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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 10h

Pete Hegseth’s New Pentagon Press Policy Is a Miserable Failure

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Pete Hegseth’s New Pentagon Press Policy Is a Miserable Failure

Even the Defense secretary’s former employer, Fox News, is balking at the new restrictions.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 11h

Me if I run into Margaret Qualley in the South End this week

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Robert Orthman @robertorthman.bsky.social · 13h

TFW you confuse downtown Foxborough with downtown Boston

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 14h

Bari Weiss Still Thinks It’s 2020

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Bari Weiss Still Thinks It’s 2020

She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 14h

Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on #HigherEd

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Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 16h

#Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point.

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Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point

Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them—and it might be working.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 18h

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

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Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 18h

Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money #DOGE Cut

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Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 18h

@bostonlegacyfc.com lands TJ Maxx as jersey sponsor

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#NWSL

Boston Legacy FC signs T.J. Maxx as front-of-kit sponsor

T.J. Maxx’s activation of its first-ever club-level sponsorship will focus largely on players’ off-the-pitch style, including through content highlighting players’ stadium entrance outfits.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 19h

Diane Keaton’s Face Told The Story

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Diane Keaton's Face Told The Story | Defector

Actresses are often tasked with doing a lot with just a little. There is no way around the fact that most movies are written by men, for men, about men, and as a result women usually figure into them ...

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 19h

The #GirlDad Movie Canon

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The Girl Dad Movie Canon

Among many things, ‘One Battle After Another’ joins a rich tradition that deserves exploring

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 19h

#Titanic Producer Jon Landau Reveals How Close the Film Came to Disaster (Exclusive Excerpt)

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‘Titanic’ Producer Jon Landau Reveals How Close the Film Came to Disaster (Exclusive Excerpt)

In ‘The Bigger Picture’ (out Nov. 4), the late producer details his working relationship with James Cameron, Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Titanic’ doubts and the first test screening that turned things around.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll say what no one else has the guts to say:

Heat? Good movie.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 1d

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ has built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt.

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They Got to Live a Life of Luxury. Then Came the Fine Print.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 1d

The US government shutdown is putting a damper on tourists in the nation's capital

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DC Tourists Frustrated by Museum Closures as Shutdown Persists

Daniel Claxton arrived in Washington over the weekend with his family to see all the highlights of the nation’s capital. But the government shutdown is putting a damper on the trip.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible credit work in the John Candy doc

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 2d

These refs seem extremely confused on every single play

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 3d

Trumpworld Goes to War Over Nobel Peace Prize Loss

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Trumpworld Goes to War Over Nobel Peace Prize Loss

The White House and Trump allies are attacking the Nobel Committee, which gave Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado this year’s prize.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Ross Sorkin pieced together forgotten diaries and letters to reveal the Shakespearean characters behind the 1929 financial crash—and how they set the stage for Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk

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Andrew Ross Sorkin on the Shakespearean Characters Behind the 1929 Financial Crash

"You could admire them, you could loathe them, sometimes both in the same breath."

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 3d

Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 4d

Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon

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Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 4d

Bravo, MIT! More of this, please.

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#highered

MIT Rejects Trump Compact Promising Preferred Federal Access

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology rejected a proposed offer from the Trump administration that calls for universities to accept a series of demands in exchange for preferential access to feder...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 5d

#TheChairCompany Is a Rich Text for Tim Robinson Sickos

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The Chair Company Is a Rich Text for Tim Robinson Sickos

The new HBO series burrows into the comedian’s fixations in ways that may not always be hilarious but are reliably fascinating.

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HeyRatty @heyratty.bsky.social · 5d

American Gulag | The brutal rollout of Trump’s police state

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American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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