as usual @adamserwer.bsky.social says it best: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

you do owe people things

don't read this if you play games with me I'M SERIOUS www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

I did it…..I turned in a draft of this dang book to my editor. now my reward: to purchase sid meier’s civilization 7 and play it til my eyes bleed

the song of the summer is the entirety of the goo goo dolls’ 1998 album dizzy up the girl, you either get it or you don’t

tiktok keeps showing me these journal girls with washi tapes & popular girl handwriting & adorable illustrated spreads am I jealous, yes, but I also feel compelled to say that a true journal freak opens that notebook and it’s wall to wall black ink text, just pure uncut unhinged internal dialogue

I’ve ended up on the side of tiktok where people have special surgical tweezers to peel stickers of smiling bears from their film and put them in their planners

and they said my encyclopedic knowledge of taylor swift lyrics would never be professionally lucrative www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

big plans for my vacation? you bet—I’m going to purchase books at the local bookstore of a DIFFERENT city, instead of my own

I watched way too many "5 to 9 after 9 to 5" videos and became convinced that whether you "make the most" of your free time by being super productive or just try to relax and recover from your job, the ghost of work haunts most of our leisure www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.

nothing like coming up with a crackpot theory based purely on vibes, then digging into the research and discovering…you may be right

to my fellow lifters looking to improve grip strength, just buy this conditioner iykyk

I miss when I could google something and find information from sources other than “Catholic MatchPlus,” “StyleGirlfriend.com, someone’s 10-year-old personal blog, and Quora

I wrote about @caseyjohnston.bsky.social 's weightlifting memoir, the perks of getting jacked, and why I eat candy at the gym www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

I just realized, just now, at age 34, in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five, in THIS economy... that the Playstation logo is made up of a P and an S

a great story by @emmasarappo.bsky.social that I wish she hadn't needed to write www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

real thank you notes ARE coming but until then let this serve as a token of gratitude for everyone who helped with our wedding, and a plea to others to let your friends help you!! www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

I know I’m washed up because the girlies are now wearing leggings with sewn in artificial ass crack…I can’t get behind it and I won’t get it on my behind

why didn't anyone tell me that evernote rules

no one is reporting on modern romance and singlehood quite like @faith-hill.bsky.social. she’s an astute observer of the vibes and distills them so clearly, I always learn something! www.theatlantic.com/family/archi... www.theatlantic.com/family/archi... www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

let @jeremygordon.bsky.social love his wife you cowards www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

this is the story of how I shocked myself by transforming into a cat person, and how, despite the cultural premium on finding yourself, we don’t know ourselves as well as we might think www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong. I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong. I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Trump is attempting to ethnically cleanse Gaza www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

“For example”: tired, hackneyed, amateurish, college-essay core “For instance”: sophisticated, mature, elegant, send me my Pulitzer now

beyond parody, beyond horrific

I yearn to become a birder but the trouble is I’m not observant and I don’t notice things

In the Mother’s Day episode of “Saturday Night Live,” Walton Goggins played a flirty waiter hot for moms. But the mothers ended up feeling like the butt of the joke, @julieebeck.bsky.social writes:

I am back at @theatlantic.com after being away for a year for book leave, and for my first article as a staff writer, I had to take on an institution that has grown far too powerful in modern society... the school spirit day www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

they're filming the podcasters now... it upsets the natural order of things. a podcaster is meant to be heard and not seen

hard not to see “sovereignty outran journalism” as anything but a bad portent

absolutely foul www.vox.com/culture/4052...

if there is one girl eating sour candies in the squat rack, it is me, if there are no girls eating sour candies in the squat rack, I am dead, etc.

I saw a tiktok where someone said they were engaging in “girl therapy” and I swear to god….they were scrubbing the floor

I love the computer because my friends are there but unfortunately it's also where my enemies are

“The lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose.” Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025. My word.

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid US deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more information as a legal battle plays out. @kristinacooke.bsky.social and Sarah Kinosian www.reuters.com/world/americ...

our apartment overlooks the building’s dog park, which means every morning I hear of the exploits of a very naughty dog named Tilly, and drink my coffee to the sounds of “NO, TILLY! TILLY, STOP THAT RIGHT NOW”

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Disappearances Have Begun www.splinter.com/the-disappea...

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

it’s funny learning for this book how much the riseof television is linked to isolation—it makes sense but watching tv (without also looking at my phone) almost feels virtuous to me at this point, like wow, I’m focusing on just one screen, I’m practically a monk, holy in my attentional devotion

The extent to which the Trump administration has prioritized targeting transgender Americans — in policy alone, not even counting rhetoric — is overwhelming to keep track of. Start here, and follow @19thnews.org for more

*Bruce Springsteen voice* woah-oh-oh I'm online