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the lehr witch project
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Skeleton with some meat on it. The Audacity, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Lit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Novelizers, a box to be opened in the event of my death.

IG: amandamlehr
huge night for aloof wives
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I am The Anointed One*

*i tripped off a curb, fell on top of the glass bottle of olive oil in my bag, and walked home dripping like a piece of bruschetta
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.
I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.

Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee

It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
so, the costume of the year last night clearly goes to the kid who came dressed as municipal scaffolding
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
happy Halloween from me and @mcsweeneys.net!

(let it be understood that my agenda is being a Silly Goose)

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...
Honey, I Don’t Think Our Haunted House Is Elevated
INTERVIEWER: People usually use [the term “elevated horror”] to refer to A24’s movies, horror that’s very heavy on the metaphorical. Hereditary, Mi...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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they are trying to kill every trans kid in America

when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink

unconscionable evil
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 11d
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
this is closer to the actual film than i expected
Jacob Elordi with his dog on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
L’affaire Thomas Crown
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
my spouse, 5 min into WOLF CREEK: Australia looks like a nice place to visit
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thanks to @marawilson.bsky.social for this week’s story on the Out-Of-Network Network, illustrated by Emily Flake.

Read the whole thing here!

(Have an anecdote about navigating the healthcare system that you’d like to share? Reach out to us.)

outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/paying-653...
Paying $653 to See if I Had the Disease That Killed My Mother
Written by Mara Wilson / Illustrated by Emily Flake
outofnetworknetwork.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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reminder:
September 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
happy birthday + belated birthday to my two goth dads

@brucespringsteen.net & @stephenking.bsky.social
"You leave the carnival with your arm around your girl and climb behind the wheel of your car. It feels like nothing could go wrong."
Bruce Springsteen or Stephen King?
1. You take Mary out for a nice drive. Disaster ensues. 2. Bit by bit, this town is killing you. 3. Two remorseless killers careen acro...
buff.ly
September 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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If you're a university president insisting that you need to invite more people like Charlie Kirk to your campus, you should first be required to make a speech to all your students, staff and faculty that reads off all the verbatim quotes from Charlie Kirk in this piece.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
my body is broken. i go to my fathers, in whose mighty company i shall not now feel ashamed
Just FYI to fellow rapidly aging academics attempting to hold onto cultural references our students understand. College seniors this year were born after all three Lord of the Rings movies.
September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
whenever someone walks by with a Great Dane, i feel compelled to watch it pass like this:
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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blasting “born in the u.s.a.” (derogatory)
July 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”
August 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM