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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

This whole Nazi tattoo dude in the Senate nonsense is revealing of a lot of white folks. Oh your friends have Nazi tattoos too? Oh it doesn't bother you at all? Oh your whole crew you been rolling with has them & y'all are all perfectly democratic? Fascinating. Taking notes.

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The Stranger Things PR team after listening to Lily Allen’s new album:

Also, junior year is no joke. The amount of work she’s putting in is … a lot.

The 16 year old is learning the hard lesson that group projects suck even when you’re surrounded by the “smart kids.” There’s always someone who flakes.

All titled “I Was Secretly Working Against Him, Honest!”

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

When will I learn that Tundé’s classes are not for me? Not today, apparently.

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I lost my job, the price of groceries is way up, my gardener was deported, and they canceled funding for the experimental cancer treatment that was my only chance to live another year. But at least my damn neighbor is afraid to wear a keffiyeh now.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

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Seems to have been intense but brief. Quiet night. Only the 13 year old is awake, and he’s mad that I won’t let him go to school. The 16 year old, on the other hand, will be mad that I make her go tomorrow.

I have so much vacation time to use up, I’m not working Fridays for the rest of the year.

I don’t remember how to do this. I mean, at least they can both hit a receptacle? That certainly helps.

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Welp. Neither kid will be attending school tomorrow.

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Gabe came home early from school today with what appears to be norovirus. It has been making the rounds at school. We haven’t had it rip through our house since Lia was in early elementary school. I’m wholly unprepared for what’s about to hit us. Sent Nathan for supplies.

Exactly. All minutes that I have are not the same.

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That feeling when your entire family likes the dinner you made.

I'm old enough to remember when parents groups put warning stickers on CDs because they worried suggestive lyrics might lead to anything from drug use to teen sex to suicide.

But if a robot explicitly takes you through the steps rather than a subtle Judas Priest lyric, I guess it's okay.

I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.

Pets to the rescue! Meet Mabel. She’s having some feelings about the world.

“The department declined to answer questions about whether the donor is an American citizen or a foreign national.” Jesus Fucking Christ

In L.A., when much of Altadena burned there were at least protocols for limiting further spread of heavy metals and asbestos by wrapping & covering debris before hauling it.

Are contractors doing _any_ of that here? You can see golfers standing right beside clouds of dust from unloading trucks!

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

y'all gotta see this clip where ESPN abruptly deleted the EPSN Bet promo by ripping off the whole bottom bar live because of what they're talking about

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal

I’m literally sharing bankruptcy and suicide statistics with my 13 year old in the hopes that he doesn’t fall down this particular rabbit hole. Apparently it is a significant problem for college aged boys/men.