the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century

Scott Pelley tells the NYT: "The collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of ‘60 Minutes’ is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

i just keep cracking up thinking about updating 'The Insider' for this moment and it's just over in like 15 min bc everyone got fired for wanting to go after Phillip Morris

Did you go to Brandi this weekend at The Gorge? I've been to multiple sold-out shows before but have never dealt with lines and lack-of-space like I did last night — obviously it was still incredible, but would love to hear from anyone who has insight on WTF changed

Good lord, just reading this post from @annehelen.bsky.social makes my palms sweat. Absolutely reaffirms my decision to never, ever, ever write a book.

'romanticize' doesn't mean what Evie Weekly thinks it means

"Stories show what it looks like when someone is denied care, a founder relocates a company, or a family leaves a state they love. Data shows these aren't isolated incidents, but part of a broader pattern affecting workforce stability and economic competitiveness." www.patreon.com/posts/156113...

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

“Teen birth rates have crashed 81%” presented as a bad thing

"I want my daughter to see the possibility of pride w/o hubris..especially me as her mother, when so many social forces conspire to deny women the permission to celebrate anything except pregnancy & the achievements of their husbands & children." katemanne.substack.com/p/some-nice-...

This is super interesting to me — boomers radicalizing, Gen-X taking up (traditional) boomer politics (which is always what they said would happen to millennials, because Gen X was too cool and alternative etc etc etc)

What's the future of newsletters look like? I increasingly think it's high-level curation — like, here's a place where you can bundle three subscriptions to the 20 smart newsletter writers who aren't repulsive, trafficking in conspiracy, or white supremacists

Ah yes Rec Cross Jesus

ME: I need to insert a footnote MICROSOFT WORD: *spitting blood* fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your footnote

Many millennials absorbed the belief that the easiest & cheapest way to do anything is to do it online — including getting something like home insurance.....when in fact it is A BILLION times easier to call up a local agency and have them handle everything

imagine telling the Pope to "get his act together"

Very relatable to the average American, who has six boat loans

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

american masculinity is a pathogen

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

I just received a pitch to come on a New Jersey high schooler's podcast that was so good I had to run it through an AI-detector (100% human-written!!)

top of the New York Times suggests we might not be taking this *quite* as seriously as we should

Years ago I subscribed a far-right/Tea Party-adjacent newsletter in Montana — to keep tabs on how their thinking was shifting.... ....and this is current take on Iran

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

love 2 wake up to a message from my pal Snoop Dogg

Worth a read. "Nurses...[are] operating a significant shortage, which means increased workloads, higher stress, skipped meals and breaks, mandatory overtime, and shitty feeling you could do your job a whole lot better if you just had number of people who were supposed to actually doing the job."

I wrote about the best fiction I've read thus far in 2026 — and the blast radius of abuse — www.patreon.com/posts/154698...

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

One of the most weirdly satisfying (as in, ahhhhh that explains THAT) episodes of the Culture Study Pod we've done in a bit — all about Sysco & the future of fast food chains (We also argue about which chain tastes most like Sysco; for me it's Panera or Pret) www.patreon.com/posts/fascin...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

This sounds like one of those jobs where your function is to be a tube that sucks things off of various sites you find on the screen on your left, passes them briefly through your keyboard, and splurts them on to the screen on your right.

I've seen a bunch of tweets/screenshots about how the people most obsessed with gender policing are also massive gender fetishists (see: Kristi Noem and her husband, but many other examples in MAGAland) but I'd love to read a longer piece — does this exist

When I divide my book advance by the number of hours I've spent writing it.....I don't even want to think about it

love it when the rocket removes its clothes in order to enter space Nude

Various sellers in the online dahlia world have been posting these elaborate, whimsical, chatty posts that are pocked, every few sentences, by emojis — and then also use emojis to make larger lists. Feels like an AI flag?

absolutely preposterous comparison between BuzzFeed's new gaming arm and Nintendo www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

can't believe I'm typing this but I actually think Boomers need to talk about the '70s and early '80s *a lot more* (it just doesn't have to be the way they usually do it, which is "you don't even realize how lucky you have it")

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Really lovely 652-comment thread on Culture Study today re: the books you give the kids in your life: www.patreon.com/posts/what-b...

I mean it's undefeated because it's what the platform was designed to do. This issue didn't originate on Bluesky; it arguably predates Twitter. It's a system built for engagement, and dogpiles of all kinds are definitely engagement.

The Taylor Swift Elizabeth Taylor fan-edit-as-official-vid is Good, Actually

This decision is the latest that convinces me we're going backwards as a society — so many have worked so tirelessly to pass state laws banning conversion therapy, which 1) causes so much pain for so many and 2) doesn't fucking work

gonna keep thinking about the new research re historic survey data showing actually it’s white men of middle class who don’t have friends

This is a decade old from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social but we make college expensive to fail AND expensive to succeed. When we make it an expensive commodity students will respond rationally to that. tressiemc.com/uncategorize...

I don't accept generational critiques of student learning absent any discussion of the imposition of standarized tests in secondary school, the shifting of the financial burden for education onto students and a decade-long string of existential political crises: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...