After 8 years working as a writer and 4 using a picture from my 30th birthday as a headshot, I decided to splurge and get professional photos taken. I am struck by how different the contracts are for an independent photographer vs an independent journalist. 🧵

I'm sorry, what? "Vaccination rates in the school districts studied ranged from 13.5 to 18.6 percent of students and staff members." washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

DR BRONNER IS SHAKING

For a story: Ladies over 40, what's one way your life changed—or didn't!—after you turned 40? Maybe you started needing more sleep, stopped hanging out with a toxic friend, or kept wearing crop tops. Please PM me! (We'll print first names and last initial only.)

An incredible story about assuming status=decency, having to authenticate trauma, and what it means to "come from wealth" when the source of that wealth is malevolent. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

I know this seems bad but we can’t just pack the court— people would lose trust in the institution that just told all women to fuck off and die

I'd like to point out that your idea that life starts at conception is your religious opinion. It's no different than the Egyptian belief that the heart was the locus of the "soul," so they would preserve it, while liquifying the useless brain.

Daughter starts kindergarten this fall. Horrified to learn from mom friends of school-age children that the first thing they look for in their kids' new classroom is whether there's a space where the teacher can hide the kids if there's an active shooter.

In fairness to Dan Patrick, I ALSO cannot believe that sick sons of bitches would come to an event like this & make the murder of children a political issue by continuing to grovel to a gun lobby that promotes death, violence, and broken families.

that sounds great. Whatever works for everyone! Not a problem. Up for anything. Down for anything. Yes to all of the above! Does anyone have a preference? Either sounds excellent. I'm open to options! I have no needs. I have no wants. I'm a lady

Working to alert my pediatrician to this, getting significant pushback. Remind me why parents are having to share CDC guidance with medical professionals?

What's the earliest age at which kids can get the 2-dose Pfizer series, CDC, Ashish K. Jha, & CDC Director? Seems like 4-year-olds with a birthday before...mid-September? Pediatricians are interpreting this as meaning kids can get a higher dose only once they turn 5.

so cool my unwanted children will be able to carry guns anywhere they want!

From the dissent: "As of today, this Court holds, a State can always force a woman to give birth, prohibiting even the earliest abortions. A State can thus transform what, when freely undertaken, is a wonder into what, when forced, may be a nightmare. "

My daughter's school has a bike bus and it is RAD #BikeBus

Health + wellness writer—and one of our favorite essayists—Juno DeMelo recalls gorging herself alongside her fitness-obsessed father at Souplantation while growing up in Southern California during the 1990s. thesupersonic.blackbird.xyz/p/from-the-kid…

In recent years, Facebook groups for parents of college kids have become mainstream, looming large in the college experience for parents and their children. Juno DeMelo reports trib.al/5ksJWC9

Ophthalmologist Will Flanary cracked the code on what physicians find funny and amassed millions of YouTube and TikTok followers in the process. trib.al/dqbPWVf

Profile of Dr. Glaucomflecken, the funniest physician of our times, with Lady Glaucomflecken (she/her), have inked a deal with NEJM to make fun of published studies! New York Magazine by Juno DeMelo Last I spoke with them I urged for a Netflix special (just a matter of time) nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Hey look at this! Thank you everybody for watching my silly videos over the years and shout out to Juno DeMelo for the awesome piece!