends with

Gift 🔗

Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran | WSJ
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New Hampshire House Advances One of The Nation’s Most Extreme Transgender Bathroom Bans The proposal would fine transgender people up to $5,000 for using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity.

The proposal would fine transgender people up to $5,000 for using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity.
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The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot

THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him

THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me

YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care

BECAUSE my position is immutable

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her