v excited to say that I'm gonna be editing at until the fall, filling in for the great .
Please pitch me!!! I want blogs and features and everything in between:
jmirkinson at the nation dot com
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honestly “i was the dialect coach for the accent that took over its user’s entire soul” is about as good a review as you’re gonna get
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damn i didn't even know this was a category now
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I'm still pissed about that copaganda bullshit at the Grammys last night
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the grammys did a video about cops hugging protesters and then handed album of the year to harry styles…sensing a theme
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nobody manages to shoot themselves in the foot quite like the grammys
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that arena is getting burned down after this
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please not the fans
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as i stare at the clock i think back to the endless stan segment and wonder why certain choices were made
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pretty wild for the grammys to do some “what if cops were our friends” nonsense right after tyre nichols
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and the grammys were surprisingly good until this…guess that couldn’t last
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this is possibly the worst thing i have ever watched
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“police put down weapons and sing with protesters” please god not this
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america eagerly awaits the glorious day when james corden returns to england
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embarrassing
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who felt that corden needed to be the person to hand beyonce her history making grammy. and why.
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nobody has ever been more obvious cannon fodder than those other nominees
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omg madonna had to do a “please clap”
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why are the grammys trying to start stan-on-stan violence
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i really don’t think jesus needs a marketing push
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now we get trailers for super bowl ads…WHO was asking for this
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sry but you will not be able to convince me that shazam is a real movie
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how much did apple pay timmy to pretend he loves coda that much lol
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“joint slay”
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That moment when you, a Queen, come across another Queen, and discuss how best to maximize your joint slay. 
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this set is…hmm
lol lizzo wants to know where beyonce is too
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this wind is NOT fun
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of all the shows to lie about producing why would you pick one of the most notorious disasters in broadway history
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SCOOP: George Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the Broadway Spider-Man Musical. Turns out, that wasn't the case.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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analysis: jim clyburn sucks
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Analysis: Clyburn says Democrats should compromise on policing bill wapo.st/3JEveKz
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in other words, a nascent mass movement exists for this idea, and we should do it
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if I had a dollar for every time someone had suggested we add vet coverage to Medicare for All I'd have . . . well, a lot of dollars twitter.com/discourse_blog…
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is there like a law at the new york times op-ed section where you you have to do a tired trans panic take at least once a year or they fire you
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Introducing a bold new policy proposal: the government should cover the cost of pet healthcare. Or, as we've dubbed it, Pet-icare for All.
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finally a fresh perspective we haven't heard before in the new york times
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Amid a furor over the project to revise vocabulary to be more inclusive, I argue that this is liberal overreach that accomplishes little, bewilders and antagonizes voters, and ends up empowering right-wingers like Ron DeSantis: nytimes.com/2023/02/01/opi (I'm bracing myself!)
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“My leadership and voice will not be diminished if I am not on this committee for one term. My voice will get louder and stronger.”
-- U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota
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Hear me out: the government should cover the cost of pet healthcare. It's Pet-icare for All!
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#BREAKING: In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth Miami Mayor Ponzi Postalita Francis Suarez just unveiled a Black History police cruiser with images of Africa all over it. #BecauseMiami
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They say you should look at a governor’s budget if you want to know what they really stand for. looked at Kathy Hochul’s, and….
hellgatenyc.com/hochul-budget-
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Reflecting on Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay—I wrote about how fighting for safety in Asian American communities means looking beyond policing to empower and bridge Asian Americans in different movements to organize around united political demands for community safety.
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Recent massacres have made anti-Asian violence seem more entrenched than ever. But there are concrete steps we can take right now to make our communities safer.
bit.ly/3HTib6Q
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