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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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All of your comments on this have been so good and I thank you for being here. If you have other folks I should talk to definitely email me: anna.merlan@jezebel.com Read more

Craggs has said nice things about my writing, even at times when I blatantly did not deserve it, and at times those things have made me tear up a little bit at my desk. Read more

The fact that you put those words in quotes tells me that you think you don’t know anyone who’s engaged in sex work. You’re probably wrong. Here, go learn something: http://titsandsass.com/ Read more

I will “exalt sex workers” all day long, if you mean “allow that some of them are human beings with free will who’ve chosen sex work.” As for people who do not choose sex work, but enter it through trafficking, coercion or economic hardship, I’ll put this part of the letter in again, in case you missed it: Read more

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I have been made aware of another catnidate, a fellow named Dr. Jekyll. While Jezebel cannot retract an endorsement — and wouldn’t, because “Limberbutt” — I feel it only fair to include the full text of Dr. Jekyll’s correspondence with us. Read more

I will do my damnedest to make Grim Yelp funny tomorrow but the way this week is going.... Read more

“in my mind” I didn’t rape anybody is a real Cosby-level excuse Read more

Don’t do brownface ever at all is actually a good tenet by which to live one’s life Read more

Genuinely curious how he justifies this to himself. Read more