Aubrey Gordon

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Responsive, attentive health care shouldn't be the exception for fat people. It should be the rule.

Having good experiences with HCPs feels like a glimpse into what a world with more thoughtful care for fat patients could look like. & it makes me want to triple down to bring that world about.

Like many fat people, I've had a lot of truly awful visits to the doctor's office. So when a responsive care provider comes along, it's a massive relief, and a pretty emotional experience.

Grateful, too, to those within health care working to change trainings, update systems & reduce stigma.

A very small good news update: I switched to a new primary care provider who I saw for the first time today and who is fantastic and exactly my speed. Extremely grateful for access to care and for a great new PCP.

I have drank the salted caramel mocha latte that was in the Sur La Table milk pitcher and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me it was so delicious so sweet and so warm

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You either die a barista or live long enough to become the grumpy customer

Come on man

We're bringing back every part of the Y2K zeitgeist, including the grumpy old man "I don't want a mocha-choco-latte, just GIMME A CUP OF COFFEE" energy

Absolutely incredible choice for an op ed in these United States in 2026

Ask not for whom the looks maxx, they maxx for he

Morning update: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BOOOOOOOOOOO

A blue book cover with a red banner and a glass milk bottle. The book is "Milk! A 10,000 Year Food Fracas" by Mark Kurlansky, "New York Times bestselling author of 'Cod' and 'Salt'"

From the author of

Update: I am now one week into full time salt research and I am out here getting SODIUM JOKERFIED

Absolutely cannot wait to yell into a microphone about this one

Oh Andy, I'm so incredibly sorry for your loss. What a terrible and heartbreakingly familiar turn of events.

I am BAFFLED by the lack of new streams of funding in moments like this??

My experiences are 8-10 yrs old, but it was certainly disheartening during the first Trump admin that funders were just kind of doing a different version of their usual work, rather than marshalling resources at a new scale.

Ugh I'm sorry 💕

I'm honestly glad to hear that they're thinking about elections but also nervous about what they'll come up with in that space! And also woof, I'm sorry to hear that it sounds like that's a redirect of funds instead of an added area of focus. What a rollercoaster it must be right now.

Follow up: do you notice a difference between how labor is responding vs philanthropy?

US folks who work in political/civic engagement movement spaces: how are funders responding to this political moment?

Are they doing the "redirect all of our funds to X embattled place" thing? Or the "we're shutting down for 6 months to rewrite our mission" thing?

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell

Every channel, every ad break! My kingdom for an 800-588-2300 Empire!!!

If I have to hear Rebel Wilson tell me one more time about microdosing GLP-1s on noom I stg!!!!!

In my own life, I also observe fewer people willing to stand up for fat people, and more people willing to defend or explain away anti-fatness.

Like, solidarity with people who are fatter than oneself really feels like it has evaporated in a way that's both heartbreaking and frightening.

Another exhausting aspect: pervasive superthinness has everybody so activated that folks have really regressed in the ways they defend themselves.

There's much more "I'm not THAT fat" and "my bloodwork is perfect!" with no consideration for people who are fatter, chronically ill, etc.

Like can I get a night off?????

I hear you. It was still very bad when it was primarily targeting/aimed at fat people.

Like, I just would love one day without this shit inserting itself into my life in the most judgmental, derailing ways.

I don't care what decisions others make about their looks. But I would like a day off, where I'm not forcibly reminded that so many people are sprinting away from looking like me.

I recently saw a new doctor who, before saying anything else, asked if I'd considered a GLP-1. "It might help take care of this," she said, and reached over and patted my belly.

It was behavior I hadn't experienced in years--the last huge wave being during the popularization of weight loss surgery.

It's in the tabloids, with hand-wringing about the sudden thinness of some celebrities. It's in the news, with a refreshed and emboldened judgment aimed at people who aren't shrinking. It's in podcasts & thinkpieces, where we use other people's bodies as props to make our own points about shrinking.

It's everywhere on TV: cooking shows are hosted by chefs that get thinner by the day. Awards shows that have ALWAYS centered thinness now showcase emaciation. Reality TV stars make plotlines of massive weight loss, or attribute their sudden 100+ pound weight loss to lifestyle changes.