the sweeties at Low Cinema in beautiful RIDGEWOOD QUEENS asked me about my favorite baseball movies and now they’re going to show them on a screen!!! you should come!!! lowcinema.com/page/series/
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
I was laid off from The Washington Post today. I know, real original sentence. My first plagiarism in 20 years of journalism.
My job was stupid fun and I loved every minute of it. I’m sad for my talented colleagues but sadder the world will not get to read, watch and listen to their amazing work.
I wrote this two years ago and it's still true www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Once the ultimate Millennial power lunch, a symbol of moral superiority and hyperproductivity, Sweetgreen is now in free fall—along with the optimism it once represented, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
wrote about the fall of sweetgreen and the end of optimism ✌️https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/sweetgreen-rise-fall-power-lunch/685545/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACFIisJpxNrOJK1Kks9GPxAM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. I wrote about what that means for restaurants, restaurateurs, cities, and food: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants … it’s not good …. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
last episode of our mets podcast for the season! miss you already <3 open.spotify.com/episode/4Yef...
I went to the Tesla Diner! It bummed me out
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day:
"The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
some example questions to get you going: What's wrong with John Fisher? How did you two get so smart and fun? Why is Pete Alonso so strong? How many people could he carry out of a burning building? And so on and so forth
what a big-hearted, big-brained, brave, searching, humane, lucid story by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...
More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
Space tourism is, at best, folly—silly, spectacularly wasteful, pointless by definition. And Katy Perry was the perfect celebrity to do it, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
🄷🄾🅁🄼🄱🄻🄴🅂 🄲🄷🄾🅁🄼🄱🄻🄴🅂
thinking about this diva www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
The internet is filled with dishwasher-loading advice. So why are so many people still arguing about how to do it right? @elcush.bsky.social investigates:
new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back for seaosn 2, baby!
open.spotify.com/episode/5Vuz...
Kosher salt is just big salt, @elcush.bsky.social writes. How did it become so popular?
Excited (again) to see this paper finally in (pre)print!
We did single-cell sequencing on our TSC model organoids and observed strong signatures of reactive astrogliosis (neat)- then we looked at resected patient brain tissue and saw the same thing! (More neat!)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read this one by the great @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
