Nat Purser
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To summarize: the Red Hen owner was worried that her staff (who were LGBTQ, migrants, etc) would feel uncomfortable in serving Sanders. She gave them the option, & they said they wanted Sanders to leave. She spoke to her privately and asked her to go. That is brave and exemplary.
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probably too generous but Theo Von is one of the few folks I grade on a slight curve because i really do think he’s a bit Simple.
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i will say this. you have to know when you’ve milked a bit for all it’s worth.
my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 83
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one of my more striking memories from visiting Florence + Siena last year is being in the most gorgeous places i’d ever seen, and talking to young locals who’d say stuff like “you’re from the US? i’m so jealous. i’d do anything to get out of here.”.
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alamo drafthouse is the last place where law and order is still enforced. i saw them actually kick a guy out for texting for the first 5 mins of a movie … no refund … exquisite.
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Sarah has the most powerful comms job in the country, and let’s face it—she’s not being held accountable by anyone in her personal or professional life. There have to be social penalties for flagrant bigots, or else we get Spicer speaking at awards ceremonies 😐.
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She protected her staff by enforcing that decision personally, she stated her reasoning behind it, and she made sure Sarah personally felt the humiliation for her choices. Class act.
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“i feel like i’ve finally gotten a handle on the german and russian and american sides so, i think my 90’s will be about … figuring out what the japanese were up to”. - my grandpa, budding WWII scholar, 91 today
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we love an understated pope … works at “iglesia católica” indeed
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today is a good day to text someone you have an ambiguous relationship with “can i ask you something?”.
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i told this older academic i know that i think biden may drop soon and he immediately emailed me a 3 paged pdf called “transforming the race in 10 days” that outlines a roadmap to victory for Harris and said “are you in”.
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my timeline:. 65 yr old former professor: “yeah that’s right Mr Drumpf — NOBODY is above the law”. gif enthusiasts: “ladies and gentlemen … we got him.gif”. always confused guy: “does anyone know if this actually changes anything?” . YIMBY guy: “we need to build more housing”.
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@sam_d_1995 looks like her two most frequented … locales as a travel journalist are disney world and cruises so i mean,.
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crazy. an NLRB whistleblower who shared concerns about DOGE’s activities with government officials was subjected to attempted blackmail and/or surveillance, likely by DOGE staff, in retaliation.
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hm. i feel the same way about her recent success as i did when i heard Red Notice, that Dwayne the Rock / Gal Gadot made-for-Netflix movie, broke streaming records. a significant part of the country is concealed from me ….
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just looking at some of the comments here — it’s a major political problem for the left that many of us cannot fathom people finding America a desirable, or even just preferable (!), place to live lol.
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someone recently joked that that i text like a boomer bc i use boomer ellipses … and maybe at one point it was ironic, but now that i understand their immense power to evoke intrigue, ambivalence ….
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don’t let empty platitudes distract you from the blood on people’s hands
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dc is a fun place to live because you’ll meet these authoritarive and influential twitter personalities who command large followings and irl, they’re invariably weird little guys. like the guy who repeats a joke three times to make sure people heard it.
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my timeline:. 65 yr old former professor: “THANK YOU for saving the republic Mr. President”. gif enthusiasts: “wediditjoe.gif”. always confused guy: “so wait are we having an open convention or are we just running with kamala”. YIMBY guy: “we need to build more housing”.
my timeline:. 65 yr old former professor: “yeah that’s right Mr Drumpf — NOBODY is above the law”. gif enthusiasts: “ladies and gentlemen … we got him.gif”. always confused guy: “does anyone know if this actually changes anything?” . YIMBY guy: “we need to build more housing”.
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i find a lot of the “loneliness epidemic” dialogue deeply overstated / confused, but what’s worse is how myopic it is. it’s all about kids using chatgpt for therapy and not about, for example, the loneliness of seniors in nursing homes or bedridden disabled people.
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i like how ny, sf, dc, and la have their own distinctive sets of brain worms.
to me, the greatest sadness of all is the banality of most people's lives. i'll spend time with my non-elite friends, and it's clear that their lives are devoid of heroism and lore. they lock in/clock in, but they fight no great battles, they dash no great foes. they drop by a.
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i’ve said this for a while, but trump has that extremely low-grade, old guy homophobia where you sort of regard gay people as oddities, and maybe even amusing, but ultimately benign.
It's wild to me that Trump is pretty ambivalent towards gay people.
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they’re both clearly smart people, but i view Cremieux and Hanania as some of the most dangerous actors on here. v capable of high level sophistry with a veneer of rationalist lib neutrality, all while being deeply dogmatic and cognitively distorted by prejudice.
So it turns out the person running this account and accusing mainstream behavioral geneticists of fraud was actually one of the authors of the discredited Pesta at al. paper that was being criticized. Pretending to be an objective third party so they could sling mud.
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I’m seeing so many takes about Cat Person that revolve around Margot being “selfish” and “vapid”. 1) why are we demanding perfect 20 yr old female protagonists? . 2) maybe don’t bemoan the *selfishness* of a young woman who had sex because she felt it would be rude NOT to.
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if you’re starting to experience that thing where even a glass of wine or two will have you paying penance the next morning, can you …. unflip that switch.
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Also: if you enjoyed these tweets and you agree with my politics, you should follow my girl @RepLipton because she’s a female candidate who’s fighting against Trump’s bigotry ✊🏻.
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dc entering “2 showers a day” territory in early may is so diabolical.
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@OsitaNwanevu @credenzaclear2 sources close to the president have noted a new “babygirl” and “uwu” quality to the president.
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Hillary Duff joins the ranks of T Swift and Amy Schumer in the "most tone deaf to privilege and racism" competition.
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me: “some people in italy seem to want to move to the US”. non-italian europeans in my dms:
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topics of conversation where, if someone fixates on them, i’m like “hm ok good to know”:. - Luigi Mangione .- COVID (whether on the denialist or alarmist side).- IQ.- circumcision .- Richard Epstein.- “we could fix all our problems with better social studies / history classes”.
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do ya ever see a piece designed to bring out the worst corners of the internet.
The West Village has transformed into a fabulous theme park for young women of some privilege to live out their 'Sex and the City' fantasies, posting and spending their mid-20s away. Read @BrockColyar's cover story on the West Village Girl:
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got this text from a good friend who works at a cancer research hospital re: the cuts to NIH. seems deeply at odds with any pro-innovation / human flourishing agenda.
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@phillyliquorlaw i’m not really debating it’s ongoing potential for virality / engagement, clearly there’s an audience for it, but imo such posting is lazy. bits should be a limited series, not 8 seasons.
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@i_zzzzzz tbh i think the only reason she’s mostly gotten away with it is that she really committed to doing it for YEARS (?!), even amid criticism, so at a certain pt it was like well. what are u gonna do.
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one of the few problems with embracing the supply side, yimby-lib brand is that 200 men feel safe confiding in u with this precise thought every day
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This is v specific but I need to know if I’m ALONE, so: does anyone else like eggs, but occasionally feel super queasy and weird when you eat them?.
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regarding Aella as an intellectual, in any way shape or form, is the ultimate pseud signal. sends shivers down my spine hearing someone bring her up.
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I swear some evangelicals drink a lil cold brew and get a couple tattoos and think they ain’t homophobic anymore lol.
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I was watching the Kim Kardashian clip from Kimmel, and she said something interesting (that I’ve heard before): “for Kanye, it’s not about Trump’s policies—it’s about personality. His defying the odds”. Uneducated, patriarchal voters are the easiest prey for strongmen types.
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there is no reason you should be wearing shirts with sexual innuendo / messaging / imagery on it in public ever. tbh probably in private too.
sorry but that's also not what the shirt is saying. the shirt is saying creep who will make women uncomfortable
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@postmodernism69 it’s a similar deal to regional fetishization in the US; very easy to romanticize small town life if you’re not living there full time and experiencing its constraints.
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Hullo guys, here’s a little story. So, I was out canvassing for my candidate, and I knocked on a 94 yr old woman’s door. She answered and promptly said she voted for Ellen, but she isn’t a Democrat. I joked that we could use Republican votes too and she said “no—I’m a communist!”.
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pretty revealing talking point from JD Vance re: his chief concerns with immigration. it’s not job competition / wage suppression, not rule of law stuff, it’s a persistent belief that immigration accelerates societal breakdown.
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one time i swiped on a guy whose bio was “it’s exciting that every person is just as complex as you are” just because it was such a welcome departure from this frame of mind.
Finding a sentient person literally feels like receiving a radio signal from deep space.
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seeing a lot of completely hallucinatory takes re: “Harris should have focused on pocketbook issues instead of divisive culture wars” uh yes. that was the playbook for the past four months man.
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@UpAndGeorgia Uh we do but for some reason ppl use the top sheet still. You can buy extra cozy ones. So you guys just have the fitted sheet and the duvet? Wild.
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a guy being a fboy simply does not rise to the level of “this is information you should publicize / potentially ruin a life over.”.
So let me get this straight. Harry Sisson flirted with a bunch of women and….that’s it? That’s the allegations?.
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i think the left strongly over-indexes on how important heterodox policy positions are and underestimates the appeal of a heterodox *vibe* and overall attitude / sensibility. being a straight shooter. not pulling punches within your party or coalition.
with Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez both outperforming Kamala Harris in their districts, the message from voters is clear: the people yearn for well-dressed under-40 women who go by three-part names.
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almost every month, new evidence emerges that mRNA technology could help fight some of the most persistent and costly diseases of our time—including tuberculosis, lung cancer, HIV, and pancreatic cancer. abandoning this work is insanity.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised some scientists to remove references to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @ArthurAllen202 .
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i don’t believe in gender essentialism but there really aren’t reply girls. singularly male phenomenon.
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sitting next to two folks on a first date at a restaurant. they’ve been debating crunchy vs creamy peanut butter for over an hour. at that point, it’s time to politely close out the tab, say it’s been real / it’s been fun / but it’s not been real fun, and cut your losses.
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democrats can’t afford to waste this moment on hedgey “well if only this was executed differently” messaging on tariffs that is (i guess?!) supposed to support unions. this is dumb, disastrous policy that screws over workers & makes household essentials more expensive.
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i get the impulse, but “community gardens” and “mutual aid groups” are not going to save the left. in fact, the only way for things to get better is for democrats to keep showing up and being engaged in traditional civic life and governance, not withdrawing from it.
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A controversial list of men with BDE:. Armie Hammer.Jake Tapper.Justin Trudeau .Young Bernie Sanders .Jon Hamm.Pete Davidson.Adam Driver.John F Kennedy .Barack Obama.Jim from The Office.Jeff Goldblum (case study of BDE).Bill Murray .Christoph Waltz .Antoni from Queer Eye.
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tattooed youth waiters at fancy . pastors farm to table places . 🤝. “we do things a . little different around here”.
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this entire story is insane. really commend anyone willing to speak up under what appears to be more and more dangerous conditions.
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If Gal Gadot looked at me like that I wouldddddddd
Don't let anyone tell you representation is just about being "PC."
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@mattyglesias at some pt there really needs to be a left “come to jesus” around the fact that if someone has a monetary interest in certain outcomes, they tend to have sharper predictive powers wrt those outcomes.
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I think that’s kinda the . point. Jane Fonda knows her wealth and privilege make her immune to the violence of the carceral system, so she’s the best person to be on the frontlines, shielding vulnerable people.
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not that there’s a moral valence to liking her work … but i do think her fan base nearly 100% overlaps with people who enjoy those “here’s a day in my life as a 26 yr old EY consultant. i wake up with the munchies, so it’s time for a choco-kiwi smoothie before pilates …” videos.
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@sciencewitch @timmy_parker @PoppyCocktails @UpAndGeorgia Some people MIGHT call the left blanket but most call it a duvet. But not everyone sleeps with a duvet on top in America. Some people use blankets, quilts, etc.
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Do y’all remember how in the 90’s every single kid’s movie was about how a kid played baseball and their workaholic father never showed up to their games and the kids looked up into the bleachers disappointedly.
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@OsitaNwanevu if you’re still offering a quote under a pseudonym, you didn’t gain any new freedoms to say those words lol. just new friends who don’t care.
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@KimberlyNFoster Yang supporters love his kind of naive candor about everything but I’ve always thought it was a huge liability lol.
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there’s lots of overlap in terms of support for deregulatory initiatives, but do people know the Abundance Institute is not … an offshoot of Ezra Klein’s Abundance world? i get that it all looks similar, but tech right / libertarians are meaningfully different.
Woah. The Abundance Institute backs a moratorium on state child social media laws that protect kids against AI harms, state cybersecurity laws related to AI, state consumer protection laws related to AI. Mask off moment for Abundance: opposed to democracy in response to AI?!!!.
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I feel like Elizabeth Warren would be the ideal candidate to have a lil midnight snack with. Like you go downstairs and she’s like “oh I was just making myself a plate of cheese and crackers, would you like some?” and then you sit there quietly and she asks what’s on your mind.
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I don’t get ppl who get all weird about doing things alone. I love going to movies alone, eating dinner alone, succumbing to death in the Siberian wilderness alone, I’m comfortable with myself 😊.
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idk. like day drinking in airports, i think airplane movies are a small window in which you can completely abandon your cultural values and personal standards. for me, that means watching deeply mid, lib dramas — vice, the apprentice, hidden figures, get me roger stone etc.
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City I dislike: DC .City I think is overrated: DC .City I like: DC .City I love: DC .City I feel most myself in: DC .City I still need to visit: DC .City I dream of living in: DC.
City I dislike: San Francisco .City I think is overrated: New York .City I like: Minneapolis .City I love: New York .City I feel most myself in: Chicago .City I still need to visit: Rome .City I dream of living in: Berlin.
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@ the ppl who keep saying “well did you expect anything different?”:. There are no prizes for cynicism. No awards for nonchalance. There’s no beauty in fatalism, and there shouldn’t be any joy in others’ suffering. Sit down and let people be hurt.
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@phillyliquorlaw i’m not really debating it’s ongoing potential for virality / engagement, clearly there’s an audience for it, but imo such posting is lazy. bits should be a limited series, not 8 seasons.
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"Shut up, Pigsley!!!" . -my mom shouting at Dudley Dursley in Harry Potter.
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give yourself the space to go fully nbc boomer lib and enjoy this moment. it’s ok. nobody will judge you.
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