Nah, we’re not doing that. Birthday party rules only.

Hear me out: what if instead of war…paintball?

You know the economy is bad when scammers are trying to get emerging writers and authors. Baby, you got off at the wrong exit.

One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.

Roxane has been a guiding light to so many, including me!--and I'd wager even for many who've never been lucky enough to meet her. (In fact it's only b/c of Roxane that I met Ashley--and I am so much the richer for that. ❤️)

Roxane does more for emerging writers, both publicly and behind the scenes, than anyone I’ve ever met. This piece, by one of my favorite writers and about one of my favorite writers (and also a mentor to me), is so lovely and real and true. Seeing RG get her flowers is a gift.

Growing up with a stunningly gorgeous little sister has been so wonderful. She humbles men so expertly, and honestly, I stan.

The Service95 team asked me to write about how amazing Roxane is (easy assignment) and I told them I’d do it for an autographed vinyl. www.service95.com/ashley-c-for...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt allowed Kristi Noem to dismiss whatever concerns she had about a 5-year-old boy detained by ICE. That looked terrible when this column ran Monday and it looks even worse now. Britt is trying to use a Trump whisperer strategy with an administration that treats her like a fool.

IRE calls for the immediate release of Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias and Univision 42 Nashville, who was taken into custody while in a marked news vehicle, according to reports. Read the rest of our statement: https://bit.ly/4sto4Mh

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation. Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it. Haiti TPS is safe for now.

All I really want is a life full of side-quests.

Video of the March 2025 fatal shooting of American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims by federal officials that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over" another agent with his car.

By kidnapping bank employees and seizing a shipment of gold and cash, Viktor Orbán has resorted to acts of piracy against another European nation. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I lost 😞

JUST IN: US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order reut.rs/3NjQxW0

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Chase Infiniti is going to be great in the Lena Horne biopic in like 8 years.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

My body is trying to be sick, but I’m fighting back with water, soup, and the dark arts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he's replacing Homeland Security Secretary Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

@lerdody.bsky.social has joined AJP-supported Free Press Indiana as editor in chief of its statewide newsroom. She is the second journalist to join the statewide team, following @smashfizzle.bsky.social’s hiring in September as women & girls reporter. More:

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

highly recommend reading "dead weight" by emmeline cline on disordered eating. bookshop.org/p/books/dead...

Them things were 5 calories each, but I got in trouble for eating a whole box by myself

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

Oh, I thought I was really good at maintaining platonic relationships with men in college, then I lost thirty pounds in three months due to depression…turned out that was what half of my white male friends had been waiting for!

Everybody gets hit with Body Stuff, but white women and the thinness thing is just diabolical. Like…they want y’all to look you’ve been surviving off cotton balls soaked in milk and roach carcasses.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found. After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis. (Published Dec. 2025)

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

I think a lot of Opinion Pages would benefit from an editor who understands the difference between exploring a controversial idea as a concept versus exploring a controversial idea as a viable option for current or future action.

I am the de facto Lorax. I speak for the trees.

I’m bored with being sad.

Massive. Sigh.

When I don’t feel like I’m doing a good job, but people keep telling me I’m doing a good job, why do I feel worse?

Please join us in celebrating @tananarivedue.bsky.social: an accomplished worldbuilder, dream-spinner, and now... ✨️ Toastmaster for SFWA's 61st Annual Nebula Awards Ceremony! ✨️ Learn more about our spectacular ceremony storyteller and sign up for the Nebulas today. 👇️ www.sfwa.org/2026/02/26/2...

With a little help from his Sinners co-star Miles Caton, the near-nonagenarian legend gives the Tiny Desk a history lesson in the blues. n.pr/4tPjN7o

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

guys.. GUYS! Gorillaz has released two trailers in anticipation of their new album's only music video. It will be an 8-minute animated film titled "The Mountain, The Moon Cave, and The Sad God" ENTIRELY HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION. I'm talking techniques from The Jungle Book! youtu.be/c7UotLxLSU8?...

And it still smells like 'bitch' all through the precinct.

I would never reveal to my enemies that I was this much of a bitch ass bitch. I would swear all witnesses to secrecy and never speak of it again.

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.