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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Ella Dorn |Ani Wilcenski |Theo Hobson
I was determined to write something positive about Blue Origin’s “historic all-female spaceflight.” The spectacle was an all-American underdog story. Jeff Bezos worked his way up from dorky book salesman to buff billionaire who can launch his busty bride-to-be into space alongside some celebrities — because hey, why not? Then I saw the group photos of the girl gang, and I just couldn’t. My resolve dissolved faster than the lip fillers in Khloé Kardashian’s fake face.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Frank Ricci |Neal Pollack |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Ani Wilcenski
Firefighters do not run into a blaze like you see on TV. We crawl with purpose like rats in a maze, which is what a well-involved structure fire feels like, the smoke so thick our high-powered flashlights can’t cut through it. We are trained to locate windows and leave furniture in place as reference points while we conduct search and rescue then scurry to the nearest walls. It makes it all the more vital to have another firefighter with you.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Frank Ricci |Neal Pollack |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Ani Wilcenski
Firefighters do not run into a blaze like you see on TV. We crawl with purpose like rats in a maze, which is what a well-involved structure fire feels like, the smoke so thick our high-powered flashlights can’t cut through it. We are trained to locate windows and leave furniture in place as reference points while we conduct search and rescue then scurry to the nearest walls. It makes it all the more vital to have another firefighter with you.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ani Wilcenski |Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball |Daniel McCarthy
In all the post election danger-to-democracy commentary, one unexpected new peril has emerged: the “nationwide surge of Mar-a-Lago face”. Best exemplified by demented far-right activist Laura Loomer and former Fox News host-slash-former Donald Trump Jr. squeeze Kimberly Guilfoyle, Mar-a-Lago face is a cosmetic look characterized by immense volumes of cheek filler, heavy eye shadow and enough Botox to petrify the face.
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May 1, 2024 | 
tabletmag.com | Ani Wilcenski
“Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde,” reads a recently launched GoFundMe for the members of Phi Kappa Phi, a fraternity at UNC Chapel Hill. The fundraiser, which is formally titled “Phi Kappa Phi Men Defended their Flag.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
sapirjournal.org | Ani Wilcenski
After George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, Susan Korn was outraged. The 30-something founder, CEO, and creative director of Susan Alexandra, a New York–based fashion company that offers Judaica-inspired clothing, jewelry, and homewares, took to her brand’s Instagram page to show it, writing:Today I feel . . . helpless, devastated, disheartened. I know this is a jewelry/bag account but today I can’t bring myself to post or think about anything besides the news cycle.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ani Wilcenski |Cherie DeVille |Alexander Larman |Cat Castellanos
There is a girl on TikTok, a bleached-blonde New York transplant who just passed a million followers, whose videos I cannot stop watching. The secret to her rise was “Get Ready with Me” storytimes in which she sat in front of the camera applying mascara and retelling — in painstaking detail — her lurid misadventures.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Ani Wilcenski
There is a girl on TikTok, a bleached-blonde New York transplant who just passed a million followers, whose videos I cannot stop watching. The secret to her rise was “Get Ready with Me” storytimes in which she sat in front of the camera applying mascara and retelling — in painstaking detail — her lurid misadventures.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
thedailyscroll.substack.com | Ani Wilcenski |Park MacDougald
On Tuesday evening, news spread rapidly in English-language media of a fresh Israeli “massacre,” this time at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. As with the earlier, fabricated story of the Israeli bombing of the Al-Ahli hospital, unverified and seemingly inflated casualty figures, sourced to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, circulated widely across social media in the immediate aftermath of the explosion.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
tabletmag.com | Ani Wilcenski
A picture of a killing, shared proudly with a “heart eyes” caption. Who posted this on Facebook to revel in mass rape and torture, four days after Hamas slaughtered 1,400 people? A devoted member of Islamic Jihad? A commander of Hamas? Nope, this is a girl who graduated alongside me from Columbia University, a girl who was a regular guest in the house where I lived, a girl with whom I had several mutual friends. She wasn’t an actual antisemite, these friends said.
