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visiting the shaolin monks then losing the wu tang game in historical fashion is crazy storytelling
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This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…
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Lovely interview with the author of a new biography about Justin Townes Earle, someone who's music I've gotten really obsessed with in the last few years. dontrocktheinbox.com/what-do…
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Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
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professional news: after six years of freelancing, today is my first day as a full-time senior writer at rolling stone. my beat is the same: politics, culture, guns, sports & bits of the world people usually don’t see. so stoked to write more for the best magazine in the game.
And in related professional news:
Zizians Docuseries Set At HBO deadline.com/2026/04/zizians…
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Gwen Danielson, a close friend of Ziz LaSota's, co-founder of the Rationalist Fleet, and a participant in the 2019 CFAR protest. It's the first time any "Zizian" has spoken outside of court appearances: rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
If you've been following this story at all, Danielson has a lot of insights to share: rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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Modern Canterbury tales characters:
- the Coach
- the Homeschool Mother
- the Chud
- the Wife of Work
- the Streamer
- the Mogger
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Brutal and horrific.
Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.
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NEW: One of the most dangerous drivers in New York City is an NYPD cop on Staten Island. He’s gotten 547 school-zone speeding and red-light tickets in the past four years.
The NYPD is refusing to intervene: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/…
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Cory Mills voted in favor of the "Take It Down Act," which makes it a federal crime to threaten revenge porn. On May 19, Trump signed that bill into law. Also on May 19, Cory Mills threatened an ex-girlfriend with revenge porn—potentially the first-ever violation of that new law
Reporter: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned yesterday. Why haven’t you?
Mills: Can you tell me what criminal charges I have been charged with?
Reporter: Well, you’re under investigation. Swalwell and Gonzales—
Mills: They were under investigation for what? Sexual misconduct with a staffer.
Reporter: But you’ve had a restraining order against you.
Mills: No, I have a social media injunction. Should everyone with a restraining order leave?




















