@eliokun

Human. @politico. Improviser. Maryland boy. Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Email: [email protected] // Signal: eliokun.46

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Joined June 2013
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I completed my life’s work: I FOUND THE BEST FREE RESTAURANT BREAD IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!
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The Atlantic’s newest cover story, by the peerless @caityweaver, is unlike anything else. Just read it: theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

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.@AmandaSeyfried brings out the dulcimer and sings a cover of @jonimitchell’s “California”! #FallonTonight

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Maybe not the shot of the decade but an image I think of a lot
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Oppenheimer winning at the Oscars tonight is a foregone conclusion. For some real suspense, you’ll have to click to find out which was my favorite movie of 2023: shutupanddeal.tumblr.com/pos…

My top movies of 2023

Of 103 new releases I saw this year, these were the best (and, below, the worst and the most befuddling): 10. PERFECT DAYS: Snatching beauty from the mundane is easier said than done, and easier...

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I’ve never seen Shark Tank, but I couldn’t fall asleep last night because I was too busy laughing at this being a stand-alone paragraph on Barbara Corcoran’s Wikipedia page
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As war engulfed an upscale neighborhood in Sudan's capital, residents desperate to escape had just one option: a battered taxi driven by two penniless students. A tale of two heroes. nytimes.com/2023/05/05/world…

‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan (Published 2023)

As feuding generals turned the Sudanese capital into a war zone, two university students navigated a battered Toyota through the chaos and saved at least 60 desperate people.

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Happy Oscars night. The news everybody’s been waiting for…my personal favorites of 2022! shutupanddeal.tumblr.com/pos…

My top movies of 2022

I saw 95 new releases this year. Heartbreak still feels good in a place like this. The films that moved, excited, provoked, and delighted me the most: 10. BODIES BODIES BODIES: A Gen Z horror...

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I'm a pretty modest guy, but I will take credit for the headline on today's @playbookdc politico.com/newsletters/pla…

POLITICO Playbook: Loose lips about sinking ships

And Clarence Thomas says SCOTUS won't be "bullied."

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Back on my bullshit: blogging about my favorite movies of 2021! shutupanddeal.tumblr.com/pos…

My top movies of 2021

I watched 87 new releases this year and there were still dozens more I didn’t get to. Whatever. My ambitions are always grand and then life irrupts. I’m trying to strike a bit of a more healthful...

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Thinking about this Andrew Lloyd Webber recollection today. nytimes.com/2020/06/03/arts/…
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Paul Schrader casually dropping the most romantic scene of the year right in the middle of one of the angriest films he’s ever made. Whatta guy
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“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were." The greatest. nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books…

Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style (Published 2021)

The generation-defining essayist and novelist was preoccupied with mythos — and gifted at fashioning her own.

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“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.” (The Story of the Lost Child)
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I’m officially at the age where a girl who accidentally stumbled into my freshman dorm room drunk and crying is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list
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Billy Joel’s The Stranger: banger banger banger banger banger banger banger ok no
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how poorly I do in learned league is actually part of my innate charm
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“In the Guatemalan highlands, where one is born into the choice between abject poverty and migration, it was a glimpse into the thin line between the lucky and the dead. The mourning was for the dead, but it was also for the choice.” washingtonpost.com/world/int…

They were killed trying to reach the U.S. border. They were returned to a Guatemalan village...

Sixteen people were slain, allegedly by Mexican police, near the Texas border in January. Their bodies were returned home this month.

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🏆Congratulations to POLITICO’s @kelseytam & @EENewsUpdates' @cy_zaneski & @amycarlile for being named by @washingtonian as three of Washington’s 250 most influential people—outside of the government—who’ll be shaping the policy debates for years to come. bit.ly/2ZQRUPJ

Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2024

Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates.

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