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Author. Journalist. Fausse Parisienne Rep’ed by @annasproul AMERICANON (2021) @DuttonBooks @penguinrandom Words: @nytimes @washingtonpost @TIME @parisreview

Paris, France
Joined June 2014
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France is fiercely protective of its landmarks, food, and other forms of cultural heritage. Now the French government is hoping citizens can think of wildlife as “patrimoine,” too, @MchughJess writes: theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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A hospital for wild animals in Paris takes care of 7,000+ animals per year, including many tiny hedgehogs, like this one! It's the most feel-good story I've ever written Please read! @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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The man who killed Jordan Neely wasn’t protecting himself. He was empowered by a cultural movement that has normalized regular citizens deputizing themselves as judges and executioners in the name of white supremacy. Infamously this also happened in another period of US history
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Three years of a pandemic. We’ve experienced so much hardship, trauma and grief since then I’m not sure my brain can fully comprehend the enormity. But I’m comforted by one constant: the inability of anyone in this newsroom to just take a whole damn donut
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no one wants to acknowledge that perhaps teenagers spend so much time on their cell phones because the conversations of their elders, including mansplainers like Ross Douthat, are exhausting, boring, & unrewarding to them.
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Morocco, 732 Morocco, 2022 🤝 WE HAVE CONQUERED THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND ARE PREPARED TO BATTLE FRANCE
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At this point I wonder if I’m the one who dies in the season finale of The White Lotus.
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weirdly my DMs aren't filling up with single hot men asking me out on dates. that part must be down already :( it's already happening
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Just eight dollars a month. That's less than the price of Chipotle burrito. But it can make all the difference in the world to the billionaire who owns this site.
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Stunning and devastating opening from Newsnight tonight. Harsh, yes. Media students (and current broadcast journalists!) take note: your edit is nothing without the right choice of music. And oh boy this is quite the choice.
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No more emails. If you want something from me you must approach me slowly and calmly with a piece of apple or carrot in your palm with your fingers flat and extended so I do not bite them
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Replying to @drmistercody
It's only hypocrisy if it comes from the Hypocrité region in France, otherwise it's just sparkly lying
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if books were edible would you eat it page by page like potato chips or in big bites like a sandwich
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“Male evangelicals may be able to get away with looking like Jerry Falwell, but women cannot.” Bonkers story by @MchughJess about a fitness and diet influencer turned warrior for Jesus theguardian.com/lifeandstyle… – at Tallinn, Estonia
last night my partner said that they see being a journalist as asking a question you think matters and then trying to help explain the answer to people you’ll probably never meet and I! cried!
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