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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Regarding the news today, all I have to say for now is... subscribe to The Onion. Thank you for believing in us and thank you for your patience.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

As Texans watch cities wipe away our Pride sidewalks under threat of funding revocation from Gov. Greg Abbott, this project feels even more important. Help us write about queer Texans. Because we’re actually the normal ones. And this is our state too.

www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

Right??

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

“—and what do we call prisoners who are children and haven’t been charged with anything?” is a textbook example of why imprecise language makes bad journalism

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in a crowd of people applauding .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in a crowd of people applauding .

media.tenor.com

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

Just take out the word “unstoppable” 😭

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I have always experienced it 😅 as like… a little embarrassed to be asking what kinda simple syrup options a place has

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

As others have noted, it’s a deeply sinister symbol of our times

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

*nods sagely*

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I’m never quite sure about the medical withdrawals but maybe that’s not fair idk

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

That’s definitely his narrative on Special Forces! But it’s not a particularly flattering edit either

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

oh yeah it’s super bad vibes

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I’m lowkey obsessed with the fact that the athletes who are like 6”6’ never ever do as well or last as long as the pageant queen reality star dancer gymnasts who’ve had to grin and bear it while smiling their whole lives! Watching Anthony Scaramucci struggle to keep up with former Bachelorettes 🙏

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

You may not be shocked to learn he didn’t have a ton of grit when it came down to the wire

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

Not even one actually 😅

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

It’s sooooo hard to watch and I’m also addicted

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

other competitors have included Johnny Manziel, *checks notes* … Anthony Scaramucci, and Tom Sandoval

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

what a world — watching Jussie Smollett make a case for his innocence on the Disgraced Celebrities (and sometimes just athletes) Show where they let rich people do Special Forces training as a means of proving themselves — or more often, public self-flagellation

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

what a world — watching Jussie Smollett make a case for his innocence on the Disgraced Celebrities (and sometimes just athletes) Show where they let rich people do Special Forces training as a means of proving themselves — or more often, public self-flagellation

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

🫡 ty!!

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 1d

Other fav Lizzie Bordon fact: not having a lot of friends/family after the trial, she left $30k in her will to the “Animal Rescue League of Fall River, Massachusetts, which benefits from her first—and final—bequest to this day” after wisely investing it. 🗃️

werehistory.org/lizzie-borde...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

Dang, humans are such complicated creatures

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I just might as well hold her to the stupidly high standards I myself don’t always hit because the fourth estate is that important and I’ve always been insufferably righteous about journalism, unfortunately

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand: I *really* want to see all of the notes and files. Every single one. On the other, I genuinely and deeply respect the commitment to never piercing her attorney-client privilege.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

Researching whether attorney-client privilege continues after death, and the example given by the American Bar Association to demonstrate it is, incredibly: Lizzie Borden’s defense team.

One kept her files confidential, one left them to an historical society.

www.americanbar.org/groups/litig...

Lizzie Borden’s attorneys have split in the 100+ years since her death into one camp of keeping all related notes privileged and another of giving them over to a local historical society

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