Happy Mother's Day, Black Moms edition: youtu.be/24rCQnK2oBE

"You're wasting your time marketing on Bluesky because it's all authors" my dude nobody reads more than authors. I've read nine books this year and it's only May. One of the authors in my discord has read a whopping 39. Good authors are also good readers, and good readers buy books.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Your feed is overrun with clips of podcasts, videos, and events — this is the cutthroat community of "clippers" behind it Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/92000...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Rock music is in a weird place right now. The genre is searching for new headliners while there’s been a revival of 90s-2000s act. Then there’s Bring Me The Horizon, who have been moving into a space where they could be next up. Wrote about their MSG show here substreammagazine.com/2026/05/brin...

Anyway, here's the column I wrote for MSNOW about that shallow cash grab of a jukebox musical

thank you newcastle and chelsea for giving me a chance to talk about the premier league three seperate times on this podcast

"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

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If you want to know why we are doing what we’re doing!

New reporting from me: A NJ club soccer team was excited to take a trip to London in August. On April 7th, they got terrible news. The sports travel agency they were working with sent an email stating that it was "ceasing operations.” The $120k they paid is in limbo. www.nj.com/burlington/2...

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I genuinely don't understand why anyone who has a choice is going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year.

I found ‘Blue Heron’ moving in that even with all of these documentation tools at our disposal including memory, there are still answers about family that will escape us. This film is very much coming to a certain peace about that. substreammagazine.com/2026/04/blue...

There’s a renaissance happening in women’s sports and it’s next mode of growth - women’s professional hockey. For NJ.com, I went to three games and wrote about the NY Sirens, Princeton grad Sarah Fillier, and how her play was at the heart of a late playoff push. www.nj.com/sports/2026/...

I wrote about ‘Michael,’ its apprehensiveness to grapple with the complexity of its subject, and why this film is an inflection point to speak to what biopics are and who they are made for. substreammagazine.com/2026/04/mich...

Delbarton, an all-boys catholic school in faced a few obstacles regarding its athletic program (some financial and self inflicted). A decade later, they are the top destination for sports in Jersey, but also ninth in the country. What happened? New reporting from me: www.nj.com/highschoolsp...

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In December last year I pitched a story about social media algorithms pushing people to take more extreme solo or dual backpacking treks over long distance to stay in the algorithm to gain views and since then the “day 1 of…” trend has only grown and gotten more extreme.

It is my understanding that to be featured in Witherspoon’s popular book club, authors must give her production company an option for film/TV development. It’s understandable they’re pissed about tying themselves to a company now promoting a technology that’s stolen from most — if not all — of them.

Behind every celebrity insistence that people should accept AI usage as an inevitability is their money looking a little funny due to a tech investment

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

The NBA has had three active players and one active coach have to be excommunicated because of gambling in just the last few seasons. This is INSANE greed.

Sending all of my love to the Vox Media folks. I hope whatever deals are made in the coming weeks, they benefit the writers, editors, artists, designers, video makers, coders, project managers, salespeople, P&C folks, and everybody else. They deserve to land at homes that respect their talents.

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

"The Pitt" vs. its fandom: Why is the show's vocal fandom putting "The Pitt's" characters on trial to be deemed “good” or “bad"? This week's newsletter buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...

Anyway, that’s what’s actually up with me. And has been up with me. It’s also why I appreciate every single person who has a paid subscription to my newsletter because it helps me sustain when I don’t have the energy in me to write or take on more assignments.

I don’t mean to be a spoiler of good times but you should not party with the president if he fairly regularly threatens to jail or potentially bankrupt you if you don’t write the news how he thinks you should Like, skip the dinner and just go to the after parties if u really wanna party

I explicitly built the "Generative AI Slop-free news outlets" starter packs and feeds back in December in response to troubling news I was hearing out of ProPublica at the time, so you bet my ass that I will not cross the digital picket line: www.poynter.org/business-wor...

There needs to be a concerned effort by sports outlets to invest in WNBA journalism/hire a lot of smart/hungry independent journalists with a living wage to do so. The spam around free agency is insane. I should not be seeing fake signing news from a fake Zendaya fan account.

I enjoyed and was also a little terrified after seeing “Faces of Death.” It’s not so much a recoil from a fantastical boogeyman - it’s from the realization that social media knows what the levers to pull for us to become ravenous and feral whenever it wants. substreammagazine.com/2026/04/face...

Pathetic. Big dying mall vibes.

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The problem with adapting a “loyal” Resident Evil film is theres an essence of scarcity that is in the games that doesn’t translate across mediums. You only have 10 bullets and you got five zombies. You gotta get a puzzle piece but is a giant spider going to pop out? Its the allure of the series.

It is worth noting that advice like this overly focuses on individual effort compared to systemic changes and government policies like equal pay, higher minimum wages, affordable housing, union benefits, as well as funding for childcare, public education, and public transportation.

Are they going to put them in a haunted house?

"Our position as a unit is that we do not think it is right for abortion providers and seekers to have to interface with AI in the place of speaking with a knowledgeable and supportive team member," the union told me. More about their contract fight, and the importance of humans in abortion care:

It really seems as though the Trump admin fully intended to modify Title X in the ways it did during his first term, but then... laid off everyone who worked on the program and could have done that. Oops!

Also NEW: Jefferson Twp took their case for immediate supplemental aid to stop possible sports program cuts to the NJ State legislature. But this is a series of many school funding battles after Gov. Sherrill announced a $12.4b record budget plan for K-12. www.nj.com/highschoolsp...

The price for World Cup are crazy, with the get-in price to some of the eight New Jersey games selling a little under a $1,000. With this raise soccer to raise prices across the board in the future? I spoke to two event experts about whats going on: www-nj-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nj.c...

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Switching gears: I recently told an acquaintance who works in tech that part of learning how to write is about being a really aggressive reader. His response was basically why should I read a long book when I can learn a thing in an efficient short way, etc

What if gaming can serve as an educational pillar, foster inclusion and friendships, and create career paths? Garden State Esports, the largest scholastic league in the country is dispelling myths about gaming in a time of digital isolation. New reporting from me: www.nj.com/highschoolsp...

WEEEEEEEE ARE HAVING A SALE!!!!

I spoke to the co-directors and leads of “Edie Arnold Is A Loser” (all working on their first feature film together) about why you just have to do the damn thing you always wanted to do: substreammagazine.com/2026/03/edie...

Why the heck is the United States banning routers? Here is a 2,000-word explainer that should entertain and enrage you. www.theverge.com/tech/899906/...

What if gaming can serve as an educational pillar, foster inclusion and friendships, and create career paths? Garden State Esports, the largest scholastic league in the country is dispelling myths about gaming in a time of digital isolation. New reporting from me: www.nj.com/highschoolsp...