I really need a moratorium on lecturing people who already agree. How about we all assume that everyone here already knows why most things are bad and don’t need it explained to them.

Imagine the power of a national service corps. The maintenance backlog on national parks alone could be remedied, but oh, imagine having a disaster corps trained and ready to go, or folks to build out and repair infrastructure, or, or, or …

This has a real “the beatings will continue until morale improves” feel to it.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Long time listener, first time caller, just out of curiosity, what happens when Senators continue to confirm a lawless President’s appointments? I’ll hang up and listen.

Having a teen is great in so many ways, but every once in a while, I see a holiday outfit like this & the nostalgia for a little one who loved twirly tutu skirts & was amenable to holiday-themed clothing just HITS.

I can’t believe it’s 2025 and we’re still calling wanting things like workplace and job flexibility feminine instead of, you know, humane

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

So it's interesting that Conde Nast also quietly folded VOGUE BUSINESS back into Vogue.com last week, because it really shows how the current portfolio-management strategy is aimed at "get someone wealthy to buy themselves a stable of consumer-facing brands they can use to push their own agenda." 🧵

Citing AI as a reason to cut jobs is not going to really move employee sentiment on using AI for anything other than personal gain, one suspects: www.challengergray.com/blog/october...

I guess when you control the media and message, a permanent unalterable record of what you previously said and did is a threat.

Multiple well-compensated people saw the initial headline and thought there was nothing wrong with putting it out into the world like that.

A meal bundle for the budget-conscious family at the holidays: $40 for a 10-person meal, including a 14lb Jennie-O® turkey, rolls, cranberry sauce, mac & cheese, mashed potatoes & gravy, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing & pumpkin pie www.aldi.us/products/tha...

Perfect reporting, no notes: www.thecut.com/article/post...

I always look forward to the post-holiday retail reports and this postmortems on the 2025 holiday retail season are going to be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Okay, I am objectively a newbie on doing well at LinkedIn & I want to change that. What are your suggestions on not becoming a LinkedIn Lunatic? What do you look for in someone else's feed?

I desperately hope some enterprising reporter is calling zookeepers now to discuss what it takes to handle camels as a transportation mode. Just report on what a camel-based transportation system would look like in NYC in February and in August.

Human effort sends the message "you're worth my time and attention." It's almost like people respond to that more favorably than something generated in 5 seconds.

Remember when they said they need a Left Rogan for the “youth” Which youth?

So far election night USA seems to be a real referendum on “normal people are already sick of this shit”

The Atlantic seems to be on a hiring spree. They could make up for the hires of the Jonathans Chait and Haidt by snapping up every Teen Vogue politics writer who got laid off today. Add some much-needed journalistic freshness and diversity to the bullpen there.

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

Just talked to Art Agnos, in great spirits. Served one term — his support of the Embarcadero Freeway teardown sunk his reelection — but his tenure ages so well. Pushed for housing, parks and safe space for pedestrians and bicyclists. And the Embarcadero is now his biggest triumph. 📸: Minh Connors

Can we talk about how retailers are tacking HARD into the whole "'Tis a TRADITIONAL holiday!" vibe with Christmas stuff this year? Even Crate & Barrel and West Elm are going full red-and-green-and-gold trad palette with bushy evergreens. I'm sure it's meant to spark nostalgia-driven sales but ...

Extremely unsurprising that, in a year where both retailers and lifestyle media publications have really misread the room in terms of the zeitgeist, Conde Nast shut down the politics coverage at Teen Vogue only two weeks after record turnout at protests.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

TFW the news of the Conde Nast layoffs hitting the Teen Vogue politics desk put you in the mood to write a newsletter explaining the history of that media franchise (complete with reading list) but you have a day job and many deadlines to nail in the next few hours.

I've always thought if these so-called "benevolent wealthy people" wanted to fix media they need to stop buying media and start setting up independent endowments to fund their operations. Make it so these orgs are financially independent and sustainable without needing to think about profit.

... How would that work on any practical level? Did any reporters ask for details?

OMG just imagine the sheer volume of "Goodbye to all that, why I left NYC" videos, essays and memoirs such a migration would produce.

I realize this article is ostensibly about one woman and her quest to keep mothering infants well into her seventh decade, but my takeaway here is that reproductive technology in the U.S. and the marketplace for it need some more coherent regulation: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...

Reality is not supposed to make me mutter, "Jesus wept, Selina Meyer was less embarrassing to the nation."

I realize JKR and Harry Potter are problematic, but there is a really salient line in one of the books where a parent says, "Haven't we told you never to have a conversation with something when you can't see where it keeps its brain?" Could be handy for AI: www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Thinking about this passage in THE STAND a whole lot lately, about how some folks can never create, only destroy, and they still confuse it for actual accomplishment.

In the days pre-9/11, it was not unusual for me to roll up to OAK at 6:45 p.m. on a Friday night, go buy a ticket and take the stairs two at a time to Gate 23, where I'd breeze on to a half-empty flight and meet @philipmichaels.bsky.social @ LAX at 9 p.m.

Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?

I mean, at this point even TACO BELL can get pricey, never mind Chipotle: finance.yahoo.com/news/chipotl...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

If I work at a social media company, I'm getting concerned that I'm not locking in users during their habit-forming years. If I advertise on social media, same.

Seeing not one, but two different stories on people who are paying four figures to pumpkin stylists to arrange dozens of pumpkins on a porch Just So as so many Americans are facing incredible food insecurity is a real America 2025 moment.

I want to know more about who generated this and why. What's the story here?

Reading Amy Odell’s biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, and it is honestly impressive how many different, delicately phrased ways all these sources could say the same thing about one person.

This is where data journalism would be amazing, because you could track who follows who, who's liking what, who's interacting with whom the most -- then map it to a timeline of public statements, press conferences, articles published, policies enacted, etc.