"ha ha bitches, I got a new scooter" is a Top 20 line of the 21st century

To those in the know, this reads like some dude gets introduced to kpop through New Jeans and thinks he can talk about an entire industry, and falls into the same fandom trap of blindly glazing this group and their creative director (she does not produce the music). This writer is lost in the sauce.

Just rereading the article, and apparently the reporter has found an English Korean source! Bravo! Maybe cherrypicking from it to gas up a woman who tried ruining five girls' careers (not to mention two other groups) for her own profit was not a good idea? Don't fit the news to conform to your beat.

What is playing out in the court system in Korea is nowhere in this article. There are even English sources from Korea about the case, so there truly is no excuse for why nobody in the west is doing due diligence. I can suggest a few to your reporters if you like, if they can't find them themselves.

New Jeans is not trying to change kpop. Nothing to do with the "evils of kpop", either. The group also wasn't benched—they benched themselves to temporarily follow a Svengali-like woman who desires complete control over them. Even now that two members have gone back, she still wants the last word.

Came here to see if others were calling out this piece, because it was so bad, it startled me. Why is western journalism allergic to doing actual due diligence around this case? This article has nothing to do with the actual New Jeans case and I'm so baffled by the lack of facts in it.

❌ let's get that bread
❌ let's get that cheddar
✅ let's get that cheesy bread

He has never acted rationally. But rational people kept constructing rational edifices to explain his behavior.

Acyn on Twitter, sharing a video of Elon Musk in Wisconsin. Musk responds to being heckled: it was inevitable at least a few Soros operatives would be in the audience. Give my regards to George. Say hi to George for me.

“Anyone Who Doesn’t Like Me Works for George Soros: An Airhead Rightwinger’s Guide to Political Debate”

This is how you accurately report on creepy racist scumbag JD Vance and his spouse Usha’s embarrassing unwanted trip to Greenland. Well done.

Republicans pretend to want “small government,” but the second they get power, they crown a self-proclaimed king and let him rule unchecked.

Recently engaged, beloved barber arrested by ICE | How his immigration story is questioning the system Rodney Taylor, a Georgia barber, has been pursuing permanent residency for years. Now, he faces deportation to Liberia despite being in the U.S. since childhood.

Rodney Taylor is a beloved Georgia barber who came to the United States from Liberia with his mother when he was only two years old. He applied for citizenship but was denied. But this year, ICE arrested him, locked him up, and has scheduled him to be deported to a faraway country he's never known.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Venezuela minister says no Tren de Aragua members among US deportees Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Friday that none of the hundreds of Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison is a member of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua criminal gang, the reason Washington gave for expelling them.

Unsurprisingly, the men deported without due process, evidence, or criminal charges were not gang members; rather, their "crime" was existing while brown-skinned and being born in Venezuela.
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this is where the analogy to Brexit is really useful. A similar attitude that the US is completely self-sufficient and needs nothing from anyone. Too bad a lot of innocent people are gonna find out the hard way that this isn’t true.

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.

"As the pandemic unfolded, though, it became clear that the coronavirus did indeed spread through airborne transmission—even if the WHO took more than a year and a half to officially describe the coronavirus as a long-range airborne pathogen."

Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...

NEW from me -
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Ninth Week Eventually, the disaster that was unfolding rapidly will begin to feel like it is unfolding slowly, but you must not allow this change of pace to distract you from the fact that the disaster is sti…

Will these cuts
make people suffer?
Yes, these cuts
will make people suffer.
But by this point,
in the ongoing pandemic,
most of us
have become quite good
at ignoring suffering people.

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We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys.

We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

This is so cool. I love living like this. I think we should run the country like a lonely and confused 74yo's Facebook feed—same concerns, same level of attention to detail, same approach to problem-solving.

There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before

This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Rep Kevin Hern—scared to say anything against Trump.

The obvious—if Zelenskyy were a dictator, Trump would love him like he loves Putin.

Glad to see folks in Oklahoma calling him out. Even small town halls matter right now. Don’t let them off the hook. Keep calling, emailing, and confronting them.

Could make a really great joke about federal employees responding to the five bullets email by responding with a list of calibers, but I would never be that gauche

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

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“AI Chatbot, what’s the most shameless exploitation of a conflict of interest? I mean, yet.”