it was also 40 degrees, so quite possibly this is in fact god’s fault

POSSIBLY our bad, on advice of counsel I admit nothing

erikmal, @elongreen.bsky.social and I have a confession. we went to a game together, the mets blew it in spectacular fashion to the arizona diamondbacks (possibly not even a real team?), and your guys haven’t won since. concerned this is our fault.

someone had to take one for the team here, pal.

oh thank god, meant to text you about whether you were writing about this while perversely fascinated by the subway ads

Big Money Is Betting on Bagels

Love this comment, @greenwell.bsky.social: “It’s a move that can pay off and put you on every Main Street in America, or it can collapse spectacularly.” (huge fan of “Bad Company” -- brilliant writing)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/d...

yes! I'm a Berkeley native who had many high school classmates go to Mills, so followed that one closely too.

I wrote a Businessweek feature in January about the slow death of this very American form of education, focusing on one small college that's trying to avoid Hampshire's fate by turning away from liberal arts. (gift link)

I’m reading @greenwell.bsky.social’s chapter about how private equity parasitized local papers in Bad Company right now, really nauseating.

hell yeah

Helena I gasped at how good this post was

i just have four questions

BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

this rules

try telling him that!

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It’s absolutely disingenuous to ever pretend that this was a party issue rather than a patriarchy issue www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

he very occasionally gets peanut butter at home but never gets cheese except at the vet, so that part is VERY exciting

This man is mad at me because I dared take him to the vet for his annual vaccines. The vet, I might note, called him the cutest pug she had ever seen and gave him an entire lick mat full of Easy Cheese, AND YET.

thanks to you my sister and i are now debating whether to start with the uncle who tried to murder his wife or the grandmother who hid a secret brother for her whole life

believe me, we're still struggling with it here too

oh Eva, I'm so sorry. sending love. 💜

Elon took me to a game where it was 40 degrees and the Mets blew a late lead to lose 7-1, a perfect evening. The "Let's go Knicks" chant in the concourse summed up the state of things quite nicely.

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Suing your employer to stand up for student journalism is high on my personal list of badass activities, so it was an absolute joy to interview Eric Gustafson, who did exactly that — and won.

Working was one of the first things that made me want to be a journalist!

idk how Roth made it either, believe me.

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@charleylocke.bsky.social's and I ask our freelancing students about a couple journalists they admire, so I was curious to write out the whole list (minus us). Some good taste in this group! Multiple votes for @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @jmooallem.bsky.social @pablo.show

Alan! 😭

If you want a deep understanding of how "making things worse is extremely profitable," read @greenwell.bsky.social's book, Bad Company: www.megangreenwell.com/book

She explains how private equity does exactly this, and IMO, gAI is operating from a similar playbook, where bad outcomes = big profits.

regret to inform you that some members of Gen. Z are 29 years old