REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...

just in time for spooky season: a fantastic horror story by @annasilman.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/how-th...

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By @petridishes.bsky.social who has actually never said anything to or about anyone and never will, I’m sure of it 🫡 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"One translation of Aaaaughhhh is 'There’s a difference between not dying and being alive.' A summary of Gyyyyyuaaack might be 'Things can grow so corrupted or damaged that it’s better not to have them anymore.'” Great @xwaldie.bsky.social on modern zombiemania: www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

*snap-snap* WEDNESDAY on @netflix.com is back and so are my @vulture.com recaps! The season premiere: www.vulture.com/article/wedn...

"It takes a whole life to learn to leave it – the seeming mistake or incompletion, the absolutely ordinary word." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Six months of congestion pricing in NYC has produced “perhaps the fastest ever environmental improvement from any policy in US history,” @us.theguardian.com’s Oliver Milman reports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“The Alligator is on the side of the slave catcher & overseer against the black underclass; why not the ICE agent & concentration camp guard against the immigrant, the dissident, the stripped-of-citizenship? The threat is the same: you will be eaten up and disappear.” defector.com/why-do-fasci...

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

ofc there is a "cognitive cost" to outsourcing the work of your brain to chatGPT!! thank you @chaykak.bsky.social for this chilling report on what happens AI users' minds: “you lose your identity, you lose the authenticity. You lose confidence in your writing.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

"And other places have to learn from this — being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves. How long can you survive like this? What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot?" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"No one like Mamdani has ever won an election where as many as a million people voted... A new city was born in this election: a much younger progressive bloc that flexed its muscle like never before." nymag.com/intelligence...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

End of an era 😭 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Sally Rooney: "[Palestine Action's] methods do involve property sabotage, which is, obviously, illegal. But if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

excited to be very annoying about this time.com/7295195/ai-c...

As Jersey law requires I WILL be seeing this opening weekend but I do think it’s hilarious to end the trailer for the Nebraska movie with “Born to Run,” a song that, quite famously, is from a different album youtu.be/oQXdM3J33No?...

Got inspired by the NYC mayoral race and wrote a new @mcsweeneys.net for you! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ive...

We are so back! The @petridishes.bsky.social @theatlantic.com debut is HERE 🇺🇸 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

the @51st.news report on what to expect from this weekend’s military parade in DC is 10/10 51st.news/dc-military-...

"...some going so far as to dirty themselves with what might seem to an eye that has not benefited from a 6-week Patriotic Abduction training course at a strip-mall karate studio to be actual food stains, paint chips, & other honestly earned detritus of a busy day’s work." bsky.app/profile/mcsw...

Profiled Natasha Lyonne (@natashalyonne.bsky.social) for the June cover of Marie Claire! We got into: life & death; AI and IP; Blue Origin & cosmetic surgery; Poker Face & Russian Doll. “...at this age or stage: Who is it for? Whose public approval, exactly?" www.marieclaire.com/culture/nata...

great essay by @dansinker.com on "the moment we're in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore." (h/t @rusty.todayintabs.com) dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

💔 www.vulture.com/article/holl...

gr8 blackbird skyplane today www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/certified-...

“Federal workers aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. We’re real people with families who are hurting and, in the worst cases, dying. Why don’t people out there see that? Why doesn’t anyone care?” Shattering reporting by the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Bleak!!!! nymag.com/intelligence...

The final season of YOU on @netflix.com is here! Been recapping this one for @vulture.com since its humble beginnings on Lifetime... you could say I'm Joe's longest relationship <3 and he never even put me in the human aquarium <3 My season premiere recap: www.vulture.com/article/you-...

HACKS is BACK My @vulture.com premiere recap: www.vulture.com/article/hack...

god I see what you’ve done for others www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

U IS FOR UNION BUSTING APPARENTLY

No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But no one in the U.S. wanted to distribute it.

Choosing to believe Zoe is winning this Oscar for her performance in Center Stage (2000)

"The mission was nothing short of saving America's bastion of beautiful sentences and intellectual rigor." tinabrown.substack.com/p/my-flashba...

Chilling @propublica.org investigation into the “soaring” sepsis rates following Texas’ abortion ban. “This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen,” said a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Austin. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

NOOOOOOO www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

White Lotus watchers: my @vulture.com Kill or Be Killed Report (a recap where I try to figure out whodunnit and who was it dunnit to) is BACK for season three! Come speculate with me 🐒🐒🐒 www.vulture.com/article/the-...

infuriating to see stories like this while having zero way of disabling the "help me write" AI feature in gmail... feels like a vast conspiracy to prevent anyone from developing, & then from ever using, reading comprehension & writing skills ever in our lives!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

Since last March, @nymagunion.bsky.social has been negotiating a new contract. But Vox Media has refused to meet us halfway on basic issues including giving us meaningful wage increases, controlling health care costs, and offering reasonable protections around AI in our workplace.

My God, can anyone play this game? Bitching all the way into the fire about how "illegal" it is. Who cares? Say he's taking bread from babies' mouths!

"Customers only care about one thing: barely functioning AI crammed into every facet of their lives... Doesn’t that sound fun? Just living in a constant state of fear that all of the information you have access to is anywhere from a little to very wrong?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

If you're excited about Julia Stiles' directorial debut (!), we discussed her movie — and 10 Things I Hate About You, ofc — when I profiled her for the @nytimes.com last year! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/m...

"Republicans... managed to shut down most of the abortion clinics in [Texas] in a mere three years by playing quick and dirty and smart. Meanwhile, the Democrats have mostly watched, and insisted upon norms. Those norms have not reopened those clinics." defector.com/the-old-rule...

🇺🇸🫠 (I wrote this in 2017) www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/o...

RIP to the great Jules Feiffer, whose perfect illustrations for The Phantom Tollbooth will stay with me forever 🖤 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

If you're seeing everybody's @letterboxd.social year in review and want to know what all the hype is about, check out my @washingtonpost.com feature (from ~a year ago) on the rise of the social network for cinema freaks: www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-int...

"[Three-week-old] Aisha — whose Arabic name means 'alive' — was underweight but otherwise healthy. Temperatures plummeted that night. Aisha was dead by morning, her body 'turned into a piece of ice,' Adnan said." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Besides journalism, “Where else, in this scam-ridden country, can you bring down the rich and powerful and corrupt with nothing but words?” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on the free press in crisis: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...