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Columbia University Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage For Making Unsafe Jokes
Event organizers apologize for "the hurt his words caused members of the community."
Peter Suderman
"When things like this happen, it's hard to deny that some college campuses have a student fragility problem."
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"Not a natural death": the Never-Trump bastion Weekly Standard may be shut down
"This is not about dwindling subscribers. This is about strip-mining TWS for its assets."
Fallout 76 Will Trigger Your Existential Crisis
Unlike previous entries in the series, the new, online-only game never justifies its own existence.
Peter Suderman
FALLOUT 76 is the first online-only, multiplayer game in a series known for its solo gameplay.
The presence of other players mostly serves to detract from the experience.
7d
Peter Suderman
FALLOUT 76 is just more proof that hell is other people.
I love the Fallout franchise. But the new, online-only entry in the series is a buggy, poorly conceived mess.
7d
Peter Suderman
Anyway, here's 2,000 words on Fallout 76, the appeal fo the Fallout games, and video games that provoke existential crises.
7d
Boston Suburb Fights Drunkenness by Requiring People to Buy Bigger Bottles of Booze
South Carolina used to mandate tiny bottles for the same reason.
The $21 trillion Pentagon accounting error that can’t pay for Medicare-for-all, explained
America can afford universal health care, but proponents still don’t have a specific plan.
Peter Suderman
"What’s striking, however, is that essentially no progress has been made on sorting out the details. That’s why you have one of the country’s highest-profile Medicare-for-all proponents tweeting misinformation about potential pay-fors..."
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The Best of 2018
CJ Ciaramella,
Eric Boehm,
Jesse Walker,
Joe Setyon,
Katherine Mangu-Ward,
Matt Welch,
Mike Riggs,
Ms. Zuri Davis🍍,
Nick Gillespie,
Peter Suderman,
Robby Soave,
Scott Shackford
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Reason.com
8d
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Reason's staff picks the best books, games, music, and TV of the year.
The Best of 2018
CJ Ciaramella,
Eric Boehm,
Jesse Walker,
Joe Setyon,
Katherine Mangu-Ward,
Matt Welch,
Mike Riggs,
Ms. Zuri Davis🍍,
Nick Gillespie,
Peter Suderman,
Robby Soave,
Scott Shackford
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Reason.com
8d
1 tweets
Reason's staff picks the best books, games, music, and TV of the year.
Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?
Bari Weiss and Eve Peyser were Twitter enemies. Then they met.
The Secret to That Bright-Red Drink? Little Bugs
Campari stopped using a traditional dye made from insects, but makers of American aperitivos are taking it back up.
When the World Convulsed, George H.W. Bush (Mostly) Let Freedom Happen
We should, but probably won't, learn the lesson that U.S. presidents don't have to control or even fully understand world events.
Jeff Flake Inspires Fresh New Hatred by Blocking Judicial Confirmations
Senate Republicans are torn between their hatred of voting on bills, their fear of poking the bear, and their love of confirming judges.
Peter Suderman
"Fact is, the legislative branch under GOP rule specializes in three things: not voting on bills, not conducting meaningful oversight of the executive branch, and confirming as many judges as they can while the going's still good."
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Donald Trump Gave Russia Leverage Over His Presidency
A foreign adversary has possessed potentially damaging information about the president for an extended period of time.
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Peter Suderman
"But the mere fact that they did lie, for whatever reason, gave a powerful geopolitical adversary at least some leverage over an American president and his son."
11d
4 St. Louis police officers indicted, accused of beating an undercover colleague during Stockley protests
Three officers accused of kicking and beating an undercover officer during a night of police protests, and another officer lied to a grand jury to cover it up, prosecutors say.
Role-playing in Fallout 76 is a dice roll, but it’s so worth it
I got shook down outside a shop for my springs and I loved it
Peter Suderman
"Role-play in Fallout 76 is never about lasting legacies or long-term effects. It’s brief and brilliant, like a flash mob, and when it disperses, it leaves nothing but a memory."
12d
Why Oscar Season Is Crazy, Frustrating and Still Essential
Our new Carpetbagger columnist won’t ponder whether the Oscars matter. He knows they do — because as a snapshot of Hollywood, they also reflect so much more.
Three Remarkable Things About Michael Cohen's Plea
These developments would, under normal circumstances, end a presidency.
Peter Suderman
"The president of the United States’ personal lawyer admitted to lying to Congress about the president’s business activities with a hostile foreign power, in order to support the president’s story. In any rational era, that would be earthshaking."
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The Broken God Of Fallout 76 Wishes For Mortality
One Fallout 76 player just found out the hard way that immortality is very boring. Cue up Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever,” because this story, as recounted by a user who goes by Brogadyn on the Fallout 76 subreddit, deserves a tragic soundtrack.
Peter Suderman
An unexpectedly immortal deity wishes for only one thing: the sweet release of death.
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Expect More Conservative Purges on Social Media If Republicans Target Section 230
Nothing in Section 230 requires platforms like Twitter to maintain "a true diversity of political discourse"—as it should be.