Maggie McGrath

this is entirely conjecture and also niche but imho the NY City Center website crashing the morning Fall for Dance tickets go live seems to be another indication that folks are DESPERATE for affordable live performances.

This Limited Edition Labubu Could Be The Next To Resell For 5 Figures Special edition Labubu dolls are selling for tens of thousands on the secondary market, and one expert says she thinks they’ll hold their value.

as a millennial with a one-time unbearably large Beanie Baby collection... I resent every last five-figure Labubu sale. (iykyk?)

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

not the main point in this article but I'm never getting over the fact that in a city of 8 million people, we were just over 7k votes away from having a different outcome in 2021 / what could have been NYC's first female mayor
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...

google docs AI seems desperate to write my words yet refuses--REFUSES!!--to keep the damn word count widget on the page between sessions.

let's, oh, idk, crawl before we marathon??

Series of bar charts showing that, in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, Americans disapprove, 56% to 44%, of the recent U.S. air strikes against Iran, with most Democrats and independents disapproving and most Republicans disapproving. The poll also finds that Americans say, 58% to 27%, that this military action will make Iran more of a threat to the US, with fewer than half saying they trust President Trump to make the right decisions on use of force in Iran.

From our poll conducted Sunday-Monday: President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Iran is broadly unpopular with Americans www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

A treemap of terminated research grants at Harvard

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard.

“This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions

You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"

It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.

today.yougov.com/politics/art...

This is what the “I can’t operate on him, he’s my son!” riddle looks like in real life.

Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again

This story (a.) outlines a terrible trend and (b.) misses the ties to diet/Ozempic culture that *could* have something to w/cigs' resurgence. The correlation/causation may not be as clear as the one between cigarettes and cancer, but... I would read a deeper dive.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...

For the past several months, we've been collecting nominations for the 50 Over 50--specifically, the U.S. portion of this franchise. Age & location requirements are listed on our website.

And yet, I'm currently reading a nomination for someone based in Dubai, born in... 1989.

People. READ. Please.

Visa Pause Could Leave U.S. With Fewer New Doctors Amid Shortage Hundreds of young foreign-educated doctors who matched to American residency programs could miss their start date as the Trump administration puts all new visa appointments on hold.

A very important story on the repercussions of Trump visa pause on physicians. With the Association of American Medical Colleges predicting a 124,000 physician shortfall within the next nine years... this matters.
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...

4 ways women are physically stronger than men Discussions of strength often mean brute force and sprint speeds — qualities associated with male physiology. But female bodies excel in other areas.

Four ways women are stronger than men

Good stuff from @starrevartan.bsky.social, author of The Stronger Sex

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Kitchen scales are your friend if you’re doing three or more layers! / a dab of icing on the cake plate under the first layer can act like a seal and prevent sliding while decorating / a crumb coat (light coat of frosting) that goes back in fridge before final icing can be super helpful. Good luck!

The Tush Push lives.

CFBP Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

NEW: Russell Vought, acting head of CFPB and director of OMB, just killed a rule to protect US residents' personal information from predatory data brokers. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...

More women than ever are freezing their eggs to delay parenthood Forbes' Maggie McGrath and Huma Abedin discuss the rise in egg freezing for women who want to delay parenthood.

“Egg freezing has surged nearly 30% year over year.”

@mika-brzezinski.bsky.social, Huma, and @mcgrathmag.bsky.social break down what rising fertility rates among single women mean for the future of work, healthcare, and policy.

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

Grateful to join @forbes.com for an interview about the suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Program.

As I told @mcgrathmag.bsky.social, we’ve been so heartened by the outpouring of support and encourage Americans to join us in advocating for this work of welcome 👇

www.globalrefuge.org/act-now/

Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office (Gift Article) The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.

If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid (Gift Article) The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

In 2020 they used the Big Lie (100s of misleading claims) of "voter fraud" to try to overturn an election. In 2024 they're using similar tactics to create/amplify misleading claims of "government waste and fraud" to justify dismantling huge sections of the U.S. government.

After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...

Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

On the first day of RFK Jr: 5200 HHS workers got fired; the director and much of the staff of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) got fired. At the NIH directors learned of the imminent firings - about 1500 people. At the CDC 1300 people are about to be fired.

As a result...

Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.

Nike with the best ad of the night. Women… just win 💪🏼

Yale Budget Lab estimates that tariffs will cost average US household $1,000-$1,200 in lost purchasing power
budgetlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

55 points most by any team in NFC Championship Game history 👀

Jalen Carter, I love you. #eagles

Welcome back! Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.! You can continue to create, share and discover all the things you love on TikTok.

TikTok users in the US are now seeing this message, with the company giving the man who started the effort to ban the app credit for saving it