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Posts by Tom Zoellner

That was Kylie Minogue

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“Intoxicated” — with what? I huffed no glue, garcon.

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Yes, because that would fix everything.

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Another example of unused tenure.

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The academy generally doesn’t care about engaging narratives which is one of the reasons why ordinary readers stay away.

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I was thinking about the careful evaluation and documentation of mineral outflows.

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All the more qualifications for mine inspector. This should go on a glossy door hanger.

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“That’s a mighty fine mine, yessir. We done here?” ::chugs Coors Lite::

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The idea that historians only of a particular identity should be allowed to write or speak about that identity’s history seems kinda dangerous.

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Been meaning to send an email. Stay tuned!

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This book is outstanding.

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This was exactly the approach that made LARB great.

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

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And she doesn’t split her infinitives!

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I done got throwed off that site.

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It is a well-known rule of journalism that the subject of a profile is granted absolute power over the content.

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No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

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$1.5T military budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$500M sending National Guard into cities
$250M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ on Trump's golf outings
$75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip

Priorities.

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Thst is a sub-Constitutional office

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Badly written, too. Full of bromides and generalizations.

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Perfect

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Trump's dictatorship coup is now fully in the open. Wake up America.

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That misses the point of serving as a landmark.

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This is not the first time you’ve made that reference

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Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…

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Your spirit Muppet here seems to be one of those cranky old codgers up in the opera box.

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Kermit wears a raincoat when he covers the news.

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Antagonists like to slam @radiofreetom.bsky.social for decrying the fascist characteristics of Trump while refusing to call it such. But they should point out a worse hypocrisy: labeling 1970s music "a horrid stew of disco and wimp-rock hits" in The Atlantic while rocking out to #AT40 in private.

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Good reporting by The D, though.

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