Bari Weiss has never really worked as a journalist. She is an opinion writer who runs an opinion Substack. The idea that she has insights that supersede those of the journalists at 60 Minutes is absurd.
The Aztecs had a sewage system allowing them to drink clean water and bathe daily while using human waste as crop fertiliser while the most advanced European water sanitation system was to jog a bucket with human waste out of a window or into the river where you drink your water
Yikes. This quote is brutal. “'The reason he’s hanging on is because Trump wants a weak speaker,' a House Republican told us. 'He wants a speaker that essentially functions like a staff member, which is what Mike Johnson does.'”
https://t.co/XbREtyn7UV
I remember when Obama was elected and Emanuel was appointed his chief of staff, an Israeli paper interviewed his father asking him if he'd good for Israel in that job. “Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel,” his father said, “Why wouldn’t he be? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.”
If I was a journal editor, the rule would be: Submissions with fake citations get a desk reject, and all authors are banned from submitting to the journal for at least one year.
PSA bringing on Rahm Emanuel - a former IDF volunteer, the son of an Irgun member involved in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and the Chicago mayor who helped cover up the police murder of Laquan McDonald - to opine on anything, let alone Israel and Palestine, is a textbook example of the moral vacuity and banal evil of American liberalism.
At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud. https://t.co/6OmYYaTKPk
'E.g.' comes from the Latin 'exempli gratia,' which means "for example."
Also, 'i.e.' comes from the Latin 'id est,' which means "that is."
Way to remember
e.g. = example given
i.e. = in essence
‘How unbecoming’ is one of the most gorgeous english phrases—to behave or present oneself in such a way that it undoes your becoming… A skirt so ugly it Impedes your constructing of self…..
Remember that guy who needed to text me back and did? Well. He texted first and now I’m listening to Rush while in a lyft to his place to watch a movie. Am I being irresponsible cause I have to teach tomorrow? Shhhhh