"You can get addicted to being sad and sick."
My latest is about the spoonies: a tribe of mostly female forever patients who you'll find where the internet meets healthcare meets being very, very sick.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
This is so beautiful. Campus safety culture combined with hyper-aggressive Karen behavior, crashing into the real world of 911, the police.
"An increased risk of toxic shock syndrome?!"
Unbelievable. Couldn't script it.
Thank you
@FrancescaABlock
for bringing this to my
UPDATE: some of the students seem to be panicking.
They called 9-1-1 because they’re worried one of them could go into toxic shock.
They’re also worried she’ll be arrested if she leaves the building.
UPDATE: Vanderbilt has removed the students who were occupying the building.
16 of them have been suspended.
Three were arrested.
Details about the sit-in in the 🧵 below.
For starters, if having a tampon in for “multiple hours” is grounds to call for an ambulance, I should have been dead years ago.
Pro tip: wear a pad to the all-night protest. The First Amendment doesn’t come with a heating pad.
My latest for
@TheFP
:
Wow. Always / incredibly / completely proud of my sister Bari who is winning the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity.
A blessing on
@bariweiss
!
"My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." Daniel Pearl’s last words are true for me, too. I could not be prouder to be a Jew, and I am deeply honored to be receiving this year's Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.
“I’m trying to explain to them why this is so important, why Israel matters and why Jews need a homeland.”
On the convincing, muting and blocking of friends, and despair among progressive Jews: my latest, a collab w/
@FrancescaABlock
Popped up to Cambridge to watch Lia Thomas smash records at the Ivies, and force conversations that the NCAA, the parents, the swimmers and the Ivy League would rather not have.
Was Louis Pasteur a globalist elite?
My latest goes deep into the world of raw milk, and the udder rage against the United States Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control, the FDA, doctors, PhDs, state regulators, and Big Dairy:
It's sort of like saying that if a restaurant can’t deny you service, the chef is obliged to come cook in your apartment—except you’ve stormed the chef’s apartment, and now you want him to cook you dinner there.
If the phrase “Fuck you, Mom and Dad” were a person.
Read my profile of the richest communist, activist, media heir, funder, problem child, blue belt, revolutionary in the country, Jim Cox Chambers:
Here's what colleagues and trainees of David Sabatini told me about the culture in his lab:
"a crucible where you became refined"
"I fell in love with science"
"a display of human achievement"
"a culture of excellence"
"rigorous"
"people actually tried to help each other"
Was very excited to sit down with Eden Golan, Israel's Eurovision entrant who faced death threats and calls for boycotts, sang through jeers, and was bullied by competitors.
For
@TheFP
.
So the press conference jihadist is a PhD student named Johannah King-Slutzky (really) and this is what she's working on. Dying. Absolutely dying. Beyond parody.
@TheBabylonBee
couldn't top this if they tried.
“People often say, ‘I can’t imagine what you’re going through.’ And I always say, ‘I can’t imagine what I’m going through.’ ”
Rachel Goldberg, mother of 23-year-old hostage Hersh, talks to
@bariweiss
about the last 119 days without her son.
@TheFP
'To the left-wing Jews who own the most powerful microphones in the culture, you’d think our Camp Ramah counselors held our eyes open Clockwork Orange-style and forced us to watch Palmach propaganda on a continuous loop." New joint up in Tablet Magazine!
“She turned in no homework at all,” Connolly says. “I asked her, ‘What’s going on? You haven’t turned in 20 Spanish assignments,’ and she would say ‘So what?’"
What happens when there's a hole where adolescence should be:
Tomorrow marks 10 years of Tinder, and yet today we are in a sex depression.
Blame parents, safetyism, capitalism, men, women, rom coms, Steve Jobs, Tinder, and the pill. Though maybe not in that order.
Meet the new homeschoolers: they hate masks, they love masks, they're unplugging, they're crowdsourcing, they're playing catch up and they're two grades ahead.
My latest, on America's parents going rogue and saying no to K-12, via
@bariweiss
.
Having intergenerational office friendships is so important. Peter tells me about things all the time like American democracy and foreign policy and the Soviet Union and once a year or so he'll ask me something like "what does edgelord mean" and I repay the favor.
So
@SnoozyWeiss
is always very funny and charming and weirdly insightful for a twentysomething -- it's one of the perks of working
@TheFP
-- but God this interview was fantastic.
Everyone in college is cheating, and no one seems to care.
My latest for
@TheFP
is about student evals, ChatGPT, remote testing, 4.0s, and the sense that if you're not cutting corners, you're just not doing it right:
Today was my last day at the best newspaper in America,
@nypost
. This was my first job out of college, where I learned to pitch, source, report and write. I got to cover Karens, Conspiracy, Crypto, Kanye, Chicken Parm, Pizza, Bagels, Dating, Dieting, Turtle-Hoarding...New York!
It's cuz they are treating niche and controversial subjects (polyamory, childhood sex changes) as though they're completely settled, and anodyne subjects (a 10 year age gap, Huberman's affairs) as if they're Nagasaki.
I subbed in for
@NellieBowles
for TGIF for
@TheFP
and you better believe I did 800 words on the Olympics, Huma X Alex, Jack Schlossberg, and Violet Affleck.
And like, the news.
The week that was as seen by me!
“The amount of taxpayer money they are getting is obscene. We’re going to find that the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money will rival what we saw with the Covid federal money.”
Read
@Maddie_Rowley_
in
@thefp
.
“The lawsuit could impact eligibility rules at all 1,100 colleges and universities represented by the NCAA, making it such that all athletes born as males would be barred from competing in women’s sports.”
@FrancescaABlock
with the goods:
“The people who were supposed to be protecting our kids,” says Burns, “they all abandoned their responsibility.”
My latest for
@bariweiss
is about the women who are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
I slip past two students and take a seat on a rubber mat near “the cornu,” as the cornucopia is also called. I’m speaking with a student from the Sustainability Management program here for “the sense of community"
No one does it like
@Olivia_Reingold
.
“The relationship struck Sarah’s friends as odd. At one point, Sarah said, “I just want to be with my kids and cook for my man.” “I was like, Who says that?” says a close friend.”
Lots of people say that. This whole story is like John Tucker Must Die but for forty-somethings who
What's the value of a good name in Oberlin, Ohio?
My latest story is an investigation into a years-long legal battle between Oberlin College and Gibson's Bakery.
cc:
@thehonestlypod
,
@oberlincollege
When Thomas won the 500, I started chatting with a security guard. What did he think? “Speechless,” he said. "Just speechless."
“Nothing will change. This is Harvard. There’s no controversy. No racists,” he said. Then, with a wink, “Everyone is equal.”
"Social media, perhaps the greatest cause of our modern distractibility, has become a major driver in the lucrative business of treating it."
@SulkinMaya
on Big Adderall for
@TheFP
featuring
@Cat_Marnell
and art by
@pablodelcan
:
It's Brat Girl Summer, as Gen Z returns once more to its annual tradition of spending the months between Memorial and Labor Day engaged in the self-conscious performance of some archetypal vibe.
@katrosenfield
may not be brat but she is queen.
Starting last week you can buy raw milk legally in West Virginia. Read about the raw milk movement and the people who see God in their cups:
A fave for
@TheFP
.
United Nations Watch is proud to announce that journalist
@BariWeiss
will receive our Per Ahlmark Award, at our Nov. 1st Online Gala, in recognition of her moral courage and eloquence in defending the principles of democracy and in combating antisemitism.
Had the honor of hosting
@CaitlinPacific
on
@thehonestlypod
as she threw down on parenting, sisterhood, best friendship, having grace, and much much more.
She is a font of wisdom. Listen up!
“The most depraved shit I’ve seen in my entire life.”
Meet the Karens of sit-ins, the undergrads of Vanderbilt. Sort of nice to know the spectre of TSS still haunts the young:
"Around Thanksgiving of that year, Adam called their doctor since she seemed like she was about to pass out. He told them that if they didn’t get her to a hospital soon, her heart might stop."
Read more about the teen girls who stayed inside:
The Free Press reporter
@Olivia_Reingold
filed a police report after an anti-Israel mob swarmed her at a protest Monday in Union Square. While shouting “blood on your hands” and “genocide supporter,” they restricted her movement and blew air horns in her ears. One even grabbed
Only my literal flesh and blood could ever cleave me from this epic place and the people who work there. I'm going to work with my sister Bari (
@bariweiss
) on new media things.
Tried to fill
@jessesingal
’s very large shoes. Take a listen to my turn on
@TheBARPod
—we talk dating, poly, Portland, sovereign citizens—I had so much fun!
7 months ago I wrote about how Fergie Chambers planned to “making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public.”
It seems the group he funds, Palestine Action US, did just that this week:
What a list. Proud of Bari for being an inaugural recipient of
@tabletmag
’s Sinai Award.
“The following names belong to people who’ve made the world freer in the past few years—not necessarily calmer, or safer, or prettier.”
Amen amen amen.
"I signed on the dotted line at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Albany. I had thirteen cavities and seventeen cents to my name."
Read about the the adventure before the adventure, from
@shagbark_hick
in
@TheFP
! And stay tuned!
Presidents are getting shot! Microsoft systems are down! Rent is too damn high!
Is gold the answer we've been waiting for?
My latest for
@TheFP
with an assist from
@EvanGardne9
and quotes from
@caroljsroth
,
@EphraimRinsky
, and many more!
"Doctors are going along with this new invented Orwellian world where there is no good foods or bad foods, where you can be healthy at any weight...I’m sorry. It’s just not true."
@BillMaher
,
@BariWeiss
&
@TimRyan
get real about health and personal responsibility on
#RealTime
:
“Hey, Lina,” he messaged a few months ago. “Happy Friday!”
“Hey!” Lina wrote back. “This is unfair because I don’t throw this question to everyone on Hinge but. . . thoughts on IDF?”
What's going on on dating apps?
The Huberman hitpiece gives us such smoking guns as, “He messaged her on Instagram and said he owned a home in Piedmont, a wealthy city separate from Oakland. That turned out not to be precisely true; he lived off Piedmont Avenue, which was in Oakland.”
“I’m going to tell her she needs to scale it,” one woman told her two friends as she stepped into a car waiting for her out front, near the hot dog cart. “This is exactly, exactly culture.”
@TheFP
!
A protester was “being denied the right to change her tampon that has been in for multiple hours, which leads to an increased risk of toxic shock syndrome.”
The 911 operator, who needs a raise, was understandably confused. “Ma’am, do you have an emergency?”
It’s all very Karen, to borrow a trope from 2020, especially when a protester demands the administrator find someone who can get them some answers. Just like middle-aged women who think dressing down the manager will somehow earn them a full refund, these students have convinced
I’m in the lost and found chat for Columbia’s encampment, where a comrade is currently freaking out that their other comrades might steal their Adderall prescription.
I'm a tabloid gutter rat and Postie forever. If you want my job and have questions, reach out. If you never got paid during the six months when I was a bad editorial assistant, I don't have an email.
Raising awareness (along with its cousins, ending stigma, consciousness-raising, bringing visibility to an issue or using our influence) is voyeurism with a built-in pardon.
Read my new essay against awareness:
But that feeling you get when you are facing those things down, that quickening of your heart rate, the flush on your face, the chill down the spine—these sensations are what courage feels like. They are the symptoms of a moral compass that works.
How did college campuses like Columbia become the source of so much hate?
The FP’s
@Olivia_Reingold
travels to America’s most elite colleges to find the origins of campus antisemitism.
Made an appearance on
@thehonestlypod
to talk crazy about Taylor, tradlife, lying, Reneé Rapp, teacore, the Midwest, peasant foods, hedonism, and more...