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Anna Roth

@annaroth.bsky.social

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General enthusiast. Used to be a food critic. Not into Nazis. SEA >> LA >> SF >> NYC >> SEA

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Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · Sep 30

Breaking the seal on here bc I can’t stop thinking about this moment from the latest Love is Blind, which maybe accidentally captured something profound and essential about the zeitgeist? Feelings are hard!

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 10h

Idk I think we lost touch of morals & values — electoral strategy and everything else comes into play after you’ve defined the essentials of what you’re fighting for

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t know what to do with all these Sports Feelings

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 20h

Bridget Jones’s Diary is one of the best books of the 90s

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 1d

At least it’s an ethos

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 1d

I think the basic problem is unchecked greed and inflation is just a way to articulate it

Anna Roth @annaroth.bsky.social · 1d

Pop quiz, hotshot

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.