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"We're in a state of disarray united by our darkest days."
Kim Mulkey is using some very old methods to try and discredit the news industry. A lawsuit will not be one of them.
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"Never thought I’d be caught up in a world that's helpless."
Society is getting coarser. Yes, I partially blame the 45th president.
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"In this lonely world, what a lovely curl."
The first in a three-part series on what a second Donald Trump administration is going to mean for future of the United States.
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"What starts out in the nighttime follows you in the morning light."
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"Oh, this is business, son - no time, for you, no time."
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"By the time they realize we’re gone, fire will be the only light. "
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“This is a picture of things going a little out of hand. This is a sculpture of a couple of things we've gotta get straight.”
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"If nothing can be known, then stupidity is holy."
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"I'm getting weaker, I'm getting thin. I hate how obvious I have been."
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"Village crumblеs to ground, Lava Man retreats."
Vice is no more. What, exactly, *was* Vice?
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"Go back to sleep and this is not gonna get better."
Polling is hardly an exact science, but that Taylor Swift/politics/Super Bowl conspiracy theory stuff is terrifying.
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"Burning light. Flashing back from the mirror sea."
The Messenger folded. It was anything but a surprise, but it still sucks for those laid off and for the future of the news industry.
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"Two hands, one thread - broken now, unwound."
No one loves a Trump-Biden rematch, but that's still reality.
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"A part of another cycle, it stills the air and swallows control."
The news media business is dying. We're all worse for it.
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"They march, they hallow. His face a symbol."
Insurrection clause, schminsurrection clause. We should be talking about emoluments when we talk about Donald Trump's eligibility for office.
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"Won't soul music change now that our souls have turned strange?"
What a year 2023 was.
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The World is Bent
The World is Bent
Journalist and analyst Ross Gianfortune looks at the week in media, culture and government.
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