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Staff Writer, Slate. It's all gonna work out this time.

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I wrote about the disorienting combination of pure evil and high camp that has defined Trump’s Iran adventure thus far.

06.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump Has Decided How to Sell America on His War. It’s As Surreal As It Is Disturbing. I can’t believe we have to watch these people sell a war now.

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06.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I wrote about the disorienting combination of pure evil and high camp that has defined Trump’s Iran adventure thus far.

06.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I assume the calculus for tapping Markwayne Mullin is you have to pick someone stupid enough to get excited about a job offer phone call from Donald Trump; someone who, in their excitement, does not consider how 2 years as DHS head under a lame duck is 100x worse than being a Senator in a safe seat

05.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Couldn’t Understand Why My Boyfriend Suddenly Dumped Me. Then It Hit Meβ€”the Girl in the Cult. At certain thresholds in the hierarchy, they're granted magic wands.

For Slate's breakup week, I interviewed a woman whose boyfriend dumped her for a girl in a cult.

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05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The AI editor in Gmail can fuck off. One of the worst features ever introduced by anyone. "We think our users would like it if we're constantly telling them to add a preposition or switch a word choice." No! Go to tell! Why is everything like this now!

03.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

They can kill the Kennedys but they can’t get β€œCartoons & Cereal” on Spotify.

26.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No it doesn't!!!

25.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Last week I went to Arizona to take in the media circus surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. It left me feeling pretty gross about the true crime ecosystem.

23.02.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Nancy Guthrie Case Is Haunting. So Is What I Just Saw Outside Her House. No one knows what happened. That explains what's unfolding just north of Tucson.

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Last week I went to Arizona to take in the media circus surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. It left me feeling pretty gross about the true crime ecosystem.

23.02.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I wrote about Dark Woke, which once seemed like a joke but is now rounding into a legitimate electoral force.

12.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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A New Version of Woke Is Coming. Conservatives Aren’t Going to Like It. Liberals are getting meaner. It's all part of the plan.

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I wrote about Dark Woke, which once seemed like a joke but is now rounding into a legitimate electoral force.

12.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Sometimes I think about what it must have felt like in the studio when someone got the idea to play the strings backwards on the second verse in Britney Spears – Toxic.

10.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is great news

10.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bad Bunny mogged the competition in ways that are almost inconceivable

09.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am thirty four years old and I think the new xaviersobased album is "good"

08.02.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kirk Cousins

02.02.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Old-School Pizza Chain Is Fast Becoming a Cultural Obsession. I Spent a Day at One to Find Out Why. People travel from all over for the gleeful novelty of pizza ordered from real menus, served by real people, and eaten off checkered tablecloths.

"The upshot is a promotional tactic that transforms Pizza Hut into something close to a secular shrineβ€”Shangri-La for Americans looking to nourish their inner child."

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02.02.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

king...

02.02.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I want to get this framed. Legitimately one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about my writing.

02.02.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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I went to one of the last remaining old-school, sit-down Pizza Huts in America and wrote 3,000 words about a pervading sense of national decline.

31.01.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

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I went to one of the last remaining old-school, sit-down Pizza Huts in America and wrote 3,000 words about a pervading sense of national decline.

31.01.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

will stancil doing elbow drops off the top rope

30.01.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pro Wrestling Has a New Kind of Supervillain. Even Fans Can’t Believe Who It Is. Under new leadership after Vince McMahon, WWE itself is playing the heel.

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30.01.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Turned in my once-a-year wrestling blog. This one is about how WWE has been just generally bumming me out lately.

30.01.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The constant zoomer literacy panic makes me want millennials to stand together and admit that they, in college, also Didn't Do The Reading. I never did the reading guys. We exist... This isn't *that* new of a thing...

30.01.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who flirted with a "George W. Bush was a worse president than Donald Trump" position for a while, I am prepared to admit that was cope, and I was hilariously wrong.

24.01.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0