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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

this conan o'brien prank remains the best prank i've ever heard about

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2 years

both devin chandler and lavel davis were my students. devin was in my class in spring 2022, and lavel is in my class this semester. I am so indescribably sad right now but I wanted to share a few memories of them, because they were wonderful people

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anyways I am just stunned and devastated and completely at a loss but wanted to say all this because they were great people with truly limitless futures and they should still be here. it breaks my heart.

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Jack Hamilton

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HIGH FIDELITY is pretty dated in a lot of ways but I feel like its main point (i.e. that constructing your whole personality around cultural taste is an impoverished way of thinking about art and other people) was kind of prescient

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

I wonder what bari weiss and bret stephens make of ross douthat, who is farther to the right than either of them but largely escapes the levels of scorn they attract because his work is nowhere near as lazy or dishonest as theirs

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later i helped him declare his american studies major, which he was really excited about. he was an unbelievably nice person, always a huge smile, really gregarious and funny. one of those people who's just impossible not to like. it is so sad and enraging that he is gone.

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one thing that struck me about vel was how much his classmates liked him and vice versa. in my experience star athletes often tend to hang out with other athletes (understandable, given the time commitment) but vel seemed to go out of his way to make friends with non-athletes

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devin was new to uva last spring (he was a transfer student) and I had him in a large lecture class. he nevertheless made a point to come to my office hours repeatedly, often just to ask questions about how things worked around uva.

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lavel was quieter than devin (at least in my experience) but was also such a nice guy. after our first day of class this semester he made a point to come up and shake my hand and told me I should call him vel

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Jack Hamilton

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2 years

A simpsons gag that definitely went way over my head as a kid is just how funny the idea of a musical version of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is

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Jack Hamilton

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7 years

why do all of bruni's recent column titles read like a terrible adult video library

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Jack Hamilton

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5 years

just so everyone is aware this viral clip is linda defending her decision to perform in apartheid-era south africa. she's not on the right side of history here, the clip is edited so as to remove the context

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

It's almost like if you're an opinion columnist for the country's most influential newspaper and are incapable of writing about anything other than what happens on twitter... maybe you aren't good at your job

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

sorry, the what now

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

t*ibbi becoming a right-winger is the least surprising development imaginable. also "I was forced to the right because the left went too far" is one of the oldest clichés of run-of-the-mill conservativism. that was literally ronald reagan's line

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

this is genuinely one of the funniest tweets I have ever seen. the journal of controversial ideas

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

woj telling josh hawley to go fuck himself in a "sent from my iphone" email is easily the high-water mark of the nba hiatus

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2 years

the alien ant farm smooth criminal cover isn't good, I can't even believe this has to be said

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2 years

this is such an insane way to describe the origins of a movie

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2 years

one of my favorite gen z things on here is the conviction that everything cool from before they were born was underappreciated in its time. every day I see some post that's like "back in the day everyone slept on this one" and it's a picture of RUMOURS or something

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

a ph.d. student gave an interview to popular mechanics and professor open debate is publicly complaining to his dean

Yascha Mounk

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4 years

Dear Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, Do you think that this kind of content is likely to increase public trust in experts and scientists in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic? No? Well, then you should cut out the crap. Yours, Yascha Mounk

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also I just want to be abundantly clear that I don't agree with ross douthat on anything!!!

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Jack Hamilton

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do emmy voters hate the righteous gemstones because it's a comedy that's actually funny?

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Jack Hamilton

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2 months

wrote about a bad tv show

The Bear Is Not a Good Show

When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.

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4 years

doomed whaling voyage ass font

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something i've been thinking over is to what extent stan culture's hostility to criticism is rooted in the streaming era's illusion that all music is free. back when you paid $15-20 for an artist's CD and it ended up not being that good it was clearly reasonable to express that

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Lmao apparently the marketplace of ideas = “my post has over 700 likes”

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Jack Hamilton

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5 years

smarmily posting a mistranslated de tocqueville quote is really the perfect combination of pretentiousness and stupidity

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2 years

embiid keeps doing that after losses where he trashes all his teammates and coaches and then goes "to be clear, I am also talking about myself here." oh okay

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4 years

@ByYourLogic if they were flying over ireland to bomb england they were already pretty fucking lost

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don't really care for ed sheeran but I hate these lawsuits so much. claiming that chord changes are an individual's intellectual property is such an affront to the whole history of popular music

Ed Sheeran Won His Copyright Trial. Here’s What to Know.

The heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote “Let’s Get It On” with Marvin Gaye, had accused the pop star of copying it in “Thinking Out Loud.”

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

small thing but it drives me nuts when white writers do stuff like this, seemingly as a defensive maneuver but in a way that just casually erases so many people. there were tons of black beatles fans! just check out their coverage in the US black press

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Jack Hamilton

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2 years

not gonna share it but that tweet by the washington post editor about uva student journalists is totally disgusting

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

one of my favorite heinsohn quotes is him talking about bill russell and boston to SI in the late 1990s. really cuts to it, shows you the kind of guy he was

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4 years

yes?

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3 months

that apple albums list is interesting because it shows the ridiculousness of "evaluating" music while avoiding anything resembling subjective taste. i'm not saying it's right or wrong to have APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION two spots higher than A LOVE SUPREME, it's just totally inane

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wrote about ja morant, the nba's coolest player on the nba's coolest team

The NBA’s Electrifying New Superhero

The surging Memphis Grizzlies and their fearless, astonishing young star have become must-see TV.

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Jack Hamilton

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1 year

@marieberd this one was glorious. I like to imagine that there was a fierce newsroom split over whether "beat the meatles" or "come together" would be the better headline so as a compromise they just went with both

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

straightforward from here: 1. flip the senate 2. abolish the filibuster 3. pack the court 4. induct chic into the rock and roll hall of fame

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3 years

there are two ways you can make sure people don't gloat when you die: 1) never die (hard) 2) don't do stuff during your life that makes lots of people happy when you die (not hard)

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

LOL wtf

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5 years

@jbouie tired: re-litigating the 2016 primaries wired: re-litigating the protestant reformation

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4 years

Kid A was originally titled Kid Antebellum

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

lebron vs jordan is an unwinnable argument and distracts from the more important conversation, lebron vs bob dylan

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Jack Hamilton

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2 years

sorry but who the hell wants to hear push rap about putting his kids to bed

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as i've gotten older I haven't gotten crankier about new music but I do become extremely mad when I see revisionist history claiming terrible music that came out when I was a teenager is good now

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cocaine in 2006 lmao

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@SamuelAAdams @rianjohnson

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

american conservatism in its purest form

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

from this story

The Prankster’s Secret | Harvard Magazine

Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?...

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

the huey news is really sad and I can't believe he was only 31... I had forgotten how young he was when "pop lock & drop it" hit

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

re: that TS thing, that show seems awful and the joke is really dumb and lazy but the idea that anyone making a netflix show should avoid doing anything that might offend a massively powerful celebrity seems... not great

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Jack Hamilton

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2 years

reading about this kinda brings me back to the disastrous copy-protected CD rollouts of the early 2000s. when you're so consumed by greed and paranoia that you lose sight of why your product appealed to anyone in the first place

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2 years

Netflix’s has introduced their anti-password sharing method: Once every 31 days, your device must log in on your home Wi-Fi network or your account will be blocked. (via: )

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Jack Hamilton

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2 years

not to be pedantic but jesus didn't say this

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

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2 years

NEW: Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker said his multiple personality disorder isn’t a mental illness because Jesus had it too: “Do our Lord Jesus Christ have a mental illness because he said he’s the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?” (h/t @RonFilipkowski )

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Jack Hamilton

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3 years

release the four-hour step brothers cut

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6 years

i love that this abhorrent little gnome hitched his entire career to this wet lumpy psycho and all he got was two years of ritualistic humiliation plus a democrat in his old senate seat. eat shit jeff

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4 years

seeing ariel pink "in the news" has me revisiting the julian casablancas vulture interview from a few years back, a classic of the moron rock star canon

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4 years

lol what cult is this true of?

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@netw3rk One clear way to know you’re an actual death cult is telling doctors to “stay in their lane”

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Jack Hamilton

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4 years

people really need to stop saying james bennet got fired for publishing the cotton column! he got fired because he published it *without reading it*, which was part of a pattern of him being totally negligent on the job. sulzberger explicitly said this in his statement!

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Jack Hamilton

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6 years

i want to publicly thank every roommate i ever lived with for not being this person

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Jack Hamilton

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1 year

my feelings on this show aside, I am so beyond tired of this sort of culture writing. people can like what they want but diagnosing your own enjoyment of a sitcom as something "america" "needed" is such a childish way and self-involved way to think about art and the world

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4 years

I recently found out I got tenure and to celebrate I naturally purchased a 4000-piece LEGO roller coaster set. It is finally complete and fully operational, look on my works ye mighty and despair

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@BrandyLJensen for some reason my favorite part is how the writer's name is in the dek like he's reporting on himself. free press david volodzko correspondent david volodzko

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1 year

a little personal news, this small and sleepy person arrived a week ago. hopefully this is the last time she ever goes on twitter

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@SamuelAAdams this reminds me of the multiple times people have tweeted at david simon that he needs to watch the wire

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this @amandahess profile of tina from 2019 is one of the best things written about her in recent years. she was just such an electrifying, magnetic human being, I almost expected her to live forever

Tina Turner Is Having the Time of Her Life (Published 2019)

A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.

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4 years

moral and political cowardice

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4 years

Pelosi is asked what her timeline is for Pence/cabinet to use 25th Amdt to remove Trump. She's putting the onus on them, and not committing to a timeline for her own action here. "The president must be held accountable....but I don't have immediate plans."

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for @gawker i wrote about the depressingly bad second season of TED LASSO and why we should generally be skeptical of comedy that isn't actually funny

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@SPBPHD “You’re a dame and I’m a fella…” “Stanley, stop! Or I’ll tell Stella”

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one way biden could potentially unify the party would be to promise to be a one-termer and then pick as VP/successor someone who'd excite the younger, more progressive wing of the party, like zion williamson or billie eilish

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rare that you see a headline that is quite literally untrue, and on multiple levels

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it's funny that this fake college seems entirely rooted in nurturing vague resentments about college

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Bari Weiss's fake university put out a video bragging about holding a two-week summer course

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this is the most disingenuous sort of both-sidesism and we are going to see so much of it over the next eight months

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as someone who grew up in a lefty household in the 1980s linda ronstadt was not viewed as politically righteous during that time period, to put it mildly

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Author and writer

CNN International

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4 years

Award-winning author and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will guest edit the September issue of Vanity Fair, the magazine's editor-in-chief Radhika Jones told @CNNBusiness in an exclusive interview.

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leaving aside that the persistent conflation of arts criticism with "gatekeeping" is totally disgusting, you know who wants you to think this way?? massive corporate interests devoted to screwing over musicians

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literally the entire premise of christian theology is that M&J weren't in a sexual relationship

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RIP Charley Pride, another musical giant lost to COVID-19. This @dlcantwell piece from last year is one of the best things i've ever read about him

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to say nothing of the COUNTLESS covers of beatles songs by black r&b artists during the 60s. do you really think the people buying those records weren't fans of the original versions? it's just nonsensical

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3 years

what would they change it to

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a difference that always drove me crazy between the UK office and the US office is that the US version made the titular "office" into a desirable/aspirational workplace. talk about missing the point! anyways now there's stuff like this

Trainual

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Meet the new playbook for your office. The easy all-in-one training app for every process, policy, & SOP. Try Trainual free today at

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can't speak for the band but as someone who was young when it came out it was wildly popular among south park addicts who thought a rock band playing michael jackson was funny

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@jbouie It's really depressing how marvel has gone from treating its writers and artists like shit in the 20th century to treating its vfx people like shit in the 21st

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people eat turkey all the time! probably the most common sandwich meat. what is going on

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I think libertarianism is an incredibly stupid political philosophy but I genuinely respect this guy for being way more coherent and consistent than 99% of people who claim to believe in this stuff

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Ammon Bundy comes out in support of BLM and defunding the police. Watch conservatives lose their minds in real time in the replies

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honestly don't know what to do with mainstream democrats voluntarily embracing the premise that ronald reagan was Good. go to hell

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John Kerry: "We really need a President like Jack Kenney or Ronald Reagan who would sit there and say the buck does stop here."

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sorry but this is laughably untrue

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love to see it in the wild

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getting pushback on this, here goes: it's a cover of a hugely popular song that was less than 15 years old that doesn't change anything about the song aside from different guitar sounds. it's like if some lame rock band covered "single ladies" in 2022. it's not actually clever

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literally the only evidence this column gives of "liberal disdain" for this guy is a "community" post on the daily kos (lol). seriously who cares

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the reason avengers 4 is so long is that the whole middle act is thanos hosting the 2019 oscars

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This @byjoelanderson piece is probably the best thing I’ve read about The Last Dance and helps explain how mixing a fake promise to show the “real” MJ with sycophantic hagiography resulted in a frequently incoherent movie

Michael Jordan Is Exactly Who I Thought He Was

The Last Dance solidifies the truth about MJ, and there’s nothing romantic about it.

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seeing some tv critics with the january 6th hearings on their lists of best tv shows of the year... not really a big fan of that

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it's an important chapter of american musical history that bob dylan's son directed a movie in which method man and redman dig up the corpse of john quincy adams and smoke his bones in order to get smarter

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godard's death really deserves to be above-the-fold news. not many people who've ever lived transformed an art form to the extent that he did

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