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soundsection posted:http://reprints.longform.org/angels-demons Seconding this one, I could not stop reading it. It's incredibly sad but such a good article.
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Delivery McGee posted:Not terribly long (more average-length magazine piece), But Caity Weaver is my new third-favorite magazine writer (after Skip Hollandsworth and Pamela Coloff at Texas Monthly, of course). Somebody linked me to her story on Dwayne Johnson, and I've been reading her back catalog for the past hour, she has that sort of cynicism/DGAF attitude that I, as a former journalist, love. This is really great, I love how it's written and the fact that the rock just comes off as even more likeable than he already does.
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The Lobotomy Kid posted:I know people like to sneer at Buzzfeed, but this is a fairly gripping read about an Iraqi special forces battalion deployed on the front line against ISIS. Wow, this was a brilliant read. Those guys are out of this world, you can tell they really just want their home back and will fight like hell to get it. So much respect for them, I couldn't imagine how hard it is to try and retake a city like Mosul.
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Something a little different and more light-hearted: I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
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F4rt5 posted:A homeless man built a little bunker underneath a busy park. This was a great read, thanks!
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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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