this is entirely conjecture and also niche but imho the NY City Center website crashing the morning Fall for Dance tickets go live seems to be another indication that folks are DESPERATE for affordable live performances.

as a millennial with a one-time unbearably large Beanie Baby collection... I resent every last five-figure Labubu sale. (iykyk?) www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

not the main point in this article but I'm never getting over the fact that in a city of 8 million people, we were just over 7k votes away from having a different outcome in 2021 / what could have been NYC's first female mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...

google docs AI seems desperate to write my words yet refuses--REFUSES!!--to keep the damn word count widget on the page between sessions. let's, oh, idk, crawl before we marathon??

From our poll conducted Sunday-Monday: President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Iran is broadly unpopular with Americans www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard. “This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

This is what the “I can’t operate on him, he’s my son!” riddle looks like in real life.

This story (a.) outlines a terrible trend and (b.) misses the ties to diet/Ozempic culture that *could* have something to w/cigs' resurgence. The correlation/causation may not be as clear as the one between cigarettes and cancer, but... I would read a deeper dive. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...

For the past several months, we've been collecting nominations for the 50 Over 50--specifically, the U.S. portion of this franchise. Age & location requirements are listed on our website. And yet, I'm currently reading a nomination for someone based in Dubai, born in... 1989. People. READ. Please.

A very important story on the repercussions of Trump visa pause on physicians. With the Association of American Medical Colleges predicting a 124,000 physician shortfall within the next nine years... this matters. www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...

Four ways women are stronger than men Good stuff from @starrevartan.bsky.social, author of The Stronger Sex www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The Tush Push lives.

NEW: Russell Vought, acting head of CFPB and director of OMB, just killed a rule to protect US residents' personal information from predatory data brokers. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...

“Egg freezing has surged nearly 30% year over year.” @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social, Huma, and @mcgrathmag.bsky.social break down what rising fertility rates among single women mean for the future of work, healthcare, and policy.

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

Grateful to join @forbes.com for an interview about the suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Program. As I told @mcgrathmag.bsky.social, we’ve been so heartened by the outpouring of support and encourage Americans to join us in advocating for this work of welcome 👇 www.globalrefuge.org/act-now/

If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

In 2020 they used the Big Lie (100s of misleading claims) of "voter fraud" to try to overturn an election. In 2024 they're using similar tactics to create/amplify misleading claims of "government waste and fraud" to justify dismantling huge sections of the U.S. government.

Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

On the first day of RFK Jr: 5200 HHS workers got fired; the director and much of the staff of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) got fired. At the NIH directors learned of the imminent firings - about 1500 people. At the CDC 1300 people are about to be fired. As a result...

Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.

Nike with the best ad of the night. Women… just win 💪🏼

Yale Budget Lab estimates that tariffs will cost average US household $1,000-$1,200 in lost purchasing power budgetlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

55 points most by any team in NFC Championship Game history 👀

Jalen Carter, I love you. #eagles

TikTok users in the US are now seeing this message, with the company giving the man who started the effort to ban the app credit for saving it

We have an answer!!

Okay but actually did anyone catch what book AJ Brown was reading? #eagles

I said it before this election, and I’ll say it now: Women – and the men who stand beside them as allies – WILL be our beacon of hope going forward. @symonedsanders.bsky.social, Huma Abedin and @mcgrathmag.bsky.social join me to discuss what comes next for abortion healthcare after a Trump win.

“The women on this list are defying global headwinds and commanding a significant amount of power.” @forbes.com's @mcgrathmag.bsky.social joins @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social, and Huma Abedin on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social to speak about the World’s Most Powerful Women in 2024

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Women are the canaries in the coal mine of how bad Twitter is now. It’s not just about echo chamber blah blah. It’s unsafe— when huge accounts like this guy w/ 400k followers (Fox contributor too) single out a random woman minding her business so mobs can attack her. And no block feature!

Remember @propublica.org's reporting in September on the preventable deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, who had care denied or delayed under Georgia's abortion ban? After this reporting, Georgia has dismissed its members of the maternal mortality committee: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

As Trump prepares for a second term, @19thnews.bsky.social is pulling together allegations of sexual assault and harassment against the president-elect’s Cabinet-level picks. Here's what we've found so far: 19thnews.org/2024/11/sexu...

How could a Brendan Carr-led FCC “punish” news networks producing coverage the Trump administration doesn’t like? I asked Free Press co-CEO @notaaroncraig.bsky.social this question, and his answers were sobering: www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

Today I learned, thanks to @kerrydolan.bsky.social, that the Louis Vuitton “Christmas display” I marveled at the other night was in fact…. very cleverly designed scaffolding. Well played, LVMH. www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

My latest: why Trump's proposed tariffs will mean higher drugs prices and a slowdown in biotech innovation. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

This story + its comments are worth your time this morning 👇🏼👇🏼

Contrary to what you might think, the first post-election edition of the ForbesWomen newsletter by @mcgrathmag.bsky.social is actually pretty inspiring www.forbes.com/sites/maggie...

To quote a musical from a time The Other platform was fun… okay, so we’re doing this. Hi to the 20 people who follow me here! I hate all social media but let’s see how this goes!