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A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
When Shane Gillis performed his monologue on Saturday Night Live last month, he opened with a joke about why he was previously fired from the show. “Don’t look that up, please,” he says with a smile. “It’s fine, don’t even worry about it.”
If you do look it up, you’ll come across Seth Simons’s reporting for the Los Angeles Times, which details Shane’s long history of using slurs against Jewish, Chinese, and Black people. In one podcast episode, Shane shares his enthusiastic support for Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist militant organization that promotes political violence. In another, Shane says, “If the blood rushes to my head, all my blood’s racist. I do have racist blood.”
AIPAC has become the key force against progressives in Democratic primaries, but a new coalition is seeking to protect the party’s left flank.
The post The Left Is Finally Building a Response to AIPAC appeared first on The Intercept.
Oppenheimer
There’s been a half-finished copy of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ on your bedside table for the past five years. But maybe THIS year, you’ll finally get around to finishing it. You’re also likely a white male between the ages of thirty-nine and sixty-five.
The Dark Knight
You were a psychology major in college, hence your fascination with the Joker’s “dog chasing cars” MO. There’s so much meaning hiding behind the nihilism, you insist. The film’s existential dread is reflected in the WHY SO SERIOUS? T-shirt you bought off Redbubble.
Insomnia
There’s a Scandinavian darkness in your soul. You eat most dinners alone to the sound of Bon Iver before retiring to your hard, non–memory foam mattress. Either that or you said Insomnia in the interest of not seeming too basic by going with Oppenheimer or Dark Knight.
As a child, the Library of Birmingham was my favourite place in the world. My mum, seeing my best efforts to gather up five or six books at any one time, had to enforce a strict ‘only take what you can carry’ rule. With the two books my little arms could manage I’d breeze through […]
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March 11th, 2024: T-Rex was really too excited there in panel one to build any suspense, and I respect that. Let's get to the good part, T-Rex!! – Ryan There is a consistent undercurrent against Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) that centres on whether we can trust governments. I watched the recent Netflix documentary over the weekend – American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders – which reinforces the notion I have had for decades that there is a dark layer of elites – government, corporations, old…
On the Oscars red carpet, Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa discussed taking on the iconic role and geeked out over Barbie star America Ferrera.
Looks like Trump has his own problems and Giuliani’s on his own Rudy’s mess just keeps getting messier: Attorneys for Rudy Giuliani’s creditors negotiating his Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed a request on Thursday, demanding that Giuliani reveal his financial secrets, including details on his cable TV earnings, the origin of his legal defense fund (led by his son), and even the nature of his work for Trump. The far-reaching order is only possible thanks to allegations that Giuliani participated in “discovery misconduct”—that is to say, he failed to spill all the beans the first time around when he was sued by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. “Indeed, it was Giuliani’s discovery misconduct in the Freeman Litigation—concerning Giuliani’s defamatory statements about two Georgia 2020 election workers—that led U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A.
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