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“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

Yeah, that’s the point

this man's gonna be a Republican in two years

You're worth the trouble, Valentine. To: From:

Conservatives simply believe we should all be having a lot of sex and babies, but there should be zero impact to the culture. It’s very funny.

Steven Pinker ® @sapinker • Follow I have no relationship with Epstein & have taken no funding from him. Our circles have occasionally overlapped: In 02, my lit agent invited me to join a group of east-coast TED speakers Epstein flew to CA. In 14, Krauss seated me next to him at a lunch, & someone snapped a photo. 11:09 PM • Jul 10, 2019 from Provincetown, N C

Pinker, Steven <Pinker, Steven> to Lesley Groff Mar 28, 2012 5:47 PM star_border Dear Unfortunately I'm out of town that day, but if Jeffrey is around on Monday the 16th, I'll be back and would be delighted to meet with him. Best, Steve

Okay then

One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites.
Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous

President Zelensky presented Heraskevytch with a civil honor this evening in Munich. Immediate national hero.

Oh for god sakes Newsom

Kid with his fist back to punch someone for saying they like ice

When I say I stand on business this what I mean.

At some point these would become concentration camps. And if Stephen Miller gets his way they’ll become so overcrowded and the conditions will get so bad that they start teetering in the direction of death camps.

Omg, this is beyond psychotic. The level of dehumanizing hatred you must feel towards someone to do this to children is jaw-dropping.

This is the sort of stuff that requires truth and reconciliation tribunals—there’s no crime here, but it demands public accountability.

may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]

Mike Tyson once said the best punch he ever threw was the one he knocked his wife out with.

So yeah I think this administration actually does think that.

Self defense. That warehouse was an out of control lunatic and was a threat to public safety.

that pales in comparison to my strategy: wine moms firebombing a concentration warehouse

Just imagine being the kind of person who would build your personal security detail on the bones of dead women and children around the world.

Another headline to rewrite: "Money meant for starving children used to provide security theater escorts for OMB Director."

Arnaud is, as has long been known, a fucking idiot, but this is a surprisingly common delusion about Chinese history, as is the idea that it was consistently 'religiously tolerant.' Religious politics were extremely intense, and persecution of disliked sects common.

I knew it was bad but this is just astounding. There is nothing organic about any of this. It's an engineered moral panic artificially imposed from the top. Of course, that doesn't make the harm done any less real.

Jesus…

About time

FINALLY METAL GEAR SOLID 4

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States.

a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.

In a reality-based world this would force a stated change in news outlets' policies not to ever use the phrase "DHS says" until their claim can be proven independently, but journalists' pro-police bias ("why would they lie, they have badges") remains a reliably strong constant in regime coverage

heh heh

heh heh heh even

also a lot of this is full of florid 'Dear Jeffrey, as ever your sparkling wit is an inspiration' stuff for a couple of paragraphs and the reply will be like 'yes'