I guess we're really never getting the strait opened.

Love to see Carlos Barragan's book on this list. It grew out of "The Romance Scammer on My Sofa," an amazing piece he wrote for @atavist.com: magazine.atavist.com/2023/the-rom... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

what's the best magazine feature you've read lately?

"Erin’s only hope of learning the truth about the events that had shattered her childhood was getting the boxes before the garbage collectors did." The latest issue of @atavist.com is a real stranger than fiction banger from the great Barry Meier. magazine.atavist.com/2026/mccann-...

😏

... what?

[steps onto soapbox] The authors of all these articles about how women are the "new" enemy of the far-right, and misogyny is "new" fuel for extremist violence, apparently just didn't consult, you know, history.

Pitch (and read!!!) Atavist! They're great. In my personal experience, you also get super valuable feedback from a rejection. Can't speak highly enough of the team there.

A thousand congratulations to the great @drewphilp.bsky.social for winning the National Magazine Award in reporting for this harrowing, deeply humane story in @atavist.com . Richly deserved! magazine.atavist.com/2025/there-w... @seywarddarby.bsky.social

and i'm so fucking proud of meredith, who has been fighting like hell right alongside them.

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

The latest in @atavist.com's Revived series—which breathes new life into stories lost to dead links and shuttered publications—is "A Hollywood Ending" by @maccabeem.bsky.social, originally published by Gawker in 2013. Read the introduction on @longreads.com: longreads.com/2026/05/21/h...

I spoke with Drew six months before his feature on the Tigray Genocide pubbed, partially to provide historical context but mostly to convey my gratitude for his work. That was summer of 2024, and looking back I'm struck by how much was made possible by Atavist + Drew living outside of the US.

Thrilled, honored, and frankly verklempt that @atavist.com won the National Magazine Award for reporting. Congrats to all the winners and nominees, especially in our category—exceptional work all around. Long live magazine journalism. asme.memberclicks.net/asme-announc...

I really love the care, time, and resources that @atavist.com dedicates to their incredible longform narrative features; they are always delicious reads.

didn't have snorkeling around a mass grave on my Kash Does Stupid, Disrespectful Shit bingo card

It's a special mid-month issue of @atavist.com—the latest installment in our Revived series, which breathes new life into stories lost to dead links and dead outlets. Thrilled to bring back this 2013 piece from Gawker by @maccabeem.bsky.social. magazine.atavist.com/2026/a-holly...

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

“Once they got faith in us, we couldn’t get rid of them. I mean, they just would not stop killing.” magazine.atavist.com/2026/san-lui...

oh ok

super normal behavior by the people who are supposed to protect us from the next pandemic.

What—and I cannot emphasize this enough—the hell?

the absolute obliteration of the separation of church and state is really something to behold.

I hate it, thanks. grist.org/drought/cali...

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

It's nice when the right stories win the big awards. Congrats to @freshparsley.bsky.social and @texasmonthly.bsky.social on the well-deserved Pulitzer. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Please be on the lookout for an Emergency Transmission from @timheidecker.bsky.social this evening on theonion.info. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

My time has come. From Evan Ratliff's latest Shell Game newsletter, which you should definitely read in full. shellgame.co/p/how-much-of-the-internet-is-now-ai

We haven't done a wide call for pitches in a while. So here we are, calling! Submissions info at this link: magazine.atavist.com/submissions A flavor of our stories here: magazine.atavist.com/archive cc @studyhall.bsky.social

“You will have to survive using your own wits, common sense, and the god of your choice.” New @atavist.com story is here! magazine.atavist.com/2026/san-lui...

Proof of (my) life! Really enjoyed this year's conference, particularly getting to present one of my fave stories with one of my fave writers. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/30/l...

In Dec 2021, Nicole Saphier — a Fox contributor now tapped as Trump's surgeon general nominee — argued that "it is time to move forward and allow this mild infection to circulate so we can continue to build that hybrid immunity." 250,000 Americans died of covid in 2022.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

job! 19thnews.org/2026/04/cont...

*another* bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

In what universe did this take place www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

That congestion pricing is working -- like, really really working! -- is important for the larger effort to restore faith in govt. Take big swings, get big results that people can actually feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

This is disturbing and entirely predictable. www.informant.news/patriot-fron...

Our members are on the picket line today demanding a fair contract now! We want a fair disciplinary process, layoff protections & guardrails on artificial intelligence. Support us by donating to our strike fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

spoke to my old stomping ground, the Duke student paper, about Stephen Miller, and this juxtaposition lol. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

This is the sort of clip you see in the opening minutes of a deeply dystopian film

"We made one of the dumbest, most evil people this country has ever produced the President—twice!—and this is the consequence." defector.com/i-guess-were...

One year ago

Just in time for Trump's scheduled war crimes, Bellingcat has updated our tool for identifying damaged buildings and structures in satellite imagery, ideally for investigating atrocities in Iran. Full details here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

"it's giving war crime." yes, ma'am.

One more time, loud as you can, for the people in the back. www.liberalcurrents.com/it-was-fasci...

between the Artemis crew venturing farther from Earth than any human before them and Trump ranting about this pointless, cruel war, it's really a day of high highs and low lows for humankind.

"Jim is in his eighties now, and he can’t say for certain how many government offices he broke into following his brother’s death. But it all began in Buffalo, New York." magazine.atavist.com/2026/buffalo...

hearing this live was WILD.

How to resist a war-hungry government using fondue forks, knitting needles, and an inflatable kiddie pool. magazine.atavist.com/2026/buffalo...