Nick Clairmont
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I know that I shall meet my fate, Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love.
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Remains hilarious that the Canadian government fabricated vivid details of a fake child genocide it had committed to memorialize because it was bored in Covid lockdowns and now stubbornly refuses to admit that’s what happened
It has been two years since the remains of 215 children were discovered in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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Something I find frustrating is that depending on career and social limitations, one can talk about Obvious Bullshit Liberals Are Taken In By only with a three year time delay, not things from right this second
What I have always found fascinating about DiAngelo—who was quite transparently a moron doing garbage work—is that so many smart people read White Fragility and took it seriously. Watching intelligent people be hoodwinked by an obvious kook was a lesson in ideological hysteria.
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Let me give you my thoughts on the Holy Roman Empire
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Let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI
1. Diversity
Good businesses look where others don't, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed.
You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various
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Wrote a piece about the actual most conclusive climate science of Hawaiian drought, and how media outlets seem to be unaware or uninterested in it in lieu of claiming things that are unsupported or untrue
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Is there a big article explaining why if you read only the biggest 6 or so names in SCOTUS commentary — Dahlia Lithwick, Jane Mayer, Mark Joseph Stern, Elie Mystal, Ian Milheiser, my friend Steven Mazie, hate to say — you’d be bad at making betting odds about SCOTUS outcomes?
This is another case in which most of the Court's liberal justices are well to the right of Supreme Court commentators.
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The “we” here is a small segment of very wealthy white people who didn’t notice that “The Case for Reparations” did serious political harm to American life and failed at everything but being a psychodramatic parlor game, one of whom bought The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine.
Read our new cover story now:
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As of today, I have not had an alcoholic drink for one year.
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The last 24 hours have been a little like if the BBC and New York Times spent the last week of May 2020 printing wild rumors from white supremacist 4chan about George Floyd
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This is a website of great, confident wrongness undergirded by asscovering pedantry
As a matter of mathematics, a Venn diagram can only be three circles.
If you have four circles, the maximum number of distinct regions you can create is 14, rather than the required 2^4=16.
This is because two circles can intersect in at most two points.
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Lotta funny lockdown boredom national crackups tbh. England also tried to have a George Floyd protests summer because a serial killer was also a cop, totally misunderstanding the whole issue of “police killings”
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Republicans are such a mess my god
We look forward to hearing Naomi Wolf’s perspective on vaccine passports in committee tomorrow. Wolf is a noted author and feminist leader.
People also can watch the hearing live on our Facebook page at
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Why is there such a thing as a “disinformation reporter?” Aren’t all reporters people who try to separate information from falsity?
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The UN is a failed organization that makes the world more full of suffering, death, poverty, stupidity, and unfairness. All appeals to its name reveal the appealer as a dupe or scoundrel.
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RIP to the trope of the French not winning, 1815-2023
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This woman who is arguing for the Lebanese system of governance was held up as a great fighter against government corruption
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I love David Mamet but like, there are lots of dumb ideas and obsessions we will just be rid of when the last boomer finally dies. Giving one shit about the Kennedy family is the one I’m most looking forward to.
Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, John Travolta, Shia LaBeouf, Rebecca Pidgeon & Courtney Love Set For David Mamet's JFK Thriller ...
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Read me in Common Sense from Odessa, one of the greatest cities I have ever been to, and one I hope can stay that way.
Thanks to
@bariweiss
for publishing!
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For example, right this second major institutions of the news media are running a campaign by proxy for the Democratic candidate for president
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I joke around a lot but we really have got to stop Covington Kidsing away media credibility
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@jessesingal
Whole dynamic is tragic. Rightwingers are so used to being covered dishonestly that when they see a headline about “loud noises” in a situation that common sense says is gunshots, the impulse to do media criticism kicks in reflexively.
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I hate to do this to you guys, but this is an Important piece.
If you’ve struggled to give voice to what feels simultaneously petty and tyrannical about our political environment’s daily demands, struggle no more
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@VenomLance
Is its model name branded to tie in to foggy nostalgic memories of an earlier model that was much more unique though difficult to live with, thus making it loveable in theory but ultimately unacceptable to the modern consumer?
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That Hemingway baby shoes short story can’t be outdon- oh
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-A really insane narrative about "book bans" and who is doing most prevention of literature these days
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This is why no matter your political orientation, you cannot only read a couple publications, and they can't all be from one side. The place that really owned the story of this being an obvious fraud grifter was National Review
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Burning Man, the festival where San Francisco brogrammers ride bikes nude on bad Molly, is suing the govt to stop a zero carbon energy project, as attendees are stopped by climate protesters, who are rammed out of the way by Native tribal police driving a Chevy pickup.
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These are a cool product and there is literally no reason to object to them
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this is a real thing people are proposing and enacting specifically for "equity" reasons, and people should debate the merits of that, not claim it isn't happening
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I feel like if you just asked people “do you think journalists work in a noble profession but generally do a terrible job, blinded by partisanship and self regard?” you’d get 100 percent yeses and figure out why this study produced apparently contradictory results
The study defined five core principles or beliefs that drive most journalists. And it found that non-journalists offer unqualified majority support for only one of them – the idea that the press should provide people with facts.
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Here is a question I have: In workplace sexual harassment law, it is taken as a given that you cannot display content of a sexual nature in the workplace (for ur-example, a calendar of women in bikinis). That's harassment. (I agree its inappropriate behavior.)
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Only 38 percent of Democratic voters believe that race should be a factor in admissions, but only *9 percent* believe it should be a major factor. That’s 9 percent of a party that less than half Pew’s sample (more Dem learners than Repub, but some neither).
Pleased the Supreme Court could bolster the case for its democratic legitimacy today.
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In my opinion, the New York Times should not publish misleading language about what people of color believe in order to smear the majority of Americans their staff disagrees with as racist.
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As of right now, August 2024, Liberals have delusional and deranged opinions about:
-The Supreme Court and the dangers to the hwole system of checks and balances of attempting to reform it
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Reality: white people in aggregate agree with NYT and nonwhite people love the supposedly segregationist, racist thing here.
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-whether the Gaza Ministry of Health saying something has literally any bearing at all on the likelihood that it is ballpark true
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-A really insane narrative about danger to gays in places run by Republicans such as Florida, which is downstream of a general wrong sense of how important governors and state governments are to daily life (not very)
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@ZaidJilani
No, I don’t think that explains the phenomenon here. I think it’s a failure to even recognize such a thing as the distinction between legal reasoning and political/moral reasoning.
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A great deal of the media is just kids from selective schools and and colleges viciously squabbling for status, a continuous process with middle school, except with great power over how the American people experience reality.
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@harrysiegel
It’s well within the margin of New Yorkers not counted because they were dead specifically because Andrew Cuomo negligently got them killed and then covered it up in ways we can document while writing a book about his visionary leadership
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@robbysoave
@KeithOlbermann
It’s nice when we can help a low information news consumer get educated about the science.
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@katrosenfield
the sturgis motorcycle rally and the trans black lives matter protest caused a wildly different number of provable cases, to be fair. to be fairer, tracers were explicitly forbidden from looking into the latter. to be fairest, neither caused many.
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Is this that “misinformation” I have been hearing so much about
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Personally I would rather the rules for the workplace (strict, prude) become more like the rules for an elementary school (libertine). But I do insist that I should have at least as much legal freedom in my adult workplace as an 8 year old enjoys? Is that nuts?
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It is not possible to consistently believe
1) that stolen FarmVille data illegitimately swayed 2016 with CA using sinister data magic to learn user voting preferences
2) that Twitter can do whatever it wants to change the reach of users’ posts with no higher civic implications
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This is classic pseudo-progressive journalism, in that it talks over actual people of color and spreads misinformation to serve the interests of rich people.
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Oh no, what if starting now we start getting artistically bad movies being given Oscars based on tokenism and the white guilt complex of rich LA progressives?
Oscars voters: new diversity rules for Best Picture ‘completely ridiculous’
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(The next sentence also should not have survived editing, as what the pandemic demonstrated is that in-person education is essential to communities, but public schools staffed by union teachers cannot be trusted to provide it. And this is the argument for… school choice.)
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This is not the same people. Dominant Christian culture lost, new atheism won and became a victim of its own success. Christian prudes still exist and thought that but left-liberal prudes are dominant now.
Many of the people who argued in 1995 that sex was very bad are now very upset in 2023 that teens aren’t having sex in the backseat of their cars
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According to this big new story in the NYT Magazine, the primary way you the reader should understand the school choice movement is in terms of its alleged “roots” which “can be traced back” to desegregation. In other words, school choice is racist.
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Republicans have a CULT OF PERSONALITY unlike us who just vote for this decent man who has a beautiful family of crackheads appointed to the board of Amtrak and is grieving with great empathy
Stelter says the main difference between the two parties is that Dem leadership is actively considering dropping Biden, whereas GOP would never turn on Trump. This seems backwards to me.
Democratic *voters* signaled in poll after poll that they wanted someone other than Biden,
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LMAO
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This is the tech reporting equivalent of saying “oh you’re a socialist? And yet you buy products with MONEY checkmate”
The software company
@basecamp
has decided to ban political discussion on their company account
But this is a POLITICAL DECISION and artificially enforcing a work culture that, in the view of the owners, is apolitical, will create a new kind of political culture
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NYT Mag therapy issue lead essay concedes it’s unscientific to believe the fields of psychology and psychiatry help, but concludes you can ignore that knowledge if you feel submission to authority in the therapist-patient relationship grants you comfort
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In
@AirMailWeekly
, me on the amateur sleuth who used his spare time to uncover the real biggest story in crypto and set off the FTX collapse — while major news organizations were writing about Sam Bankman-Fried’s ethical philosophy
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I took the vaccine just to make the dude who wrote this mad
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My tolerance for describing or classifying things that are not literally diseases as "public health" crises has declined significantly since November 17, 2019
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What is the evidence the Canadian wildfires of 2023 are attributable to climate change? This article repeats it multiple times, endorsing telling it to children, but there is no such evidence, and any attribution would be partial, a few percent.
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A lot of "science journalists" just can't imagine reading a state of the current institutional/consensus study rather than calling one "source" they'll quote as "experts." These incompetent "science journalists" are enemies of science and of journalism.
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Me and the boys going out on the town saying the word “rife”
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Indigeneity is a fundamentally racist concept but you all aren't ready for that conversation
On Indigenous Peoples Day, let us reckon with our nation’s legacy of genocide while celebrating the continued existence of this lands’ original stewards. Today—and every day—I am with native people in the fight for sovereignty, land rights, and environmental justice.
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It certainly seems to me that I could be liable to be fired or sued if I displayed it in my office and it was seen by other adults at the magazine where I work editing book reviews, under current United States Federal Law.
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@katrosenfield
no, our brave journalists would never spread misinformation about Science in the middle of a pandemic
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I don’t care very much about Twitter anymore because I’m only on for a few days here and there, but the shadowbanning is a nothingburger thing 5 years after the maximally hysterical Cambridge Analytica freakout is a bit like when everyone flipped on warrantless wiretapping
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Why is there a “male loneliness” discourse rn? The cure for male loneliness and lagging academic performance isn’t some difficult question. Society just has to make it socially acceptable to
say “retarded” again and men will flourish
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I love how gingerly the NYT approaches countenancing mentioning even one reasonable person who agrees with this view that 2 in every 3 Americans and most nonwhite Americans hold
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Again, I could not have this book open on my desk at work, where I work with adults on an editorial product, and be sure I am right with the law.
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@CaitlinPacific
Great pick!
Like, this "most banned book in America" according to the American Library Association is removed from elementary school libraries by fascistoid Republicans on the argument that it's porn. Right or wrong, is that absurd?
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Will never forgive ~the discourse~ for making me think about the way this would code the opposite way now politically
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No peeking: Guess the headline of the story this NYT Mag passage comes from
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It's actually really important that more people know their rights w/r/t inherited debt. People pay lots of money to collectors of dead relatives' debt every year not knowing they don't legally have to
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If this is your whole beat, it should be a firing offense to write something like one of the stories I link to in the piece. Lying or being negligent and incurious about science is obviously not acceptable behavior for a science reporter.
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Lurked on Twitter for a day, developed a strong outraged opinion about a subject that literally does not matter at all and have a strong impulse to yell at someone I don't know for being wrong on the internet. Going to log out for 3 more months and go happily read books
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@shadihamid
Can’t think of any group or institution that dehumanizes Palestinians more? How about the UN, Arab-nationalist intellectuals as a group, Hamas…
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Ahem
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Anyway, sorry to my several friends at WaPo but I hope the whole place shuts down and the building turns into an Olive Garden. World would be a better place.
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@AlexanderPayton
This is a viral ad. It’s surprising to me when otherwise savvy social internet users can’t see that “contentious AITA-style engagement grabbing topic + brand name + posted about by PR pro = ad”
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Etc.
To be clear for those who can only hear things with this sort of caveat, many conservatives also believe things that are not true or over-enthuse over stuff for group dynamics reasons, based on narrative construction in rightwing media.
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None of the conservative organizations or people I know have a tendency to self-denounce as dramatically as possible
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@jbarro
@JHWeissmann
I’ve stopped doing it specifically because I consider it a salutary and pro-social civic contribution to help break the social norm for outdoor mask wearing.
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Ask not what your country can glue itself to for you, ask what you can glue yourself to for your country
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Do you guys remember the approximately 71 days when we were like:
“roaring 20s” haha. Like the 1920s, but 100 years later, when we are alive. Get it? It’s gonna be great!
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Is most of the Nazi memorabilia in the United States held and displayed by people who intend it as a sort of endorsement of Nazi ideas? Or is it mainly people who like killed a Nazi and brought back his helmet or dagger? Pretty sure it's 2-98
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