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This is worth a listen, especially if you like Armando Iannucci and/or Stewart Lee!
Comedy writer Armando Iannucci decodes the utterly baffling world of political language.
This week, Helen Lewis is away, so comedian and writer Stewart Lee joins Armando to look at Robert Jenrick's flashy video in which he takes aim at 'weird Turkish barber shops', among other things. They discuss how the way politicians, entertainers and journalists are changing and overlapping…

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…

Eurovision with only the vocals is... even weirder. #ESC2025

"Inspired by the political philosopher Albert Hirschman, figures including Goff, Thiel and the investor and writer Balaji Srinivasan have been championing what they call “exit” – the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation. Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies."
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Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by embracing lethal yet self-serving delusions. Having bought into various apartheid fantasies of bunkered safety, they are choosing to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet."
#OligarchApocalypse #Oligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

NFL writer urges the Cowboys to pursue 1,648-yard rusher https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/nfl-writer-urges-cowboys-pursue-1648-yard-rusher/0a4539bb9fc74dddab0de704

I was today years old when I learned that novelist Erica "Fear of Flying" Jong was married to novelist Jonathan Fast, son of better-known novelist Howard Fast. Their daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.
#EricaJong #HowardFast

Podcast: Final Observations from Raiders Final Minicamp Practice https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-pete-carroll-tommy-mellott-tom-mcmahon

#WritersCoffeeClub 10: What is the line between homage and theft?
Theft is illegal, a copyright violation. You take someone else's words, paragraph by paragraph, and pass it on as your own. Plagiarism, while not strictly illegal, lands here in my opinion. It's artistic theft.
Homage, in my opinion, is writing something in someone else's spirit, honouring the origin…

Submit you Cowboys mailbag questions to Saad Yousuf https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6424311/2025/06/13/submit-you-cowboys-mailbag-questions-to-saad-yousuf/