catholic. friendly neighborhood ideas editor @thedispatch. previous @nytopinion. Novak fellow via @TFASorg.
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Read @valerificent on the social contagion of suicide and the media's double standards for reporting on assisted suicide. thedispatch.com/article/assi…
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Jun 12
We Don’t Know How to Talk About Assisted Dying
Journalists, medical organizations, the public: No one agrees on what assisted suicide is—or isn’t | @valerificent
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Valerie Pavilonis retweeted
Jun 11
a bus every 6-7 minutes is the entire secret of good transit. no schedule, no app, you just show up. the kids have been screaming the answer at us for over a year. six seveeen. headways. they're talking about headways
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Jun 11
We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.
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Need a subway rat to chew on Wemby’s achilles like it’s a wire tonight
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I have been wondering this for ages: how do newspapers decide when a story on suicide (solo) gets a mental health hotline number appended and when a suicide (medical) doesn't. Thanks @valerificent!
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ALT In an interview, NYT deputy standards editor Aisha Khan told me that the Times typically adds the suicide hotline to the bottom of stories on a case-by-case basis; stories having to do mostly with suicide will likely get a hotline notice, while those that mention it tangentially will not. Khan also noted differences between assisted death and typical suicide. “And I think in this case, in the case of assisted deaths, medically assisted death, there is a sense that there is more clear agency and understandable agency on the part of the person doing this, right?” Khan said. “So when we do a profile of someone, they’re sort of articulating their, I don’t want to say rationale, but their thinking and understanding, and it’s been through a process, right? These people go through therapy and extended medical visits, etc., before they make a decision like this. So I think it’s not considered the same.” Khan added that, in the case of assisted dying, those circumstances cannot be easily cop
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Don’t forget the mango knicky rice at little grenjai
Jun 10
I sincerely thought the Jalen Brunson rigatoni was a shitpost but as it turns out it is a real dish that they sell at a restaurant in Williamsburg
I will be investigating
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1/ Stories about conventional suicide in the mainstream media often include mental health resources. But stories about assisted dying often don't. Why? I tried to answer this question in @thedispatch ⬇️
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Jun 10
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My mayor Muslim
My bagel Jewish
My cream cheese chive
Knicks in five
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Whoever gave Wemby their Gramercy Park key is a traitor to New York City
The Spurs might be down 2-0 but that isn’t stopping Wemby from getting in some drawing time in Gramercy Park
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Valerie Pavilonis retweeted
Jun 8
I'm happy to have a new piece over @thedispatch, talking about how academia's issues with motherhood interact with their problems with "viewpoint diversity."
It's been an open secret for a long time that the Ivory Tower struggles to retain moms through the PhD and early academic career track.
Less often acknowledged, however, is that the impact of this is often felt disproportionately by conservative and/or religious moms, who are statistically more likely to have children young, and to have multiple children. (Liberal women are impacted too, of course, but statistically less likely to have kids or have kids early in life).
Even if they make it through the PhD process, these women then sometimes get screened out of jobs and/or opposed at the hiring level based on views disfavored in universities, such being pro-life.
Right-of-center women therefore often face a one-two punch when they try to make it as academics at secular institutions. First, more likely to become moms, they are more likely to feel the impact of the Ivory Tower's difficulties retaining mothers. Second -- just like conservative men -- they sometimes face hostility on campus due to their political and/or religious beliefs.
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I don’t like the new subway car displays telling you which car/ side of the station you are closest to. Eliminates the knowledge gap between ball knowers and non-ball knowers
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Beautiful piece by @McCormackJohn about Mr. Sasse.
Jun 1
Six months ago, doctors gave @BenSasse three to four months to live. He’s still here.
Ben Sasse sat down with Dispatch senior editor @McCormackJohn to talk about faith, suffering, family, and death. Here's what he had to say: ⬇️ (1/6)
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May 30
Catching him up on what he missed before Game 7 tonight #GoSpursGo
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“Go back the way y’came, son, and turn left where the Shell Station used ter be.” From an AMAZING essay for @thedispatch on Bowling Green, Kentucky. By Amelia Christmas Gramling!
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Link here! This essay awed me. thedispatch.com/article/bowl…
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This is part of our "Where I'm From" series. If you want to submit, do so here: thedispatch.com/submissions/
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