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When I worked there in 2018, we had a whole slate of nakba-anniversary pieces lined up that got killed at the last minute. Still very 🤔 about what happened there, tbh.
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Martha Lincoln
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Cannot believe my eyes. This is the top-read essay in The Atlantic today
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today's remarks might wind up being administration-defining. not sure the White House comprehends.
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Sabrina Siddiqui
8 months
Asked about the high death toll in Gaza, Biden says he doesn't believe "the Palestinians are telling the truth." "I'm sure innocents have been killed and it's the price of waging a war," Biden says. The U.N. & experts say statistics are mostly accurate.
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“Sometimes something is treated as an official secret not in the hope that an adversary would never find out about it but rather [because] the U.S. government ... does not want to officially acknowledge it ... " via @kenklippenstein + @DRBoguslaw :
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genuinely curious as to how this can be incredible to anyone who has been remotely, even negligibly, conscious since 2015
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McKay Coppins
6 months
Incredible: 64% of Republicans say Donald Trump is a "person of faith." Only 34% say Mitt Romney is.
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Would like to see my former employers grow a spine and stand up for their brilliant reporters and editors.
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Ben Mullin
6 months
NEW: BI parent Axel Springer says it’s going to take “a couple of days” to “review the processes” around BI’s stories related to Neri Oxman, an academic and Bill Ackman’s wife, even though “the facts of the reports have not been disputed.”
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11 months
this, from @cordjefferson , is the whole thing in a nutshell
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7 months
not but 15 minutes ago had been wondering who'd lined up Bass on Kissinger. was not expecting:
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8 months
Media can really do a number on you, especially when you come to see how barely concealed political agendas routinely compromise editorial integrity.
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6 months
A car went inside
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JUST IN: A car went inside the Whole Foods in Bethesda, Maryland, on Sunday, damaging the produce section and disrupting grocery shopping.
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1 year
genuinely, truly wondering how a party can be both cancelled and be written about in this magazine
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Emma Green
1 year
Read my piece on Pamela's crowd. The party, indeed, is cancelled.
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Dad doing his best Cormac McCarthy in the family chat:
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“Privately,” is cracking me up
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“Privately, Trump aides admit that having their candidate’s name in the same sentence as Hitler and Mussolini this week isn’t a positive.”
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some more, non-turtle-neck-related personal news: i am joining Bloomberg as a senior editor...!
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literally one of the most useful paragraphs i've ever read about oil and gas via @phenomenalworld
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when you yell it like this, it's even better
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*Walter Bloomberg
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BIDEN SAYS U.S WAS NOT INVOLVED IN RUSSIA SITUATION
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literally every third person on the street in manhattan is looking directly at the sun right now
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2 months
if you grew up in texas in the 80s and 90s, this is the only picture they ever let you look at. they'd literally send you to jail if you tried to look at anything else -- haven't checked if the rules have changed since (not going to bother)
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Houstorian
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Today in 1836, following his San Jacinto defeat, Mexican Army leader Santa Anna is captured. Gen. Houston would shrewdly spare his life in exchange for two treaties recognizing the Republic of Texas.
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hair ->
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. @sidhubaba hired as a senior editor at @business :
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@rmc031 @TheAtlantic Forget it, Rachel, it's Atlantic Town.
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4 months
Need to know everything about every decision that went into the wording of this push alert
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4 months
@ewong you may have already said this, but did the author reach out to you for comment?
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A fiery union boss. A Wall Street hotshot. A contract that could transform the lives of 340,000 workers, forever altering the deliveries business and laying the groundwork for big time organizing efforts at Amazon... Folks, it's all here, READ IT:
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Imagining the piece that could've been been built around this data --
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10 months
magnificent essay by Osita Nwanevu that keys in on an unavoidable truth: any real reckoning with the history of the New Democrats requires, as a prerequisite, an acceptance of their quite serious commitment to markets
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"If anything, he said, the deal will help Ford, in part because the four-year contract ensures there will be no labor strife during an intense phase of the transition to electric vehicles."
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2 months
The host of a podcast I appeared on several years ago referred to this particular strain of diasporoidism as producing the perfect sort of 'neoliberal achievement monster,' or something to this effect
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revolutionary girl stylo
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this is unironically how many Indian diasporoids think. it's why most of the Indian kids in my graduating class became copy paste doctor/engineer/pharmacist/scientist. systematic devaluing and suspicion of social causes
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3 months
excellent, accessible, point-by-point breakdown of 'how you do journalism'
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Saagar Enjeti
3 months
PROOF that NYMAG acted like duplicitous character assassins in their smear job on Andrew Huberman from emails I've obtained. Detailed below and in video: 1. NYMAG obsequiously emailed Huberman's team in August 2023 indicating they wanted to write a glowing profile : "When my
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The book is not at all a hagiography, treats the promethean comparison skeptically (even mockingly at times), and leaves you with an *incredibly* nuanced picture of Oppenheimer and the times he lived in and shaped.
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Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer 🏳️‍🌈
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3/n For the record: I have never read “American Prometheus” on which the Nolan film “Oppenheimer” is apparently based. I find much of the hagiography of Oppenheimer & equating of Oppenheimer & Prometheus…distasteful. At best. Reddit:
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1 year
more headlines, even, like, basic write ups of earnings, need to be straight owns
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"The lesson of the past four decades is also that every attempt to wipe out Palestinian armed groups has only produced more extreme iterations and worse conundrums." The indispensable @KimGhattas :
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yep, loved these touches -- via @BilgeEbiri
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for perspective, none of the 49ers players were alive during the gold rush (of 1849)
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2 months
when it comes to matching writer with subject, i have to tell you, without apology or humility, i am the best in the game
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David Klion
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If you're wondering, why did he do this piece... so in December, @sidhubaba and I had the following DM exchange. I thought we were joking around, didn't followup. Then a few months later @RyuSpaeth pitched this exact idea to me and I realized history had selected me for this role
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Alex Zaitchik, one of the only true real ones, has a new piece. looks tremendous:
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@Schwartzesque still the greatest handshake of all time
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1 year
pretty key points from @TheStalwart
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1 year
🚨 . @Vinncent is back in (book) action !!! 🚨
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6 months
give his man a tv show. bill maher's slot. whatever. just get him off twitter.
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Will Stancil
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Unions are great and I wish we had stronger labor politics but I do always think it’s strange when they’re talked about as part of “the left,” when neither the members nor the organizations are typically super radical
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“Put another way, ChatGPT seems so human because it was trained by an AI that was mimicking humans who were rating an AI that was mimicking humans who were pretending to be a better version of an AI that was trained on human writing.”
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in journalism "TK" means "too korny" but they wont tell you that
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Lying here at 630am on a Friday, groggy and half conscious, did not expect to get choked up by this, but here we are
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the only good emoji is the "salute" guy -- kind of fascist, kind of adorable, always trying hard, he's in your corner
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These are four different people
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there is a vast gulf between a topic and a story, but if you try to tell a normal person not involved in professional editing this, they will send you to The Hague
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9 months
Buddy, correct this and promise to get it right next time, your readers will respect it.
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Adam Wren
9 months
Wrote about the coming labor realignment for POLITICO Nightly.
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@elenasb_ wow... never thought about it like that.
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"The Times turned crucial elements of its reporting on one of the most difficult and sensitive stories it has ever published to amateurs, one of whose social media posts would make reasonable people question her ability to be fair."
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9 months
@NBCNews also i like the idea that this photo was taken at the exact moment Biden asked Rahm to cut it out
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10 months
all columnists should be required to interview at least 3 sources for every 200 words they write -- as a treat.
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in 2019 i felt kicked to the curb and truly without direction. working at Insider turned it all around for me, because of the curious, strange, hilarious, whipsmart, down-to-earth newsroom. feel gutted for my pals today.
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" ... to summarize, Deputy Mayor Phil Banks, close friend and advisor to the mayor, high-ranking City official, bought a company five years ago from a guy alleged to have run a straw donor operation for the mayor's campaign."
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“It is because of land reforms that our poverty ratio is 10 percent, which is less than half of all India level; our indebtedness at 12.67 is nearly one third of the national average ... there is a near absence of landless labor ... "
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really good
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should be said, @nichcarlson gave me the support and courage to make Big, Weird Things on the internet. a very rare thing in this business.
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vollman, alex 'yung vollman,' nunez, kriss ... new @Harpers is STACKED
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5 months
never seen anything quite like it
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lmao
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April 9 should be a national holiday on the level of, or frankly even superseding, July 4
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Bro that Texas native has a name … It’s @cd_hooks !!!
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@JakeAnbinder i take your point, but, man, talk to some folks who have 'made it' at some of our prestige outlets without a single in, either via a family or social network ...
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6 months
found this on my phone
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1 year
some personal news -- i was very overdressed at Do or Dive last night... (turtle neck)
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2 months
the volume of bullshit journalism produced over the past week has been astonishing.
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@nozomimeanshope imagine how much stronger your critique will be if you see the thing you're critiquing so you have some evidence to point to
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horror movie premised on the idea that "the venga bus is coming" but that that is emphatically a bad thing
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1 year
Oh, as do the rest of us!
@charlottetklein
Charlotte Klein
1 year
Weeks later, NYT staffers still have questions about that Elizabeth Holmes profile:
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9 months
i dont care what anyone says, this tweet format works
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Slate
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Whoa—you have GOT to read this.
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one of the most quietly horrifying grafs i've ever read
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"It’s taken me a time to understand what colonialism means ... I think I understand it now. It’s when the dominant culture is everywhere."
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2 months
tbh i always found this moment deeply perplexing
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am i crazy or do these gloves fit perfectly?
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Need more reflective mea culpas like this But hoping for more writing that recognizes the foundational work of Barry C. Lynn, who, for decades, was the only guy in Washington preaching sanity on competition, markets, and the cult of efficiency.
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@JakeAnbinder it's not, like, 'nepotism in theory,' it's 'this guy got this level of attention and platform while who knows how many other pitches/ideas from folks beyond the inner circle got shot down-nepotism-in real time practice'
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5 months
it is because they are both called joe
@JimVandeHei
Jim VandeHei
5 months
🚨🚨Scoop: Biden “obsessed” with @morningjoe . Staff plot 7 am appearances to reach POTUS…Biden calls Joe for advice, to vent, and aides are in regular contact with his panel…lots of great ⁦ @AlexThomp ⁩ details…
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my birthday wish? to simply sit still and unmoving, exerting essentially zero energy, for as long as superhumanly possible
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literally crying (joy) at this setlist, @DissentMag
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"People would say that she’s fragile ... No, no, no. Many people would have collapsed under the weight of being Sinead O’Connor, had it not been Sinead."
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6 months
not sure this person should be speaking on behalf of a newsroom, any newsroom.
@BillAckman
Bill Ackman
6 months
This is the text I received from the Business Insider director when we were trying to arrange a call for Sunday morning: “Thanks, Bill. I read your posts. (If you ever get sick of managing money, you will be in great demand as a writer. I know from experience that it is harder
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never going to click on a story by the guy who, when we were colleagues, thought i was some other indian guy in the newsroom
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"Alice would create serene, drifting arrangements that centered her own harp playing against Sanders’s melodic saxophone and McBee’s soothing bass. Here, it seemed, Alice wanted to lull listeners into deeper states of calm."
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@Ali_Gharib I was literally scratching my chin while tweeting and wanted to share that experience…
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tremendous work from the best guy i know, my boy . @tom_stackpole very much haunted by this graf:
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just burned my ticket to OPPENHEIMER after learning Jason Mantzoukas is, in fact, not in it
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vital history on Israeli blockade-induced food insecurity in Gaza
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10 months
When you've amassed $27 billion in the tech world, Washington tends to treat your word as gospel on all things AI and China -- even when you stand to profit off big government investments in AI. Call it the Eric Schmidt experience.
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1 year
one of my fave details from this @eosnos piece
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1 year
when people were openly, brutally mean to and about Tom Cruise .... that was a better, funnier time ....
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well OPPENHEIMER wrecked me …
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7 months
Stunning tweet
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Kaitlan Collins
7 months
Coming up at 9 tonight on CNN, Charles Barkley and Gayle King interview Secretary Blinken on whether Israeli forces are heeding U.S. calls to operate differently, followed by our panel's post-GOP debate analysis with @andersoncooper at 10. Join us.
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1 year
when you're going 5 or 6,000 words deep on a topic of existential importance and you + your editor do not to pick a central character or bother with scene development, no matter how much i care about said topic, i'm truly sorry, that is an affront to the reader
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1 year
I like the idea that just showed up because they knew that
@CBSNews
CBS News
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GOLDEN HOUR: Hundreds of golden retrievers gathered in Scotland to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the breed’s founding.
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US journalists are completely addicted to work, which is not good, but it does make this uninformed statement really insulting and ludicrous.
@semaforben
Ben Smith
1 year
New @WSJ editor reportedly stunned by how little American journalists work
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@kylebuchanan ok but has anyone fed him??
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1 year
Not sure what it says about me or my acceptance of change -- natural or unnatural -- but I resist the idea of a vastly altered Austin because it gives me great sadness to think about other people, newer to the city, knowing it better than I do
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Siddhartha Mahanta
3 months
I understand the point, but calling I'M NOT THERE a biopic really waters down just how radical an experiment Haynes undertook with this movie. It's a poetic meditation on artistic inspiration, identity, authenticity, and possibility...
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Margaret "Molly" Rasberry🏳️‍🌈🍉
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I still am so confused why they’re making a Bob Dylan biopic when we already had the best musical biopic that went through all his periods and homaged music and film styles in such a uniquely erudite fashion that didn’t dumb itself down for non Dylan fans.
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