Can’t wait for scurvy to make a big comeback

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

It’s the year of our lord 2026 and the New York Times still thinks feminism is women yelling “I choose my choice!”

Shocking that women who have invested their time and energy into a public, communal institution might have strong political opinions!

Weird condescension for “PTA moms” or, you know, the women whose unpaid labor have kept public schools running since time immemorial

Ironically, when Jezebel published features on Roe being overturned and birth control being the next target, we were hysterical and overreacting. Now that it’s happened, it’s Jezebel’s fault. Wonder why that is!!

Feds are getting more involved in how D.C.’s schools look President Trump’s vision for what Washington should look like extends well beyond the federal core.

“Are columns your barometer for design?”

No.

The DC govt has produced some of the best civic architecture in the city (cough*libraries*cough) in recent years.

Trump's CFA seems to want to end that, reports @maustermuhle.bsky.social at @51st.news.

Thinking about the tenor of Roiphe’s Harper’s piece on Me Too and the “angry extremes of feminism” she conjured up to defend Stein bsky.app/profile/math...

They really all stick together, huh?

(See also, the recent variation on this: conservatives warning about out of control wine moms and liberal women)

My takeaway from the Chomsky email (and something I learned quickly during my years at Jezebel) is that an accusation of hysteria is still perceived as rational and powerful

Molly I’m dying

“Young women” is the one that’s making me rage

Only a matter of time before the NYT seriously publishes the old Onion article, “Women: Why Are They So Fat?”

The Grand Ole Opry is 100 years old. Here’s why it endures. We went behind the scenes at the world's oldest radio show to understand how it endured 100 years—and why it might last 100 more.

Holy cow! For National Geographic, I went to see the Grand Ole Opry for its 100th anniversary and wrote 4000 words about the longest-running radio show in the world.

Featuring new interviews with Vince Gill, Steve Earle, and Pam Tillis.

I long for Kinja

Being subjected to Hulk Hogan and Lena Dunham discourse again and the blogs are dead

So close bsky.app/profile/pale...

What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women? “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.

This is so smart www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The forgotten secret Nazi bases in the Arctic The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known WWII battle over forecasting the weather.

Paywalled (alas), but if you'd like to learn about the secret Nazi weather stations of Svalbard during WWII and the strange battles that were fought several hundred miles north of Europe, I got you covered over at National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Seeing a lot of posts about the aesthetics of resistance that can’t quite acknowledge that “cringe” is almost always synonymous with “middle age women”

The fascist image needs the erotic aesthetic—and Sontag identified this structure decades ago. Noem’s video is a visual bookend to Trump holding a Bible in front of a church—they exist solely as images meant to excite

The Triumph of Fascist Aesthetics Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

I wrote this four years ago, and since then the archive of Trump’s fascist aesthetic has become more expansive, but its purpose remains effective static www.jezebel.com/the-triumph-...

'Faerie smut' is having a moment — just like it did in 1500 Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years.

I had the pleasure of writing a bit about the history behind the “faerie smut” publishing phenomenon! www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...

“Imaginary power is a dreadful thing to lose. Their aggrievedness – my aggrievedness – at having had it taken away is endless: it’s MAGA’s reason for being” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

[sobs]

Anna…. please

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...