Glad this story is being told but I’m extremely disappointed that it fails to mention that The Washington Post has laid off nearly all of its arts critics
A decades-deep legacy of arts coverage has been destroyed here and it hurts our city and our world
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I am absolutely thrilled to join The Atlantic, working on the intersection of arts and politics.
But John, journalism is BAD. 😐
Walz: "There are no Somali folks in the Epstein files"
I can already tell you that my most streamed song of 2026 will be the Inspira hold music.
I wrote about this a squillion years ago but I’m occasionally delighted that no matter how much technology fully automates the markets, we still need these guys to stand around and make faces.
Haunted by JUSTIN BIEBER singing to himself
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“…we have so much money that people don’t have to care if they don’t want to.”
Teton County is awash in wealth and run by billionaires. But the morgue is in an old garage, and students have to eat in hallways, and teachers can’t afford to live there. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Love Story gets so much right in the atmospheric details, but there is just no way that a mid-80s Macintosh Plus is sitting so elegantly in Calvin Klein’s HQ in 1995. You’d have to be as old as me to know that, but still.
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“Gaslight” is on during SOTU. I see what you did there, TCM.
Washington Post’s all-AP wire Sports section today. 😕
They would have been better off just mailing the silver medals to those Canadian hockey players. The grimness.
I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.
“It’s time to stop whatever you are doing, put on your stiffest blue jeans and go to the gym. You are a Kennedy. Kid Rock is already there doing push-ups. Make sure you bring your whole milk. We will be drinking it, as is customary, in the hot tub.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.
50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members, 45% of Black members, and 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.
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Yeah.
🚨 SCOOP: The IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax information to DHS, per sources.
It opens up HUGE liability for the US government.
Trump is suing the IRS over substantially the same disclosures -- for $10 billion.
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Resting dread face. Praise.
"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Tina Brown rightly puts Fred Ryan's name in the mix of what went wrong; the N.Y. Times has omitted him in recent coverage. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
Glad to see some slow dawning about the dangers of Ring and weaponized surveillance, but honestly I can’t believe how many of you share locations on phones and track one another’s whereabouts. Honestly, what?
During these dark times …
Thank God for the arts …
@chrisrichards.bsky.social review of the Bad Bunny halftime show is perfect and brilliant. And here!
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Just noticed that next year’s Super Bowl is on Valentine’s Day. Good luck, fellas.
freddy removing the super bowl mask to reveal thursday night football
I miss when actors were embarrassed to do TV commercials.
