my friend (and old colleague) wrote her very first novel & reese witherspoon chose it as her book club pick!! www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

my white wale. she promised me years ago she'd let me get the scoop. just discovered she made the same promise to a writer at slate too lol

this but for these and me imagining i’m cruella de vil

i have no one to talk about this with but the “tiktok famous gay throuple” that went to korea (famously) have broken up!!

2. Stunning reporting — and photography. @nymag.com

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

kinda bad that half the internet runs via one company. would be great if we had some sort of federal trade commission who could theoretically stop monopolies like that from happening. pipe dreams!

feels like the louvre should be harder to break into

YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK

weird bit of trivia but i’ve now seen patrick schwarzenegger twice at an airport

i cannot believe this is still going on. we are so blessed

this is SUCH a great idea for a series!! youtu.be/cngOr3Olgxo

10-year-old david can’t quite believe he’s getting paid to recap south park but here’s the latest!!! slate.com/culture/2025...

last person to see it but ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!! i can’t recall feeling as electrified by an actor’s breakout role as i was watching Teyana Taylor. OSCARS

regrettably, i don’t think most people will feel the pain from the shutdowns until the airports really go south. i flew last week and things seemed normal, but that can’t last

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 was definitely a movie i just watched

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Maine democratic primary just got even more crowded www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

great piece from astead www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

already heard from a couple people here! but want to talk to more!!!

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

first wives club! father of the bride! something’s gotta give! ANNIE HALL!!! THE GODFATHER!!! WHAT A LEGACY!!

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79. people.com/diane-keaton...

“golden” would’ve been a perfect eurovision song (complimentary)

New reading of The Phantom of the Opera: Carlotta is simply asking for safe working conditions, and Christine is essentially a scab

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do. Looking at you, all major news orgs.

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

already heard from a couple people here! but want to talk to more!!!

for @slack2thefuture.bsky.social, I went deep on Victoria Beckham, who is very clearly done with being Posh Spice slate.com/culture/2025...

🙏 weird request for a story BUT i'm looking to speak to couples who eventually got together because their respective ex-partners cheated on them with each other. like an IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE or RANDOM HEARTS situation. DM me if this is you or if you know of such a couple!!

wrote about BOOTS, a show that i kinda liked—and which makes a much more coherent case about masculinity than pete hegseth did last week slate.com/culture/2025...

this was probably the greatest show i’ve ever seen. you’re insane if you don’t do everything in your power to get tickets www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message* www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There are truly few things better than new David Mack lore.

just met a woman at a party & asked her what she did for work. could barely understand her because she was so soft spoken & had an accent so i just nodded a bunch. “she’s in culture,” her friend said. i finally realised that i was talking to ANNA DELVEY I ASKED ANNA DELVEY WHAT SHE DID FOR WORK

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

am I gonna regret this or does it feel like the Wicked marketing hasn’t been as totally overwhelming this time

ok TASK finally getting good but idk where they are gonna take it from here??

the return of conversion therapy is incredibly depressing

Far-right parties in Belgium call for "antifa" bans. The UK's Reform Party is adopting policy positions that are a “copy and paste” of Trump’s. The American flag is a symbol for Brazil's far-right. As Trump tears apart the US, experts worry that other countries may dismantle themselves too.

today is the last warm day of the year in NYC. i hope you all made the most of it!! the last 8 weeks or so have been spectacular!!!

i know jean baudrillard would be feasting on this sora AI crap

Bowen Yang on conversion therapy: “That’s scar tissue that will never totally go away...That was a moment of real danger for me, where this thing I love and cherish about myself—there was an effort to eradicate it.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...