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I first spoke with Evan Wright when working on a Generation Kill retrospective that remains one of my favorite stories to have worked on. He was warm and thoughtful and deeply empathetic to the Marines he wrote about. 1/2

After Iraq, the Marines of 'Generation Kill' Regret Nothing

The Marines of Bravo Company who spoke with Military.com said they remain glad that their story was told.

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I've had Marines get angry at me for saying this, but I believe that in Generation Kill, @evanscribe effectively disproved the notion that closely controlling access and pushing forward a curated or sanitized narrative is the right way to tell the military's story.

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We reconnected just recently when he reached out with kind words about another story. His empathy and penchant for righteous indignation again flavored our conversation. He was an idealist and a person of strong convictions and a brilliant writer. I’m shocked and sad he’s gone.

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As a @washingtonpost freelancer I’m so grateful to be able to tell stories like this one. And working with top-in-class editors like Susan Levine, @adegrandpre and @hankstuever has been among the greatest privileges of my life. Days like this remind me why I love this work.

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Honored to tell this story for @washingtonpost :

Three years after Kabul’s fall, veterans still helping allies left behind

A nonprofit group is starting to tally the significant expenses that many vets have spent to save former partners in Afghanistan.

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The most nuanced and balanced explainer you’re likely to see.

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Enough new has bubbled up about the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, and the Gold Star families who lost loved ones in it, that I’m weighing in here – with care – to add context to the messaging we’re seeing.

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Today’s the third anniversary of the fall of Kabul amid the U.S. military’s departure. It’s much easier to mark victory dates, but we owe it to the people who did what our country asked of them to remember and learn from anniversaries like this one.

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I am so sad for the journalists I admire greatly at these publications. This is a big blow for the whole military journalism community.

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URGENT🚨 Our statement on today's layoffs of members of our newsroom:

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I was hoping for badly needed data here, but The Lancet literally put the most recent estimate from the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health into a calculator and multiplied it by five. We know exactly as much as we did before.

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The Lancet - the most prestigious medical journal in the world - conservatively estimates that the death toll in Gaza could be 186,000 or more. That’s 8% of the population. I repeat my longstanding call for the UK government to immediately end all arms sales to Israel.

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For Mother’s Day, I executed a perfect one-take parallel parking job and forced my children to compliment it

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When I was in college, I got made fun of for using the word “moot” too often in class. I’m not sure why I’m sharing this now, though, as it’s no longer relevant or applicable.

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Apropos of nothing, I hear the two year old shout from the other room: “I cleaned up, Mom! Don’t worry about it!” On a scale of 10, how worried should I be?

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Today my five year old looked me square in the eye and said, “I am teaching you patience.” It’s always creepy when your kids break the fourth wall like that.

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I keep forgetting to bring my electron microscope to these slide presentations

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Would love to have listened in on this reporter-editor conversation

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Facebook: The unhinged ranting of family members Twitter/X: The unhinged ranting of people you find interesting LinkedIn: The unhinged ranting of colleagues, "momtrepreneurs," random Baby Boomers, and HR professionals you don't know. LinkedIn is Dante's take on social media

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Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interview retiring Lt. Gen. Marc Sasseville, one of a very small military cadre who took to the air on 9/11, ready to serve their country in an unbelievably difficult way. 23 years later, he's still processing.

‘We failed’: How an F-16 flight on 9/11 shaped National Guard’s No. 2

A Q&A with Lt. Gen. Marc Sasseville, who retired at the end of May as the vice chief of the National Guard.

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My five year old just asked me how drone helicopters can fly without anyone in the cockpit and I did my best to act chill as I broke out my presentation and visual aids. Being able to explain stuff you know about to curious kids is an underrated reason for having kids, IMHO

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5 y o insisted on bringing the 4-foot flag he made with a dowel to walk around D.C. Everyone is eyeballing us like we’re about to launch a protest, but he’s just repping team Make Flags Great Again.

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Five year old, tonight at bedtime: “There are three things I always think about: Liberty, justice, and fighting.” Marines, prove yourselves worthy

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Out with family at an event this evening and a little boy I've never met stops in front of me. "It's nice to see someone else wearing a watch," he said. Naturally, I demanded to see his timepiece and spent five minutes admiring it. That kid is a legend in the making.

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I hope they talk about Haditha at the Defense Information School. Willing to bet it's never mentioned. Covering up evil and lying about it = complicity with evil.

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General Michael Hagee, the USMC commandant, bragged about keeping the Haditha photos secret. “The press never got them, unlike Abu Ghraib,” he said. Cowardly. Cowardly. Cowardly.

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And please, don’t use AI to write a letter from your kid to her sports hero. That’s tragic

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The old fogey in me is not loving all these Olympics ads for AI-generated work product

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Literally The Americans

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The children of Anna and Artem Dultsev, the Russian deep cover spies returned home as part of the prisoner exchange, didn’t know they were Russian until their plane took off for Moscow for the swap, the Kremlin says. They don’t speak Russian, so Putin greeted them in Spanish.

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My two and a half year old just asked me, “Are you in charge?” What have I been doing wrong or right

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JD Vance sure has come a ways since he was a ComCam lance corporal posting press releases on DVIDS.

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Just a little cuteness for the feed

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I did not know this

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The 'compound' in 'military compound' is not related to the word that means "something formed by a union of elements or parts." It's folk etymology from the Malay word 'kampung' meaning "group of buildings, village."

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Two reporters I particularly like sharing a byline from the town where I had my first newspaper job. I’ve cried with and listened to these veterans of the Beirut attacks many times. Glad for this measure of peace.

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For Americans scarred by Beirut bombings, a measure of delayed justice Hezbollah’s Ibrahim Aqil, who was killed this week, was long wanted by the United States for devastating 1983 attacks at the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks. (photo from the 1983 bombing) Full Story:

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Nothing hits harder than a chicken nuggie stolen from your child's lunch plate when you've run 13 miles and then consumed only caffeine all morning

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I found the T-shirt I’ll be wearing from now til November

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Tonight, celebrating an intangible journalism win. Never give up on a good story.

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Also: if you’ve never encountered Generation Kill, go watch it and read the book. They’re well worth your time.

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I first spoke with Evan Wright when working on a Generation Kill retrospective that remains one of my favorite stories to have worked on. He was warm and thoughtful and deeply empathetic to the Marines he wrote about. 1/2

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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday; the regular crowd shuffles in —Me, walking into Harris Teeter for a single slice of chocolate cake

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We made it out of 4H embryology with one hatchling. I’m calling him Dejjaajj.

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All the Olympics ads for products that outsource creative work to AI have me reflecting on the Samuel Johnson quote I incessantly repeat to my students: “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

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5-year-old: “Mom, how expensive is it to visit the lands and the worlds?” Despite my best efforts my kids have apparently gotten wise to the existence of Disney parks

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Tired of the sniping about military bona fides. One of my grandfathers was drafted and petitioned a chaplain to intervene so he get married instead of deploying to Korea. The other was a mustang career officer with a Bronze Star. They're buried in the same veterans cemetery.

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As a final assignment for the two classes I taught this year, I had my high school-aged students write a short essay about what they learned in the class and how it challenged or surprised them. I just read all the essays ... and now I need to find a quiet place to cry. 💗

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Mitt Romney, once again, manages to find notes of truth and grace

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Romney with a verrrry different statement on Biden than the rest of his party

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My two year old calls soldiers “Army boys” and between that and his love for “chichen nunnets,” he is rapidly becoming my favorite child.

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“Mom, why did the United States and France go to war after the Revolution? … Are you looking it up on Google?!?” Well, this humiliating day has finally come

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It’s not often you encounter someone with a story they’re dying to tell that you’re also quite eager to hear

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Secret 2024 goal: to feed more people than I ever have before

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On a walk tonight, I overheard one high school girl tell another, “I listen to earwax extraction ASMR to help me fall asleep.” I feel like I should write a short story about this

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“I’ve been seeing a lot of dogs in my life.” —Son, Age 5

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You know how we intuitively order adjectives a certain way in English? Like the old, blind, white dog? I wonder how many nights of sleep were lost over the ordering of "Penetrating Affordable Autonomous Collaborative Killer." And, did they get it right?

Marines’ ‘Penetrating Affordable Autonomous Collaborative Killer’ Initiative

The Marine Corps and its Defense Department partners this week conducted the first test flight of the service’s XQ-58 Valkyrie drone for the “penetrating affordable autonomous collaborativ

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Potluck again

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Just got a preview of the new galleries about to open at @USMCMuseum . They are really something.

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Scoped out our primitive campsite … and immediately booked a hotel room so Irene could rest in peace

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Went to a used curriculum sale, somehow came out with this

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Quick, is Oppenheimer a good July 4 movie? It’s coming up in the queue

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My youngest is standing next to me, sniping pieces of Cinnamon Toast Crunch off the top of my bowl of oatmeal while somehow also lecturing me about my nutritional choices. It’s amazing to be two.

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A little respect, @NYTGames

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Love the research phase of an article, when I go hunting for some comprehensive information on an obscure topic, am relieved to find an interesting-looking story from a few years ago, then shocked to see my byline on it. My mind is a sieve.

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I sat down with the leaders of the new Afghanistan War Commission this week and learned why they believe veterans are at the heart of their mandate.

Afghanistan War Commission wants veteran stories and questions

A congressionally-appointed group is seeking insight from those who served in Afghanistan.

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Schoolhouse Rock has nothing for this, but it’s still a good watch

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Why pediatrician visits often feel like the blind leading the blind. If you don’t like the advice you’re given, wait six months for the conventional wisdom to change.

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Newborn babies are scary. @olgakhazan and @ProfEmilyOster can help:

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At Panera and just saw a middle school boy get what we used to call an "around the world" from the soda fountain, with some of every flavor, including Lipton iced tea, diet Pepsi and Bubly. The kids are all right.

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In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee … If life was measured in pounds of pasta salad brought to potlucks, I’m living it to the fullest

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I talked to a captive audience of teenagers about newspapers for an hour today. It was amazing (for me)

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Anyone have good recommendations for fun kid-friendly experiences in the DMV for less than $20/head? I found out the bowling alley by me wants like $130 for a lane and I am clutching all my pearls

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This is just a memorial to the many subtweets I wanted to post this week and didn't.

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By @PhilKlay . No need to add my words to his.

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I’ve spent the last four days in Israel. You can’t go anywhere without seeing reminders of October 7 and the missing hostages — it’s constantly present. This is in Ben Gurion airport.

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Six episodes in to the @NewYorker podcast about the Haditha killings by 3/1 Marines. It's a devastating listen. Most difficult are the present-day admissions, justifications, and excuses by the former Marines and their leaders.

In The Dark

Listen to The New Yorker's In The Dark podcast with Madeleine Baran on Apple Podcasts.

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“The Boys in the Boat” it is

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Quick, is Oppenheimer a good July 4 movie? It’s coming up in the queue

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The old fogey in me is not loving all these Olympics ads for AI-generated work product

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Something I'm learning about America: It's easier to get a staffer at a doctor's office to braid your hair or take your sister to prom than give you an itemized bill for a service you're paying for in cash.

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I impulse-bought what I can only describe as a casual ball gown from a Chinese drop-shipping company and, having worn it around today, can report I’ve seamlessly entered my tradwife era

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It finally happened: I got called "Hope Hicks" yeterday.

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What I wouldn’t give to hear either candidate in this race say, “Here’s what we got wrong the first time. Here’s what we learned. Here’s how we’d do better.”

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About to discuss recent reporting on the @hughhewitt show. Tune in!

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When I’m wealthy, I’m going to have a whole wardrobe just for New England cabin-wear. I can’t wait.

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After finishing the day’s interviews, I ended up in a position to make a Costco trip by myself, with zero kids. At first I was euphoric. Then I started to miss them and their weird samples-seeking behaviors. Children will just RUIN you

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"So are we fathoms from victory?"

Army Maj. Gen. Joel 'JB' Vowell, goes 'Between Two T-Walls' with Task & Purpose

‘Between Two T-Walls’ is a tribute to ‘Between Two Ferns,’ hosted by Zach Galifianakis, where Task & Purpose speaks with military newsmakers.

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In disbelief. What amazing news

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NEWS: Russia has released American journalist Evan Gershkovich and U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.

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After his release from Taliban custody, the interpreter said the man told him: “They showed me Retrograde Movie and said you have worked with foreign forces and also worked in the movie. … They found me through Retrograde Movie.”

A Taliban revenge killing prompts questions, removal of an acclaimed documentary

National Geographic has removed the Emmy-winning film “Retrograde” from its streaming platforms, after criticism from veterans and inquiries from The Washington Post.

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Today I introduced my middle child to the time honored art of dashboard cookie baking

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Always "following." Never "for you." Please and thank you.

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IHOP is blasting early aughts bops. It may be the hottest club in the DMV

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That terrifying moment when you start laughing at something stupid and then you’re crying and then you realize if you don’t bail hard you’re going to be sobbing uncontrollably

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Count me in.

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I would love to see (and I would vocally support) any initiative by defense reporters to engage with DINFOS on topics like this. If we can’t get DINFOS to host it, there’s nothing stopping us from putting it together ourselves.

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The uncle of a close personal friend of mine is a Ukrainian medic. He was gravely wounded a few days ago by Russian fire while evacuating soldiers. For those who’ve been seeking a way to help, consider contributing to Andriyy’s care.

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This is exactly like Sunday school, where the answer is always Jesus

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To summarize my time at a Marine School: "The answer is an amphibious assault, now what is your question?"

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What I said: “There’s the FBI building.” What my toddler heard: “There’s the ice cream house.” The trust issues are not always my fault

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New today from @Marinetimes :

Marine Corps infantry’s secret weapon: A $9.95 unofficial website

Inside an informal, crowd-sourced Marine infantry network.

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Honored to have worked on this story.

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After questions from @washingtonpost , Hulu, National Geographic & Disney erase the Emmy-winning film, "Retrograde," from all platforms. Some congressmen & vets call the film a "Taliban target list." w/ @HopeSeck

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RIP James Earl Jones. He was a real one.

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The wildest timeline

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Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance.

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Seems like another black eye for the military justice enterprise

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BREAKING: @Secdef Lloyd Austin yanks plea deals for 9/11 terror attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, 2 others @DeptofDefense memo released tonight also relieves the official in charge of the military commissions of her oversight in the case

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Days after seeing Inside Out 2 in theaters, my kids are still dining out on how much I cried during the movie.

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Has this headline been sufficiently dunked on?

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If you really want to understand J.D. Vance’s politics, you’ll need to crack open a little-known work called The Lord of the Rings.

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Political reporters: I don’t care if one candidate is “giving grandpa vibes” and the other “gives you the ick.” This serves American voters not at all. Figure out how to be tough on candidates you like. If they’re as great as you think, they can take it.

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Who's a great source on icebreakers these days?

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Do I have to subscribe to a higher Netflix tier to see the fun version of Bridgerton everyone is talking about? The one I saw had very little plot, moved agonizingly slowly and predictably, and was rife with nonsense

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Appalling