Your Mid-Week Experiment
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Blocking traffic to protest something is “peak activist narcissism.” (Charlotte Clymer)
Bad sleep habits and a time-consuming hair & makeup regimen are two underreported factors working against Donald Trump. (Amanda Marcotte)
If you think an article about Jill Biden’s dress at a state dinner would be frivolous, you’d be wrong. (Rachel Tashjian)
This is the only thing about OJ Simpson dying that I thought was worth publishing. (James Hill)
Holy cow, what a lede. (Elaine Godfrey)
How did you spend Ruination Day? (Longreads)
Listen to this for Charles Duhigg.
Did you know more books translated into English are published in Dallas than anywhere else? (Texas Monthly)
In making a movie to celebrate journalism, has director Alex Garland replicated the sins of both-sidesism in Civil War? (Mary McNamara)
This is so good.
OK, this was hilarious. h/t M.F.
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