no way NYT

The best part of that article is that neither Maureen Dowd nor her editors know what the phrase "a wide berth" means:

My idol is Jonathan Swift, so I think that satirists — the other “Swifties” — should be given a wide berth. Sometimes they’ll miss the mark, sometimes they’ll be offensive. But we need our jesters to hold up a mirror to our society, now more than ever.

lol that's so bad it almost seems subversive

(on the editor's part)

It's more that it's archaic, in the sense of "room to maneuver a ship around to avoid hitting rocks" but very No Way NYT nonetheless

No you see "a wide berth" is the population problem that Swift attempted to solve in A Modest Proposal

pun that I had missed

"a wide berth" means to avoid entirely iirc, I think she meant to say "give them some leeway"

we have not given this article a wide berth

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wide_berth

I recently had to explain this term to a non-English speaker, but really, NYT?

To be fair I agree most satirists should be given a wide berth.

Bill Maher in particular

not interested in any meaning of wide berth that isn't about that wagon

a wide berth isn't something you're given, it's something you earn

Mitch McConnell: We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s

(admittedly I am a tiny bit curious which mistakes exactly he's talking about)

the New Deal

I clicked and he thinks the US isn't spending enough on defense -_-

We really fucked up in the 1930s when we didn't spend enough on the military and ended up losing to Hitler

nyt opinion page has been worthless lately. david french ffs

lately?

letters section: 3 academics saying the lab leak article was bullshit, balanced with 1 guy in Arizona who agrees with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/covid-origins-lab-market.html

Pamela Paul's latest, about why protests aren't for her, reads like Jean Teasdale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/opinion/protests.html

I refuse to believe Pamela Paul is real.

It’s weird that people want to protest when they could just publish their random thoughts in the New York Times.

https://i.imgur.com/QoZViuo.jpeg

everyone points this out and the just keep doing it

Pamela Paul

Why Is the U.S. Still Pretending We Know Gender-Affirming Care Works?

no clicks for transphobes

A question a child might ask...

Why do transphobes think "I'm extremely concerned about the epistemological questions regarding this one single issue and this one single issue only. Btw no amount of social research or medical evidence will assuage me" is persuasive

(sincere apologies to Pam P if she also has deep concerns about the epistemology of vaccine science)

Pamela Paul can eat shit and did

and die

You may have been right the first time too

lol amazing typo thanking u tabes

Yea we can (and do)

Usha Vance and the Iconography of the Trump Women

The potential second lady models a new kind of Republican image-making, our fashion critic writes.

3 min read

barf

The Evolution of Usha Vance

An accomplished Yale-educated lawyer, she has left her job at a top firm as she adjusts to the life of a high-profile political spouse.

10 min read

jfc *another* front-page puff piece

JD Got Us Fallin' in Love

how many op-eds about how democrats are anti-Semitic for not picking josh shapiro do we need

https://i.imgur.com/heaFFuQ.png

she's running against famous policy wonk donald trump. but what are here policies???? hmm i'm stumped, i can't think of a single one

^ emma v taking this headline down on the majority report right now

I refuse to believe Pamela Paul is real.

Rich LOLwry has a column today.

Trump Can Win on Character

readying self to be intellectually challenged

i think they are taking pitchbot literally

tbf the article makes clear that it means "Trump Can Win on (attacking Harris's) Character"

it is still profoundly stupid and not worth reading

Today Pamela Paul wrote her column in the voice of RFK's brain worm.

accurate