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Why did nobody warn me billionaires are actually super lame and annoying?

'Explicit' Sex Claims ‘Exaggerated,’ Black and LGBTQ+ Characters Overwhelmingly Targeted, New Book Ban Analysis Finds A new PEN America analysis of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year shows which stories were disproportionately removed from shelves — and debunks “exaggerated” claims about books that feature...

36% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...

Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda Might want to cool it on kicking people out of our institutions for a second?

I'm gonna urge you, if you do one thing today, to listen to the way US Army Major Alivia Stehlik talks about the meaning of service: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

It's State of the State night in Michigan and look at our Tim Skubick! Check out our chat after the speech on your @pbs.org local station

The producer in the control room eating Cheetos during the #bravo Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reunion is my spirit animal.

Cheyna Roth Author, Producer, and Multi-Media Journalist

New website who this????!!!! Check out the amazing work my friend Angela did (including some INCREDIBLE photos)
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Expanded MichMash this week!

In the first segment, @cheyna-roth.bsky.social and I discuss Jocelyn Benson’s gubernatorial campaign launch.

Then I speak with @danielleatkinson.bsky.social and Cheyna with Rep. Bill Schuette to discuss the paid sick time law and efforts to change it.

No one warned me that I would spend this much time in my thirties refolding throw blankets.

Some interesting insight here from Rep. Joe Aragona on this week's MichMash. We discuss the first moves from the new
House GOP majority in the state House. Available on all podcast platforms. In the first segment, @cheyna-roth.bsky.social and I discuss the first week of the 103rd Legislature.
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Not great, Bob.

Saw a hotel list "vintage dvd/vhs player" as part of its charm and if you'll excuse me I need to go take my back pills.

We pushed back recording to get the latest! And came close, the Senate was still going at 1 p.m. Friday. All podcast platforms! Elena Durnbaugh joins @cheyna-roth.bsky.social and me on MichMash this week to walk us through the drama in the House.

Shop local and pick up a freshly signed copy of my true crime book at Schuler Books!

A bountiful episode:

@cheyna-roth.bsky.social and I recap lame duck trials and tee up our guest segment with Lisa McGraw of the
@michiganpress.bsky.social to discuss FOIA expansion.

In between, Cheyna and I riff on Mike Duggan's surprise independent bid for governor.

On all podcast platforms!

Grading first student's final paper: This was a very thoughtful analysis of your topic. I particularly enjoyed the part [continues on for 5 paragraphs]

Grading last student's final paper: YO! This was great. loved it. peace out.

Tariffs and trade are a gender issue. If you present a policy as largely benefiting industries that mostly employ men, it is a gender issue. In this essay, I will

The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry Behind the scenes of a court battle for the “clean girl” look.

"Sometimes, you can be so basic that copyright law doesn’t even protect you." - This influencer lawsuit is FASCINATING and the reporting here by Mia Sato is soooo good. www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

Just add ice and a splash of milk and you've got a nice iced coffee. Microwaved coffee is what they give people in the third circle of hell.

as someone who has done a lot of filling in for Slate’s Dear Prudence: there is a 30 percent chance that whatever Thanksgiving issue you are dealing with this week can be solved by just staying at a hotel (or putting someone up in a hotel).

More than ever I'm convinced there are two types of people: those that grew up knowing Mr. Rogers and those that didn't.

What’s Google Without Chrome? Can Google just run out the clock until the Trump administration?

Also thanks to @lizzieohreally.bsky.social and @cheyna-roth.bsky.social for having me on @slate.bsky.social What Next TBD to talk about a Chrome sale: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

I Cooked 25 Recipes That Changed Everything in American Cooking in One Month. I Was Not Prepared. I Cooked Every Single One of America's 25 Most Important Recipes. My Family Paid the Price.

Dan Kois cooking all the recipes on @slate.bsky.social's definitive list of the "25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years" (slate.com/life/2024/11...) is the most Kois thing ever (compliment!) & why I love working here

Read (and participate in?) the Kois challenge
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If you aren't subscribed to Danielle's Substack what are you even doing with your life!?

Three days with the true believers who won’t let Bigfoot die After decades without conclusive evidence, surely there aren’t people still holding out hope. Right?

Here is my account of a long weekend I spent camping in Oregon with Bigfoot believers, out today in FT Weekend www.ft.com/content/5a80...

New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, with even the prime minister deriding it.

More than 10,000 New Zealanders on Friday joined a 660-mile protest march heading toward Parliament in Wellington, amid growing opposition to proposed legislation that would strip Maori people of special rights accorded to them under an 1840 treaty.

A tiny human asked me the other day if lobsters were real and...honestly? I get what she's saying.

In fact we loved it so much that @slate.bsky.social included it in our True Crime Cannon in February slate.com/culture/2024...

Tell Everyone About Say Nothing FX’s exploration of the Troubles captures the thrill and romance of revolution — and the cost of its violence.

LOVED this book and can't wait for the series www.vulture.com/article/say-...