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Jenn Gidman
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I use words and take pictures. I made two kids. I like bonfires.
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Private equity getting involved in surrogate births, I'm sure that's gonna turn out great
The booming surrogacy industry is a new target of private-equity and other investors, but it’s largely unregulated, leaving the women who give birth with few financial or legal protections.
Surrogacy Is a Multibillion-Dollar Business—but Surrogates Can Be Left With Big Debts
The booming fertility industry is largely unregulated, leaving the women giving birth with few financial or legal protections.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Me, a MAGA (having just splattered diarrhea all over your living room and kitchen): oh well if you hate it here so much, leave
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Was at the liquor store earlier today, and... what
December 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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My great great grandfather on my mother's side fought for the Union in the US Civil War, and survived Antietam by hiding in a pile of corpses. Americans fantasizing about another one have no idea what it would be like
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As Alfonsi (or maybe someone else, forget where I saw it now) says: The government’s initial silence was a comment, not a veto
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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this brief wtf moment i had at my mother-in-law’s house three christmases ago is my most impactful contribution to society
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The US government’s propaganda machine is almost all wrapped up
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"

Before (left), after (right)
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Fuck I finally figured it out
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me, every time Cheryl Hines starts crying publicly how Larry David probably doesn't like her anymore and she can't understand why people are being mean to her and Bobby www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
THE BEST. IS YET. TO COME (gets shipped off to Greece, never to be seen again)
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump raping and being an openly proud sex pest in general toward women is awful, but this tic is baked into his personality, so most of the intellectuals on the right will simply ignore it and focus on policy
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These VF pics tho lmao (giving real “Kent Dorfman on the frat house movie screen” vibes)
December 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It really felt heavier than usual today
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
December 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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at this point I think it’s fair to say that the Bills have a kink. and I think it’s perfectly healthy to switch from sub to dom with a partner
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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This is true. We chatted publicly on Twitter in early covid days and he was utterly baffled that he couldn't go to big gatherings with people and that everyone in NYC was wearing masks. "I don't get why I need to care about this" was right below the surface.
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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My little brother, staring through the window: it snowed out

Me: yeah, I know

My little brother: ….

Me: ….

My little brother: ….

Me: ….

My little brother: ….

Me: ….

My little brother: please let me in
December 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM