I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

This is so gorgeous

Such a good piece up today on @vittles.bsky.social by Mariam Abdel-Razek (and incred illustration by Sing Yun Lee, too) www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-myth-o...

COYOTE’s service journalism will always be free to read, including today’s guide to helping someone who might be overdosing.

p.s. am looking for a very good reporter to write about food in the bay area www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/fo...

Here's @meghanmccarron.bsky.social with the Northeast and Chicago Michelin starred selections! Masa drops to two, but Sushi Sho nabs three! Also...Bridges gets a star www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/d...

🍽️ Inquirer food and dining reporter Kiki Aranita breaks down the stakes and what Michelin recognition could mean for the Philly’s restaurants. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/food/micheli...

I went deep on SNAP, including the 50-year battle to make benefits more generous, and the unprecedented cuts and restrictions taking hold in the program, which are separate from and much more permanent than the recent payment freezes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/d...

Back on Geek’s Guide to argue about Alien Earth with @matthewkressel.net and Andrea Kail. So many things I loved! So many things that made me crazy! geeksguideshow.com/2025/11/08/g...

I started a newsletter, it's very very naval gazey in a way that might get literal, it will only exist for one week, here is the first one: dressedlikeme.beehiiv.com/p/i-dressed-...

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

"School officials showed agents the teacher’s employment documents, including a work permit, but agents nonetheless detained her." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Live from New York: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Proud of all the Angelenos who are like “we needed that” about the Dodgers championship, as if it were rain

Mary Blair's concept art for Disney's Sleepy Hollow adaptation.

the worst elder millennials you know are going to experience the worst hangovers of their lives this holiday season. and i think that's beautiful

Happy Halloween! 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961” Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl

Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.

CITY CENTER: 104 W MAGNOLIA ST STE 100, BELLINGHAM WA 98225-9997

Extraordinary reporting from Emily Baumgaertner Nunn on the malignant criminal network that turns girls in foster care into prostitutes on L.A.'s Figueroa Street -- and why the police can't stop it. Everyone should read this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

I wrote about $20 smoothie culture and the "ACTUALLY those smoothies aren't even healthy" reaction and how they're two sides of the same diet culture coin www.bestfoodblog.net/whats-the-po...

"This has bred resentment and reaction; no matter what these chefs do, the specter of butter chicken is always hovering. What would it take to banish it? Or should that even be the goal?"

here take the idol you must not let it fall into their hands

Wrote a newsletter about the terrible prison of PROTEIN, which I have trapped myself in YET AGAIN buttondown.com/meghanmccarr...

Good news. From a low of 22 captive birds to over 560, many flying free in four states plus Mexico.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

This is way too inside baseball to be popular with anyone outside the booktok community, but am kicking around idea of writer who tries to capitalize on "fanfic with serial numbers not-really filed off" trend and sells a completely original novel by insisting it is actually Dramione or Reylo.

“But mostly we serve tacos. Tacos from every nation. Ugandan tacos. Burmese tacos. Yugoslav tacos. What’s inside the tacos? Chef’s choice. Just don’t expect rice and beans. If you want Mexican, order the crepe.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/peo...

this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

New story from me on Michelin and how much a star can make or break the finances of a fine dining restaurant. That’s been true for a long time in places France, but as someone who’s covered food in America for over a decade, the stakes suddenly feel higher here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/d...

The Coke, Nestle, and Pepsi numbers... that covers A LOT in the grocery store

excited to get @meghanmccarron.bsky.social on the Michelin beat but outside of France, Italy and Japan Michelin's business model is extracting tax dollars / tourism spend subsidies that could be better spent on local media IMO www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/d...

New story from me on Michelin and how much a star can make or break the finances of a fine dining restaurant. That’s been true for a long time in places France, but as someone who’s covered food in America for over a decade, the stakes suddenly feel higher here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/d...

according to @meghanmccarron.bsky.social's fab michelin piece, inspectors have to be able to prove they've had 1,000 restaurant meals and now i am wondering how many restaurants i've been to www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/d...

After I got laid off in August, I got really into junk journaling as a way to take my mind off all the fuckshit. I found the DFW Junk Journal club, and it's been super fun to see this diverse, supportive community grow. I wrote about it for D Magazine. www.dmagazine.com/style-beauty...

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig no graves. Save your strength! Make your enemy do it. Tell him it’s going to be a swimming pool & you’ll pay him above minimum wage & let his family come over to swim anytime they want if he’ll help with excavation.

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. ‘Cake’ (Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Thinkin about how much pushback I got for reporting this last year ! www.wired.com/story/openai...

so excited to talk about food, friendship, and labor with @annaleen.bsky.social and Lee Lai on Sunday!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Compact Object, 1962 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136682

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.