Holy shit. We hit our first goal in 6 hours. I’m speechless. This will still cost a fortune but I feel like I can breathe a little for the first time in weeks. I can’t thank all of you enough. I don’t know how much we’ll be able to raise but oh my god, thank you.

remembering 2010s youtubers is such a funny nostalgia

i wrote about searching my own name in my dead dad's phone www.parallel.la/prism/grief-...

if you check out my newsletter you can see a photo of the briefly mentioned malaysia airlines t-shirt... thirdthing.substack.com

really enjoyed the noah kahan rolling stone cover story, especially the photo of him with a donkey

if you check out my newsletter you can see a photo of the briefly mentioned malaysia airlines t-shirt... thirdthing.substack.com

As someone who is currently writing about grief, and who has many friends and family with estrangement experience, I'm really thankful that this essay is out in the world. Kudos @ansonjtong.com.

i wrote about searching my own name in my dead dad's phone www.parallel.la/prism/grief-...

and wishlist those 12 games, which will be released as a collection in june, here: store.steampowered.com/app/4260590/...

@vinemossgames.bsky.social spoke with @rosebehar.bsky.social about making 12 games in 12 months! check it out here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

there are a bunch of writers with the same first name I think are the same person and just think they’re hyper productive and impressive and multi faceted only to realize it’s just different people

No but really why so many hands at the met gala what does it mean

the sync licensing budget of margo's got money troubles seems like it's gotta be crazy

an acquaintance from college who is two years older than me now has 5 kids... crazy the different stuff you can be doing in your twenties

if you are a cozy game player (stardew valley, pokemon pokopia, animal crossing, coffee talk, etc.), i'd love to ask you some qs about how you find games / decide what games to play

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

I always email out my columns day or two after they publish, so if you don't have a Vanity Fair sub, you can also read here: www.elizabethspiers.com/i-went-to-du...

THAT’S RIGHT!!!!

She was the first to speak out against Andrew Cuomo. Now some of his biggest donors are flooding Tuesday's special election with money to stop her. That tells you everything about who the progressive choice is: @lindseyboylan.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/c...

For a story: what policies would make life actually more affordable for you? I’d love to hear about it for a story this week: [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

looking for a longform article i read like a year or two ago about yuppie young republicans with families and their idyllic town outside dc? please does anyone remember this

A mom and widow who had benefits cut because of a mistake on a form. A home health aid making $13/hour who said food pantries are so overwhelmed, they couldn't help. A student who said SNAP access supported eating disorder recovery. My reporting for @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social:

Hey everybody, @hyperfixed is trying to cap off a very strong April by hitting a big milestone for us - 3500 premium members. Right now, we are at about 3437, so we have like 60 and some change to go! Premium members get access to bonus episodes and merch discounts and a truly fantastic community.

i always forget how bad people are at following instructions

It has been really disturbing to see some people pay tribute to Dr. Cerina Fairfax’s killer without even mentioning her. The victims of domestic violence matter more than their husband’s political careers. www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

amy poehler's podcast continues to be so so good

trying to post through it rn

Just found out one of the members of an up and coming band is also a dog acupuncturist

Right now, a landlord can raise the rent by 100%, even more, and force a small business out overnight. It’s time to pass the Small Business Rent Stabilization Act to stop pillars of our communities from getting priced out.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

i think people want to believe there's such thing as uninfluenced taste or objectively good music that will always rise to the top and be rewarded but we just don't live in that world! (1/3)

The lonely work of being the only person who is Normal about Geese

Convincing women to go on the record by name when they’ve seen that it results in no change — and a lot of people won’t believe them — can take years. One of the named sources in a 2024 story of mine declined to participate in 2017. Eventually, her life and job enabled it. And he’s still in office.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

tubthumping in the boys

roasting some carrots

source call out for a Guardian story: I am pretty sure a lot of progressive/leftist Christians follow me... if that's you and you're involved in faith-based organizing and mutual aid right now, please get in touch over Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

she’s micromanaging me

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

this book is out tomorrow!

spookiest part

I have listened to 20 min of the modern love podcast episode featuring zendaya and robert pattinson and gotten THREE ADS for the miniature wife show and an insurance ad that suggested I have daddy issues

Defeatism? We don’t know her. Our community support-based campaign model demonstrates a new model for politics and engaged a record number of young voters. Now we’re not just going to keep doing that work. We’re helping campaigns across the country do the same.

you can write for an audience. you can anticipate an audience. you cannot anticipate every possible audience reading any given subset of what you said.

unsettling reminder of how much of social media is not real open.substack.com/pub/elizamcl...

don't usually share substacks but this one feels important. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-trans-...

resharing because AMERICAN HAN is now out! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...

Enjoyed this conversation with Lisa Lee! Still thinking about how male rage is carried by the whole family!

sorry but it's so funny to be one of the last actual human beings getting paid a decent rate to review books for legacy media and pull this shit