"The narrative about me was written by people with power, with an investment in keeping me a symbol rather than a person. It was easier that way. Symbols don’t talk back." @MonicaLewinsky writes about how rewriting your story is quintessentially American. More: rollingstone.com/culture/cul…

she thought about where she could go and not risk running into klay thompson and the most obvious answer was the nba finals

RT @crawf34: hey, tell them there’s a pedophile in attendance

Thank you Los Angeles for vindicating Lauren Conrad once again. Fuck Spencer Pratt.

RT @ratlimit: This is so cool! Nothing ruins a concert like cameras everywhere. Google “Madison Square Garden cameras everywhere” to read m…

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

the #Hacks x #DragRace multiverse 😌

i truly feel hacks left us with a gorgeous message on how comedy literally has the power to save lives and how simply laughing with your friends can be your reason to live #hacks

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

Democrats aren’t donating to the DNC. They’re now donating directly to the candidates themselves- which is a better way to use your money. We saw this with the FEC filings.

every major corpo opened up the money faucet when they saw steyer as the potential candidate over becerra. says something to steyers credibility on the labor side in spite of his immense wealth ngl.

What has Rep. Wasserman-Schultz’s “seniority and clout” delivered? A 2016 DNC primary that paved the way for Trump. The erosion of Democratic power in Florida. A second election of Trump in 2024. And now, selfishly flexing her power to sideline Broward’s Black community.

and what is the government's plan to bring back schaefer & lusaque

RT @victryena: here's her full choir performance of wildflowers. you belong somewhere you feel free, juniper blessing. t.co/71OzgHc…

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N