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"Propeller One-Way Night Coach" finds the seasoned actor indulging in auteur theory. It's not to be missed.

On the latest @everythingfab4.bsky.social, self-proclaimed “Beatles fanatics” Nat and Alex Wolff talk their Beatles upbringing, “The Naked Brothers Band,” working with Billie Eilish, their new album and seeing Sir Paul. Listen now 👉 bit.ly/4uWlrnV

Uncommitted Movement activist Abbas Alawieh is stepping from behind the scenes to run for state Senate in Michigan.

The case for ranch packets, gravy mixes and other underestimated flavor builders.

A New York Times review of hours of meetings found officials spend more time fawning than governing.

“The age of Trump is rife with corruption and degeneracy, and it’s tempting to assume it will come to a close when he finally passes from the scene. But Paxton’s primary victory proves that the rot in Republican politics runs much deeper than Trump,” @digby56.bsky.social writes.

“A decade in, it’s no secret that many Republican voters view Trump as more of a god than a person, offering him cult-like devotion that makes everyone outside of their bubble feel digust and sometimes pity,” @amandamarcotte.bsky.social writes.

Trump claims Obama and Biden spent "hundreds of millions" on similar renovations, but records show otherwise.

“Millions of people around the world wanted blue jeans and McDonald’s and road movies and Manhattan skyscrapers and California beaches, or at least they thought they did. Little by little they found out that some of those things weren’t worth having and all of them came with asterisks.”

How the hip-hop collective turned their kung fu obsession into an immortal philosophy.

CBS News is pushing out dissenters, replacing them with inexperienced hires.

Wrote about transitioning from my Miss Havisham era to my Natty Gann era for @salon.com, and how a 4,000-mile road trip from New Orleans to Riverside, California, with my reactive dog named Dracula, was just what I needed to shake my post-divorce funk. www.salon.com/2026/06/01/a...

The Surgeon General's screen time warning overlooks the daily realities of American families.

In January 2025, the president was set up for success. Instead, he blew it.

At the Christian gathering in DC, the message to Muslims like me was clear. From my grave, I'll preach coexistence.

Cultish devotion leads Republicans to see Trump as more god-like than human.

The attack on Alex Haley’s landmark work is part of a sweeping assault on Black history.

The global romance with America turned sour years ago. Now the world's ready for a divorce.

After multiple performers withdrew, Trump mocked them and proposed turning event into an “AMERICA IS BACK" rally.

Kane Parsons' beguiling debut leaps from YouTube to chronicle our inadvertent journey into a beige emotional void.

Officials allege Delaney Hall is rife with abuse. Now the whole world is watching.

Rumors of an agreement keep coming. But the president says “We don’t need anything.”

The Trump administration’s pullback from public health is rippling across the globe in ways that don’t just affect those overseas.

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“The real story is not that Democrats tweeted something rude. It’s that they briefly entered a media arena the right has dominated for years and refused to act embarrassed about it.”

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The New York Democrat kept secret his low-rent lodging at a right-wing Christian townhouse.

“We needed to come to Washington and feel your strength and your hope and your faith,” Springsteen said onstage. “We needed to bring to your city some strength and some hope and some faith.”

The point of this tour isn’t the anti Trump rhetoric. He did this every night & somehow most other people writing about it didn’t seem to know that, or try to understand what Springsteen was actually doing. This essay unpacks all of that, from the perspective of someone who’s studied him for years.

Such a smart take from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social: "the fact that Trump and his allies feel the need to keep relitigating the Carroll case suggests the forces of misogyny aren’t as victorious as the mainstream narrative might suggest."

@salon.com has picked up my essay (co-authored with Bruce Schneier) on the Trump's admin's weaponization of law, tech, and surveillance to chill protest and opposition. We link recent reporting on lack of student protests/activism to this broader Trump admin strategy. www.salon.com/2026/05/28/t...

In the end, Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels prove that a funnier world is worth fighting for.

"The reported investigation into Carroll is about more than the president’s bottomless narcissism," @amandamarcotte.bsky.social writes. "It’s part of a larger, ongoing backlash against the #MeToo movement."

It’s a rock and roll tour camouflaging a political rally.

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: My plea to mainstream journalists to stop indulging the moral panic over birth rates. Women don't owe you more babies. Read and subscribe today! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com Music by Gina Birch.

Surveys and data confirm a country in crisis — stressed and divided, but not yet ready to give up.

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Ben Shapiro is extremely defensive about the Daily Wire's decline. Here's a short video of me reacting to that. youtube.com/shorts/DUYD7...

and finally, i looked into Man Cereal and how the manosphere has infiltrated the beloved breakfast cereal. before you ask, no, it’s not a joke. it's actually a very real — and completely serious — food product, unfortunately... www.salon.com/2026/05/23/w...

i also pushed back on Vogue’s glorification of tiny, impractical snack tins. why is restrictive eating once again being branded as peak femininity and wellness? and why is weakness being romanticized? www.salon.com/2026/05/17/t...

earlier this month, i wrote a commentary on the overuse of “-maxxing” — the internet slang suffix that's used to describe optimizing certain aspects of life to an obsessive degree — and why the rhetoric we use within the food + nutrition spaces matters www.salon.com/2026/05/07/e...

i’ve been covering several food trends (some are ludicrous, many are concerning 🫣) for @salon.com over the past few weeks. here are some stories i'm especially proud of:

Spent yesterday thinking about the Enhanced Games and how our bar for what constitutes a scandal have been immeasurably lifted by the constant outrages of the Trump years. For my @salon.com newsletter, Crash Course, I framed our new inability to get upset through the career of Barry Bonds.

"Being surrounded by thousands of people yelling 'ICE OUT NOW' has the opportunity to be transformative, or at least to make someone think," @carynrose.bsky.social writes. "It is giving people a voice, and it is giving them a container in which to use that voice."

"Pickle juice isn’t just leftover liquid. It’s vinegar, salt, garlic, dill, spice, acidity and flavor that’s already been built for you."

Last night should have been the final concert on Bruce Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams US tour. But this was a traveling political protest disguised as a rock and roll tour. I explain it all here: www.salon.com/2026/05/28/s...

Fishwife announced Wednesday that it is pausing shipments of the delicate fish for the summer.

Organizers see political and legal battles ahead for a novel solution to America’s campaign finance fiasco.

"There is no dealmaking in the first place," @digby56.bsky.social writes. "It’s all just bravado and illusion in a show where the magician has no bunnies left to pull from his top hat."