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Ash McGonigal@ashmcgonigal.com |
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LFKian, Joe of the Adventures of Luke and Joe; musician, ADHD guy, filmmaker, husband, dad. In roughly reverse order. Sometimes I go by my middle name: Geiiga.
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Ash McGonigal
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Evangelicals are really open about this. The crown jewel class at my school was a survey of western philosophy with context provided by church approved authorities, to give us the tools to avoid being "seduced" into secular worldviews, thereby wasting our parents' investment in raising us.
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Ash McGonigal
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Was in the house of an older person who used to have the TV tuned to MSNBC all day. He was trying to figure out soccer.
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Max Kennerly
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.
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Shepherd
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Old gay furries literally run the internet infrastructure and it would not surprise me to find out that a non-zero number of them are encouraging young gay furries in this kind of pursuit or indeed engaging in it themselves.
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Ash McGonigal
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BREAKING: Asked at Burger King about Joe Biden continuing as the Presidential nominee, former President Obama was quoted as saying "You got my order wrong. I didn't want mayonnaise," indicating his support for a new ticket.
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Charles Johnson
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I know very few people saw it but Biden was sharp and focused and did not drool once today in his speech at the NATO Summit. The dude is fine. Stop panicking. He’s got this.
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Ash McGonigal
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ALL OF THIS
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Jay Weixelbaum
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Folks, I may have a PhD in history-including US politics history-but the last several years I’ve been working in public health as a science writer. One of my areas of focus is Aging, including Alzheimer’s and related dementias (AD/RD). I find the discourse around Biden really troubling.
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Ash McGonigal
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I was too shocked to even start laughing until it was almost past me. I've seen photos and I've heard how y'all react and even so
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Pat Burke 🇺🇦
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I’m sure I told you about a quote that my dad attributed to Edward Albee: “Arthur Miller keeps writing prefaces to plays he thinks he’s written.” I’ve never even been able to find that quote anywhere, Albee or otherwise. The possibility that my dad made it up himself amuses me no end.
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Daniel J. Willis
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Me IRL
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Ash McGonigal
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Where it's at!
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Ash McGonigal
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Bob's Cinematic Universe.
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Ash McGonigal
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I saw my first Cybertruck yesterday going the opposite direction while I was going 75mph in my Miata on a two-lane highway. Y'all really undersell how much that experience is like having an antique toaster launched at you.
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Ash McGonigal
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I ran out of playlist on the ride home and told Siri "play new music I'll like" and I was unprepared for how seen I'd feel
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Ash McGonigal
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BREAKING: An expert in canine behavior appears multiple times in White House logs, spurring rumors that President Biden is afflicted by lycanthropy.
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Daniel J. Willis
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Hear me out: Time travelers convinced Franz Ferdinand to put the top down on the car to deflect the bomb, then a second time traveler replaced Leopold Lojka and drove Ferdinand to Princip because the alternate timeline was somehow worse.
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Daniel J. Willis
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Trump got a letter from Brent Spiner’s character in Independence Day saying he’s 6’5”, 210, and healthier than a pro athlete and the NYT ignores every single instance of confusion and trip to the hospital. An expert on the subject of a bill meets someone other than Biden and it gets a story.
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Daniel J. Willis
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WHY ARE YOU WRITING OFF THE NEW YORK TIMES WITHOUT CHECKING IF A MAJOR PARKINSON’S BILL WAS UNDER CONSIDERATION WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.
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ApocalypticaNow
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Every incident of a Secret Service agent getting bitten by a dog was leaked to the press. This White House can't keep a bigger secret for this long
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Ash McGonigal
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Some crank at the DNC keeps calling and saying. "Read the party rules and bylaws." Tomorrow: Six editorials about how the DNC should stay out of our business on this.
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Ash McGonigal
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BREAKING: The Cartisans have switched their allegiance to Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, a source at the Capitol Bar and Grille in Bloomsbury PA tells us.
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Ash McGonigal
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BREAKING: According to sources in relative physical proximity to the White House, a group of major Democratic donors calling themselves "Cartisans" have demanded that Democrats nominate former President Jimmy Carter as a unity candidate in response to concerns about President Biden's age.
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Ash McGonigal
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BREAKING: An heiress from Kansas City who gave $20 to the McGovern campaign says she won't give another dime to Democrats until they invoke the god Hephaestus to craft a helm that can only be donned by the sound of mind and pure of heart. She wants it used as part of a "Maelstrom Primary."
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Ash McGonigal
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I COULD learn the first thing about my job, national politics reporter, but then I might get scooped about a rumor I heard on the train to replace President Biden and Vice President Harris on the ballot with two of Pablo Escobar's hippos
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Will Stancil
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our political nerd class spent too much time learning how to do regressions and not nearly enough time learning about postmodernism www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Ash McGonigal
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Last summer I bought CDs by Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Albert King, Muddy Waters, and Django Reinhardt at a garage sale.
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Ash McGonigal
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Since you got the story of one of my best-received performances, my worst: an improv act to a sparse, lifeless audience. The first time I opened my mouth my voice cracked and my confidence drained out and was replaced with adrenaline, screaming FREEZE. For 60 wide-eyed seconds before I got the hook
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Ash McGonigal
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This story is about not assuming you know what's going on in someone else's head. Particularly if that person is delivering a performance on a stage.
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Ash McGonigal
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This play was staged like the audience was at a civic event where the town leaders were re-enacting these important moments in their history. If our character wasn't in the scene, we were at the back of the set watching the play -- in character -- in plain view of the audience.
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Ash McGonigal
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First university drama I was in, I had the smallest part in an ensemble cast of 12, as a typical small town sheriff. One night I stole the show with how "intimidating" audiences thought I was. What actually happened: I spent all but the first five minutes of act 2 focused on not shitting my pants.
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Ash McGonigal
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#3 is that they lack the experience to tell when they're getting rolled.
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Ash McGonigal
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The things about a 12-year-old President's brain that I would be concerned about are their inability to fully experience empathy and they are insufficiently aware of their own mortality. The most apples-and-oranges comparison imaginable.
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Ash McGonigal
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The go-kart people are also sponsored by the producers of a reality show that gets its best ratings when amateurs attempt to build vehicles that immediately explode. So who do you want driving? The King in a #43 Porsche Panamera, or some schmuck in half a Yugo?
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Ash McGonigal
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The go-kart people aren't really sure who should drive and it seems like you'll have to build the vehicle from a pile of car parts that they insist can be assembled into a Ferrari; but you can't verify it's not a mismatched hodgepodge of parts from salvaged Yugos and Cybertrucks.
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Ash McGonigal
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A metaphor for my people: Imagine you need to get somewhere as fast as possible. Richard Petty is holding car keys and Kyle Larson says he'll be riding shotgun but Petty is who you really want. But the people you regularly beat at the go-kart track say Petty is too old and Larson will crash.
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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Ash McGonigal
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Please don't guess my age. I'm nice but I love the Kansas sun and none of my ancestors lived below 50°N latitude before coming to this country.
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Ash McGonigal
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The hemorrhoids that caused George Brett to miss almost a third of his 1980 MVP season were previously the least cool thing imaginable. But... yeah, they topped it.
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Ash McGonigal
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I've come to think of an American political era beginning in 1968 with the election of Nixon, which I call the "Backlash Era." We were on the road to having a well-educated egalitarian society and Republicans decided that was something they must stop by any means necessary.
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Ash McGonigal
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The first time I remember watching the news and it being about a Presidential election was in 1988 so imagine my surprise when I read about the Mondale campaign and learned that he was the ideal Democratic candidate.
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Ash McGonigal
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"Maybe I could give you an abusive phone call some night. Anytime it's inconvenient. The surprise element might do a lot of good... I mean harm.
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Ash McGonigal
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Helen Rosner, food correspondent of the New Yorker
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Ash McGonigal
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Ghostbusters II, but only if you saw it before you saw the original. Basically the same movie but the characters make a lot more sense and it's more quotable.
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Ash McGonigal
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This is the kind of take that will get you those sweet politics desk assignments.
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Timothy Burke
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"Joe Biden is a zero on infrastructure" is a "Stephen Curry isn't a good shooter" level take, I cannot believe someone actually threw that out there
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Charles Johnson
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Ash McGonigal
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Smart, insightful, and gorgeous. Top tier Skeeter.
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Big DeVito Energy
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I'm only 21 free followers from my goal for the year! it's a way you can support me for free (◕ᴗ◕✿) just by going to the Fansly link & following me, *you* can help me beat the algorithm :3
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