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Anna Merlan
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Anna Merlan was a Senior Reporter at G/O Media until September 2019. She's the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

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Facebook also offered Jennifer’s friends and family the option to “block” her if they didn’t like what she’d “posted”. The pictures were only taken down after Facebook ascertained that the account had been “hacked.” According to the New York Daily News article: “The social network initially declined to take the photo Read more

It is a quick way to let other students and visitors be aware of the situation. I get what you’re saying, but most lockdown procedures for schools are available to the public anyways. Read more

Just got an email from the law school. If anyone is on campus the law library is open and secure. Read more

“But her apology isn’t going to do anything for your life.” Read more

I want to know what any one of these fucking lunatics would have done if it was their child in the gorilla enclosure. I truly am devastated that the he had to be killed. It’s awful. But between that and a child being ripped to shreds while dozens of people looked on, I’m going with shoot the gorilla. Read more

But what if they made our bed and we have to lie in it? Read more

An alert tipster points out that back in 2004, the staff of a Brookline, Massachusetts sex shop called Grand Opening voted to unionize with UNITE HERE! The owner, Kim Airs, seems to have objected to the union, according to that story, and it’s unclear to me whether a contract was ever ratified. They would’ve had to Read more

You don’t need to when your candidate is backed by the establishment and winning. I voted for her myself, but I’m hardly surprised there is an unbalanced amount of resorting to violence with the people that feel like they’re being squeezed and ignored by the system doing more of it than the ones seemingly benefiting Read more

Y’know, I think this is one thing that our overly long primaries cause. If our voting and tallying were quick and swift, we wouldn’t have long protracted battles for various states that go on forever and engender a feeling of desperation among all the voters and thus rage and idiocy.
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I posted a comment a couple of days ago but haven’t seen it come up so I’m going to give it another try Read more

I am also a member of SSM and Hot School and proud of it. None of what the article says reflects my experience in SSM whatsoever, and there are a few blatant lies that I wanted to address. I was not recruited by SSM—I was invited by a friend to attend as many events as I wanted before I asked if I could join. Also, Read more

International has mentored me for 6 years and I’ve been a member of Superstar Machine from day 1 and it’s been amazing and life changing. This article is not at all consistent with my experience. I know all the former SSM members who have been featured in this article and I don’t at all agree with their Read more

I find this article to be disgraceful. Coming from a side that just is delusional and a desperate attempt to attack someone. I find it disgusting attacking another human being. Repulsive, bad reporting, and just tacky! IT’s like a bad breakup where the woman goes cray cray. The guy says leave me alone. stop texting me Read more

This article is so WACK! I’m a proud QUEER member of both Superstar Machine AND IHSR! And I have always...ALWAYS been supported in that.. because that’s who I am authentically. And if there is something that International supports it’s authenic expression! So I can straight up attest that it’s a load of crap that Read more

WOW. I can only speak for IHS, but wow, this is crazy. Here was my dinner conversation tonight: Read more

People should know the truth that this handful of disgruntled ex members (who by the way have never actually left SSM because clearly they are still obsessed with it) are not telling the whole story, but only the parts that would bolster how bad they feel about themselves and all the while blaming others for THEIR Read more

Former SSM participant here. I can tell you that shit is CRAY! We would have small group sessions where “International” would ask us to explicitly detail our experiences masturbating (alone and with partners) and offer us feedback... I left very shortly after that. Read more

As a current member of Superstar Machine it saddens me to read this and see a woman whom I used to be close with attack something that she knows means a lot to all the women still here. When Katie A left she only contacted me to suggest I leave also. She never shared her experience with me, only sent aggressive Read more