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Asher Elbein

@asherelbein.bsky.social

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Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. (Plus comics.) Bylines in The New York Times, SciAm, Undark, Texas Monthly, and lots of other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary.

  1. This was the subtext of my post about selling out- watching genuinely talented writers make their nut writing anti-liberal bilge online and feeling like Cassavetes telling Scorsese he'd wasted a year of his life making shit after seeing Boxcar Bertha.

    Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.

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  2. On top of everything else, I have very little patience for this sort of self-deprecating provocation, this chuckle and eye-roll routine. I’ve never seen a single occasion of it that hasn’t felt kind of slimy

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  3. the regime is weaker than they want you to believe

    Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland.

    “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement.

    fox17.com/news/local/k...

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.

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  4. I'm hoping the transparently disgusting deal made between Epstein's old best friend and his most notorious accomplice is obvious to everyone here.

    *DOJ RELEASES REDACTED MAXWELL INTERVIEW WITH TODD BLANCHE *GHISLAINE MAXWELL PRAISED TRUMP AS 'KIND' AND 'CORDIAL' *MAXWELL SAYS SHE NEVER SAW TRUMP 'IN ANY INAPPROPRIATE SETTING'

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  5. Trump seems real sick and has no obvious heir or vision for the future and is also deeply unpopular in the cities he’s attempting to “take,” so I guess my question, given that he can’t actually seize cities in any lasting way, and isn’t planning a thousand year reich — why are we doing this again?

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  6. I feel like we haven’t really talked enough about how much of MAHA/masc-coded wellness grift is just boosterism for the cattle industry

    • collagen
    • whey protein
    • colostrum
    • tallow
    • organ meats

    It’s all repackaged beef & dairy byproduct, baby

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