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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 41m

Sean Penn's character in "One Battle After Another" was just Cotton Hill, short man complex, aggro weird walk and all.

"King of the Hill's" Dale Gribble and Cotton Hill.

Sean Penn as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in "One Battle After Another."

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 1h

Genuine question: When Trump describes the bombed out hellscapes of Portland and Chicago, has any reporter followed up to ask him specifically what images he has seen and where he saw them?

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 4h

"One Battle After Another" is a beautiful love letter to people who can't remember their passwords.

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 5h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5h

“Hoping that an album titled ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ will address America’s lurch into authoritarianism seems painfully unrealistic,” said Brian Donovan, a professor of sociology at the University of Kansas who teaches a course called “The Sociology of Taylor Swift.”

Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5h

Still, Swift is no Bruce Springsteen. Asking her for a biting social commentary, a “Born in the U.S.A.” or an “Atlantic City” was probably never in the cards. It takes a deft hand to say “there should be no billionaires” when you’re one of the most well-known billionaires around.

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5h

Wrote about Swifties' disillusionment with Taylor Swift's inability to read the room on "The Life of a Showgirl."

“I don’t expect celebrities to be political or foreign policy experts, but the past few months have felt like her only concern is selling us a plethora of vinyl variants," one fan said

Is Taylor Swift's New Album Bad Enough To Trigger Class Consciousness?

"The world is burning down, but your new album’s out and you won’t let us forget that there’s a new limited edition at Target."

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 1d

Thanks for sharing!

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Evolve Wellness Group @evolvewellness.bsky.social · 1d

When diet culture meets hormonal changes and ageism, it creates conditions for "menorexia" — but it often looks like wellness trends, making it easy to miss.

Bodies are meant to change.

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'Menorexia' Is Quietly Affecting Many Adults In Midlife— Here’s What Doctors Aren’t Telling You

Midlife adults are prone to this disorder, especially women.

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 1d

Internet should have stopped after this. Perfect internet.

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 1d

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 2d

Journo request! For a @huffpost.com story, I'm looking for Taylor Swift fans who think she failed to read the room w/TLOAS or who find the multiple variants distasteful when people are struggling to pay their bills.

If you wanna talk TS & class consciousness, email me: [email protected]!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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digitalscorpyun🦂 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 2d

The stereotype of the “ungrateful” or “always complaining” person of color is obviously harmful. In politics, it’s used to delegitimize the struggles and valid criticisms of marginalized communities.

www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-van...

JD Vance Keeps Demanding Certain People Show 'Gratitude' — And We Bet You Know What They Have In Common

The VP thinks some people really ought to appreciate America more. But that's not all there is to it.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 5d

I was lucky enough to get quoted in this piece on the VP and his "ingratitude" framing with respect to PoC...

Thank you @brittanywong.huffpost.com

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5d

Thanks for weighing in, Efrén!

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5d

The stereotype of the “ungrateful” POC is obviously harmful. In politics, it’s used to delegitimize the struggles and valid criticisms of marginalized communities.

“It’s consistent with a highly moralistic view of non-white others in this country as 'undeserving,'” said @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5d

From Zohran Mamdani to Joy Reid, Vice President JD Vance really thinks certain people need to show a "little gratitude" to the U.S.

It's worth paying attention to who he thinks is insufficiently grateful, professors who study race and poli sci told me today.

www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-van...

JD Vance Keeps Demanding Certain People Show 'Gratitude' — And We Bet You Know What They Have In Common

The VP thinks some people really ought to appreciate America more. But that's not all there is to it.

www.huffpost.com

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 5d

Wrote about the midlife crisis we don’t talk about enough: "menorexia," or eating disorders in your 40s onward

“Because diet culture is so normalized, behaviors often masquerade as ‘wellness,’ like meal skipping, excessive exercise routines, or restrictive dieting which makes them easy to overlook"

'Menorexia' Is Quietly Affecting Many Adults In Midlife— Here’s What Doctors Aren’t Telling You

Midlife adults are prone to this disorder, especially women.

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Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social · 6d

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 6d

YES! They were so sweet when I asked for a pic, too.

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 6d

Had to introduce myself when I ran into "Love on the Spectrum" ✨power couple✨ Abbey and David at the W Hollywood last night.

A rooftop photo of me and David and Abbey from the reality show "Love on the Spectrum."

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Kayin Dreemurr @kayindreemurr.bsky.social · 6d

"Schlafly joked about her balancing act and wifely subservience irking her opponents. “First of all, I want to thank my husband Fred, for letting me come — I always like to say that, because it makes the libs so mad!” she’s quoted as saying."

cons owning libs- older than ya think.

Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 7d

Wrote about how women in the conservative movement like Erika Kirk square their careers with their anti-feminist stay-at-home rhetoric.

www.huffpost.com/entry/erika-...

MAGA Christians Want Wives To Stay At Home — But There's An Ironic Hypocrisy

Influencers like Erika Kirk encourage wifely submission and stay-at-home motherhood while managing bustling careers.

www.huffpost.com

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 7d

I've been seeing ads for Friend all over LA and when I was there, NY, but I was too lazy to Google and figured it was some horror movie ad campaign. WORSE!

ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

A reminder that anything recorded on a device like this AI "friend" could be used against you — by hackers, private companies, or the government.

This technology isn't a friend, it's surveillance.

AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads | TechCrunch

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

techcrunch.com

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