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This cover is symptomatic of a larger media pathology, where the narrative comes before the evidence.

It held

Dear America, The story changes real quick. That's the power of democracy—the beauty of citizens casting a vote. The same happened in Poland in October 2023 after a historic voter turnout. You do not have to go all the way to the dump. Love, A friend

Le Pen carrying on the only laudable Vichey tradition; losing

Pay attention, America.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Quebecois tuxedo is the same as Canadian but every inch is bedazzled

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This is the right amount of Biryani to make.

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An extremely dark story about Alice Munro. This is genuinely so sad and painful for this woman and her family. I can’t imagine the courage it took to share it. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with himwww.thestar.com In the shadow of my mother, a literary icon, my family and I have hidden a secret for decades. It’s time to tell my story.

Thinking about the people of France today. They're doing what America has to do in November.

I stumbled into a strawberry social at a small church — a homely wooden building with half a dozen pews. On a grassy slope behind the rectory was a scattering of white plastic tables under craft fair tents. www.chefdeborahreid.com/today/today2...

So many people helping to spread the message of the New York Post. Re-skeeting trash.

Good eggs, a whole heap of vegetables, and tuna-anchovy mayo. I could eat some variation of this on every sweltering day of summer.

I did something good today. Took care of some outstanding business. Clearing the way.

This. Stay for the responses.

It's 2035. You just walked out your door into a world that got through the shocks of 2024 -26 more connected, a little ecologically healthier, with civil and human rights strengthened & with commitment to actually being a just & ecological society. What's the 1st thing you see?

This is a must listen for anyone who travels a lot and for anyone going to Barcelona soon. (Tourists are taking buses meant for the elderly and disabled!) Travel is too cheap. There's no accounting for the environmental, social, and cultural damage. Imagine what the people of Paris are facing.

The Take: Why is tourism a problem in Barcelona?www.aljazeera.com A mass demonstration seeks to claim back Barcelona for its residents.

Where the cool kids hang out. I would like to spend a good part of the rest of my life at the library.

Solid gold advice

Write that thing. Make it weird. Make it sad. Make it funny or kinky or scary or whatever you want. Write what makes you happy.

Legacy media. (I feel for the people I admire working in it.)

Truth bomb

if you're playing with a cat correctly, you'll be working roughly 900 times harder than the cat. 99% of the effort must be yours. playing with cats is not about exercise, it's about drama. And cats are harsh critics. they need to BELIEVE that plush banana is afraid for its life.

Are there finer words than "historic defeat?" www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

And the publications

i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values

I just removed the NYT's Daily from my podcasts. I'm stepping away from the publication completely. Read the LitHub piece I posted earlier from Rebecca Solnit. Words matter.

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when i say the NYTimes does not deserve your money, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, and crosswords and wordle, Wirecutter, and all their podcasts

Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild

“Our rhetoric encourages or discourages. Which is why sports teams chant a version of “I believe we will win.” A whole sector of the progressive/left/whatever…seems to be eternally chanting “I believe we will lose.” This is not something sports teams do, incidentally.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Word Are Deeds: Rebecca Solnit the Power of Speech to Shape the Futurelithub.com There is a curious and curiously popular habit whereby people edit down the subjective truth in the statement “I am afraid we will lose” to the pseudo-objective declaration “We wi…

A terrific episode. I listened to it twice.

Befriending Your Inner Voice | Hidden Brain Mediahiddenbrain.org You know that negative voice that goes round and round in your head, keeping you up at night? When that negative inner voice gets switched on, it's hard to think about anything else. Psychologist Etha...

This is going to be a hard recovery in the UK, but I hope after tomorrow I never hear about Rishi Sunak or the loathsome Nigel Farage.

I watch cars snake into the city every morning along Bloor Street (a major subway route). Most have only a driver. Like addicts, we pretend there’s no relationship between fossil fuel use and climate change. This 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

The most delicious

All of it perfect

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Sixty-one trips around the sun, and I’m only just discovering this is $&@# delicious!

I hope this is just the beginning of orange jumpsuit season.