HeyJaredIn the Pink
Political satire and irreverent commentary from a woman who once showed such promise.
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The Networks Strike Back (opens the original)
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I remember being a working journalist fresh out of grad school. My first job was as a reporter at a suburban daily outside Chicago covering park district meetings. As you can imagine, my beat was rife with breaking news concerning water fountains and Arbor Day parades. I dreamed of one day becoming a White House correspondent which was obviously the logical next step.I actually did receive credentials once. I was the health policy reporter at drkoop.com which, if you’re unfamiliar with the dot-c
Shall We Play a Game? (opens the original)
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This week, the genius overlords behind AI have finally come out and said what we already know. AI is going to kill us. Dead.Do you remember War Games where Matthew Broderick—fresh off his role in the oft-maligned Ladyhawke—hacks into a NORAD military supercomputer named WOPR and nearly plunges the country into a nuclear war with the Soviets? (Spoiler.)<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yirO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
Insane in the Membrane (opens the original)
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I apologize for missing my Thursday deadline. I was trapped under something extremely light.If you felt a disturbance in The Force this week and wondered if there was an anomaly in the energy field connecting all living things, you’d be right. It was the GOP convention in Dallas and it was spectacular.A new campaign ad for Ken Paxton played during the first day ripping into James Talarico for past comments on how God is nonbinary—which makes sense, being neither fem
Flock of Seagulls (opens the original)
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Yesterday I was listening to On Point’s Meghna Chakrabarti (pronounced “Chakrabarti”) when I heard her say “the little Texas town that fought back.” Intrigued, I turned up the volume which is typically turned down so I don’t have to hear KUT tell me that it’s 101 degrees today but will feel like 118. I mean, you had me at 100. I already know it feels like you’re trapped in a sauna wearing merino wool while someone slowly pours water over the rocks.But back to the little Texas town that could. It
With All My Heart (opens the original)
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The fact that the 80-year-old Dolly Parton is gone and the 80-year-old Donald Trump is still with us is an incredible blow to our national psyche. I mean, seriously? Is God filling some kind of 75 to 80 age quota? Because if you’re looking for someone in that range, you could’ve pulled a two-fer and taken out both Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.A week ago, no one knew the name Natalie Harp, the executive assistant to the president, until Senator Jon Ossoff who’s definitely not running for preside
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