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Christina Cauterucci

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Slate senior writer / host of Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @jameswilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Honestly maybe the most level-headed thing I’ve read about this whole story!
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote about what we can learn from the chilling case of the COVID-conscious Western Mass lesbian bar! slate.com/life/2026/09...
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The Real Lesson to Take From the Viral Lesbian-Bar-Meltdown Story
If only we can stop rubbernecking long enough to learn.
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Molly Olmstead @mollyolmstead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s a long read, but I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my medbed story for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol... It was a wild ride.
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Trump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.
An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In this new genre of plastic surgery apologia, cosmetic procedures are not just acceptable in polite feminist society, but feminist deeds unto themselves. slate.com/life/2026/08...
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More and More Women Are Opening Up About Something That Used to Be Shameful. I Wish They’d Kept It All Secret.
I’m not sure I can take another round of pretending our actions have no effect on the world.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Getting a face-lift is not an act of liberation. By @c-cauterucci.bsky.social
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More and More Women Are Opening Up About Something That Used to Be Shameful. I Wish They’d Kept It All Secret.
I’m not sure I can take another round of pretending our actions have no effect on the world.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Like everyone else, I loathe the Dulles people movers. But after learning its history for this piece, it makes a hell of a lot more sense!! Still..... rest in piss slate.com/business/202...
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Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel's most cursed features.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
sad news - Slate has canceled Outward. it sucks to lose an outlet for queer commentary in this moment, but it's a tough time for podcasts. I love this final, fitting episode we made 💟
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not sure why reporters are still saying this when, with 73 percent of the vote counted, Janeese is ahead by double digits in all but D.C.'s whitest, wealthiest ward.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
this is a very satisfying explanation of Susan Collins!
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I am once again asking you to steam your Pride flags slate.com/life/2025/06...
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For the Love of God, Please Stop Putting Up This One Pride Flag
Do this instead.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There's a peculiar sort of comfort to knowing that Trump's aesthetic signature is an ancient, enduring metaphor for a life poorly lived. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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​​One Trump Obsession Says More About Him Than Any Other
Every major chapter of Trump’s story has been suffused with the gleam of his favorite metal.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I will die on this hill: If there's one Trump obsession that summarizes his character better than any other, it's his thing for Rosie O'Donnell. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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What’s Really Going On in Donald Trump’s Head? One Big Clue Has Been in Plain Sight for Years.
We might not have his brain scans. We do have something else.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
America is now Trump’s Playboy Mansion. The rest of us are just living in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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What’s Really Going On in Donald Trump’s Head? One Big Clue Has Been in Plain Sight for Years.
We might not have his brain scans. We do have something else.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This story has everything: * the biggest fertility clinic scandal in U.S. history * high-rolling doctors and heroic whistleblowers * an unlikely friendship born of tragedy * a major update to the story that came years after I started reporting it * Pedro Pascal's dad slate.com/life/2026/05...
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In 1995, a Woman Got a Call That Shook Her to Her Core—and Ignited an International Scandal. It Took Almost 30 Years to Come Full Circle.
She had gone to a clinic for help getting pregnant. She got something far different.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I went long on Megyn Kelly, whose career arc tells the story of how journalism, the GOP, and America (??) have warped and withered over the last decade. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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What Happened to Megyn Kelly?
The former Fox News host’s transformation tells a dark story about her—and us.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Money can overcome a universe of moral or aesthetic objections. The rich occupy a universe unto themselves.
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The World’s Most Evil Couple Exposed the Rot at the Heart of the Met Gala
I don’t really care to see an OpenAI employee walk the red carpet.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Basically, everyone else is like, ‘OK, what crunchy thing can I sprinkle on my gummy?’" slate.com/life/2026/03...
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Grocery Hackers Are Obsessed With This Secretive Element of Snack Production. But Can It Survive a Legal Crackdown?
Would a PB&J pocket by any other name taste as sweet?
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Neck beards. Hoodies. Graphic tees. Beanies. I wrote about why ICE agents are dressing less like a regimented unit of government employees and more like a Confederate reenactor meetup at the local Hardee’s. slate.com/culture/2026...
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Crusty Beards. Hole-Filled Pants. Plaid Button-Downs. What’s Going On With the Men of ICE?
While other government employees sport crisp uniforms and clean-shaven faces, ICE guys are nearing mind-boggling levels of sartorial slop.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wrote about Cesar Chavez and the left-leaning men whose robust analyses of power and justice stop precisely when they cross the threshold of their own homes, offices, or local middle schools. slate.com/life/2026/03...
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The Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse Allegations Show a Disturbing Similarity to Jeffrey Epstein
As with so many abusers before him, his sterling public image provided the perfect cover.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In a rare bit of """good""" news, Kristi Noem had an utterly humiliating last week in office. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Trump Has Been Restrained, in One Way at Least, This Term. That Just Ended.
She looked, to be frank, like a total chump.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I wrote about the saddest part of the Jim Carrey conspiracy theories. slate.com/life/2026/03...
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A Beloved Actor’s Face Is Now Unrecognizable. But It’s Us Who Should Be Looking in the Mirror.
His extreme transformation spawned a spate of worldwide conspiracy theories.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm totally fascinated by how easy it can be to defang traumatic memories (including breakups!) with something a lot of us already have in our medicine cabinets: beta blockers. slate.com/life/2026/03...
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There’s No Such Thing as an Eternal Sunshine Drug. What We Do Have Is Propranolol.
Pop a few pills, do a little therapy, and it might all go away.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Feel like everyone is breaking up lately? Here's why. slate.com/life/2026/03...
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Something Strange Is Happening With Breakups. It’s Making It Much Harder to Date.
Careful you don’t get Shrekked.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Here's a story, a decade in the making, about my love/hate relationship with the handgun in my living room. slate.com/life/2026/02...
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Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be.
We’re here. We’re queer. Increasingly, we’re armed.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump is concocting a world that rewards unabashedly manufactured femininity. Who better to capitalize on it than the company that insists the sexiest thing in the world is a stiff, sculpted bra that hides our softest body parts behind a wall of foam? slate.com/life/2025/10...
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Victoria’s Secret Is Returning to “Sexy.” You’re Not Going to Like Why.
I hate to be the person who brings up Donald Trump in conversations about thongs, but ...
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
For the NYT Magazine, I wrote about this moment as an existential turning point for climate activists. Just as solar power became cheaper than fossil fuels, global politics swung to the right. Where does the movement go from here? I went to Vermont for creemees with Bill McKibben to find out.
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The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
they yassified Amanda Knox
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I wrote about the first indelible image of Trump's D.C. invasion: a sandwich bouncing off a bulletproof vest.
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The Image That Defines Trump’s Reign of Terror Is … a Subway Sandwich?
Sometimes, the only way to fight fascism is with a $5 footlong.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 13/08/2025
“The D.C. public spaces that will be militarized and overpoliced in the weeks to come are exactly where you can best observe the interdependence and plurality that make cities great, and that conservatives view as a threat to their own ideological ends.” slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
It’s not what the president would have you believe.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I took a stroll through D.C., trying to see my city through the tactical Oakleys of a DEA agent patrolling the National Mall slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
It’s not what the president would have you believe.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I really wish the phrase "WNBA dildos" had come into my life in a more positive and celebratory (read: merch) context but this is the society we live in slate.com/culture/2025...
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It’s Raining Dildos on WNBA Courts. You’ll Never Believe Who’s to Blame.
The WNBA needs to get tough on spectators behaving badly.
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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Probably the most ridiculous photo illustration I've ever had to cook up in my almost 12 years at @slate.com. (And I've done some doozies.) Shouts to @c-cauterucci.bsky.social for breaking down one of the most idiotic things going on in pro sports right now. slate.com/culture/2025...
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It’s Raining Dildos on WNBA Courts. You’ll Never Believe Who’s to Blame.
The WNBA needs to get tough on spectators behaving badly.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
hmm I agree
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
a searing and aggressively sensible (and, because it's @benmathislilley.bsky.social, fun) piece on the trap Democrats have laid for themselves and how they can get themselves out slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It.
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I'm sorry in advance. Once you read this, you won't be able to unsee it. slate.com/life/2025/06...
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For the Love of God, Please Stop Putting Up This One Pride Flag
Do this instead.
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Nims @nims462.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Crowds of queer people cheering for rainbow-clad straight people on a day meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community—it’s as dissonant as sending a model of a drone down the parade route, and it’s a sign of how far Pride has drifted from its origins as a show of queer visibility and power.”
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I Am Beyond Thrilled That Corporations Are Defunding Pride. No, Not for the Reason You Think.
I really think we’ll be fine without the Raytheon float, you guys.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I wrote about the beginning of the end of corporate Pride, and the possibilities that await us when the companies leave slate.com/life/2025/06...
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I Am Beyond Thrilled That Corporations Are Defunding Pride. No, Not for the Reason You Think.
I really think we’ll be fine without the Raytheon float, you guys.
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The Ron-ting of Hill House @grandrevans.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"But you don’t need the backing of business leaders to host a Pride event. Nor do you need the majority of your neighbors to endorse it. All you need is a few committed residents with a knack for party promotion and the chutzpah to overcome—or ignore—whatever opposition rears up in response."
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The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most Trump-coded areas.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"They can’t stop LGBTQ+ communities from supporting and sustaining one another with art, whimsy, and a good dance floor. And they can’t roll back the cultural progress of newly out young people finding more supportive family members, teachers, and care providers." Pride! @c-cauterucci.bsky.social
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The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most Trump-coded areas.
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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"One seventysomething lesbian couple said they’d moved from Nampa to a blue state 30 years ago, seeking a more affirming community. They returned just for the Pride event and were overcome with emotion by what they saw. “I cried like 50 percent of the day,” Knapp said."
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You Might Think Trump Has Destroyed Gay Pride in Conservative America. It’s Quite the Opposite.
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most conservative areas.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I wrote about the boom in Pride celebrations in conservative areas, and the extreme measures organizers are taking to keep them safe in the face of violent threats. slate.com/life/2025/06...
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You Might Think Trump Has Destroyed Gay Pride in Conservative America. It’s Quite the Opposite.
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most conservative areas.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
On what would have been Harvey Milk’s 95th birthday, I really strongly recommend people give @c-cauterucci.bsky.social’s Slow Burn podcast series on ‘Gays Against Briggs’, and Milk and others in 1970s San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community’s resistance to efforts to roll back gay rights.
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Slow Burn Season 9
A nationwide moral panic, a California legislator who rode the anti-gay wave, and the LGBTQ+ people who stepped up and came out to try and stop him.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
fur is in, handwringing about ethics is out slate.com/life/2025/05...
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Fur Is Back. I Know Why.
Faux fur, shearling, even real fur—there’s a reason why this luxurious good is making its way back into our closets.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
on the return of a highly powerful political tool: Pete Buttigieg's beard slate.com/life/2025/04...
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People Are Losing Their Minds Over Pete Buttigieg’s Beard Again. There’s Something Much Bigger Going On.
If you listen closely, you can hear hidden messages rustling through it.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Kristi Noem's supposedly stolen purse supposedly contained her passport, meds, driver's license & $3,000 in cash. Was it a go bag? If so, shouldn't the head of Homeland Security have kept an eye on it? Fun analysis from @c-cauterucci.bsky.social on @slate.com slate.com/life/2025/04...
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Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Got Robbed. That’s Far From the Most Interesting Part of the Story.
That robber really hit the jackpot.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Why was Kristi Noem carrying around $3,000 and her passport when her purse was stolen? I have some ideas. slate.com/life/2025/04...
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Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Got Robbed. That’s Far From the Most Interesting Part of the Story.
That robber really hit the jackpot.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I wrote about the strange current state of buying drugs: Legal dispensaries still make you feel like a criminal, while black-market vendors have never been so polished. And corporate $ is giving a professional sheen to harmful substances that are barely regulated at all! slate.com/business/202...
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Why Does Buying Weed—and Other Drugs—Feel So Weird These Days?
I think I’ve figured out a major part of the problem.
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
after my fourth helping of fish sperm, I began to wonder...
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James Allenspach @manminusone.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On today's Outward podcast @c-cauterucci.bsky.social talks with one of the organizers of SF Pride to see how different this year will be. slate.com/podcasts/out...
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Planning Pride Amid Political Backlash
What will Pride look like in the post-Rainbow Capitalism era?
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
this is like threatening to kill someone, then taking your knife away from their throat and saying "i saved your life"
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