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hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

I never cracked open Nina Power's book, What Do Men Want? (2022), so I'm reading a copy. By page 2--in a book nominally about men and masculinity--Power is talking about Kathleen Stock, J.K. Rowling and Maya Forstarter. Naturally, this book was positively reviewed by the London literary elite

I've never wanted something to flop harder than this fucking misbegotten television show for transphobic 42-year-olds

"As a parent, I am deeply concerned about what my child is accessing online. Albeit not enough to check or to install some very basic software that would prevent them from accessing dodgy material online. That's why the Online Safety Act is so important."

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

Which house was he JK Rowling????

@jk_rowling · Feb 2 This is beyond silly. Neither I, nor anybody on my team, ever met, communicated with or invited Jeffrey Epstein to anything. https://x.com/girlslasttourr/girlslasttourrr/status/2018093016548778327

Justice.gov Epstein Files official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play invite to Jeffrey Epstein

Peggy Siegal Company: "Hi just liet us know where you like to send the tickets. Rhys Kimmitt "the tickets are on their way to Peggy's office. Please deal with Lila to arrange pickup" CC Jeffrey Epstein "Rhys please deal with Jeffrey Epstein's assistant [redacted] She will send a messenger to pick up his two dinner tickets. Thanks so much! xoxo Peggy"

To Jeffrey Epstein Ryhs Kimmitt Marisa Frank and Lila Walker from Peggy "To whom this may concern Rhys...what was not clear?" "I was very explicit with my staff and you about TWO tickets for the DINNER for Jeffrey Epstein. What genius filled the ticket order? Why wasn't his name on the DINNER list at the door? What genius thought my friend would not have a plus one when we ordered TWO tickets. What robot at the door would not let him in? This has ruined what was a perfect everning for all of us. I am incredibly emarabassed by the rigid behavior of some child minded door guard. Jeffrey is a captain of international finance and a close personal friend of mine. I know this was not done on purpose but it still is terribly upsetting. Please find out who did this and send an apology note. Thank you so much. Peggy. Jeffrey...of all nights, I left my two phones home, I was actually looking for you all night, I was with Soon-Yi and she thought you were having dinner with her husband. I am so very sorry. What a screw up.

JK Rowling has not tweeted since openly denying that her team invited the world's most notorious child rapist to a kid's play despite evidence directly disproving her claims

Simpsons scene where Lisa is pointing at JK Rowling "Look it's JK Rowling! The Holocaust denier whose team invited Jeffrey Epstein to a children's play."

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Zimmer’s reputation for being a good composer before he “got bad” is primarily from working with a row of collaborators like John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Mark Mancina, James Newton Howard and Klaus Badelt. Many of these composers won’t work with Zimmer again for reasons that are easy to find

Hans Zimmer is doing the score to HBO's Harry Potter show. Another one bites the dust

Tweet by Cassandra Raugust: "Danielle Smith can stand in front of a camera and pretend this is about “protecting kids,” but I’m a parent of a transgender child who actually took puberty blockers — and my kid is perfectly healthy, safe, and thriving. So spare us the fearmongering. Puberty blockers are reversible. They’ve been used on cis kids for decades without a single political pearl-clutching moment. She knew a year ago that these bills were unconstitutional — she literally said she’d use the notwithstanding clause to bulldoze over the Charter if people fought her. And now that doctors, the CMA, and every credible medical expert are calling this legislation dangerous, unethical, and discriminatory, she hides behind that clause to dodge accountability. This isn’t leadership. It’s targeting a tiny, vulnerable population because she can’t defend her bill with facts, evidence, or basic human decency. And I’m done watching her smear an entire group of kids to score political points. These kids deserve protection, they deserve care, and they deserve a government that doesn’t treat them like a wedge issue. #ableg ⬇️Read this today" Reply Bey Jackson: The negative effects and regret generally take some 8 to 10 years to materialize. I hope you will be there for your kid then. You think you are helping but you are 100% wrong.

One thing I've noticed from watching 'gender critical' activists is that consequences are always 10 years away, no matter when you ask them.

There's no study that shows that after 8 to 10 years trans people being to regret transition, of course.

This is based on nothing at all.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.

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same here!!

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

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there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!

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omg hello Christa!!! it’s been so long! how have u been? :))

well we aren't going to do better than this

This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing

36 years old today baby, wtf

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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NYT: Did Women Ruin the Workplace? by Ross Douthat, Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant.

"why can't you get a job, missy?"

The largest newspaper in America this morning:

I always wonder how folks like Krauss and Dawkins fail to feel any shame for betraying science and the academic enterprise more generally. Nate is probably right that it's just the huckster's temptation, only now selling resentment instead of snake oil.