was just reminded that my best friend’s boyfriend (Mexican) (visited the US for the first time this year) is an ardent Buffalo Bills fan (??) (can’t account for this) (he is literally from Sonora). Tonight he gets this country’s greatest tradition: Watching December football in the suburbs

For @theatlantic.com I wrote about Joe Sacco's search for the essential truth, from Bosnia to Gaza to Uttar Pradesh: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

this is absolutely wrenching to read, i hate that they know the procedure. once in college i got an active shooter text and we barricaded a room in the student center—it ended up being a SWAT hoax but it has not left me years and years later. i can still remember that room. nymag.com/intelligence...

i find myself charmed by this ongoing series the FT is doing that can be summed up by the idea of "washington dc is a real place"

The Atlantic’s editors pick their favorite books of the year—10 titles that distinguish themselves as worth reading and remembering. See the full list: theatln.tc/gaJVrZ7O

This is my going-on-eight-year agenda: DC Is a Nice Place to Live

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Beautiful story about the Nashville of my youth* *I didn’t ride this carousel (I just checked with my dad) because my parents didn’t want to pay to put me on it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...

@washingtonspirit.com I love you so much this was me waiting in line for a full capacity bar (I got in) (don’t let me down)

"If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment."

This holiday season I think you should purchase binoculars for a friend or family member. Someone in my OWN family will be getting binoculars, though I will not reveal who. And I wrote about why in here: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

Just joined my coworkers for a practice picket outside Washingtonian HQ. Four years without a contract. We’d love to be doing something else today!

my Kaufman field guide to birds of north america and my heavily annotated paperback of Infinite Jest—is this anything

This weekend the Washington Spirit play in the NWSL semi-finals, and I got a chance to chat with team captain and goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury about the pressure of penalty kicks, the rowdy Spirit fanbase, and her favorite baked goods in the D.C. region: 51st.news/aubrey-kings...

This is such a fascinating cultural overview of a disappearing part of American life. I feel this tension in DC's public pool locker rooms, for ex—no one really knows if we're getting naked in front of each other or not www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

Today on Reddit, @emmasarappo.bsky.social and @boriskachka.bsky.social are answering questions about how they helped select The Atlantic’s list of 65 essential children’s books. Ask them about their choices, trends across kids’ literature, and more at 2:30 p.m. ET: www.reddit.com/r/childrensb...

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

This is the perfect article. Reporter's like "Why would Carlota, who never lived in San Luis Potosí, be there" and the governor is like "Maybe she felt like it that day..." meanwhile footage is just of a normal human woman walking around in a room

Really good hobby drama

What a glorious day for picture books! So thrilled to have this list out in the world for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Certified: I read the Cat Sebastian on this list and found it delightful www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

“In a world where nothing felt safe, that room functioned as a sanctuary.” Zoé Gillette illustrates the experience of visiting their childhood bedroom.

Fervor over books such as Judy Blume's Forever might feel quaint to some. But book banning is, unfortunately, all the rage—fittingly, Banned Books Week starts on Monday.

Not that everything is about us but too few Americans recognize how absolutely stupid life can be in the District of Columbia when the feds can't get their act together. Example 4 billion: wamu.org/story/25/09/...

if you're in the D.C. area: @emmasarappo.bsky.social is talking to @tricialockwood.bsky.social about her new book tomorrow night at Politics and Prose! politics-prose.com/events?srslt...

Maybe interesting www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!

"One assumes there will be widespread debate over the accuracy of Kimmel’s offending comments. That is a distraction from the fundamental assault on free speech that is happening here."

The point is that many can live quite normally under the thumb of authoritarianism. Yes: many suffer and suffer now but large swaths of the American public chooses to be clueless and it’s not difficult. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

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

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

"In an atmosphere of national paranoia and hatred, each act of political violence makes the next one more likely." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

ARYNA SABALENKA LL QUESTION YESTERDAY—BIG DAY FOR ME!

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham (2024) www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

I look fair-weather because I haven't made a public statement before now but around the time of the French Open I decided to stan Aryna Sabalenka largely on the basis of her lip filler. Big day for me

Until you’ve participated in union contract negotiation it can be hard to conceptualize that an owner or manager would care more about screwing their workers than keeping a business profitable or indeed open at all, but it’s actually not so uncommon!

We asked 12 staffers at The Atlantic: What’s the one book you recommend again and again to friends and loved ones? One of their favorites will, we hope, be the title you pick up next: https://theatln.tc/VebePpnm

"The remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington was the second time in recent days that it was unable to persuade grand jurors to bring an indictment in a felony assault case against a federal agent."

Once again I find myself in the trenches, defending women's right to write memoir in which they behave poorly or do not acquit themselves well ... while having to do so on behalf of bad writing

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

all of this is basically a trojan horse for my sinking feeling right now that generative AI will be 'good enough' and that's...potentially a very bad outcome!

Check in on your DC residents because my brain is actually melting out of my ears. I was here allllll of 2020 and 2021 and this is worse.

“Can I land at SCRM,” he asked, referring to the King George Island airport. The official responded, “Yes” with a thumbs-up emoji.

Insane timing to have just finished The Hot Zone www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...