Amazing, insightful, juicy, horrifying piece. Also, we need one of these feature-treatment deep dives on every single one of the men kissing JE’s ass in his inbox as well. nymag.com/intelligence...

At Noma, where they famously serve ants, our server told us they have to keep the ants all separated from each other in the prep area bc if they get into clan wars they’ll use up all their formic acid fighting, and taste like nothing

I’ve finally found the perfect skin cream, ideal texture, super friendly to my weird dry-oily-rosacea face, perfect packaging, durable moisture, great for night and morning — and because it’s unscented (another bonus imo!!) every time I use it my toddler goes “eeew, you smell like old makeup”

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

A message today from my dear friend, Tasneem, in Gaza. The civilians are under siege and desperate for our help. They rely on donations to survive. Please give to Tasneem and/or repost. No amount is too small. And give to others. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1587...

Took Anya to her first-ever movie-theatre movie today (Snow White at Film Forum, obvs) and have you EVER seen the magic of cinema so fully & rapturously embodied. Ted Sarandos currently running for cover. Nicole Kidman feeling a great shift in the energy of the world.

We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!

Need to inform that my 3yo is newly obsessed with tortoises and thrillingly she pronounces the word “TOR-twice”

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

I wrote this 7 years ago and it’s stupid and embarrassing that it’s proved so evergreen www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

My group chats are doing GREAT at the current petty bitchy writer grifter drama but I need to see waaay more scathing semi-anonymous accounts doing witty posts about it (so I can screenshot them for the group chat)

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

The Arabic word for rhinoceros is “waheed al-qarn” which literally means “one-horn” — the true living unicorn

I’m on an airplane watching The Roses and these people could solve all their problems by simply being aware of the existence of paid childcare

I think if I met a mountain lion in the wild it would understand that I love it and would take a gentle nap curled up with me. If I met a bear it would understand my love but would not let me cuddle it. If I met a rhino it would neither comprehend nor care how I felt and would kill me immediately

At least twice a day I want to hurl myself off a bridge or something and then my toddler wanders over and says, like, “Mama, I love Woodstock, who is a veeeerrey small bird, but I don’t know the name of the one who is his dog friend?” and I’m like, oh, oh my god, the unrelenting superbloom of life!!

Why is it always so unbearably embarrassing to send my audio files & interview transcripts to the fact checker. Oh my god what did I say. What if I said something insane. Why does my job require I give you a window to see me with a clarity I am afraid to turn on myself.

“But this is the dissonance of all steak houses, really; the rough-and-ready cowboy mythology is forever at odds with the fundamental frilliness of the performance of wealth, which is built on that least manly-man of things: caring what other people think.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

One thing that AI author article really crystallizes for me is how much the “they’re crap books” portion of any discussion of both the creation and consumption of crap books gets glossed over because books & reading have this sheen of inherent virtue to them

Like I said!!! So validating ty @soleilho.com 🐟 www.coyotemedia.org/san-leandros...

Unclear to me how 10, 11, and 12 are different from each other but this is what they mean by trust the process!

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

basically if dishonesty is a loadbearing aspect of a discourse feel free to hit the snooze button on your Good Faith module

I’m sorry but people talking about talent as an unfair quality that needs to be Harrison Bergeroned away by AI have exactly the same energy as people saying it’s unfair that attractive people have more people attracted to them and the government should legislate their right to a hot wife

*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants

Listen I get the impulse here but it’s literally beef jerky. When you’re that rich you can get seven to nine people freaking out on an email chain about getting you your beef jerky.

I wish the Epstein nightmare weren’t the most heinous and disturbing shit that’s ever happened, because what these files reveal about how much labor it takes to create the illusion of everyday frictionlessness for the uber-wealthy is so appallingly fascinating

Replicating the in-person Costco experience by eating a hot dog while my toddler, dog, and husband each demand my total attention in increasingly histrionic ways

I once worked at a place that gave all employees a $50/y expense line to bring in treats for the office — snacks from vacation, cool local baked goods, etc. Such a small actual cost and created INSANE morale and community.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how all those super appealing quick-cut cooking videos reveal two deep truths: cooking is actually pretty easy (just chopping and mixing and searing and braising), AND it’s pretty tedious (that’s why we need all those quick-cuts babyyy)

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Corporations will not exploit working people in NYC. Uber Eats, Fantuan & HungryPanda broke the law — shortchanging workers while raking in profits. Today, we secured $5M+ in restitution for 49,000 delivery workers. Let this be a warning: steal wages, face the consequences.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Again and again and again. Minneapolis is the West Bank, is Northern Ireland, is French Algeria, is Kenya under British Rule.

If you have not yet read @adamserwer.bsky.social on Minnesotans' heroics, you are going to feel way better when you do. He went there. He talked to the people doing the work. Then he thought about it and produced something rare. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... [gift link]

Rode the elevator yesterday with a DoorDasher delivering a paper bag of Taco Bell and. Listen. I am devoted to Taco Bell. But it is 20° and the streets are snow walled and you have this man fully risking death so you can reheat a thirty-four-dollar six-dollar crunchwrap in your microwave

People did similar coverage for Renee Good and I do absolutely believe that it makes a difference. It reaches a lot of low-info voters who don’t consume much political media, and it isn’t framed as political news coverage. it’s framed, correctly, as coverage of an innocent person’s murder

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

Hey you know that uncomfortable, existentially reorienting realization you might be having right now that America is harmful, has always been harmful, is built on harm — and you are in & of it, even as you might choose to rage against it?

It finally happened. My 3yo asked me “why does the sun shine?” and I responded by conversationally reciting the entire lyrics of the TMBG song

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

I think Al Gore would be fun to be friends with

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

I want to bully this pseudosciencey antifeminist sauce company so badly

Girl if your mid-priced perfume is so rarefied and exclusive and sold-out and infinite-waitlisted and precious why are you advertising it on goddamn instagram