A List Of People I Am Mad At, 4/17/26 This is a weekly (sometimes) list of people I am mad at.

here is a list of people i am mad at for the week. hope you have a good weekend, unless you are on this list. scaachi.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...

I quite liked this bit as well.

just admit you can't do anything and leave me alone about it! god!!!!!!!

We’re Always Asking Famous People to Do One Thing. Lena Dunham Did It. Famesick is a self-aware recasting of Dunham’s many public controversies.

i liked the new lena slate.com/culture/2026...

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SUCKER PUNCH, out now 🍏

How World Cup Players Are Navigating Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Donald Trump’s decision to ban tourist visas for some participating countries in this year’s World Cup, which the U.S. is co-hosting, has created an unprecedented level of uncertainty for players and ...

Haiti will play in the World Cup for the 1st time in 52 years. But Haiti happened to qualify when it takes place in a country that has banned Haitians from visiting.

My story in @newyorker.com on how players around the world are navigating Trump’s policies: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Oprah Winfrey, Katherine LaNasa, Rachel Sennott and Hulu’s Barbara Walters Doc Win Gracie Awards Winners will be feted at a pair of Gracie Awards galas, one set to take place in Los Angeles at the Four Seasons’ Beverly Wilshire on May 19, and another at New York’s Cipriani 42nd Street on June 16.

scamfluencers won a GRACIE! good for us!!!!!!! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...

Sucker Punch New from the author of the bestseller One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes the long-awaited follow-up about what happens when the life you thought you’d be living radically cha...

memoir writing is painful and excavating. i know it well. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/s...

The Ur–Internet Writer Is Back With a New Memoir. This Time, She’s Polyamorous. In Adult Braces, West wants her loyal fans to find empathy for someone who hurt her.

i profiled lindy west: slate.com/life/2026/03...

The “My Husband Hates Me” Influencer From wedding cake smashing to dogfood lunches, why do so many straight men hate their wives? And why do these wives put up with it?

Guest host Scaachi Koul speaks with journalist and creator Melanie Hamlett about the time Kristen Bell went off in her comment section and why it seems like straight couples get off on acting like they hate each other. slate.trib.al/6HvYY3G

im from calgary but yeah i just dont believe in being reliant on private vehicles. anyway there's a whole profile after that: slate.com/life/2026/03...

The best piece I’ve read on Lindy’s (excellent!) new book. @bitchesgottaeat.skystack.xyz’s quote is 👌

The Ur–Internet Writer Is Back With a New Memoir. This Time, She’s Polyamorous. In Adult Braces, West wants her loyal fans to find empathy for someone who hurt her.

i profiled lindy west: slate.com/life/2026/03...

i hate that i can read.

ENOUGH. SHE WAS JUST WEARING JEANS. PUT ON AN INSANE CAFTAN YOU LOSER.

On unhoused migrants in Paris displaced by police sweeps of encampments before the 2024 Olympics:
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On UFC fans reckoning with the sport’s growing reputation as a haven for Trump supporters:
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NFL owner secretly relapsed, got ketamine from private doctor before death As a recovery doctor provided ketamine and opioids, Colts owner Jim Irsay spent his final years suffering through a relapse that he and executives hid from the public.

On the doctor who prescribed ketamine & opiods to Colts owner Jim Irsay before his death:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

& the subsequent FBI investigation that our reporting sparked:
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I’ll miss working with all the brilliant folks at @postsports.bsky.social: we published bangers, reached millions of readers, made a real impact. Jeff Bezos killed the world’s best sports section. Here are some stories I’m proud of:

boston lost the superbowl and now they have to deal with me, what a fucking week :(

‘Cashing all day’: The Instagram star accused of corrupting NCAA hoops His social media is a flood of diamonds, celebrities and winning betting slips. His edge, prosecutors allege, was paying players to underperform.

Here’s our story on the gambler accused of orchestrating one of the biggest matchfixing schemes in US history. 

@postsports.bsky.social has long delivered some of the best sports reporting out there. I’m grateful to contribute to that legacy. #SaveThePost

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I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Last Thing the ICE Agent Said to Renee Good He said it after he killed her.

"Is it still locker-room talk if they say it to our faces, gun cocked? . . .

There was plenty of incendiary invective for Ross to pull from. He chose to call Good a bitch because it’s what men call us all the time."

Scaachi Koul on what Ross' language signifies.

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Deserve Each Other Trudeau was all talk and all looks as prime minister, but talk and looks are pretty good qualities in a boyfriend.

asked some ottawa journalists and politicos about justin and katy and you know what: i'm really rooting for those two dorkasses slate.com/life/2025/12...

American Canto was the last real opportunity for Nuzzi to talk about what happened: tangibly, what she did to torpedo her career and personal life. It could have been a pulpy tell-all that explains how she fell in love with the worst Kennedy or a political book opening up her reporter’s notebook to share from a vantage point few people ever reach. After these brief weeks around Christmas, already a chaotic time to publish a book, the interest around her will ebb. American Canto could have helped redeem her if only it were interesting. Instead, it is illegible in ways you can’t imagine. Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do. Three hundred pages with no chapter breaks, it swerves back and forth through time, from Nuzzi’s interviews with Donald Trump over the years to her combustible relationship with fellow annoying journalist Ryan Lizza to her alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he was running for president himself. Reading it is like spending time with a delusional fortune cookie: platitudes that feel like they were run through a translation service three times.

I don’t begrudge Nuzzi for being shameless enough to churn a book out this fast. This is America, baby! Why wouldn’t a well-known journalist capitalize on her opportunities? Besides, if she pulled this off, her scam would be complete, and she’d deserve her success. Torpedoing your career with the brain-worm guy and then getting a job at Vanity Fair and writing a juicy tell-all about it? Put her on every television in the nation—she’s earned that much. But with little distance and zero self-reflection, Nuzzi has given us the least interesting version of her own story. It’s disappointing only because the reader knows there’s more, and Nuzzi is deciding too late to be cute about her derelictions. “I could tell you the truth,” she writes, with irritating coyness. “I could tell you, probably, nothing that you would like. I could tell you, almost certainly, nothing that would redeem me. I could tell you that the year flew in birds. And I could tell you that the year flew in bullets.” Really, just dogshit writing all around.

Incredible stuff. Real tears in my eyes, man slate.com/culture/2025...

workshopping a take that this book may actually be era defining. the rub is that it's the era of people who can't really read books because their minds are so addled and outsourced to algo slop/chatbots slate.com/culture/2025...

But with little distance and zero self-reflection, Nuzzi has given us the least interesting version of her own story. It’s disappointing only because the reader knows there’s more, and Nuzzi is deciding too late to be cute about her derelictions. “I could tell you the truth,” she writes, with irritating coyness. “I could tell you, probably, nothing that you would like. I could tell you, almost certainly, nothing that would redeem me. I could tell you that the year flew in birds. And I could tell you that the year flew in bullets.” Really, just dogshit writing all around.

I cannot believe I am going to force myself to read this thing
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golly. but i'm just a girl!

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That. God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

"God, everyone sucks so much in this—you really have to pick the brain worm." slate.com/culture/2025...

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That. God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

I'm glad Olivia Nuzzi wrote a book if only so @scaachi.bsky.social could dance on its corpse

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