Clavicular Mogs The New York Times Magazine is a real email I received this afternoon

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

NEW: Consumers are calling to boycott Frida Baby over its use of sexual innuendos in some of its packaging and marketing. A Frida spokesperson told me, "We’re never trying to offend, push boundaries for shock value, or make anyone uncomfortable." www.modernretail.co/marketing/fr...

At New York Fashion Week, female designers are changing the game www.ft.com/content/afd7...

This weekend in my newsletter, to go out tomorrow evening, I'll write about seeing things at its proper time. You can subscribe here: dannygroner.substack.com.

we're hiring an associate editor to help build out our grooming coverage at GQ! if you're interested in all things men's hair + body + face (and you got that gaga reference) email me your resume condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

"I completed six months of chemotherapy in September and am now in remission. My mysterious symptoms went away after two infusions as my oncologist said they would. I am lucky that I had a type of cancer that was highly treatable. Not all women are so lucky." www.wsj.com/health/welln...

"... gifting something practical appears to be catching on. Certainly, plenty of brands and stores are marketing that concept: You’ll find Valentine’s Day sales and promotions for car tires, cleaning products, battery chargers and, yes, vacuum cleaners, among countless practical-minded items."

A woman hopped on a call today telling me upon meeting me for the first time, "I'm excited to speak with you. I plugged your name into my AI agent earlier asking it to tell me a bit about you. You sound like you've had a fascinating career. I'm eager to hear about what you're up to." That was cool.

I'm looking to interview some non-American musicians or bands who've decided not to tour in the U.S. this year because of ICE. Please hit my DMs if you are willing to chat about this decision.

Amanda on #rhobh was shocked to discover how transparent she was after being accused of pinning Kyle and Dorit against the other as a way to deflect from her own accusation of Dorit. They successfully identified the traitor in the mansion.

"One of the most unsettling things about the Guthrie case is that it adds another layer of uncertainty about our ability to control our lives. Things you never imagined or thought possible happen." www.wsj.com/health/welln...

"The idea that Gen Z’s online habits introduce constant, real-time feedback isn’t necessarily a bad thing for some. In fact, it’s what they’re seeking." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I worked at a company many years ago where it was acceptable in the business culture for people, upon receiving requests from colleagues, to reply, "No bandwidth." I hope that people have grown better over time at communicating effectively with others, not toward burnout, rather for collegiality.

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/i...

Good recap. adage.com/ad-age-video...

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

Guys, I just discovered that Milan and Cortina are six hours apart by car.

I don't really see a solution to this, and it's not like it's a phenomenon unique to the East Coast or America. If you want to book a last-minute train from Paris to Bordeaux today, you're paying €130 (~$155) for a 2 hour ride. If you want to book a last minute trip today to Philadelphia, it's $145.

"The U.S. has long offered special visas for highly skilled foreign doctors willing to move to rural America, where the need for medical care is great. A surge of immigrants who arrived as part of resettlement programs filled nursing and health-aide jobs as demand for positions continued to rise."

For the past two years, I work on Fridays regularly out of a coffee shop near my home. I presumed they didn't have a public restroom on site because I never noticed one in the small shop. When I need to use the restroom, I leave the store, head across the street, and go to a cafe. Then I return.

Good stuff from Raquel Scott from Venturing Forward:

"Modern dads, on average, do three times more child care than fathers in 1965 did. Some are fighting for better joint-custody laws. A growing number stay at home. Nielsen told me that men are no less instinctively nurturing or empathetic than women; many lament time they spend away from their kids."

I was promised cheaper groceries and tariff rebates and all I got was this lousy pogrom www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

I met last night a practicing lawyer who told me, unprompted (!), that he is mission-driven to keep costs lower than $1,000/hour for emerging startups in need of the same work, which is why he works for a boutique firm, and if he were motivated by money he'd leave and go make 2-3 times more...

The Whiskey World Is Reeling, but This Company Has Bigger Troubles www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...

"Colleges and universities are trying to keep their curricula up-to-date with the advancements so that their students will have an advantage over other job applicants. CodePath has been updating certain courses several times a year to ensure it keeps its students as competitive as they can be."

"Broadly, when ChatGPT emerged in late 2022, many employers worried that job seekers would use AI to help talk their way past interviewers. Yet as the technology becomes more capable and embedded in daily work, a number of companies are moving from policing it to evaluating candidates' AI know-how."

"In addition, most of the millennial-friendly cities tend to be in the Sun Belt region of the U.S. As the Trust & Will study points out, this is not necessarily a migration pattern but reflects where the analyzed economic indicators all align, making these areas prime for future growth."

This weekend in my newsletter, to go out tomorrow evening, I'll write about seeing things at its proper time. You can subscribe here: dannygroner.substack.com.

Good listen. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Good segment. www.nbcnews.com/video/desper...

Amanda should leave #rhobh. She doesn't fit in because she signed up for the wrong reasons.

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

How founders can tap women investors as a competitive advantage in 2026 fortune.com/2026/02/12/h...

"On top of this, the company recently launched a new facial recognition feature, Familiar Faces. Combined with Search Party, the technological leap to using neighborhood cameras to search for people through a mass-surveillance network suddenly seems very small."

I'm listening to a podcast interview with an executive, who is making the case for how to cut through layers of bureaucracy, and the host asked how many direct reports he has, and he got flustered on the fly, and he said, "I don't know... 14? Maybe 12?" and then continued the point he intended...

If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.

Vodka eyeballing?

"The tariffs have emerged as deeply unpopular with voters — and their support for duties seen as contributing to rising prices for consumers could erode their chances for reelection." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm at an event at one of those cool law firms where the moderator, a lawyer, curses openly, but only in a self-deprecating fashion.

"Converting the factory might help Ford avoid the costs of maintaining an unused plant and tap into the fast-growing demand for storage batteries." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

"What’s been most frustrating to me is how difficult it’s become to separate real industry signals from overwrought hype. Every hot take explodes into a narrative cascade—mega-threads, podcasts, YouTube takedowns, extravagant quote-tweets—until it’s hard to remember what the original claim even was"

Inside the allegations against a San Francisco social climber accused of sex crimes sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/m...

I spoke to a job seeker for the first time yesterday. Today, she sent me a lovely thank-you note. It began: "Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me the other day. I really appreciated all the articles you sent me, especially the one about having a problem-solver mindset..." 1/

@financialtimes.com seeks a US justice correspondent: talkingbiznews.com/biz-news-hel...