New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

“There’s an invisible thread that connects all of us women who go through an experience of public shaming,” @monicalewinsky.bsky.social tells @sophiegilbert.bsky.social at #TAF25. Watch more: bit.ly/3IkhDd9

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

"Kudos to whatever stylist absolutely nailed her request to go to the royal palace in 'Babadook Mode.'"

This is terrifying

Wrote about TASK (I love TASK) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Robert Redford was an early supporter of Ms., the feminist magazine cofounded in 1971 by Gloria Steinem. For the October 1975 “Special Issue on Men,” that was Redford’s back—with an issue of Ms. in the back pocket of his jeans—on the front cover. nymag.com/news/feature... #feminism #RIPRobertRedford

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

broadly I think something people miss about bsky is that the two main groups which did not migrate over here en masse are moderates and low trust / shitposter leftists this is a disproportionately a high trust liberal to left space

Hello! @sophiegilbert.bsky.social and I will be on Reddit later today to talk this weekend's Emmys, because as they say about TV, a little counterprogramming goes a long way. Who's "they"? Who knows, but that's a question you can ask us during our AMA! See you there at 3 pm EST!

“The story is this: masculinity is the default in American politics, and to this day, even when women have been at the top of two presidential tickets, masculinity to a large degree defines what kind of behavior, what kind of signifiers, are acceptable in top political candidates.”

"His team didn't get it." From Kamala Harris's memoir: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

Hurrah, @ejeancarroll.bsky.social!

Incredible www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

ChatGPT was only pretending to write a book? Wow, it really is human.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Very strange to see such stark warnings from a guy who so effectively advanced Trump's agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk (our 30th anniversary edition!) I reviewed books by @sophiegilbert.bsky.social & Laura Bates that help explain this moment of "feminist exhaustion" (as @annehelen.bsky.social y.social has called it) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7094...

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

shut it down, ban it, regulate it. no one would tolerate this from medicine, and from a human being it would be criminal

It's rude to sign someone up to your substack without their consent but plain illegal if your substack is shilling for crypto

X is now the most common place for children in the UK to be exposed to pornography. 27 percent of children surveyed said they'd seen porn before the age of 11. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A Universal Basic Income that help the poor and generate economic growth from the ground up? We’ve no way of knowing that’ll work! Better we invest in artificial intelligence that is currently consuming all our power to create a John Cena lookalike that tells pornographic stories to children.

Depictions of extreme wealth are everywhere on television lately—and it’s all quite boring, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues. https://theatln.tc/pR6AjcRa

Rewatching The Leftovers and somehow I forgot how Meg turns into the Joker in season two and how well Liv Tyler plays it.

Mmmhmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

The absolute stupidest time to be alive

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Listened to the first episode of this yesterday and it's brilliant: compassionate, insightful, compelling. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

As starvation worsens by the day in Gaza, the Netanyahu government has been using food as a weapon of war — with complicity from Trump and U.S. taxpayer dollars. This is painful to listen to but here’s what a U.S. Army veteran and Green Beret who witnessed it first-hand recounted to me:

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

The most important story in the world right now.

A detail I hadn't seen before: "Harth alleges in her complaint that Trump 'directed that any Black female contestants be excluded' from his Mar-a-Lago party."

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

It's really giving Turkmenistan chic

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

I couldn't make it through this story yesterday, but everyone needs to read it.

Should humanity exist? Let’s ask a man who cofounded an online payment-processing platform 27 years ago

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

In Nashville, an undocumented woman who was detained by ICE while pregnant had a stillbirth after allegedly being denied medical care in ICE custody. “I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach," Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus said.

I could scream www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.