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Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.
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CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.
Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.
Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
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‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
September 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
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In the event of nuclear war the only survivors will be cockroaches and James Milner.
August 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the event of nuclear war the only survivors will be cockroaches and James Milner.
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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BREAKING: Lucie Connolly has lamented that free speech is diminishing in the UK because you can't even call for buildings to be burnt down with innocent people inside them without being held accountable 😭😭😭
August 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BREAKING: Lucie Connolly has lamented that free speech is diminishing in the UK because you can't even call for buildings to be burnt down with innocent people inside them without being held accountable 😭😭😭
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“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.”
President John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy
August 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.”
President John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked
Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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If history is any guide, fake emergencies are intended to lead to real crackdowns.
June 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If history is any guide, fake emergencies are intended to lead to real crackdowns.
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Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol.
Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office.
Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.
Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office.
Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.
June 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol.
Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office.
Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.
Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office.
Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
June 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
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Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
June 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
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![@ChuckWendig honestly do you blame it
New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
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Ronnie Wood joined the Rolling Stones 50 years ago today. I still consider him the new guy.
May 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ronnie Wood joined the Rolling Stones 50 years ago today. I still consider him the new guy.
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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
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This is a welcoming account 🏳️🌈
April 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is a welcoming account 🏳️🌈
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Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."
April 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."
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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’