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Ray Pride
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Daily newsletter/column, Today in Culture, free sub @ Newcity.com. Film critic. Photographer. Editor. raypride.substack.com; [my name] everywhere / weekly film column newcityfilm.com
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Under Trump, the U.S. has made it clear that it will screw over all foreign partners without warning. It has earned a reputation as a pariah state.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
“Mike” collects Covenant Eyes wherever he goes
One way to keep yourself off the porn
Johnson says "probably 100,000 people" have his cell number and yet not a one of them is brave enough to leak it to me so I can do something hilarious
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Writer hack: Instead of telling your children bedtime stories, tell them the story you are working on and when you reach a "how" or a "why" that you haven't figured out yet, just ask them: What do you think should happen next?

They will probably come up with a solution you haven't thought of yet.
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Trump rarely fires people for doing exactly what he hired them to do. Not since Mike Flynn.
In a normal U.S. administration, Steve Witkoff “would be fired immediately” for working on behalf of an American adversary, @anneapplebaum writes. But now the revelation that the aide helped Russia negotiate a favorable peace deal will go unpunished: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, George F. Will at the Calliope… Again
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Nuzzigram!”
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Heh.
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Here’s a list of people that should be in jail.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The Criminal tries to explain what he sees as a "Crime"
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Another day of not feeling bad about no longer submitting work to The Washington Post.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I want off this ride...
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Is anyone else bothered that our president is calling for the execution of folk in Congress who served in the military for encouraging folk to defend the constitution? I can't remember the last time a U.S. president did this and I've been around for a long time.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.

She got the joke.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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infuriating video about all the fantastic design work in Wicked 2 that got smothered by however the hell they shot, graded, and applied VFX to the thing
How ‘Wicked: For Good’ Rebuilt Oz, from Yellow Brick Road to Dorothy’s House | Architectural Digest
YouTube video by Architectural Digest
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Back in the day 🔙

#ThrowbackThursday to 1968. This image depicts a van de Graaff generator with its tank removed and top terminal exposed, being prepared for shipment to the University of Swansea
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I'm extremely proud of the fact that the hardcover of Dreyer's English remains in print nearly seven years after it went on sale, and if you'd like signed copies (they make great holiday gifts!) and to support a local bookstore, head to the Signed Copies tab here:
Benjamin Dreyer
Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English, is the retired copy chief and managing editor of Random House.
www.benjamindreyer.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The death of two national guardsmen is a horrific tragedy.

It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“Let me tell you about zzas and zzis. They are different from you and me.“
If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Leadership.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM