the next white lotus should take place at a Great Wolf Lodge in northern Central Ohio

“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ Columbia Journalism Review 🔗 cjr.org/tow_center/we-…

The final merging of "America" with "Car Dealership" is complete

being a journalist is committing to a life always feeling like you have homework due

It was home to the NY Daily News. Now you can rent an affordably priced apartment there. gothamist.com/news/it-was-ho…

Because corporations are creations of law, this amounts to the state itself creating protected channels for money laundering and tax evasion -- a completely irrational outcome, symptomatic of the decline of terminal capitalism.

Chewing gum is just another form of plastic pollution, but it is not treated as such. #chewinggum #plasticpollution #singleuseplastic theconversation.com/chewing-gum-is…

Re: Simon & Schuster "rebrand"... perhaps you'd enjoy reading a piece by an author who pulled his book from it, then went to South Texas to find the oil wells connected to KKR, the private equity firm that bought S&S. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

A child was born, and surgery was performed in the open air following the evacuation of hospital buildings at Police General Hospital in Bangkok. #Thailand #Bangkok #แผ่นดินไหว #Earthquakes #Tremors

such an absurd society! noticed that, just yesterday, I spent several exasperating minutes struggling with a plastic covering over nothing more important than packages of fancy gift tea; then, several minutes struggling with a small but intransigent thick-plastic card containing

that time William Shatner came back from the Jeff Bezos space travel and tried to have a human moment with him, but realized he's a depraved sociopathic freak who only does these flights to show off to his fellow depraved billionaires

Earlier today, the Washington Post reported that countries facing down U.S. tariffs have been strongly encouraged to do business with Starlink. In Baffler no. 61, Matt King explained how Elon Musk’s satellite company is junking up low Earth orbit. thebaffler.com/salvos/spoilin…

I have written many healthcare stories, but none about my own health until now. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation.propublica.org/article/revlim…

The ultimate spiritual pilgrimage for our times? A trip to a waste management site | Eleanor Margolis theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It's the architecture, stupid. Ivy Scott, Brittany Hailer, and Daja E. Henry 🌸 on a key reason why jails are so dysfunctional and deadly: No fresh air or sunlight themarshallproject.org/2025/05/21/sun…

"Seen his way, all civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear—but, like any repression, waste returns in fantastical forms." Madeleine Adams for The Baffler: thebaffler.com/latest/w-a-s-t…

In the New Yorker, I wrote about the eternally fascinating Margaret Fuller--author, journalist, feminist icon, and a lecturer who, in the words of one listener, "opened the book of life and helped us to read it for ourselves." newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

“ If water bodies are thought of as individual, we may think about cleaning up one water body or protecting one water body without thinking about their connection,” she said. “What’s done in one will impact another.”

Very pretty new airport building in Portland

we need to bring back archival research