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You should definitely move out of New York if you can't appreciate the magic and whimsy of a clutch of small rats peeking out of a sewer grate to see what's happening, like nosy neighbors leaning out of windows when a fight is happening on the street below
Get a job/stay away from her etc but also, please notice how he has decided that Taylor Swift's body is available to him just because she's single now. This is how men display casual misogyny, in the guise of "jokes."
Nick Cannon tells Howard Stern that he’s open to having his 13th child with Taylor Swift:
“I’m all in. I think she would relate to me very well. We probably will understand each other.”
oh my goodness I was taking pictures of someone's peonies in their garden (I was on the sidewalk!) and he came out of his house and I thought he was going to yell at me to get away from his flowers but then he asked "do you want me to cut you some?" 🥺🥺🥺
This is really essential. The bill would allow the government to reach into any online activity you have, including "smart" devices and camera footage as well as Alexa records etc.
While mocking China, our own US lawmakers are imitating the same online authoritarianism.
An underappreciated aspect of this is that Instagram has convinced a lot of people without a ton of money that they should be traveling to places that rich people frequent.
Because rich people can afford to manage these inconveniences. You cannot.
I don't really think this is what people mean by "mansplaining" but I also think this question is weird and that a lot of men think their feelings are knowledge lol
When I am openly critical of marriage as an institution, it is this kind of depthless alienation that I mean. Women existing in families they started, but never supported, never acknowledged, never validated or appreciated, always lonely, drifting as invisibly as ghosts
This is the saddest comment on the
@nytimes
opinion piece about American theater. I wish this woman had told her family she was going with a couple of girlfriends instead or was just going to enjoy an evening by herself.
I keep seeing women say they've stopped dating and they're staying single, and it's because they've been traumatized by men in the past and have no desire to face the demoralizing trauma of The Apps
I need us all to recognize something.
Yes, Israel's legal team was badly prepared and openly incompetent.
However. It is a mistake to believe that merit determines outcomes.
Israel is lazy for the reason white men in leadership are mediocre: Privilege creates impunity.
The answer is that the Israelis leading this genocide are not descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Netanyahu's family wasn't even in Europe during the Holocaust. Ben Gvir's family wasn't in Europe. Smotrich's family wasn't in Europe. All of their families were settlers in…
This is a classic glass cliff situation, in which a failing company hires a woman to clean up messes made by arrogant men. Then she becomes the scapegoat because it's impossible to clean up.
@nick_field90
@savbrads
@HaleyOSomething
it has dramatic tension, excellent scene-setting, good evocative props that indicate emotions (onions = tears) shocking family revelations, slapstick comedy, great dialogue...you're right
This is actually something called "emotional incest" where (mostly boy moms) turn their child into their partner emotionally. Men who don't individuate from their moms are high in narcissistic traits usually as well. A man should not be using his mom as a reference, nor should…
"Oh my love, how young you are. Where did they hit you?"
Palestinian mother bids farewell to her son Basel Abu Al-Wafa. He is one of two Palestinian children killed by the occupation forces earlier today.
It has been incredibly interesting to see white people respond to the resurgent popularity of "Fast Car" by saying it's a testament to hope because all you need is a car and a plan, and Black people respond (correctly) that it's a song about poverty and despair.
The air quality in New York City is horrifying. Quebec is *400 miles* away but you can smell burning wood in every corner of New York as if it's right here in town. The sky is ominous and post-apocalyptic dark yellow-green. It's so intense that it stings your eyes.
"Do I have to remind you all that what happens to Palestinians now sets a precedent. That anywhere in the globe is not safe."
Exactly. If world leaders will do this to Palestinians, if they will support a genocide, they would kill ANY of us at any time.
Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now
@CNN
’s
@clarissaward
,
@scottycnn
and
@BrentSwailsCNN
managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report.
What helped me understand the Oceangate disaster better is that the Titanic dive was probably a publicity stunt to convince oil & gas companies to buy fleets of the company's submersibles for deep-sea drilling. Essentially disposable. Ergo the sloppy ad hoc construction.
What the Explorers' Club is calling "red tape"
is in fact
just the very reasonable rule from the Coast Guard that the submersible has to be located *before* they send any people or vehicles to a notably dangerous part of the ocean.
The reason this dress fits like that is twofold: One, it was tailored for her. And two, perhaps more importantly, the construction of this dress is something called "cut on the bias" which was popular in the 90s and aughts, and which is really rare in mass-market fashion.
It is exceedingly unlikely that Hamas, a terrorist group that kept its plans for a brutal massacre invisible from all global intelligence services for over a year, had its terrorist-attack plans neatly color-printed and bound at Staples.
BREAKING: Hamas intentionally targeted elementary schools in Israel, instructed terrorists to seize hostages, move them into Gaza, and to "kill as many people as possible," maps and documents recovered from the bodies of attackers show.
I need everyone to stop saying "Kate deserved her privacy." She is the next Queen of England. Billions of taxpayer dollars support her family and they are also the center of a multibillion-dollar tourism industry based on her image (among others.) She is in a public-facing role…
We've come so far in European monarchies since the days when royal bastards were common and Queens knew better than to actually fall in love with their husbands.
Actually expecting the King to stay faithful (mistaking the nature of the transaction of marrying the future King,…
The streets are saying Kate had a nervous breakdown during Xmas bc she found out Will’s mistress, Rose Hanbury, is pregnant with his child and she’s keeping it. Kate is now refusing to cooperate. The gossip is sucking me in & I don’t even care about these ppl.
I need to be a hater for a second. Glen Powell is LA's idea of attractive, which is to say: Technically symmetrical but completely inert in energy. He exudes no charisma. He exudes no life. He is disembodied teeth and hair. He is a Crest White Strip.
My hot take is that the dog doesn't need to be trained, the Secret Service agents need to be trained in how to approach animals. Aggression is not normal for dogs; it's a sign of distress. The agents must be doing something to provoke him.
the most banal explanation would be that Kate is alive and well but just...put on a lot of weight from medication or steroids, and her old clothes don't fit and the Palace won't allow her to be photographed as anything other than sylphlike
Kissinger dying during a genocide, thus making it impossible for US elected officials to ignore the legacy of war crimes...the universe writes perfect plots.
Exactly. Fascism is designed to make you feel like you can't stop it, but you can.
Every time you oppose a lie, every time you mock a fascist, every time you reject their attempts at control: That's your power. That's what they're afraid of. That's why they want your silence.
The point of forcing the world to witness this horror is to instill a sense of powerlessness
And that’s just another reason why everyone responsible for it has to be removed from power as step 1 (one)
This is an immaculately well-written and deeply reported piece of journalism. Hundreds of interviews, vivid details, and no overwriting, letting Brand's brutality speak for itself.
Let's do this:
Calls for a ceasefire are not working.
What works: Money.
Shut off all your political donations to any candidate, PAC or group -- including the DNC, DNCC, and any others -- until they call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
0 dollars. Until this ends.
I saw an article about someone who spends only $123 a month on groceries (which is one week for most people, under current inflation) with "one trick," and the trick was "make a grocery list."
I'm just going to say this:
If you are considering marrying someone, ask yourself if you could still love and support and take care of them if they were disabled or hospitalized.
If you can't or don't want to do that, you're either marrying the wrong person or your empathy is…
I don't think the author even understands how much she has dehumanized and erased herself in a desperate bid for external validation from a man. she literally turned her body into a bargaining chip and DESPITE GOING TO HARVARD, seems to have no sense of her own value outside…
Imagine if $125 million had gone to the libraries and the remaining $30 million had been put directly into the MTA to lower fares. Instead of paying cops to stand around looking at their phones and harass teenagers.
When you understand that Israel is led by people who have no respect for Holocaust survivors, by people who descend from those who supported the first Nakba, you understand the arrogance and entitlement.
Something has happened in the UK.
Almost every interview I watch or hear now between British journalists and Israeli officials includes the question: “do you have any evidence for that?”
The Israeli lying machine has eaten itself up.
It's so interesting how we keep getting stories about "fertility time bombs" when the problem is not fertility, the problem is very clearly that housing and childcare are unaffordable. Plenty of fertility, but literally nowhere to put a child.
A toddler has moved in next door to me and when I first met her she asked me if I was a princess (I was dressed to go out) and now I cannot leave my house without wearing at least one princess-coded thing, bc I cannot let her down
I am fascinated by this writer's worldview because I am so far and so alienated from any of this kind of experience of womanhood that she may as well have grown up on Mars as far as I'm concerned
I’m horrified (and delighted) to report that the writer of that viral The Cut age gap article’s other writing is just as bad. Omg.
“I pursue beautiful friends like some women do men who will strike them in bed at night.”
I do think that more women need to be aware that a lot of men don't want them for who they are, but for what they represent. And for a lot of men, what women represent is not someone to love, but an answer to the man's own discomfort and pain. A relationship not as emotional…
I think it's important for Columbia students to keep filing complaints against Shai Davidai. He has 50 complaints. The students have to raise the numbers. Take it to 100, or 200. Make the number of complaints so high that there's no option to keep him. Every Muslim student on…
I feel like a professor showing praying Muslim students and captioning it as something sinister is pretty bad. It’s amazing he still has a job. Like truly. Even a regular job would fired him by now.
Okay who wants a little thread on why Ryan Gosling, a certified smokeshow, looks so bad in the Barbie movie, and how you can apply it to your own wardrobe?
No offense to liberals but please don't do this today. Mitch McConnell has free taxpayer-paid healthcare and a lot of money, and he has spent his entire career making sure that other elderly people who suffer medically like this end up with zero financial support.
Wow. President Biden just said this about Mitch McConnell's health scare: "Mitch is a friend. We had disagreements politically but he's a good friend. So, I'm going to try to get in touch with him later this afternoon." This is true decency & it matters. This is how it's done.
Let's create a thread of companies and institutions that are currently engaged in McCarthyism and blacklisting of reporters, political staffers, authors, or anyone else.
I'll drop examples, with screenshots, below. Principled people will unfollow these companies and cut ties.
Listen. We need to actively push back against companies and institutions that are doing these firings. If they think they can do it without pushback, they'll continue to silence people for ideology, which is a violation of civil rights.
So much of this story is Boomers turning the workplace into their entire lives and having no personal or social resources outside work. This is why they all refuse to retire.
I'm sorry to be a buzzkill but flood water is *extremely* dangerous and includes gasoline, sewage, and various bacteria you do NOT want to mess with, please do not play in flood waters.
Apparently Nemat (Minouche) Shafik hasn't only ignored the 50 charges of harassment against Shai Davidai, it is her pattern to protect dangerous and even predatory faculty.
At the London School of Economics two years ago, Shafik refused to fully suspend a professor who sexually…
I just want to add something that previous Black authors have observed: French people love Black American culture (jazz, James Baldwin) and use it to look cool and sophisticated. Black Americans do VERY WELL with French people. But French people are largely enormously,…
Recirculating this, not bc Julie Delpy was the French woman ayo was impersonating but to illustrate that the impersonation of so so many French women talking to black Americans was so spot on.
Ayo Edebiri, the chameleon that you are.
Get a job/stay away from her etc but also, please notice how he has decided that Taylor Swift's body is available to him just because she's single now. This is how men display casual misogyny, in the guise of "jokes."
It's no wonder CTV's coverage of Israel's violence in Gaza is so one-sided.
Internal emails show journalists are forbidden from using the term "Palestine," with a senior editor making the charged claim that "Palestine...does not currently exist."
Listen, not to be harsh on a kid but "played clarinet for 10 years" and "built investment portfolios" along with an extremely mid SAT of 1460 are not sufficient to get into an Ivy -- even Cornell! -- and his college adviser should have told him that.
I think a lot of straight women struggle to understand why straight men behave Like That, and I think it's essential to understand that most men structure their entire lives, for the duration of their lives, on never Being The Bad Guy.
Congratulations to everyone who needed 30,000 people dead to get to the point of calling this genocide unacceptable, when it was visibly unacceptable in the first week.
Rep. Jason Crow: "I do not have confidence that Bibi Netanyahu is doing the right thing by Israelis."
Crow and 5 Dem colleagues wrote a letter to Biden warning against Netanyahu's military strategy: “The mounting civilian death toll and humanitarian crisis are unacceptable"
Listen. I think the way to think about this that your mind is like your body: It will do whatever it needs to do in order to keep going. You know how if you break an ankle, you will start relying on your hip more to push you forward? Your personality flaws are like that. They are…
As I'm walking home a driver --so handsome, he looked like the Bounty man-- called out "nice flowers!" --and then I called a dog cute and his owner ALSO said "nice flowers!" and I noticed her accent and we talked and she's originally from Sligo.
@anniewestdotcom
is this ur doing
@SenFettermanPA
We know you're posting cringe like this because AIPAC bought your soul and your seat for only $244,000 --- but among decent people, rape isn't a meme.
Israel's apartheid regime has been raping Palestinians for 75 years and your useless ass has been silent.
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons testifies that the Zionist regime is subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
@asteel2
A lot of this comes from the fact that there are flamboyant older gay men (who may be married to women or not) in the South who are called "dandys" or "confirmed bachelors" and they are style icons that younger men imitate without fully understanding the implication.
This is just the worst take. First, who she dates is part of her image and her art -- she has always put her boyfriends in her songs, making them and their personalities a source of profit for her.
Commentary: For the last 17 years, we’ve held Taylor Swift responsible for the actions of men she chooses to spend time with. It’s time to stop, writes
@angiemartoccio
.
TW: Rape, SA
They didn't just rape this girl. They specifically targeted her family and made comments about her body for months beforehand in an attempt to groom her. The soldiers also burned and killed her entire family during the rape.
On this day in 2006 several U.S. soldiers murdered an entire family in Iraq. They took turns raping a 14-year-old girl before murdering her too and setting her on fire.
When the U.S. & Israel weaponize allegations of rape today don’t forget they are the biggest perpetrators.
This is besides the fact that influencers buy followers so they can scam free accommodations, while, say, an aspirational schoolteacher will pay full price.
It's also just that rich people can pay someone to handle the luggage, and manage everything else.
I've said this before but it's worth repeating: NYT Cooking is the worst possible place you can get recipes. Their recipes are frequently imbalanced and fail utterly in flavor.
Use Bon Appétit, use Ina Garten, use Martha Stewart, use Cook's Illustrated and America's Test…
A lot of Western journalists are frankly furious that they can't take their little flak jackets and do Hemingway cosplay for Pulitzers from this genocide
Amanpour says there ‘are no journalists on the ground in Gaza’. Stewart corrects her, saying there are: Palestinians & they’re being killed.
She responds ‘yes, but we need independent,western journalists’
She switches gears swiftly but her initial lament gives away the…
The fact that you have to take a plane, a train and a ferry, to a place with multiple Michelin restaurants and lavish villas, is meant to literally keep your middle-class self out of those spaces.
It's helpful to read about Benzion Netanyahu, Benjamin's father, whose activism was based on Revisionist Zionism, maintaining that Palestine should not exist -- that Palestinians should be eliminated from the land entirely -- and that Jordan should also be taken over by Israel.…
To repeat; Eve Gerber (
@eveagerber
) works for a company (
@five_books
) that says it wants to surface international and POC authors. She is their US editor.
If this is how she talks to people on the street -- in slurs and hate speech -- how many POC authors has she suppressed?
The rise of the anti-Palestinian Karen needs to be thoroughly documented. No surprise that many of them are associated with people who’ve been informing US policy for decades. The tide is turning and they’re all breaking down. Good.
Understanding this Israeli leadership's contempt for Holocaust survivors is crucial to understanding why they are carrying out a genocide. These Israelis see themselves as militarized and violent specifically so that they will never be in the same category as Holocaust survivors.…
@freddiesayers
@BBCNews
You're so right. Ethnic cleansing is supposed to be either dressed up or hidden under the rug. I hope the BBC will remember your wise counsel in the future 🫶