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Jennifer Senior

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Started a sublet here on 11/10. Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.

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My stepson (who now calls me “Mom,” so I should just call him my son, actually) has an AWESOME dog named Archie! He won some local ag fair’s “best mutt”.

06.12.2025 17:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OMG what kind? Had to give ours to our beloved vet-tech in Vermont when it was clear long Covid was making me too dizzy to walk him. (And 80-lb chocolate lab, and still technically a puppy at 2. Zany energy on that one.)

05.12.2025 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🥰

05.12.2025 03:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Boo

05.12.2025 03:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Boo

05.12.2025 03:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am so flattered! Sending you a virtual parka and🧤🧣

05.12.2025 03:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An admittedly excellent one. I’d also bail and look at Instagram

05.12.2025 03:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bummmmmmer

05.12.2025 03:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Drat

05.12.2025 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It will also be the highest full moon in the sky until 2042, so really, there's no excuse for any of you to be indoors

05.12.2025 01:47 — 👍 85    🔁 15    💬 32    📌 7

boo

05.12.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Everyone should do themselves a big fat favor right now and go outside and stare at the supermoon.

04.12.2025 22:48 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 8    📌 1
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Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

Amazing that in the 90s we considered it bad form for presidents to make bad land deals in the Ozarks www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

16.11.2025 03:58 — 👍 38    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.

12.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 860    🔁 194    💬 34    📌 17
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From the incomparable @jvl.bsky.social

12.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 38    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States This study examines 42 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data to establish whether Halloween is associated with an increased rate of pedestrian fatalities.

Traffic fatalities for kids rise on Halloween. Drive carefully.

Study of 42 years of Halloweens and 1 ,580,608 traffic crashes reveals relative risk of a pedestrian fatality is 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings. A typical Halloween results in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.

31.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 165    🔁 41    💬 3    📌 3
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New Yorkers! If you’re free, please consider attending. George’s book—a work of fiction! where his career began!—is terrific, and he’s a thoughtful and engaging thinker with a megawatt brain and supersized heart…

31.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙏❤️

27.10.2025 04:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone else see the heist at the Louvre and the wrecking ball to the East Wing as some kind of perverse cosmic alignment? Like thieves are brazenly walking off with pieces of our countries’ histories in broad daylight?

21.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 76    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 1

Omg are you also reading it too? I’m I interviewing him at the PEN America/ Brooklyn Library event on November 13. Come!

19.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Am *currentLY
As a friend says, my kingdom for an edit button…

19.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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'King Trump' shares AI video showing himself bombing No Kings protesters with feces amid nationwide unrest, watch it here President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social. The clip shows him as a pilot dropping feces on protesters. The "No Kings" demonstrations are a large movement against his policies...

Am current reading the galleys of George Packer’s novel, “The Emergency,” a terrifying parable about today’s America. Believe it or not, he imagined *exactly this.* Uncanny. Amazon link: a.co/d/ff5dDBv

m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

19.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 1

Please excuse your Gen X colleagues who are unable to focus today

15.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 52    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

13.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 1732    🔁 365    💬 35    📌 21

King of the bespoke resistance vid doing a no-king resistance vid.

13.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 547    🔁 91    💬 14    📌 1
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

“If the car’s gone,”

“If the car’s gone,”

“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”

“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”

“because I love you.”

“because I love you.”

Happy Columbo’s Day

13.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 7706    🔁 2587    💬 32    📌 55

Look, a woman has to have standards, Stapels.

;-)

13.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t buy it, but it’s a nice theory.

13.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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First rule of scamming: Learn to spell.

13.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 59    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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She may have had regrets about it, but she was wrong. Best Oscar outfit ever.

12.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 48    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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