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Nov 2023
1h 16m

Osama bin Laden: The Comeback Kid

Meghan Daum & Sarah Haider
About this episode

TikTokers discover Osama bin Laden’s Letter to America and have “existential crises”. Is it because it’s the first thing they’ve ever read that’s longer than a tweet? Or is OBL this generation’s Che Guevara? Plus, infighting breaks out in TERF world when an AGP confuses business casual with ballroom formal. 

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Osama bin Laden's TikTok popularity is based on childish notions of evil.

Meghan’s famous “piece” gets demoted to a “post.”

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