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Erin Vanderhoof

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trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · Sep 12

after reading media theory about this for MONTHS, i present my Grand Unified Theory of why video essays are so good these days! With many thanks to @lindsayellis.bsky.social, who provided her thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Where the “Woke” Debate Burns Hottest: In Incredibly Long YouTube Essays on the Likes of RFK Jr. and Ms. Rachel

Why are audiences flocking to feature-length examinations of Joe Rogan with academic-quality citations? Creator Lindsay Ellis has some theories.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4h

yes omg i think this exactly describes what is happening in academia and journalism but also modern parenting

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

I do think this is at the heart of the issue. Our fields prepare us to participate in stable institutional structures but not how to collectively protect those structures from bad faith attacks and neoliberal dismantling.

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4h

Got it from the library earlier this year and devoured it in a sitting! I highly recommend to everyone who is like "ok i feel like cool things are happening in this space but i don't really understand them"

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h

So, the religious left (broadly speaking) got a lot of attention this week.

If you’re curious to know more about the modern religious left — the iterations that have emerged in the last 10-20 years — I, uh, wrote a book about it. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062...

American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

Amazon.com: American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country: 9780062935991: Jenkins, Jack: Libros

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 22h

lol wow yeah honestly impressive

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying I tried to recreate this look as an Bard undergrad in the 90s, but I'm not saying I didn't try to recreate this look as an undergrad in the 90s.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

your honor if it pleases the court I would like to live menos

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

The mets have been out for like two weeks and now it’s like baseball, my main summer pastime, is dead to me now

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

Talked to Shane this week for a story out next month btw! It was divine, the type of perfect interview where you and the subject are trying really hard to make each other laugh

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

Funny that my official position is that Taylor Swift is NOT for kids, but the guy who does note perfect Zoomer Tears For Fears is totally kid appropriate but this is just where we are these days

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

Not in a, like, kink way, it’s just 50 year old NYC guys and their 12 and 13 year old daughters in little pleather jackets, it’s cute

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m at the Sombr concert and it is a VERY daddy-daughter date crowd

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 2d

lol i generally like Ari Shapiro but insane for him not to realize that writing a radio script on extremely tight turnaround is NOTHING like a writers room for a prestige HBO drama

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3d

yeah, i think i had always thought that there was a certain aesthetic poshness that went along with aristocratic fascism—for example, the "Rivers of Blood" speech is obviously the product of a classicist—but i was kinda shocked how that has totally fallen apart now

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3d

my favorite subplot that got cut from this—and there were MANY—was the time her dad, well known as an aristo bank robber in the 1930s, became the temporary face of thatcher tax reform after making a stink when he decided to move to monte carlo over death duties

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3d

it offers a pretty stern warning for centrists everywhere, i think! fascism with kitschy anglo characteristics has long been able to unite the top and bottom tiers of society! technocrats can't compete with it using their normal toolbox

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3d

ultimately, i realized the path was almost overdetermined!! aristocrats are the losers of modernity, and that means they are the perfect vessels for contradictory nostalgia

Her ladyship title came with a warning about how she should act. "It was explained that I would have to behave in a certain way, and people would be looking up to me," she says. "I had to be an example for people. My upbringing was pretty strict." At around age eight, she went off to boarding school. In the Victorian era, England's hereditary elite had a near monopoly on land and politics, and thus exclusive possession of wealth, status, and power. By the 1980s, 500 years of the old regime was rapidly coming to an end. When Hervey came of age in the 1990s, whatever strictures might have restrained her as a child fell away on the dance floors of London. The benefits of elite status were diluted, the old estates were crumbling, and British patricians were competing in globalized markets with oligarchs from around the world.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3d

i spent the last few months reporting on a wild question: what makes a british aristocrat decide to become a big MAGA booster??? read my lengthy answer here: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

Lady Victoria Hervey, British ’90s It Girl Turned Mar-a-Lago Habitué, Wants to Make England Great Again

A pandemic-era political awakening turned this aristocrat into a MAGA-hat-collecting Trump booster—and now she’s telling Vanity Fair why she backs Nigel Farage.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry but touting 1.5 million readers and 170k subscribers is so funny. That is not that many!!!!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 7d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 8d

somebody needed to just reach out to me through my benadryl haze and say "iconic synth bass" and i would have been able to do it

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 8d

lmao update, i'm listening, it's great, fuckin taylor swift has done it again

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 8d

i am generally a big swiftie, but i haven't yet listened to life of a showgirl, partially because i was sick yesterday and also partially because the advance lyrics of "actually romantic" i saw made me realize this is the taylor mode i don't like (vindictive, complaining about being rich)

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