A new class of toys has a very susceptible target audience: the parent with lots and lots of screen-time guilt, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

First, companies used AI to analyze worker productivity; now it’s supercharging corporate surveillance by monitoring employee emotion, @elcush.bsky.social reports:

For decades, members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew planes for the U.S. Army during World War II, lobbied for recognition as service members—but they’re still largely unknown. Today, @elcush.bsky.social will answer questions about them on Reddit: bit.ly/3PbdEmx

where were you when the NEW YORK METS WON A BASEBALL GAME

new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...

my favorite opera writer, Chris Cohen, wrote about Tristan for @theatlantic.com! dreams do come true!! gift link! www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

for the April issue, I wrote about my amazing grandmother, the forgotten women pilots of World War II, and the nature of progress: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

the sweeties at Low Cinema in beautiful RIDGEWOOD QUEENS asked me about my favorite baseball movies and now they’re going to show them on a screen!!! you should come!!! lowcinema.com/page/series/

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I was laid off from The Washington Post today. I know, real original sentence. My first plagiarism in 20 years of journalism. My job was stupid fun and I loved every minute of it. I’m sad for my talented colleagues but sadder the world will not get to read, watch and listen to their amazing work.

I wrote this two years ago and it's still true www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Once the ultimate Millennial power lunch, a symbol of moral superiority and hyperproductivity, Sweetgreen is now in free fall—along with the optimism it once represented, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

wrote about the fall of sweetgreen and the end of optimism ✌️https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/sweetgreen-rise-fall-power-lunch/685545/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACFIisJpxNrOJK1Kks9GPxAM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. I wrote about what that means for restaurants, restaurateurs, cities, and food: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants … it’s not good …. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

last episode of our mets podcast for the season! miss you already <3 open.spotify.com/episode/4Yef...

I went to the Tesla Diner! It bummed me out www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

new york's only baseball podcast turns 50 :) open.spotify.com/episode/4ca1...

classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day: "The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

some example questions to get you going: What's wrong with John Fisher? How did you two get so smart and fun? Why is Pete Alonso so strong? How many people could he carry out of a burning building? And so on and so forth

what a big-hearted, big-brained, brave, searching, humane, lucid story by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

Space tourism is, at best, folly—silly, spectacularly wasteful, pointless by definition. And Katy Perry was the perfect celebrity to do it, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

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thinking about this diva www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

The internet is filled with dishwasher-loading advice. So why are so many people still arguing about how to do it right? @elcush.bsky.social investigates:

wrote-a about soda www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back for seaosn 2, baby! open.spotify.com/episode/5Vuz...

kaitlyn went to baseball camp www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Kosher salt is just big salt, @elcush.bsky.social writes. How did it become so popular?

Excited (again) to see this paper finally in (pre)print! We did single-cell sequencing on our TSC model organoids and observed strong signatures of reactive astrogliosis (neat)- then we looked at resected patient brain tissue and saw the same thing! (More neat!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Read this one by the great @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

important please read www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

the people who made this happen changed lives and I am unbelievably grateful for them :)

i love to ask the big questions like: is panettone .... good? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I am honored and proud to be launching my 2028 campaign with a bold proposal for a better America www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

a wild thing i learned reporting this story is that about 2/3 of our apple juice comes from China www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

I wrote about the future of baseball in a hotter world www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

wrote about true love www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

ya i guess you could say i’m not like the other girls ;)

feminism is when i bonk heads with a beautiful woman on the dance floor

the coddling of the American diet www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

gonna spray this and walk through like a fancy lady in an old movie

wow! new episode of new york's best and most popular podcast is up! open.spotify.com/episode/7BdI...

GOD i love having 20 followers

obviously every day i am astounded by the experience of being a mets fan but today it's because our new pitcher inexplicably left his wedding website public! @ professional athletes don't do this because I WILL find it and try to buy you a gift!!!!! excited for what wonders tomorrow will bring