Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.

This is a pretty remarkable recollection by Mark Singer about a plane ride he took in 1997 with Trump and Ghislaine to Palm Beach. When they were about to land, they got on the phone w/ their mutual friend, "Jeffrey." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Cindy Lee last night

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

not too hard to imagine a comprehensively gambling-obsessed political media, maybe soon nymag.com/intelligence...

Some gems at the Indianapolis airport

a little late, but i wrote about it

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.

RIP to a legend www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...

It's this kind of weather www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWRj...

How many ways could Trump try to subvert the 2026 elections? More than you can probably imagine, and many of them might work. My deep dive in @theatlantic.com, posted today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

DICKERSON: ".. I am extremely grateful for all that CBS gave me — the work, the audience’s attention and the honor of being a part of the network’s history .." @thewrap.com @jdickerson.bsky.social www.thewrap.com/cbs-news-joh...

I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024. Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's new mini-documentary about Vought 👇 THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...

“Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support his candidacy,” Mr. Jeffries wrote in a statement to @nytimes.com

“It’s important to make people feel like they have agency, that they have choice within the set of parameters you give them,” Mr. Pearlman writes. He promises to teach you how to enter “magic mode” to deal with rejection, and, even better, “how to let the haters fuel you.”

How does Oz Pearlman — a.k.a. Oz the Mentalist — know so much about his audience? This was a fun one: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...

RIP Dave Ball

Despite Kash Patel's rhetoric this morning, a source familiar with the bust tells @nbcnews.com that the NBA gambling bust predated the Trump administration and that politics had nothing to do with it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

How does Oz Pearlman — a.k.a. Oz the Mentalist — know so much about his audience? This was a fun one: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America. Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought. Here is the story. A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I was lucky enough to read an in-progress draft of this over the summer. @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social, as is his nature, will make you laugh/cry/long/wonder/feel it all in equal measure. Preorder!

Perfect, 10/10 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

“Whether we feel like we have to transcend it or not, we do,” Tweedy said. “We keep moving. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and wanting to be here..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...

This was the closest we got to the rapture

They should at least make the robots wear tuxedos like old timey umps

All day www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HP0...

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

I’m blown away that my book is now for sale in South Korea! Thank you to everyone who has read and shared it over these past few years, I’m so grateful.

Many developments since , and even more public misconceptions, but I remain proud (and hopeful) as 1 of 3 authors representing the class and standing up for copyright, even in the face of blinding tech progress. More soon. #AI #authors #publishers #copyright www.jurist.org/news/2025/09...

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Best way to celebrate novel release day.

A year ago, doctors told me I had neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. I’d probably been living with it for a decade. I will likely never be cured. But after a year of surgeries, radiation and monthly shots with a giant needle, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. defector.com/my-life-with...

Shout out to the guy who wheeled a vibraphone into Fort Greene park and busted out The Leftovers theme

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Apparent Border Patrol agents came to arrest two firefighters battling an active wildfire in Washington state www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Weakly argued piece, blandly written. Mostly hand-waving: Maybe a president demanding more seats from his party will be good for "democracy" bc voters will say "I don't like this." How can they register their disapproval? That's the point of a gerrymander, they can't!

On moving: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

In my lifetime, I have read probably 10,000 stories about municipal government in some place or other… and this is easily in the top 5. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

🧵 MY LATEST: Still Here, an eight-week multimedia series of stories from a fragile coastline. During our nine days in South Louisiana, photographer John Noltner and I heard a lot about disappearance. Not only are wetlands vanishing, but so is Black-owned farmland. (1/4)

Witnessed a ribbon cutting at a new rest stop in OH. I wasn't sure what was going on since it was packed. I asked a guy at the door if I could enter. A short old man, some official, emerged from the crowd and hobbled forward, arms outstretched, and said "Yes! Come in! Come in and use the bathroom!"

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

i profiled deftones — a band that grew up in the age of numetal but always managed to transcend it thirty years later on the eve of the group’s tenth record release, they are experiencing a late career renaissance www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/a...

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

I spent the week tracing how HHS Secretary RFK Jr. canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS. Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.” www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

“I used to feel so cool when sometimes the fire truck went by and I waved and Steve waved back.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/a...

“President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States…” is the only way we knew how to start this piece.