Mary Harris

Who Won the World Cup of Arm-Folding? This year’s World Cup has featured some of the planet's greatest athletes performing seemingly impossible physical tasks. Bicycle kicks. Spectacular...

This is the perfect roadtrip listen and also includes recommendations for what you should read on the beach. Like this hilarious Dan Kois classic from another time: slate.com/culture/2014...

Bonus: When the French Bombed Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior’s noble work and ignoble end.

One of the highlights of my job is getting to drag Slatesters into the studio for our Plus segments. Anyhoo, this is your reminder to JOIN and make sure you download this week’s convo with Dan Kois! slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Sometimes I think abt how weird it is that 40-odd years ago the term “banana republic” was co-opted by a fancy clothing brand. And then something like this happens and I realize the same thing is happening rn for the US, but in reverse. What the country means is being rebranded, and degraded

We are achieving entirely new levels of IDGAF today! Because: srsly you just microwave the corn, and also yes you can ask your HUSBAND questions

Worth reposting this one today. Justin's big point here is so relevant rn, with the tariffs, and the revised jobs numbers: day to day chaos is preventing us from fully appreciating the longterm weaknesses we *may be* injecting into the economy, thanks to democratic slippage and unpredictability

The most important questions in politics right now: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-wont-d...

I am lowkey mesmerized by the fact that the NYT essentially has two homepages rn: one where the world is burning and the other where we are making cocktails out of glacial ice

Interestingly this letter seems to presume a settlement of some kind, which shows exactly what time it is

My personal fave is this clip (from instagram) mostly because: my face

awwww ty for your ears!

To be fair, @jvl.bsky.social and I had a lot of fun being not cheery, but I think we are both sickos like that

In a week full of wacky economic indicators (Trump "won" his trade deal with the EU! Secondary tariffs on India?! A slowdown in the first half of the year!) .... it's worth remembering how busted our economic indicators are rn 🙏 @justinwolfers.bsky.social

The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

I think this is how a lot of people feel

We all live with contradiction 🙃

Park Avenue Gunman’s Note Referred to the N.F.L. and Brain Disease

Not loving that now we seem to have a Luigi of brain injuries www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...

Retracing my steps here it is totally wild how many (all?) of the stories about the fed’s renovations/budget don’t mention this

Ugh, you are right about this, checking now and thank you

In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide

Two days later: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

Idly thinking how wild it is that the Times sent me this push notification when they published Omer Bartov’s essay arguing the opposite a week ago

This is my 7th-grade band director when he heard me play a scale on the oboe.

I understood!!

Masculinity discourse incoming

Thanks for saying so. I’ve been sort of obsessed with the necessity of forgetting for a while now so it really struck me too

About as close as Powell gets to a full spit-take, I'd reckon

Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador He called it "an encounter with torture and death."

I really hope @timmiller.bsky.social gets to talk to Andry, would listen to that convo www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

I may need to change how I identify because it me

"I could not be part of this conspiracy of silence," Omer Bartov, an Israeli, a Holocaust and genocide scholar, on why Israel's war in Gaza is genocide. He says it's more than a word. It's a signed, international mandate. Since 1948, most countries are duty-bound to act on genocide, and to punish.

Tag urself: I am a tot

He Says Gaza Is a Genocide One Israeli scholar thinks the roots of what is happening in Gaza go all the way back to the formation of the state of Israel.

Today on the show: this historian knows that calling what's happening in Gaza a "genocide" has consequences. That's why he's using the word: slate.com/podcasts/wha...