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I talked to the one and only J. Alexander about recovering from a stroke, ANTM's legacy, and whether or not Tyra has gotten in touch since the doc. It got emotional... and spicy! www.vulture.com/article/miss...

How much can these toys fucking go through

I talked to the one and only J. Alexander about recovering from a stroke, ANTM's legacy, and whether or not Tyra has gotten in touch since the doc. It got emotional... and spicy! www.vulture.com/article/miss...

As promised, NEWS: The woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her as a child included a matching claim against a "prominent, wealthy man" from New York in the lawsuit she filed against Epstein's estate and was reportedly paid to settle. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/underage-a...

What are your favorite cheap, easy, healthy meals? Assume I am a person who has already made every standard lentil recipe and knows how to whip up a mean burrito. Bonus points if green veggies are heavily represented.

2026 basically

Despite having way too many things on my plate already, I am on the precipice of taking over comms for my local community garden mostly because I want to streamline its email system. I realize this will not mean anything to most of you, but all I can say is this is an extremely "me" thing to do!

Need an academic study to prove my theory that everyone is adding more exclamation points to their emails as a way to pretend we are not all living through The Horrors. Anyway, "Thanks for this! I hope your week is winding down nicely!"

introducing my column about resistance in fiction for @aftermath.site. I’m calling it THE WORK aftermath.site/oscars-revol...

Laura Bradley Wants to Build a Cheesecake Factory in Manhattan

*laughs in LatAm/Carribbean history* They missed the plantation for the trees here.

I’m not sure how it’s possible not to speak a word of Spanish in America in 2026 but it sounds like a lot of you have work to do ✨

Lol, who could have guessed.

i think maybe they laid off the wrong people

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

on benito, and america

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.

Wrote about the only man who exists to me right now. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Toughest thing about being a freelancer is you can't slack your editor like, "I've got half an idea, can we talk for five minutes until it turns into a real one?"

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

Very funny how many people seem to think that creating a "Spotify for journalism" would fix things, given that Spotify famously pays 99.9% of artists little more than pocket lint...

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

hot take: newspapers should not be run by people who dislike reading and thinking

The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

If you're worried about the "war on empathy," have I got news for you about how a certain author is using the money she's made from the very franchise you're now helping to expand!

You know you've become a regular at your neighborhood bakery when they follow you back on Instagram. ... And when they start replying to your Stories, that's when you start wondering if you go too much.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Big shout out to the people still posting on the CSAM website. Good job being unable to make the smallest possible sacrifice imaginable

can understand why one would use this as the kicker, but these endings always make me wonder if the reporter asked the most obvious follow-up: "now that this 'weapon' *is* coming for you, do you feel remorse for aiming it at someone else? would you choose differently in the future?"

let the poor woman wear pants

"a piece of broccoli"

I do love the internet

Happy 5th anniversary to ChaseDreams' sophomore album.

Given the prices on most delivery apps, this isn't surprising. Not a big deal when you live walking distance from several amazing pizza spots, but not so good if you don't!

criterion edition of CHICKEN RUN when

Yes, my last day of work before being fully on vacation is going great, why do you ask?

I wrote about Rob Reiner: www.vulture.com/article/rob-...

Gonna be updating the pitch circuit for the new year so if you’re in the market for good culture writing about tv/movies/books/games/strange happenings, let me know!

did it in four words hemmingway

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

if any of you spent even a fraction of the time you spend complaining about paywalls on hating billionaires instead, and pushing for legislation that stops them from destroying every creative industry, it might not change anything, but you *would* become a better person.