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How about a longform listicle? Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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Phy posted:How about a longform listicle? Lol, “ATROCITY KEY.” The sloppy-wet big boy president has committed so many wrongs that they need to be color-coded.
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I've been retreating from current events for emotional health reasons, but I came across this Longform about some guys who were dumb and eager enough to take a canoe down the Mississippi River during the 2011 flood. It also alludes to a how the river itself has changed. Makes me want to reread Mark Twain's retrospectives about the river. https://www.outsideonline.com/1886261/57-feet-rising?page=all
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The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning [propublica]
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As a teacher in a Title 1 school in Georgia, this hit close to home. Had to stop reading about a quarter of the way through. This year has been heartbreaking so far.
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I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book - What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone callsquote:Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book is one of the most cursed documents ever compiled in this miserable, dying country. Totaling 97 pages and containing the names, numbers, and addresses of a considerable cross section of the global elite, Epstein’s personal contact book first turned up in a courtroom in 2009 after his former butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, tried to sell it to lawyers representing Epstein’s victims for $50,000. Rodriguez described the book, apparently assembled by Epstein’s employees, as the “Holy Grail.” It is annotated with cryptic marginalia—stars next to certain entries, arrows pointing toward others–and the names of at least 38 people are circled for reasons that aren’t totally clear. There are 1,571 names in all, with roughly 5,000 phone numbers and thousands of emails and home addresses. There are celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like Prince Andrew (circled), Ehud Barak (circled), Donald Trump (circled).
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I wonder if that childhood friend of Epstein's asked to be quoted in the entirety to make sure he couldn't be taken out of context. Die alone, scum.
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That was a good article, I liked this bit especially:quote:After Epstein’s arrest in 2019, a media narrative coalesced around the question of his strange place in the global elite: Epstein the master salesman, a man who had skillfully conned his way into the world’s most powerful circles, fooling everyone in the process. But after my travels through the book, after hearing more of the petty gossip and childish drama of the people who rule our world, I realized this was obviously incorrect. Built into the premise of Epstein the mastermind scammer is the notion that some kind of legitimate path to a legitimate global aristocracy exists. To call Epstein a grifter is to assume he circumvented some genuine meritocratic world order, where the “real” virtuosos dutifully climb the “real” ranks into the oligarchy, powered by nothing but their native talents.
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These are my absolute favorite articles, when Libertarians implode trying to implement libertarianism. I ESPECIALLY like it when their solution is to sue somebody. Any more of these would be appreciated. Here is a play by play of an overreaction to antifa-supersoldiers in Forks, Washington, of all places: https://www.wired.com/story/antifa-social-media-rumor-forks-washington/
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Oct 17, 2020 12:48
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I've been looking for an article for a while and mabye you guys could help me. It was an description of what it was like to be on the 'set' of 'Eden', back in 2016. And the mayhem that ensued. My google-fu is failing me.
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bollig posted:These are my absolute favorite articles, when Libertarians implode trying to implement libertarianism. I ESPECIALLY like it when their solution is to sue somebody. Any more of these would be appreciated. Older one in case you missed it a few years ago https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-springs-libertarian-experiment-america-215313
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rafikki posted:Older one in case you missed it a few years ago https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-springs-libertarian-experiment-america-215313 love it, thanks
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Pro-click. There's a lot of good insight towards the end, not just "how I found stuff that should have been secret just lying there on the Internet".
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bollig posted:These are my absolute favorite articles, when Libertarians implode trying to implement libertarianism. I ESPECIALLY like it when their solution is to sue somebody. Any more of these would be appreciated. Not to hand it to them or anything, but operating courts to settle private disputes is one thing libertarians absolutely believe the government should be doing. They are 100% behind the idea that they should have access to an organized system of thuggery they can use to bludgeon the underclass in order to protect their own wealth while extracting the last few drops of blood from those without the resources to use the courts to their own advantage.
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bollig posted:These are my absolute favorite articles, when Libertarians implode trying to implement libertarianism. I ESPECIALLY like it when their solution is to sue somebody. Any more of these would be appreciated. In 8th grade our school had us all break into groups and do a weeklong trip to an area of the state as part of our civics class. My group had the Olympic Peninsula and while it is an extraordinarily beautiful part of the state my one memory of the day we spent in Forks is the two thirty year old guys in a pickup truck who catcalled the 13 year old girls in our group. So. Yeah.
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How wealthy parents are using niche sports like squash, fencing and rowing to get their kids into Ivy League schools. And failing. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/
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Cervixalot posted:How wealthy parents are using niche sports like squash, fencing and rowing to get their kids into Ivy League schools. And failing. quote:“The guys who get recruited to the Ivies—it turns out these guys are beasts,” she said. “I saw them at showcases. They were like stallions.”
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Cervixalot posted:How wealthy parents are using niche sports like squash, fencing and rowing to get their kids into Ivy League schools. And failing. The crazy thing is that until covid, I'd think there were probably more athletic scholarships available than ever before. They're just not hoity-toity athletics and not at hoity-toity schools. You know what was growing? Scholarships for fishing and video gaming. If this hell world recovers enough, I'm thinking that women's wrestling scholarships will be on the rise as well. Men's wrestling has been in a freefall for a few decades at the college level, but the amount of women in amateur wrestling is skyrocketing.
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The Verge on the Wisconsin Foxconn plant that never was:quote:Multiple employees recall seeing people cry in the office. “The best is when you’re in the elevator with somebody and then they just scream out of nowhere,” said an employee who experienced this several times. “They’ve had enough, because things don’t make sense here.” https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump
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Fighting Trousers posted:The Verge on the Wisconsin Foxconn plant that never was: Thank you for posting that. Sad to read, but I'm glad the truth of the debacle was explained so clearly. And drat the Rebublicans to hell for what they've done, and continue to do to this state.
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Dammit, I came to post that Verge article. It's not the first one they've done on that disaster, though, they've done a ton of reporting on it over the years. 10/29/18: Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn boondoggle 4/10/19: Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin, followed up by my favorite, Foxconn says empty buildings in Wisconsin are not empty 12/13/19: Showdown in Wisconn Valley There are many more, those are just a sample.
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https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1318229210067075072 That is not what any of those words mean.
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The Case Against Delaware
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Financial Times is doing a series on different aspects of the world response to Covid this week: China and Covid-19: what went wrong in Wuhan? Covid-19: The global crisis - in data How coronavirus exposed Europe's weaknesses Will coronavirus break the UK? Coming up on Thursday and Friday are pieces about how the virus hit the US, and about how Africa is coping and what we can learn from them.
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This was sweet I really enjoyed this. Just want to thank everybody in this thread that posts, I’ve spent a lot of this year reading things folks post and it’s some of the best work I’ve read this year.
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For real, between this thread and the chrome add on that turns web pages into epubs, I've been reading a shitload more longform articles this year than I ever had before.
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Quarterroys posted:How wealthy parents are using niche sports like squash, fencing and rowing to get their kids into Ivy League schools. And failing. Ironic that the quote button in PYF is "Plagiarize" because this one has turned out to be....problematic: quote:Editor’s Note: After The Atlantic published this article, new information emerged that has raised serious concerns about its accuracy, and about the credibility of the author, Ruth Shalit Barrett. I can't remember the last time I saw a correction that long.
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Porfiriato posted:Ironic that the quote button in PYF is "Plagiarize" because this one has turned out to be....problematic: There was an epic on in the NYT earlier this year, but it was much more terse. This one's tl;dr: Well, everybody ELSE was hiring the plagiarist/fabulist, so it isn't just our fault!
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Inceltown posted:PYF Longform Corrections She's also a racist piece of poo poo who got "redeemed" by marrying a rich dude that runs a division of Hearst media and is the sister of another hard right journo/author. https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1322547900631687168
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Deep State, Deep Church: How QAnon and Trumpism Have Infected the Catholic Church
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https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1322954214641979392 Some good reading in this thread. The article in the OP is very pro-click.
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1322954214641979392 Got the article ready to read later when I have time but if the NYT isn't doing a huge mea culpa and setting solid plans for a path away from horse race journalism and both sides-ing while complaining about it then I'm going to lol hard.
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I will probably read everything by zeynep that comes up, self recommending at this point
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This isn't super-longform but it's not super short either. Operation Werewolf: Nazi Crossfit with a Viking Fetish quote:Right from the start, the Werewolf Elite program is billed as your last chance. Not just to take control of your fitness, get your finances in order, or meet life goals, but for manhood, for “Total Life Reform” (TLR). The Werewolf Elite program is the latest package for purchase from Paul Waggener, co-founder of the far-right Odinist cult the Wolves of Vinland and proprietor of a growing family of fitness, lifestyle, and spirituality products built around his carefully cultivated outlaw persona. Waggener’s various self-help programs have become a strange pathway to far-right ideas, normalizing them by appealing to insecurities, subcultural signifiers, and the desire to build strong friendship circles. Just as happened in the “pick-up artist” community, where where lonely men were introduced to the anti-feminist ideas of the manosphere when tuning in to learn how to pick up women, Waggener’s programs build on the appeal of strength and loyalty to connect self-improvement with far-right ideas about racial tribalism.
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The First and Final King of Bloodless Bullfighting A pretty short piece about a man who saw his first bullfight while in seminary in Mexico and went on to become one of the handful of American matadors. In his later years he promoted "bloodless" bullfights in which the matador plucks a rose from the bull's back. It's not exactly a happy article, as people close to him are killed by bulls.
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