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I don't want to do journo threads all day, but there are a lot of "everybody" knew cases where it seems like that in retrospect and that doesn't mean a)
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The ongoing Lincoln Project story reminds me that I haven't met anyone in politics yet who really understands how journalism works and how to handle a bad story. The Winning
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Tracey's take was horrible, and it's worth noting that the underlying sentiment isn't uncommon. It's a kind of misogyny that says the pain of women can only be ratified by
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A new but related thread to the last one: I think a lot of people who consume a lot of media (via social, mainstream media, whatever) sometimes fail to understand
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One of the many ways the medical establishment patronizes women is that no one ever tells you that pregnancy can and often does irrevocably damage parts of your body. It's
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First, I don't believe that "cancel culture" exists. There is no systemic problem of people being fired because their ideas are too radical. People generally get fired because they say
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The idea that there are two sides to every argument is not controversial. The problem is treating both sides as equally valid, which no journalist should ever do when that's
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An Ivanka anecdote: when her dad was running for president pre-2016 she got into a big argument at a dinner party where she argued that liberal and libertarian were the
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I keep seeing people on here suggest that making fun of the neo-Nazis undermines an understanding of how dangerous they are. I disagree. I think ridiculing them is both good
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This story is infuriating.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1341966857193054209 The title essay of Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams is built around a 2002 study that reported that medical professionals are more likely to give women
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I wish we would do away with the myth of bipartisanship and just admit that the total ideological alignment of the parties makes that impossible. Things get done via negotiation
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I agree that all of this is going to happen and Trump can't actually fight this. But there is some cost to letting him control the narrative on the right.
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