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My latest column for Vox on how singing with other people can help you move through grief and despair. When you feel terrible — or just numb — singing can be easier than talking. vox.com/advice/495193/…

They got rid of DEI to hire people based on merit then turn around and hired lindsey graham's sister for senator simply because she's lindsey graham's sister.

@PanderShirts obsessed

went to the beach

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Venture capitalist politics.

Mitch McConnell is actually the best Metaphor for, and representation of, America and our political system. He spent almost a century making the world a better place for only himself and his friends, married an immigrant while working tirelessly against other immigrants, manipulated the system to increase his power only to be usurped & made impotent by someone even more unethical, unscrupulous and power hungry. Then when the system is finally done with him, they keep his dead body on life support just to use him for one more power move until finally allowing him sweet sweet death while his wife flees the country and his children go into hiding. And when it's all said and done, he'll be best remembered for a meme that made him into a turtle. America.

It’s cool that Trump doesn’t even like soccer, he just enjoys cheating. Doesn’t matter what the game is. He just loves circumventing rules and ruining things for everyone else.

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs. US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high. But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's

Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. #FIFAWorldCup

These people should be in jail for the nearly million people who lost their life due to these cuts.

Beautiful speech on American exceptionalism. If the story of America isn’t wide enough to include all the Americans who built it, and the fellow Americans we still have to help, it’s not worth your time.

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital. This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

@5By5Creativity @jacobpetkovic @gayJBfletcher HOW did that happen?!

@jacobpetkovic @gayJBfletcher Came here to say this. Still bewildered all these years later.

Taylor Swift may try but Liza Minnelli will always have the most batshit celebrity wedding.

Here’s another all-timer for me

This is one of the things Americans don’t understand about the joys of not having AC in Europe. People are together outside much more.

Them: You’re listening to Confessions II again? Me:

So ask yourself this question. Mamdani is not just a phenomenon of a political talent but he has learnt from Obama that patriotism is the life blood of leadership. As is joy and hope. Any National Dem could have chosen today to make a speech to the nation. Where are Jeffries or Schumer? Newsom, Shaprio, Pritzker, Ossoff et al. Nature abhors a vacuum and the mayor of NYC has taken the leadership of the opposition to the administration and will hold it until someone else does so. He is using his legal inability to run for the highest office as an advantage to be the national voice of the party through influence rather than ambition. He’s exceptionally good at it.

@juliaturner Have absolutely loved listening every week. Thank you Julia!

Big news in podcastland this week: The Slate Culture Gabfest is ending.

The more I watch the World Cup, the more I get the impression that this World Cup is doing more to help the United States discover the world than to help the world discover the United States.

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.