Ellen
@elcush.bsky.social
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landlord, mommy, public intellectual
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ellen-cushing/
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Hits Different!
2 days ago
where were you when the NEW YORK METS WON A BASEBALL GAME
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Hits Different!
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new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
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63. Meet the New Mets
Podcast Episode ¡ Hits Different ¡ April 3 ¡ 1h
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/63-meet-the-new-mets/id1738008491?i=1000759048988
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my favorite opera writer, Chris Cohen, wrote about Tristan for
@theatlantic.com
! dreams do come true!! gift link!
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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A New Solution to the âWagner Problemâ
A bold restaging of Tristan und Isolde arrives at a moment of intense concern about the cultural inheritance of Western civilization.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/04/tristan-und-isolde-the-met-wagner/686636/
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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...
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The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/women-airforce-service-pilots-world-war-ii/686063/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACJgcs5PP-lOAI9aplWaROwU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 1 month ago
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the sweeties at Low Cinema in beautiful RIDGEWOOD QUEENS asked me about my favorite baseball movies and now theyâre going to show them on a screen!!! you should come!!!
lowcinema.com/page/series/
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Series - Low Cinema
Lowball: America's Pastime (Mon March 2 through Sun March 8) Movies and baseball: Easily the two best things this country ever invented. These filmsâhand-selected by baseball sickosâcapture the sport ...
https://lowcinema.com/page/series/
about 2 months ago
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nitasha tiku
3 months ago
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
@washingtonpost.com
. Iâm also among 100âs 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 Valleyâs political power
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Heather Kelly
3 months ago
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. Iâm sad for my talented colleagues but sadder the world will not get to read, watch and listen to their amazing work.
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I wrote this two years ago and it's still true
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Donât Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.
The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/10/washington-post-bezos-amazon-prime-cancel/680421/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACFjM5v6LsmeSEWBZzcptavI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
3 months ago
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Adam Serwer
3 months ago
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significantâthough not finalâvictory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
Once the ultimate Millennial power lunch, a symbol of moral superiority and hyperproductivity, Sweetgreen is now in free fallâalong with the optimism it once represented,
@elcush.bsky.social
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The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Millennial Power Lunch
Sweetgreen didnât change. We did.
https://bit.ly/49hronc
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wrote about the fall of sweetgreen and the end of optimism âď¸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
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The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Millennial Power Lunch
Sweetgreen didnât change. We did.
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
4 months ago
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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:
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The Innovation Thatâs Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/food-delivery-america/684700/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACNykLzS9dg5Lp4SZsGQenmc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
6 months ago
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I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants ⌠itâs not good âŚ.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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How Delivery Destroyed American Restaurants
Weâve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/food-delivery-america/684700/
6 months ago
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last episode of our mets podcast for the season! miss you already <3
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59. Season Finale, RIP and LGM
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Yefva4gUMoY6WXMOYIqEW?si=15Vj4HAZR7yjkIwSCvsTRQ&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeAWHi9up9lfLaADq4xix7jLMrpa7tdQa5WkHNcJjyMo8Fzmjze1G88kL2ZrA_aem_IlUpRl50in2EoHGVjCzx4A&nd=1&dlsi=c786b79be85a476d
7 months ago
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I went to the Tesla Diner! It bummed me out
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
7 months ago
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The Atlantic
8 months ago
Eleven Madison Park, once named the worldâs best restaurant, is no longer veganâa sign of how Americans canât quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris,
@elcush.bsky.social
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Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury
After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.
https://bit.ly/4lvJ2X5
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The Atlantic
9 months ago
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.
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Has Air Travel Ever Been Good?
Not really.
https://bit.ly/3Iws7pH
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Anne Applebaum
9 months ago
"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...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34UoPtkCxvKSW-rp40Qt1-Q&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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new york's only baseball podcast turns 50 :)
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50. The TRUTH About the New York Mets
Hits Different ¡ Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ca1RtkmL7qgIPzY939ruo?si=3faf7778d07f451c&nd=1&dlsi=28275818115a4af9
9 months ago
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce
10 months ago
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."
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Cancel Amazon Prime
The subscription service is Amazonâs greatestâand most terrifyingâinvention.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/amazon-prime-day-dystopian/619265/
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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
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10 months ago
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what a big-hearted, big-brained, brave, searching, humane, lucid story by
@bernstein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...
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My Father Prosecuted Historyâs Crimes. Then He Died in One.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/magazine/lockerbie-bombing-justice-father.html
11 months ago
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Ellen
The Atlantic
12 months ago
More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Motherâs Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliantâand also patently absurd,
@elcush.bsky.social
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The AbsurdityâAnd Geniusâof the Motherâs Day Opt-Out Email
This is what happens when brands try to be your friend.
https://bit.ly/436HX0Q
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Ellen
The Atlantic
about 1 year ago
Space tourism is, at best, follyâsilly, spectacularly wasteful, pointless by definition. And Katy Perry was the perfect celebrity to do it,
@elcush.bsky.social
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The Perfect Pop Star for a Dumb Stunt
Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.
https://bit.ly/3Rh0SjZ
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about 1 year ago
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thinking about this diva
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
about 1 year ago
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Ellen
The Atlantic
about 1 year ago
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:
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The Absolutely, Positively Correct Way to Load Your Dishwasher
The internet is filled with advice. So why are people still arguing about this?
https://bit.ly/4ic9sLK
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wrote-a about soda
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Americans Will Never Quit Soda
Poppi and its âhealth-consciousâ ilk are just new versions of the same old thing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/03/soda-poppi-olipop/682188/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACFyQIbLGf4B6DDpAMKZENUI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
about 1 year ago
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new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back for seaosn 2, baby!
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37. [Brandon Nimmo Tongue-Out Emoji] Mets Are Back!
Hits Different ¡ Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VuzKFfhiaEikpFDaAeVAm?si=yoWcSHWnR2SBpXa2PIrR3Q&nd=1&dlsi=c2dbb3b552304ae2
about 1 year ago
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David Sims
about 1 year ago
kaitlyn went to baseball camp
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Why Arenât Women Allowed to Play Baseball?
Women have always loved Americaâs pastime. It has never loved them back.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/yankees-womens-baseball-mini-fantasy-camp/681763/
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The Atlantic
about 1 year ago
Kosher salt is just big salt,
@elcush.bsky.social
writes. How did it become so popular?
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The Great Salt Shake-Up
Why has kosher salt replaced table salt in American pantries?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/kosher-salt-trend-cooking/681762/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo
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John Blair
about 1 year ago
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...
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mTORC1 activation drives astrocyte reactivity in cortical tubers and brain organoid models of TSC
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder associated with early onset epilepsy, intellectual disability and neuropsychiatric disorders. A hallmark of the disorder is co...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640914v1
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Sarah Laskow
about 1 year ago
Read this one by the great
@katherinejwu.com
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The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/trump-science-data-gender-dei/681698/
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important please read
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Americans Need to Party More
Weâre not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACExlofixIcOAJRWHbNutzYI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
over 1 year ago
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the people who made this happen changed lives and I am unbelievably grateful for them :)
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over 1 year ago
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i love to ask the big questions like: is panettone .... good?
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The Luxury Makeover of the Worst Pastry on Earth
How panettone, the once-reviled Italian Christmas treat, became a high-end commodity
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/12/good-panettone-luxury-fashion/681077/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACFd7xAfjgFi6nPegaU_5o3g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
over 1 year ago
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I am honored and proud to be launching my 2028 campaign with a bold proposal for a better America
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Move Thanksgiving to October
A modest proposal for fixing the back-to-back-holiday crunch
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/move-thanksgiving-october/680802/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACM4VK4jpV8xPzvFTQBXXY8g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
over 1 year ago
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a wild thing i learned reporting this story is that about 2/3 of our apple juice comes from China
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Get Ready for Higher Food Prices
Trump vowed to lower food prices. His policies will almost certainly do the opposite.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/11/food-prices-trump-presidency/680670/
over 1 year ago
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I wrote about the future of baseball in a hotter world
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Climate Change Comes for Baseball
The summer sport is facing big questions about how it will adapt.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/baseball-climate-change-tropicana-field/680510/
over 1 year ago
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wrote about true love
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Goodbye, Coliseum
On loving and losing the Oakland Aâs
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/10/oakland-athletics-coliseum-last-baseball-game/680094/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACO_J0WDC4d2rVxqAWKM1q44&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
over 1 year ago
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ya i guess you could say iâm not like the other girls ;)
over 1 year ago
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feminism is when i bonk heads with a beautiful woman on the dance floor
over 1 year ago
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the coddling of the American diet
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over 1 year ago
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gonna spray this and walk through like a fancy lady in an old movie
over 1 year ago
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wow! new episode of new york's best and most popular podcast is up!
open.spotify.com/episode/7BdI...
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19. The Sun Used to Be Yellow but Now It's White
Episode ¡ Hits Different ¡ We're trying something with the episode title this week... some people enjoy a curiosity gap! And for a little insight into the Hits Different Business Operations, our most ...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BdINstVXBa5Zb6YNzmybd?si=oOCIbja6RfmpptftgTcuwA
over 1 year ago
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GOD i love having 20 followers
over 1 year ago
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I'm ready to be the first to say that Eric Adams has gone too far. Rats are so great! They're little urban Easter Eggs! They're New York's version of finding the baby in the king cake! Fuck off!!!!!!!!!
over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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me and my friends
almost 2 years ago
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too hot
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