Sheera Frenkel

After years of telling my kids not to leave food in the car, (and getting some pretty epic eye rolls), we spotted a bear today on the banks of the Truckee river.

“Oh my god, you were right! There ARE bears here…” has never sounded so good.

🙏🏽

I meant to type that Biden imposed sanctions (Trump lifted them).

This should have read that the Biden administration imposed sanctions on this settler (the Trump admin lifted them).

I was upset and typing quickly.

I met Palestinian activist, Awdah Hathaleen, years ago when he gave me a tour of an olive grove destroyed by Jewish settlers for a story I was reporting.
Today, Hathaleen was shot and killed by a Jewish settler who was sanctioned by the Biden admin, according to Hebrew news outlets.

Update: the surgeon is amputating her back right leg today. They are hopeful she will make it.

This is our sweet cat. She just turned 15.

Someone hit our cat last night and drove off. She’s badly injured, and we are still waiting to hear if she will make it.

Sometimes people truly suck.

Laughed and cried my way through @amberfares.bsky.social ‘s documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “Coexistence, My Ass.”

I’m constantly asked what people should read, watch, and listen to in an attempt to understand the Middle East. My new answer is going to be: watch this film.

A partner at a big VC once told me they like to back founders who were bullied in their youth, and never got therapy.

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Absolutely yes. (Sonic!)

I tried it and found it completely disgusting. My husband drank the whole thing and loved it!

Someone just DM’d me that this special is only for July. I sound like an ad, but limited time!

I found it absolutely disgusting. My husband loves it.

There is a whole prickle meal, some type of collab with Grillo pickles. I don’t do burgers but the pickle fries were a nice idea.

This is a picklerita, a pickle-juice and lime slushi with pickle-flavored Boba.
It exists, in the real world, as a human invention.
AI could never.

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

Thanks!

I will try and go, and definitely will have a meal at Leila

Love ful for breakfast! I’ll try to get out there.

Thanks!

Thank you!!

I am about to visit Detroit (for the first time). Does it have the same/similar magical middle eastern food scene as Dearborn? (Realizing, as I ask this, that they didn’t get the same influx of immigrants, but a girl can dream).

Taking any and all recs!

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Now that one is just evil

Aaaa-a-a-a-a, someday we will find… the cities of goooold.

The mysterious cities of gold.

Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of another river flood elsewhere, county officials debated if more needed to be done to build a warning system along the Guadalupe.

In the end, little was done. Friday, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Text alerts went unseen by many.

Gift link!

(Great reporting by @naominix.bsky.social and Caroline O’Donavan!)