"A caped, sequined Jenny Packham ensemble lay on the couch. 'Is this your dress?' I asked. 'Gown,' Tie corrected." Oh this is gonna be amazing

Why keep returning to China? Why marry a gene-editing outlaw? What had she learned from this? Cathy Tie did not really want to discuss. Read Elizabeth Weil’s interview with the ‘Biotech Barbie.’

MAJOR NEWS in our house. Daniel Duane's mountain epic is coming out in November. If you love California — or just love good writing and have a taste for wrestling with landscapes and dreams — this one of is for you.

I appreciated reading this. nymag.com/intelligence...

Dilley used to grow 25 million pounds of watermelon a year and call itself “the watermelon capital of Texas.” Now it’s a carceral town, specializing in immigrant children detained with their families by ICE.

I went to Texas and wrote about the town of Dilley, which has more prison & detention center beds than residents, and 30 kids in a high school of 4,000 brave enough to protest ICE. nymag.com/intelligence...

looking for some great essays on girlhood ...

Am thinking a lot about this terrible subject prepping for an upcoming @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social pod in the wake of the heinous situation at Grok & the complicity of Apple and Google and this piece by Elizabeth Weil of @nymag.com is a must read and a gut punch. www.thecut.com/article/sibl...

Will Gavin Newsom be doing a sassy tweet about how his state’s university system is allowing the feds to use state property to make bad remakes of Leni Riefenstahl films? I assume not

This piece is not for everybody. But in the past day I've heard from so many survivors and parents, grateful to these families who shared their stories with me. Sibling abuse is far more common than we like to admit. Resources & community for those who need it at www.5waves.org

This gutted me to write. Hope it makes someone feel less alone. As one researcher put it, sibling abuse is on edge of what we allow our ourselves to know about what people do to each other. Abuse happens not just w/strangers, not just w/adults, but w/children, sometimes even children in same family.

This gutted me to write. Hope it makes someone feel less alone. As one researcher put it, sibling abuse is on edge of what we allow our ourselves to know about what people do to each other. Abuse happens not just w/strangers, not just w/adults, but w/children, sometimes even children in same family.

I spent the end of last year, talking with two families about living through the unthinkable. www.thecut.com/article/sibl...

anybody have a tween or young teen with an elaborate skincare routine and a desire to talk about girlhood, time, aging, and growing up in 2026? for a story with a vibe kind of like this: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I wrote about the private, intimate, often ridiculous agonies of working for a man who think you’re a monster nymag.com/intelligence...

Hell of a life.

So incredibly proud (and sometimes a little envious!) of my better half, Dan Duane, and his perfect second act as a psychotherapist. He's seeing clients in Hayes Valley or online and also coaching creative people on getting unstuck and reaching their dreams. www.danielduanetherapy.com

"Among his clients is a man who was living in a facility for homeless vets & who was raped as a child & is serving 28 years to life for attacking another vet w his cane. Another is serving 45 years to life for accosting a man on a street & attempting to steal his wallet before the man ran away."

New York Magazine just published an in-depth article about Mark and David Geier, tracing Mark’s professional journey—from his emergence as a prominent anti-vaccine advocate to the controversy that led to the loss of his medical license nymag.com/intelligence...

"That’s a matter between me and my grammarian" — this story is perfect

The son here is leading RFKJr’s #vaccine research team. Sorry, that should be “research.” nymag.com/intelligence...

long loud 👏👏👏👏👏 to @mslaurabliss.bsky.social for this literal and figurative garbage fires ... "or the industry’s preferred phrase is 'elevated temperature landfill,' or ETLF, which operators say has nothing to do with fire." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Anyway. David Geier is just another person who thinks he somehow knows better than everyone else and doesn't have the ability to critically self-introspect about why he is the way he is, much less do rigorous science

“[David] actually was fairly aggressive with [parents of autistic children] and told them, if you keep bothering me, we’re going to testify that [thimerosal] doesn’t cause [autism] and you’re really hurting the issue.” -Mark Geier, David’s father Think we can annoy David into telling the truth?

Compelling read about the Geiers and rise of the autism-vaccine movement: nymag.com/intelligence... Refresher: Officially, David Geier is advising HHS scientists how to... find lost vaccine injury data? Choice article quotes 👇

While your head is exploding, meet the father-son tennis hustlers in matching clothes who helped undermined public health.

While you’re head is exploding, meet the father-son tennis hustlers in matching clothes who helped undermined public health.

glamour shot of neighborhood celeb www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

when ppl talk about Freud they are usually talking about the legacy of Freudian thought, and fair enough, but you do have to allow that the title of his 1912 essay “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love” is all-time

And ... happy pub day to @emilymbender.bsky.social, co-author of The AI Con

It’s been a long time since I read a book and immediately wanted to start over.

This is a reallllyyy great @lizweil.bsky.social interview about climate protest and the concept of breaking decorum podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Thank you, Apple News www.thecut.com/article/tele...

If you have a spare half an hour or so, read this incredibly fascinating article debunking that viral podcast The Telepathy Tapes. The podcast says autistic non verbal people can communicate with telepathy, which isn't true. www.thecut.com/article/tele... also CW: Talk of SA

‘I Can Hear Thoughts’ A podcast called The Telepathy Tapes claims a group of nonspeaking autistic people can read minds. The truth is more complicated. www.thecut.com/article/tele...

I wrote a piece for @nymag.com about a viral podcast called The Telepathy Tapes — though it's really about longing, language, out-of-body-and-mind parental love, and how skepticism is an artifact of good luck. www.thecut.com/article/tele...

Well this was a fucking ride archive.is/0SrwO

The megahit podcast ‘The Telepathy Tapes’ has sold many parents on the idea that their nonverbal autistic children might have an otherworldly gift. But the truth is more complicated. @lizweil.bsky.social reports: www.thecut.com/article/tele...

I wrote a piece for @nymag.com about a viral podcast called The Telepathy Tapes — though it's really about longing, language, out-of-body-and-mind parental love, and how skepticism is an artifact of good luck. www.thecut.com/article/tele...

Among the many lesser heartaches, kids who were planning to start grad school asking what to do now

Among the many lesser heartaches, kids who were planning to start grad school asking what to do now

Holy cow. This is VERY well done. This is what Team Fight looks like.

god i miss opening the paper and just reading fascinating stuff like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

If you’re at @sxsw.com & you loved Telemarketers & are in the market for a funny/dark/ultimately poignant AI bromance…

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Explains so much

Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic

Neighbor coyotes shrieking nightly for us all