I wrote about Bari Weiss newrepublic.com/article/2037...

can't ever seem to stop playing dead cells, maybe I will make it all the way to 5 boss cells

1) this from @marisakabas.bsky.social is good as always 2) as she lays out, part of the problem is there is an entire class of journalist and of publication that is obsessed…OBSESSED with access. if access can be taken away then you need to pull punches www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

Danny Brown is very good

Finally read this book, wish I had a long time ago. Highly highly recommend!!!

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

People should use their SNAP benefits for whatever they think they need. Both because any effort you make to micromanage purchases is inefficient and cumbersome and because people who need help aren’t obligated to perform for or satisfy others in order to eat.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

I, too, was gobsmacked by the news of D'Angelo's death at age 52. As with Phife Dawg, 45, from complications from diabetes, these men were in middle-age, not geriatric. There is most certainly systemic and institutional racism at play. www.propublica.org/article/blac...

One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

You simply have to read this @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social joint and not just because there's way more levitation in it than you would think possible. The Archangel Michael is also somehow involved www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

if i’m trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and i’m struggling with that transition, what i like to do is think about it until i figure out what to do. controversial stuff i know

Finally started this book tonight and it's definitely living up to the hype

I saw Clipse perform last night and it was so good it almost restored my faith in humanity

I took a native plant conservation class through the State Botanical Garden of Georgia last weekend, and our instructor threaded a lot of memes throughout her lessons. This one was my favorite 🌱 🌺 #nativeplants

This really feels like a defining post of our time

god I can't wait to leave the US

The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

"I was wrong" is one of the most rare phrases you will ever see on the internet (ESPECIALLY on social media) and even then, nine times out of ten it's followed by the word "BUT" and then you get gems like this

all the other predators watching their buddy fight with Arnold on a giant TV:

it's really silly to try to pin down one single culprit for something like differences in weight between different populations, especially when it's obviously very bad for Americans that our food is much less healthy AND we move much less than other countries

One of the key strengths of MAGA is that, like Sartre's antisemite, they are sincere about nothing while being capricious and cruel about everything, so it's basically impossible to have a public debate about their positions, since they don't have any sustained positions.

Bari says her website's mission is to promote "ideological diversity" and "open debate" but this entire piece is just smearing someone for holding beliefs she disagrees with.

aa far as I can tell her entire beat is just trying to damage Zohran, I'm sure Bari is gonna have a whole team on this beat by the end of August

Hulk Hogan truly was the real America: an icon you were dutifully instructed to adore as a child and then every single piece of information about what he was, what he did, and what he thought about things made you hate him more and more, and in a way, yourself for falling for it.

The complicated joy of outliving someone you used to watch on TV who wound up helping destroy one of the best places you ever worked, and hastened the decline of the American journalism ecosystem

RIP Hulk Hogan. Thank you for Thunder in Paradise and playing your part in making professional journalism go extinct 🫡

guess their tagline was a promise

“porn is dangerous” is fascist propaganda

Donald Trump’s own strategists and advisers aren’t sure the president’s base will survive Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

the new Islanders is great

incredible that Bari Weiss can extend her grievances from college to being mad at someone who DIDN'T EVEN GET INTO THE SCHOOL

"I’ve learned through faculty reviews that allowed me to compare my own workload to (senior male) colleagues’ at elite schools, I’ve paid forward a few lifetimes’ worth of service, and I have no desire to keep sacrificing myself for institutions I no longer trust or regard as sustainable."

We finally got around to discussing The Liver King, one of my all-time manosphere icons, and perhaps the most vivid example of a core dynamic of the manosphere, which is the way it peddles extreme eating disorder content with little to no pushback from anyone: open.substack.com/pub/machopod...

Because everyone deserves a shot 🎯

Me, logging onto a Teams meeting—

While writing There Is No Place for Us, what I wanted most was for readers to feel the fury I carried throughout my reporting—the outrage, the horror at what this country forces our neighbors to endure. This review by @lilysanca.bsky.social says everything I hoped the book would convey, and more:

one of the weirdest things about games culture is the intense institutional and peer pressure to remain exclusively and relentlessly fixated *only and ever* on video games, and thus interpolate all of reality and your experience through games. leaving the industry genuinely felt like leaving a cult

Lol

this is already out of date (which is kind of inevitable tbf) but @tonyhawk.bsky.social Yuri and I talked about Elon on our latest episode of MACHO POD, with a focus on his mental health and drug use, the latter of which explains a lot about his world view open.substack.com/pub/machopod...

I wonder what Elon's official biographers think, having both published their books well before the darkest, strangest, and most interesting part of his life story even began.

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

noticed this in a profound way since moving to Ohio; last time I went back to NYC a friend mocked me for "living in a flyover state." He defended it by saying he'd probably be killed if he moved to the midwest because he's gay, as if openly gay people only live in New York and California 🤷

I don't have much to add to the 'you voted for this haha' conversation that people haven't already said, but something I think a lot about is the real lack of solidarity I see with communities in the South after disasters and the profound lack of understanding about who actually lives there.

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Kosher ranch soup 😋