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When I saw Rupert Murdoch trending in the headlines I was initially excited for all the reasons you’d think, and ultimately disappointed for the same reason I’m disappointed every time it’s less than I’d hoped. Now go off about how much of a ghoul that makes
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I’m still on vacation in sunny Brussels, home of the famous sprout (as well as a couple of even tastier food items) so I don’t have anything new and in depth for you this week, but lying in hotel beds with a laptop on my chest always brings
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Can it be a coincidence that the three men currently vying for joint custody of the entire world each brand themselves with a single letter, and they happen to be the three worst letters on the Scrabble board? The answer is of course yes, it is a coincidence. But one
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Stu was the first person who subscribed to my newsletter. I desperately missed writing since my last paid gig as a columnist in 2019 and it was a reaction to something that Stu said on Twitter that made me want to get something off my chest in long form, so
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Hey have you noticed that some really crazy shit is happening with QAnon, the pro Trump conspiracy, uh, community? The group that started off with the claim that Hillary Clinton was eating children in the basement of a pizza shop and then somehow managed to get crazier from there has
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The first time I’d ever heard of Richard Hanania was several weeks ago when Substack management sat down for a fawning podcast with him to talk about the Woke Mind Virus or whatever. I didn’t know who that was. Oh it’s the smug teenage-looking alt-right faux academic
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If you thought 2016 was a bizarre United States election year, 2024 is gearing up to give it a run for its money. Not only is Donald Trump back and running for a second term despite being under two federal indictments, a state indictment, and a civil suit for having
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I don’t know that anything better exemplifies Elon Musk’s near total lack of creativity than his obsession with the letter X. There are really two ways that he expresses a painful amount of dork-dad energy. One is his incessant use of the “doge” meme that’s been living
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This weekend, the vast majority of you who haven’t completely fallen out of love with the cinema will be rocking up to see either Oppenheimer or Barbie, or gearing up for the Barbenheimer double feature. God knows we need a little novelty in our lives. But there’s third
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Twitter is on life support. In retrospect, Twitter had become such a precariously huge and unstable monster of a thing that it was bound to fall apart. If a comet hadn’t struck the Earth then the dinosaurs, despite being the most successful animals to ever live, would have died