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What Is My Senator Good For? | Defector My gargantuan senator is throwing a hissy fit. According to reporting by the Associated Press, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman attended a meeting last week with representatives for a teachers union, ...

What is my senator good for? defector.com/what-is-my-s...

12.05.2025 20:16 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

literary fiction is crazy. i’ll be like β€œwhat’s that book about” and the answer is β€œa guy”

03.02.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 685 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Need To Get Off The Internet | Defector I will admit, there was a point at the start of New York Magazineβ€˜s profile of the jubilant young Trumper right when I started to get nervous. The article opens on Inauguration Day, depicting a party ...

"If a better world is possible, away from petty bigots [...] who have hijacked social and political culture, surely that world will exist not on our phones but outside, in the sunshine and under the moon, celebrating life in its direct and unmediated fullness."

defector.com/we-need-to-g...

29.01.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
Sketchy pen-and-ink portraits of three men

Sketchy pen-and-ink portraits of three men

When you see drawings like this you know the New York Times has just talked to a group of huge dipshits

16.01.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 2203 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 36
David Lynch as John Ford
David Lynch as John Ford YouTube video by spiritstereo

youtu.be/POgWODZyUGQ?...

16.01.2025 18:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My resolution this year (and every year) is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

31.12.2024 16:11 πŸ‘ 2170 πŸ” 336 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 17

Why do I get so many people tweeting as their cats in my feed

10.12.2024 12:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
New York Times Breaking News push alert that reads: A former Marine who choked a homeless man on a New York City subway train last year was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.

New York Times Breaking News push alert that reads: A former Marine who choked a homeless man on a New York City subway train last year was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.

A New York Times Breaking News push alert that says: A man is being held for questioning in Pennsylvania in last week’s killing of a health insurance C.E.O., officials briefed on the case said.

A New York Times Breaking News push alert that says: A man is being held for questioning in Pennsylvania in last week’s killing of a health insurance C.E.O., officials briefed on the case said.

The operative principle is not that political violence is not allowed. It is that it is allowed only by some actors, for some ends, and forbidden to others.

09.12.2024 16:50 πŸ‘ 1493 πŸ” 431 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 12

maybe it’s just me but I think I’d be more comfortable sometimes riding in a subway car with a homeless man than I am knowing you can apparently be choked to death by a stranger and have the law say they were justified because you were making them anxious or something.

09.12.2024 16:49 πŸ‘ 530 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Wasssup bluesky

07.12.2024 03:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cinematrix @vulture!

11.11.2024 12:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0