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Glinda spent the whole second movie trying to get her friend to give up her fight against injustice, because she liked being liked. Great songs. Terrible character.

“Ronaldo’s presence in the White House is unsettling but hardly surprising, given that the Trump administration is overflowing with men who have been accused of assault, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., and Trump”

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Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

Well, it’s gotten her a big book deal and a Vanity Fair job. We find it repulsive but she’s being rewarded for it, and the other journalists are finding ways to make what she did seem cool and transgressive instead of disqualifying.

She’s living out her dreams of being a celebrity — and it’s hard to believe that she wasn’t secretly giddy when the news of her and RFK Jr. broke, since she immediately started turning it into a book.

The funny thing about Nuzzi’s writing about these powerful people who make themselves into stars, their delusions and their egos, is that you can tell that she’s relishing being the center of attention because now she gets to be a star as well. The book as a whole project is about making her one.

You should never feel imposter syndrome about being a writer ever again

Infantino has to go. He’s sold the game to cozy up to Trump and whatever dictator pats him on the head. Somehow makes Blatter look like a man of courage.

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Ronaldo who has stayed from US since 2017 now set to get red carpet treatment: White House visit with Donald Trump on day when paymaster Saudi Arabia and its leader Mohammed bin Salman also meeting Trump at Oval. Vivid Ronaldo's relationship with Saudi extends well beyond football.

They do say birds of a feather…

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Trump is so good at gathering all the worst people together

She used to be so publicly racist

I find that desperate need that people have to make their existence worthwhile by finding and linking it to some idea that makes them supposedly superior to others just absolutely pathetic. That is one of the worst weaknesses in my eyes. It shows a lack of refinement of the mind and the spirit.

It’s nonsensical to even engage with because to accept the argument about hierarchy is already to lose but the question I always have for people is, why do you badly need to find a reason to feel superior to someone else? Why is your worldview held together by these kinds of ideas?

I think Moira also points out how this happens with liberal / leftist men when it comes to women and gender — where they suddenly talk and behave like the men of the right because they see women as lesser / subservient even using the right jargon. Shit like that is so childish and stupid to me.

If you subscribe to racist beliefs, or bigotry in general, and the hierarchy of human beings based on whatever pseudoscience or twist of logic that provides you with the “evidence” you need to believe in a natural superiority, I can’t help but think that you’re incredibly stupid.

It feels like racism for liberals is seen like an edgy / unfortunate opinion. Especially when it comes to the media and literary world. It might have been Malcolm Harris who said that bigotry is disqualifying on a foundational level, which I agreed with. I can’t take the person seriously after.

Funny that he just stood there and let the lineman get pushed into him

Stepping back from these policies and getting rid of McSweeney would not be enough.

Under Starmer's leadership, the government has eagerly embraced cruelty and racism as its animating energy.

This is disgusting and unforgivable and he, as the leader, has disgraced himself and the Labour party.

She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.

Unfortunately, Tom was so right

Wild that I helped launch (I’m the editor) an art magazine with friends and managed to get some spectacular people to be profiled in it

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I don’t think any of this is true. Far be it for me to defend the Times, but it’s just depicting the particular New York that they existed in — the now closed places, the power over print media, the particular power brokers that were friendly to him. It’s not mourning that time, just depicting it.

For a big sports brand, they don’t understand sports

It’s so embarrassing but there’s no standards or consequences anymore.

It’s not about comparing resumes, it’s about you not reading and understanding a simple article with studies showing that lots of screen time has an adverse effect on children’s development. I was trying to be nicer but I can repeat what I said.

There’s quite a lot of studies that back that