In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Brilliant reporting by @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social about a really heinous situation for Success Academy teachers. A must read!!

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

For a column, looking to chat with earlyish-career workers about whether you’re struggling to focus on work/job-searching amid…well, everything else happening in the world. Would love to talk to experts, including organizers, on actions we can take at work or beyond to help. DMs/inbox always open.

I don't often get to talk about one of the central pieces of my identity, being raised by a disabled parent, but I do today in a guest post for Pooja Lakshmin's Real Self Care newsletter!

My dear friend and brilliant writer @madysen.bsky.social wrote a gorgeous, thoughtful essay, and everyone should read it: "The sadness in my life is because my mom died, not because she had a disability. My life is infinitely better for having been raised by a disabled mom."

I don't often get to talk about one of the central pieces of my identity, being raised by a disabled parent, but I do today in a guest post for Pooja Lakshmin's Real Self Care newsletter!

It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ugly laws led to poor, disabled people being institutionalized. It's now part of the strategy Trump plans to use to get rid of unhoused people, in DC and beyond. For @motherjones.com, I spoke to @okaysoldierschweik.bsky.social, who wrote a book about ugly laws. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

JAMES DOBSON CAN GO REST IN HELL

Praise the little baby Jesus: James Dobson has finally gone on home to Hell.

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

When the Bond villain owns the franchise...

A growing number of states are passing laws that require companies to sell wheelchair parts to wheelchair users so they can fix it themselves or bring it to a mechanic to fix it for them. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

“Without getting too in the weeds—“ Brother, I live in the weeds. Come join me in this tall, weird patch of grass.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

Depends on your state and then your district. Could mean fewer support staff (already an unequal resource), bigger classes, cutting electives and consolidating or removing programming, no “manager” for discrimination claims. If you are in a rural district or a school with a lot of poor kids

ICYMI, dancers are fighting for better workplace policies for pregnancy & parenting, challenging decades of status quo in the field. It's a ballet story, but it's also a story about workers coming together to fight for protections on the job, and I hope you'll read it!

For the past year, I've been talking to dancers fighting for better workplace protections for pregnancy and parenting. It's a fight experts say is "unprecedented" due to long-standing cultural and structural challenges within ballet. And it's being led by artists themselves. Out now for ELLE:

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom

I am not Jewish and have never met a Jewish person. But as a regular reader of David Frum, Bari Weiss, and Bret Stephens—and Bill Ackman's Twitter feed—I fully understand what Jews want with respect to Israel, Iran, and New York City.

here’s a pretty good rebuttal of the new Andrew Sullivan piece from Tony Kushner. Oh look it was written over 30 years ago. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” she says. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”

I just want to sit down with a Google AI person, one on one, and ask them what information their robots are going to steal if there is no one producing information anymore. Maybe they've thought this through... but I don't think they have. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

Instead of meeting politically activated people in all of the odd and imperfect places they might happen to be, some of you want them to audition for you. Let me know how that goes.

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

If you're going to be at this Nassau County NY No Kings event and plan to be masking also for health reasons (there's a covid wave). Please get in touch with me for a @motherjones.com piece, as I'd like to connect you with @artiscuriskis.bsky.social who will be there. www.mobilize.us/progressived...

"On average, people with a family member behind bars spend around $4,000 a year on their incarcerated loved ones, the report says"

Blocking universities from selling their product to foreigners will drive up the cost of tuition for Americans. More and more student debt for Americans.

AmeriCorps is a great program and eliminating it is just pointless and spiteful.

political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

Where do the mayoral candidates stand on issues such as housing, public safety, schools and the federal government? Take our Meet Your Mayor quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to see which candidate you best match with. projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

Went to see Sinners (which is as wildly beautiful and fun and powerful as everyone has said!) and came out with Push Da Button from The Color Purple stuck in my head.

Dumb journalists think being a tough interviewer requires writing down gotcha questions in advance. Smart journalists know that the trick is just listening and sometimes going, ‘how so?’

they want to crash the economy, cause bank runs and leave you destitute news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Waiting for the Death Becomes Her cast album to release tonight at midnight so I can dissociate thru this mess while Jennifer Simard blasts through my earbuds. 🙏🔮

This story is absolutely getting overlooked. They are deploying the military within US borders. This is so dangerous for Natives from border tribes, and all public lands users in this region. And they won't restrict it to the border, this is just where they are starting.

Voters in Missouri and Nebraska overwhelmingly backed paid sick leave and minimum wage measures. Now state lawmakers are working to undo them. capitalandmain.com/democratic-a...

For @us.theguardian.com, I interviewed librarians about the impact of Trump’s administration, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services being gutted, experiences at work, & the incredible importance of library resources, programming, and support: “We get everyone at the library.”

Mark Seliger's portfolio, from our Yesteryear issue, is just staggering. 29 theater legends, re-enacting their biggest roles. If you are even remotely interested in Broadway theater, this will blow you away. www.vulture.com/article/bigg...

Baltimore sues DraftKings and FanDuel for exploiting gamblers: defector.com/baltimore-su...

This. Authoritarians win by creating an atmosphere of hopelessness in order to preemptively suppress mass actions that could effectively challenge their power. Every single public act of defiance plays a critical role in stopping them.

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.

the trump administrative is actively pro housing discrimination and wants to encourage it by non enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.