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Our Person of the Year is our social media manager Brandy. This is a real honor and not something she made up because she's had some wine.
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hey check this shit out: they're remaking John Wick with your son as the bad guy who kills a dog.
so sorry to hear your niece lost a limb taking on the school board.
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“Add a little water” my man’s eating sloppy steaks
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Dude you work for the company that hired Chris Cillizza.
ted cruz and his friends look like normcore bushwick art bro idiots about to start their own chapo knockoff
Hong Kong’s protestors are caught between liberation and a looming crackdown.
Rick Perry got a D in a college class called "Meats." Thank you that is all.
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DOE Rick Perry at coal plant:"Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand. You put the supply out there and the demand will follow."
alas it is probably inferior to quillette’s marketing strategy (eugenics) but we do what we can 😔
apologies in advance but:
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's covfefe
For many Hongkongers, 2019 was a grueling emotional journey that changed how they viewed themselves and the city they call home.
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Now, when you say “American Heartland,” are you referring to Harvard, or McKinsey, or...?
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In the face of unprecedented challenges, we need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics we’ve come to know and expect.
. on Trump and "his appeal as an aspirational brand to the worst people in the United States."
it is our firm editorial stance that Billy sucks ass.
Obama’s refusal to pardon Snowden has nothing to do with the law. Instead, it’s about appeasing political elites.
For two decades Hong Kong has held an annual vigil to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre. Now the Chinese government is poised to ban the event.
*responsible for the Iraq War voice* my norms!!!!!
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Leaking transcripts of his Trump's calls is a dangerous violation of norms, argues @DavidFrum: theatln.tc/2unnrqk
“Younger users aren’t ditching Facebook because of Alex Jones; they are leaving because listening to all of America’s uncles at once is our literal nightmare.”
The Baffler is building a competing, multi-platform brand around a doll that spits up on itself.
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Hi John, magazine here. We’re writing a story about shit-grinning sociopaths and wanted to chat about your experiences being an asshole.
Word, we'll now refer to him as "super fucking racist"
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NEW Arpaio's team will put out statement asking media to stop saying he is racist; he's been distressed by mischaracterization of reports
Eritrea has no constitution, no elections, no legislature, and no press. It is controlled by one man: Isaias Afewerki. And he has his sights set on Tigray.
Once upon a time, commentators said the 2008 financial crisis spelled the end of the McMansion. They were wrong: it’s still very much with us, but with fewer Corinthian columns and more shiplap.
Ayn Rand's Wiener Palace
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Charlottesville white nationalist demonstrator fired from libertarian hot dog shop wapo.st/2w6AroD
By obsessively citing pop culture as their model, liberals have shown a distaste for substantive political action. buff.ly/2fRuiVy
J. D. Vance’s narrative doesn’t just blame Appalachia for its own cycle of poverty. It ignores America’s broader culpability for ignoring and demonizing the people there.
From , on June 4 vigils, Hong Kong’s democracy protests, and the Chinese government moves to crack down on both.
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the single most ratioed tweet of all time is going to occur within the next 24 hours
Traditional straight masculinity is a disaster guided by the prevailing winds of capitalism. Lucky us, Bobby, Karamo, Jonathan, Tam and Antoni are here to clean up the mess.
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The Proud Boys aren’t some obscure, alternative alt-right faction. They are the militant wing of the Republican Party. They are mainstream.
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Hi Darrell. Magazine here. I’m wondering if you could provide relief for your gaping asshole.
Sanders, and other grassroots candidates, are an existential threat to the DNC because they will, *checks notes*, “marginalize the professionals in the Democratic party.”
hahahahahahahaha fuck.
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As the only POTUS to lead a major union, @ronaldreagan40 will be inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor: dol.gov/newsroom/relea
Good morning to everyone in this very normal country.
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Trump proposes "IQ tests" face-off with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a "moron" wapo.st/2g8VTE6
Back in 2018, wrote about the Caliphate podcast, and how journalistic ethics go out the window when westerners cover the War on Terror. The Times retracted huge portions of Caliphate's story today.
Donald Trump is, first and foremost, an enormous asshole. buff.ly/2v2TD7u
From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a flurry of radical organizing around health, from the Black Panthers to the Young Lords to ACT UP and Germany’s SPK. “Health Communism” argues for recovering the spirit of such efforts.
Eritrea’s decision yesterday to join the attack on the Ethiopian region of Tigray is the culmination of dictator Isaias Afewerki’s ambition to control the Horn of Africa.
Tucker Carlson is no longer the corny, bow-tied loser we all remember from the early 2000s. These days he makes his living as a smug hate-merchant, a worst-in-class media shill.
All the world’s dickhead uncles are radicalizing one another on Facebook.
Deadspin was a good website, ruined by the stupidest goddamn vultures in private equity. We stand with .
The Federalist reviews The Federalist. twitter.com/FDRLST/status/
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Fans of The Baffler's signature Photoshops, take note: Adobe will not allow us to put a graduation cap on a $100 bill because it thinks we are trying to do crimes
🎼 No one's slick as Macron / No one's quick as Macron / No one hates unions quite like this dick here Macron 🎼
When you've made a mistake on Twitter one thing is abundantly clear: you must address the octopus in the room.
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@benschwartzy on one of America’s singularly despicable entities, and an airline.
get fucked
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I am pleased that @FLCourts confirms that Amendment 4 requires fines, fees & restitution be paid to victims before their voting rights may be restored. Voting is a privilege that should not be taken lightly, and I am obligated to faithfully implement Amendment 4 as it is defined.
Last year, Strand bookstore owner Nancy Bass Wyden published an op-ed against Amazon’s physical bookstores. This year, she purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars in Amazon stock after laying off dozens of her employees in the midst of a pandemic.
When you're ready to take the first born child, but then she guesses your true name
Saudi Arabia is building a 105-mile-long luxury horizontal skyscraper in the desert. writes on the rank hypocrisy of the prestigious architecture firms that have signed on to help make this dystopia a reality.
Thanks for listening. Remember when you got punched in the face and cried about it.
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I haven't read her book yet, but from this, @AngNagle understands the Alt-Right (and Alt-Lite) much, much better than most. twitter.com/thebafflermag/
From , on the shockingly racist speech that ruined Charles Lindbergh’s public image in 1941, but would barely make a ripple today.
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It’s been 75 years since the Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were permanently expelled from their homes. Today, we’re resharing our “Poems From Palestine” series, curated and translated by Fady Joudah and .
In 1970, 210,000 postal workers walked off the job in a wildcat strike. Not even the sixteen thousand federal troops that Nixon dispatched to New York post offices could move it.
From , on the six-word phrase that is a dumb person’s idea of what a smart person might sound like.
The uproar over Omar’s comments isn’t about anti-Semitism. It’s about silencing any statements on Israel that are not sufficiently right-of-center.
fuck off
“The NFL is selective and self-serving and alternately priggish and thuggish in how it goes about maintaining its strange brand.”
The Baffler is devastated to hear of the passing of Barbara Ehrenreich: beloved contributing editor and one of the most important voices on the left for half a century. With her peerless writing and unwavering commitments, Barbara inspired generations to fight the good fight.
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Sad news. Barbara Ehrenreich, my one and only mother, died on September 1, a few days after her 81st birthday. She was, she made clear, ready to go. She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.
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No one hits like Macron/ Matches wits like Macron/ Takes some time out to say racist shit like Macron
“The Vessel betrays the fact that behind the glitzy, techno-urbanist facade of the Smart City™ lies the cold machinations of a police state.”
guess not lol
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Andrew Yang is a known quantity.
Will that be enough to catapult him to a mayorship?
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imagine ordering HOT DOGS from people who think health inspectors are tyrants
this fucking rules
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#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown
Novartis says charging $2.1 million for a dose of Zolgensma, their treatment for a rare and deadly form of muscular atrophy that afflicts four hundred babies a year, is a “reasonable approach.” We disagree!
