Erin Belieu

Corporation: Stock prices are way down! If only we could figure out what consumers want!

Consumer: Fair prices, humans in customer service and could you avoid knuckling under to anti-DEI authoritarians, plz?

Corporation: HAVE SOME MORE AI!!!!!

a heartstopping detail

Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein

“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.”

BRO.

What Counts as Seeing - Orion Magazine A conversation between Alice Wong and Ed Yong

“I think most humans don’t really realize how interdependent we are to other organisms. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, bugs—there is still this binary thinking… which really obscures the reality.”

Alice Wong, you will be missed.

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."

just out of frame: a bone saw

It’s all right in front of us, in plain sight

This is so beautiful, Doug.

I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...

There is no redemption arc for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Wonderful, and so very well deserved. ❤️

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

I’ve noticed that shortly after we stopped doing the VIDA Count annually, the backsliding began.

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

97.4%

Trump Quietly Backtracks on Disastrous Grocery Tariffs The president reversed course on some tariffs on items like beef—something his team promised not to do.

President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’ grocery expenses despite his administration’s claims to the contrary.

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It’s such a stupid, grating word. The 19th century finance bro version of “utilize.”

I might viscerally hate the word “tranche” a little less if all pundits were required to pronounce it “Tran-SHAY” while wearing teensy Poirot mustaches.

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

#GiftLink

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I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)

This hurts.

A smart 7th grader could take the sophistry of your implied arguments apart in 30 seconds. Do better immediately.

That excerpt should’ve come with a whole list of WebMD warnings.

A lot of people are like "wow all these powerful men are barely literate and really bad at covering their tracks" and like, hello, did you actually believe we lived in a meritocracy

Oldest play in the book. Popularity plummets, start a war.

A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

ADOPT SALLY

ADOPT ME

thank you Sally