you're alive!!!! and unfortunately your prediction is probably correct. no helmets either

Grocery Hackers Are Obsessed With This Secretive Element of Snack Production. But Can It Survive a Legal Crackdown? Would a PB&J pocket by any other name taste as sweet?

"Basically, everyone else is like, ‘OK, what crunchy thing can I sprinkle on my gummy?’"

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Crusty Beards. Hole-Filled Pants. Plaid Button-Downs. What’s Going On With the Men of ICE? While other government employees sport crisp uniforms and clean-shaven faces, ICE guys are nearing mind-boggling levels of sartorial slop.

Neck beards. Hoodies. Graphic tees. Beanies.

I wrote about why ICE agents are dressing less like a regimented unit of government employees and more like a Confederate reenactor meetup at the local Hardee’s.

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The Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse Allegations Show a Disturbing Similarity to Jeffrey Epstein As with so many abusers before him, his sterling public image provided the perfect cover.

I wrote about Cesar Chavez and the left-leaning men whose robust analyses of power and justice stop precisely when they cross the threshold of their own homes, offices, or local middle schools.

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Trump Has Been Restrained, in One Way at Least, This Term. That Just Ended. She looked, to be frank, like a total chump.

In a rare bit of """good""" news, Kristi Noem had an utterly humiliating last week in office.

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A Beloved Actor’s Face Is Now Unrecognizable. But It’s Us Who Should Be Looking in the Mirror. His extreme transformation spawned a spate of worldwide conspiracy theories.

I wrote about the saddest part of the Jim Carrey conspiracy theories.

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There’s No Such Thing as an Eternal Sunshine Drug. What We Do Have Is Propranolol. Pop a few pills, do a little therapy, and it might all go away.

I'm totally fascinated by how easy it can be to defang traumatic memories (including breakups!) with something a lot of us already have in our medicine cabinets: beta blockers.
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Something Strange Is Happening With Breakups. It’s Making It Much Harder to Date. Careful you don’t get Shrekked.

Feel like everyone is breaking up lately? Here's why.

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Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be. We’re here. We’re queer. Increasingly, we’re armed.

Almost 10 years ago, I bought a gun for a Slate reporting project that never panned out. I detested guns. I thought we should ban them all. I couldn't wait to get rid of it.

This is the story of how my feelings changed.

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Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be. We’re here. We’re queer. Increasingly, we’re armed.

Here's a story, a decade in the making, about my love/hate relationship with the handgun in my living room.

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so exciting - congrats!!

ty Shannon!!

Victoria’s Secret Is Returning to “Sexy.” You’re Not Going to Like Why. I hate to be the person who brings up Donald Trump in conversations about thongs, but ...

Trump is concocting a world that rewards unabashedly manufactured femininity. Who better to capitalize on it than the company that insists the sexiest thing in the world is a stiff, sculpted bra that hides our softest body parts behind a wall of foam?
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The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?

In this "darkest moment" for climate activism, Bill McKibben is trying to recapture the magic of the first Earth Day, when so much more seemed possible. Can a message of beauty, collective liberation, and the magic of the sun resonate in today's cynical, politically polarized times?

The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?

Climate activists told me that they're having to completely rethink their strategies.

That the window for stopping warming "has closed, and perhaps never really existed.”

That "everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”

The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?

For the NYT Magazine, I wrote about this moment as an existential turning point for climate activists.

Just as solar power became cheaper than fossil fuels, global politics swung to the right. Where does the movement go from here? I went to Vermont for creemees with Bill McKibben to find out.

they yassified Amanda Knox

The Image That Defines Trump’s Reign of Terror Is … a Subway Sandwich? Sometimes, the only way to fight fascism is with a $5 footlong.

I wrote about the first indelible image of Trump's D.C. invasion: a sandwich bouncing off a bulletproof vest.

“The D.C. public spaces that will be militarized and overpoliced in the weeks to come are exactly where you can best observe the interdependence and plurality that make cities great, and that conservatives view as a threat to their own ideological ends.”

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I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here. It’s not what the president would have you believe.

I took a stroll through D.C., trying to see my city through the tactical Oakleys of a DEA agent patrolling the National Mall

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It’s Raining Dildos on WNBA Courts. You’ll Never Believe Who’s to Blame. The WNBA needs to get tough on spectators behaving badly.

I really wish the phrase "WNBA dildos" had come into my life in a more positive and celebratory (read: merch) context but this is the society we live in

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It’s Raining Dildos on WNBA Courts. You’ll Never Believe Who’s to Blame. The WNBA needs to get tough on spectators behaving badly.

Probably the most ridiculous photo illustration I've ever had to cook up in my almost 12 years at @slate.com. (And I've done some doozies.) Shouts to @c-cauterucci.bsky.social for breaking down one of the most idiotic things going on in pro sports right now. slate.com/culture/2025...

excellent work 🎖️

hmm I agree

Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It. During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.

a searing and aggressively sensible (and, because it's @benmathislilley.bsky.social, fun) piece on the trap Democrats have laid for themselves and how they can get themselves out

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For the Love of God, Please Stop Putting Up This One Pride Flag Do this instead.

I'm sorry in advance. Once you read this, you won't be able to unsee it.
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that's wonderful!

I Am Beyond Thrilled That Corporations Are Defunding Pride. No, Not for the Reason You Think. I really think we’ll be fine without the Raytheon float, you guys.

“Crowds of queer people cheering for rainbow-clad straight people on a day meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community—it’s as dissonant as sending a model of a drone down the parade route, and it’s a sign of how far Pride has drifted from its origins as a show of queer visibility and power.”

I Am Beyond Thrilled That Corporations Are Defunding Pride. No, Not for the Reason You Think. I really think we’ll be fine without the Raytheon float, you guys.

I wrote about the beginning of the end of corporate Pride, and the possibilities that await us when the companies leave

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The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most Trump-coded areas.

"But you don’t need the backing of business leaders to host a Pride event. Nor do you need the majority of your neighbors to endorse it. All you need is a few committed residents with a knack for party promotion and the chutzpah to overcome—or ignore—whatever opposition rears up in response."