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Late last year, as the pandemic inched on, we set up a hotline where working moms could call in and scream, laugh, cry or vent for a solid minute. We called it The Primal Scream Line.
And scream they did.
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WENDY WILLIAMS UNGUARDED: No one comes across as credible in @jessicabennett deep dive into why the celebrity DJ is under court-appointed monitoring — and who is looking out for her best interests. Echoes @propublica series into NY’s broken system.
nymag.visitlink.me/EQMeip
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Donald Trump lost his bid to a federal court to reconsider the $5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll after a jury found that the president sexually abused and defamed her.
Read @jessicabennett’s profile of Carroll on what’s next for the writer. thecut.com/article/e-jean-ca…
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The women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct have spent years trying to be heard. They’re making one last stand, @jessicabennett writes.
Read: nyti.ms/3zIFa2X
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“The Democrats have finally gone low, deploying a bit of verbal jujitsu so delightfully petty it might just work,” @jessicabennett writes.
Read: nyti.ms/4c2sIbC
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Count 2: GUILTY
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Here are some of our favorite collective names for animals:
a murder of crows
a tuxedo of penguins
a bask of crocodiles
a destruction of cats
a tower of giraffes
a parliament of owls
a cackle of hyenas
a smack of jellyfish
an ambush of tigers
a wisdom of wombats
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In @nytopinion
E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Donald Trump was about defamation. But it was also about the worth of a woman, long past middle age, who dared to claim she still had value, Jessica Bennett writes. nyti.ms/4993jfh
Carry yourself with the confidence of an 80-year-old woman who dares to claim she still has value
@ejeancarroll
nytimes.com/2024/01/29/opini…
And the American Dialect Society’s “Word of the Year” is…
Enshittification — a “sadly apt” term, as the lexicographer @bgzimmer put it, for when an online platform goes to shit
Ahem.
americandialect.org/2023-wor…
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In Opinion
“In 2023, it felt as though the world was glorifying girlhood, or an exaggerated version of it,” writes Jessica Bennett. “Was it just coincidence that this embrace came at a time when girls themselves seemed so very miserable?” nyti.ms/48bhL6t
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Addi, London and Anna let our reporter @jessicabennett into their lives and phones for a year. At 13, they were legally able to join social media, and their phones were always close at hand. nyti.ms/3LyY1jY
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Three girls, one slice of middle school. This is what it’s like to be a 13-year-old girl, in a world that can’t stop talking about the dire state of your future. nyti.ms/3LyY1jY
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“I just feel like I need my phone, you know?”
“This morning I got caught with blush on and I lied and got in trouble.”
“Not having social media makes me just as insecure as having it would.”
Here’s what it's like to be a 13-year-old girl today. nyti.ms/3LyY1jY
ALT A collage shows three 13-year-old girls as well as a picture of the back of a cellphone case. A headline reads: What is it like being 13? Photos by Elaine Cromie, Dee Dwyer and Rachel Woolf for The New York Times.
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This is what it's like to be a 13-year-old girl today, in a world that can't stop talking about the dire state of your future. nyti.ms/45X33yI
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Anyone else remember watching Luke rape Laura on General Hospital 800 years ago…and then seeing them fall in love & become the hottest soap couple ever??
I do, and have been wanting to talk about it since middle school. Listen in on #InRetrospect:
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🧵We at @nytimes keep hearing stories of Afghans trekking thru the Americas in search of safety in the US.
Tahira is a Hazara woman who crossed into the US with her family—including her twin babies—in March.
We met her in the Darién Gap (⬇️) and just caught up.
Pls read...
This came up again and again in court. She explained then on the stand, and repeatedly, that what she was trying to say, admittedly poorly, is that rape is used for shock value — for ratings, for entertainment, as a plot device in shows like Game of Thrones.