Her collectedness collapses as Johnson turns the joke into a physical act-out, becoming almost insulted that this earthquake dared to frighten her.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Last September, when news broke that another friend of Kraus’s, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi, had exchanged intimate texts with Kennedy, Kraus wrote a Substack post accusing Nuzzi of ensnaring Kennedy and insulted her looks on Instagram.
She was ridiculed in online forums and on at least one radio show, and dismissed by a Michigan State Police dispatcher who likely didn't even send out a patrol car.
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NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Gastineau says the video has led to him being ridiculed and scorned.
In practice, despite his rhetoric, Israel’s longest serving prime minister’s security policy was widely seen as cautious and relatively restrained, even derided as cowardly by political rivals, who also mocked his inability to make decisive moves.
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Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
That notion, derided by Hoyle, had already evolved from its original meaning.
In an interview with CNN, D’Agostino described being forced to sit or kneel on concrete in front of an Israeli flag for hours at a time, being left in cold temperatures with little clothing, having his belongings seized, mocked and destroyed and having his wrists bound tightly.
—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
Puerto Rican rapper and Saturday Night Live host Bad Bunny mocked right-wing backlash to his upcoming Spanish-only Super Bowl halftime show, and started the countdown clock for anyone who doesn’t know the language.
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William Vaillancourt,
Rolling Stone,
5 Oct. 2025
Even the acronym of GPS jibed with her view of how a kid’s own resourcefulness could be used as an inner compass.
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Shawn Price,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
But the idea that many companies are struggling to achieve substantial returns jibed with another recent survey, by Akkodis, a multinational consulting firm.
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