maura johnston
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· Aug 22
Donate to Nuno Needs Your Help for Recovery, organized by Ivy Nelson
Dear Friends,
My friend Maura Johnston's beloved cat Nuno was recently diagnosed with… Ivy Nelson needs your support for Nuno Needs Your Help for Recovery
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my incredible friend ivy set this up to help nuno. i have reached the max reimbursement from my pet insurance and we still have radiation to go. if you can help i will be so very grateful. if not. just your thoughts are appreciated. thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/nuno-needs...
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"You can do hard things!" yeah but I don't want to. I just want to chill.
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"You can do hard things!" yeah but I don't want to. I just want to chill.
finally more movies for men www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
finally more movies for men www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
ok back to watching wrestling, which is way more edifying than reading hanania (and pretty much every right wing commentator tbh)
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
ok back to watching wrestling, which is way more edifying than reading hanania (and pretty much every right wing commentator tbh)
richard hanania is trash.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
richard hanania is trash.
kyle o’reilly’s theme is so good, i love that grimy bass riff @mikeyrukus.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
kyle o’reilly’s theme is so good, i love that grimy bass riff @mikeyrukus.bsky.social
go birds
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
go birds
men who refer to women as “females” stay losing
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
men who refer to women as “females” stay losing
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can we bring the #princefood game over here to celebrate cc @susanshepard.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
can we bring the #princefood game over here to celebrate cc @susanshepard.com
“blinged-out”?
Shawn McCreesh is guilty of many crimes, but his jokey smarminess and mixed metaphors are foremost among them.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“blinged-out”?
well! that lana reference in the times piece from what seems like ages ago now has deeper relevance
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
well! that lana reference in the times piece from what seems like ages ago now has deeper relevance
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
imagine rfk jr reading his love poem out loud
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
imagine rfk jr reading his love poem out loud
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The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
“her book, a grafting of her own crisis onto the current national maladies, one attempted in the spirit of Joan Didion, and so close to its apparent source of inspiration that the cruelties of the Santa Ana winds are invoked at least three times.” ooooof www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
In This Scandal, the Journalists Are the Story
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“her book, a grafting of her own crisis onto the current national maladies, one attempted in the spirit of Joan Didion, and so close to its apparent source of inspiration that the cruelties of the Santa Ana winds are invoked at least three times.” ooooof www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
haha eat it elise
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
haha eat it elise
this is my new favorite series on tiktok. so many opportunities to ask “… but why?” www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdJFsLP/
Part 4 | Shopping at Marshalls be like… @Marshalls #wlw #shopping
TikTok video by Kay & Jules
www.tiktok.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
this is my new favorite series on tiktok. so many opportunities to ask “… but why?” www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdJFsLP/
the donkey kong characters have a way better flow than the 12 stones guy tbh
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
the donkey kong characters have a way better flow than the 12 stones guy tbh
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I dunno, it feels weird to tell students to use this tech, even “the good one,” when it has zero guardrails and isn’t optimized for research, to say nothing of also filing copyright claims against its developer. Just feels weird.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I dunno, it feels weird to tell students to use this tech, even “the good one,” when it has zero guardrails and isn’t optimized for research, to say nothing of also filing copyright claims against its developer. Just feels weird.
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Stop laying off copy editors and then complaining about errors and lack of reader trust challenge
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Stop laying off copy editors and then complaining about errors and lack of reader trust challenge
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"When either laws or customs degrade, when the body politic begins to drift toward corruption, the only recourse — if the people hope to preserve a republic — is to build new institutions and with them new ways of political life." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"When either laws or customs degrade, when the body politic begins to drift toward corruption, the only recourse — if the people hope to preserve a republic — is to build new institutions and with them new ways of political life." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
they’re going to reinvent the clarion computer but make its output even more wrong
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
they’re going to reinvent the clarion computer but make its output even more wrong