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@jessesingal No. And I grew up in middle America—straight up. I learned that sex is making love and that it is beautiful, gentle and loving.

This from Laurie Penny is really gonzo. It's like a right-winger's caricature of what feminists think about men. I think there's some validity to the second point but 1 and 3 are massive exaggerations/oversimplifications

Last week it was arm the teachers. This week it's arm the doctors. But when that white supremacist shot up the black grocery store, guess what they didn't say: Arm the black people.

Breaking: New study finds drinking expensive alcohol linked to longer lives and drinking cheap alcohol linked to shorter lives. Scientists desperately trying to identify the features of alcohol molecules that could explain this puzzle.

Has the war in Ukraine finally proven that democracy itself is now a partisan ideal? @braverangels @uniteamerica

The irony of the fact that my water filter packaging is not recyclable #pur #cleanwaterplease

@kevinroose @kevinroose Your article was excellent BTW, just wanting to see people pick up this other angle a bit more.

@kevinroose The Joe Rogans and Bill Mahers, while offensive daily, are pure gold to a democracy where the biggest threat is the cultural/political divide. Call them out, but support them as well. We don't want them to go away.

@cskoch Miss you Chris.

Novels are dumb

A very short film about the fireworks: youtube.com/watch?v=O6mw1F…

@OnPointRadio is the “third person effect” a thing here?

Getting stories of F. Douglass HS students regarding their experiences in the 2015 uprising.

Love airports. The humans?...what with there shoes and all?...

MARC train from B-more to D.C. packed those for science.

Talking about educating kids on the "soft" --that is CRITICAL, skills one needs in life. Brilliant. #LabsAtLightCity

So great to hear Balt City Schools and Towson U. Chiefs talking about all the issues that impact education. Community! #LabsAtLightCity

#labslightcity #innovateedu brilliant vision for Light City in the future by Jamie McDonald. The SXSW for social innovation.

Every Super Bowl ad so far cleverly political

It's so tempting, enthralling, and rewarding to play to your base. What if we who make media decided to make a difference instead.

Our information sources feed on and spread drama, when sublime governance is as quiet as photosynthesis. What to do?

Depression-Era kids let their baby boom kids study art in college. Now I wait in line hours at the Whitney.