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London terrace! She's such a fag hag omg
The former ‘Girls’ star and repeat Brooklyn townhouse buyer purchased a three-bedroom in Chelsea’s London Terrace Towers with her mother, Lorraine Kirke. curbed.com/article/jemima-ki…
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Wrote about MY (yes MY) long covid lesbian bar and the broader trend of small business implosion for @TheFP thefp.com/p/last-ditch-covid…
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NYT: “Fuck that retard,” Ms. Peltola wrote this year in the text message, after a commercial fisheries executive posted a selfie with her that caused a political headache because she is opposed to large-scale commercial trawling. “Honestly. I nothing him.”
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Beautiful and heartbreaking tribute by @madeleinekearns
My friend Dovie argued that the logic of assisted suicide assumes some lives are not worth living. His very being was a rebuke to that idea, writes Madeleine Kearns. thefp.com/p/the-bravest-man-…
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We have to start with honesty about the effects of the migrant crisis-- at many poorer NYC schools, a large share of the student body can barely speak English. From 2020 to 2024, the total share of English language learners (ELL) in NYC public schools increased from 13 to 19%.
My friend used to teach in a Brooklyn public school where something like 40% of the students were Spanish-speaking ELL. There was supposed to be a bilingual aide in every class that had a significant portion of ELL students. But on many days, he told me, the aides didn't show up or there weren't enough to cover all of the classes.
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Not much to say about the NHJ essay that hasn't already been said, but I found it overall very heartening. She writes: "These days I feel that I failed both my values and my child." It seems like the default mode for media people is never apologize, always double down. Instead, she re-examined her beliefs with a rigorous honesty, apologized to the person she hurt, and wrote about what truths that process revealed. It gives me hope, not only for the way we discuss and debate ideas, but also for a sea change in how we manage the massive failures of our public education system. nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…
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Has AI slop reached the pulpit? It's complicated. Interestingly, Christians seem to have stronger opinions about AI-assisted sermon writing than Jews.
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AI writing is everywhere— including the pulpit. I talked to pastors and rabbis where they draw the line. Underneath it all, I found something else: hunger for a good old-fashioned church scandal.
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Why did 9/11 feel different this year?
My friend, who immigrated to the US in her 20s, recently told me the pledge of allegiance always sounded odd to her- the way everyone recited it in that monotonous tone, it felt to her like a kind of brainwashing ritual (I'm paraphrasing-- she loves America and her tone was more curious than derisive).
What is "the republic, for which it stands"? What is an American? Who are our allies and enemies? On September 11, 2001, we knew. Today, not so much.
America's 250th birthday felt underwhelming compared to this year's 9/11 anniversary, I think, because it feels like there is little to celebrate and much to grieve. We grieve the nearly 3,000 American lives lost that, but also, I think, a sense of clarity— that *of course* we would raise the flag over the rubble, and we would salute it. Not because reason or logic told us to, but because we are Americans and that's what we do.
The pledge isn't just a collection of words to rattle off before the school bell rings. It's a part of a larger education in civics. The passengers on United flight 93 understood this. They gathered to discuss what their options, and they took a vote on whether or not to storm the cockpit. They knew that democracy, citizenship, and "the republic, for which it stands" were not abstractions.
I think 9/11 hurts more this year because we have been asked to never forget and we have failed. We have forgotten that we are human beings who belong to each other, who belong to a history, a tradition, and yes—to one nation, under God.
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"At death's door people pass on a responsibility -- 'Tell Billy I never stopped loving him and forgave him long ago.' 'Take care of Mom.' 'Pray for me, Father. Pray for me, I haven't been very good.'"
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"She felt like a bird sitting on her own shoulder, watching herself. She walked into a creperie where she noticed two people arguing. When they both turned and glared at her, she thought, 'Oh my God, I forgot that I am a person.'"
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Do you know what baseless means? Show the receipts if you’re going to lob accusations like that
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On gay twitter if you post physique and write about your vacation ennui they baselessly accuse you of being a secret racist
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The first month i lived in New York I went alone to the rosemont on a random weeknight and asked four guys sitting together if I could hang with them. They said yes and we all had a ki and one of them said he could get me a job at Nordstrom (i was unemployed at the time) and told me to go to their “career fair” day where I waited in line for two hours (i guess they were just interviewing whoever was patient enough to wait in line?) and then when I was next in line to go in they were like actually we’re done for the day.
Then two years later he sent me nudes and was like “omg sorry wrong person” and then two months after that he sent me nudes again
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You and CJR were both absolutely right to call attention to the signal group. The response has been... well, let's just say, enlightining.
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Great piece by @river_is_nice: a tiny Alaskan town has fought for 40 years to build a road so that people can get lifesaving medical care. Their efforts have been blocked repeatedly by environmental activists who live thousands of miles away. thefp.com/p/alaska-environme…
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I think people underestimate the role of recycling in the slow demoralization of America-- sort your trash into the right bin to show you're a good person, pay an extra fee for a cloth bag you'll never use again, pay a fine for failing to sort your recyclables. Not to mention it costs a fortune in tax $.
After all that, it turns out that the eco-bogeymen— landfills and single-use plastics—are actually better for the environment than their "greener" alternatives.
Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure.
- Recycling mid-tier plastics (like plastic bottles or butter tubs) costs thousands of dollars per ton of CO2 saved. It's cheaper to do direct air CO2 capture than that! And there is no shortage of plastic, nor any problem with sequestering it in the ground once we're done with it.
- Modern landfills are extraordinarily secure and are *much* more than just big piles of trash. They capture 75%–95% of methane gas. Groundwater contamination is doesn't really happen with landfills built since 1990. A study of 31 landfills built since 1988 in NY found no adverse effect at all on local groundwater quality.
- The crusade against single-use plastics has driven us to products that use far more materials and energy and would need to be used an absurd number of times to actually be an improvement. A steel straw needs to be used 150 times to be worth using. A ceramic mug needs to be used 1,000 times to beat a polystyrene cup. A cotton bag needs to be reused 173 times to beat single-use.
- Some things ARE worth recycling. Recycling metal saves a huge amount of energy and material – recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy spent on making fresh stuff. So we do a lot of it already: about 30% of steel worldwide is recycled.
Modern, well-run landfills cause minimal environmental damage. We have plenty of space for them – less than 0.01% of the US is used for landfill and only about 0.02% of Germany. We can even build on top of old landfills, so the land area is not spent permanently.
New in @WorksInProgMag, @robertwiblin and @chalmermagne on why it's usually best to just bury your trash. worksinprogress.co/issue/jus…
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I wrote about this! Even the 101 freeway exit for “great America parkway” in Santa Clara always felt out of place to me
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