You either die Fantine, or you live long enough to see yourself become Madame Thénardier
Finally, someone at 60 minutes brave enough to ask tough questions like “should women have jobs”
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
In case you also see this and are like "a magazine writer had a spare $2.6 million?!" let me save you the trouble: his husband was one of the first few hundred employees at Google
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last wk.After downsizing, a computer scientist and a magazine writer spent $2.6 million to make the space less chaotic www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Near the beginning of minions and monsters, a Cyclopes steps on a prehistoric Lego. It was such a delight to hear a theater full of parents howl in recognition of his pain
Did you know that The Odyssey is sort of about how Elon Musk specifically sucks www.vanityfair.com/story/the-od...
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Going to Drive the Right Wing Completely Insane
The Oscar winner’s latest is a Trojan horse of a film: a rip-roaring blockbuster secretly carrying a sober meditation on civility and intolerance. And Elon Musk is going to despise it.
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Whether you’re at home or abroad, in a city or in the country, trying to think or trying to clear your head, there’s simply nothing like Walking Around
Sort of funny that the story of the Platner campaign is also the plot of the Jon Stewart movie Irresistible, but somehow dumber
Jessica Winter@winterjessica.bsky.social · 4w agowhat could possibly go wrong
Couldn't fit this into the piece, but the belief that the left needs its own oaf means that Trump is still dictating the rules of engagement. Believing 1) white working class men are the voters that matter and 2) that they will only vote for themselves is just MAGA with a different coat of paint.
Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 4w agoA lot of leftist men were — and seemingly still are — willing to accept Graham Platner's many many faults because they have a sneering, condescending belief that working people in this country are white townie oafs who will only listen to other white townie oafs. www.garbageday.email/p/the-curdli...
Right before calling their girlfriends in Canada
Politico@politico.com · 4w agoSenate GOP leaders say they’ve spoken with Mitch McConnell
This is a wonderful appreciation of John Klassen. There are no better books for turning your toddlers into soft goths
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4w agoThe author and illustrator of “I Want My Hat Back” understands how children see. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
The Odyssey rips! There’s a scene that had @ezwrites.bsky.social pumping her fist and cheering like a spectator at the Colosseum
A thorny and fascinating story about X-Men, alleged misconduct, lawsuits, and OnlyFans, by @christress.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/story/showru...
What Ever Happened to ‘X-Men ‘97’ Showrunner Beau DeMayo?
Beau DeMayo was one of animation’s most promising young talents. After getting fired from his dream job, he told VF all about his break with Disney and his online double life—before he went silent.
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This Danceteria oral history is one of the most fun stories I’ve worked on. The club was a home for artsy misfits, incubating future stars like Madonna and Beastie Boys, Keith Haring, and Karen Finley. New wave, drag and hip hop rubbed up against each other. Enjoy! www.vanityfair.com/story/dancet...
When Freaks Were Chic: An Oral History of Danceteria
Debi Mazar, Rick Rubin, Michael Musto, Fab 5 Freddy, and more remember the legendary ‘80s nightclub that inspired a new Madonna single—and where she, RuPaul, Beastie Boys, and more invented themselves...
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I hope everyone gets a chance to interview Mel Brooks once in their lives. What an honor to spend half an hour being interrupted by this man www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
I confess that I am reading this profile of Ben Shapiro purely out of schadenfreude, but this selection is particularly funny. Bitch, that's you! www.vanityfair.com/story/ben-shapiro-interview
For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about antisemitism, the American political right, and Ben Shapiro www.vanityfair.com/story/ben-sh...
Ben Shapiro Has No Regrets. Except Hiring Candace Owens
‘The Daily Wire’ is losing audience, Shapiro’s former friends are on the attack, and even he’s started to notice creeping antisemitism on the right. But the pundit tells ‘VF’ he’s sticking to his guns...
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A very entertaining scene report about an event you could not pay me to attend www.vanityfair.com/story/woah-v...
A Night Out With Woah Vicky, the Poet Laureate of Dimes Square
The controversial Twitter sensation gathered voices like Caroline Calloway for a sold-out event on the Lower East Side—a gathering tailor-made for a scene that might be past its prime.
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If Trump really wanted to give the American people what they want, he would livestream himself trying to pronounce the word "semiquincentennial." Barring that, I have some other ideas for America's 250th gift www.vanityfair.com/story/americ...
America’s 250th Gift: What Do You Get the Country That Has Everything?
Gold? Silver? A Mountain Dew-flavored reflecting pool? With the nation’s milestone birthday nearly upon us, one writer’s playful exercise turns the idea of a traditional registry on its head.
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lol the white house told me that they are def gonna try to get the knicks to visit! we'll see if that works out! www.vanityfair.com/story/trump-...
The Trump White House Claims the Knicks Haven’t Turned Down An Invitation: “Fake News”
An official tells Vanity Fair that rumors of a declined invitation are false—but no championship-winning NBA team has ever visited the Trump White House.
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Maybe the toughest story I’ve ever edited, and a definite must-read. The TLDR: many of these deaths could have been prevented, and not just at Camp Mystic
Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com · 2mo agoThe flood that killed 27 girls at Camp Mystic last year also drowned nearly a hundred others in the Texas Hill Country, including numerous members of the local Hispanic community. Karen Valby speaks with the friends and neighbors who did the unthinkable work of sifting through the wreckage
Did you guys know there’s a guy playing who’s as tall as the basketball hoop
It's me, I forced Josh to lose his mind!
Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlso live today: one of my editors at Vanity Fair suggested I take a look at the fatFIRE subreddit for kicks and I kind of lost my mind: a community of people hyper focused on retiring early and rich, believing they can will a broken system to work, just for them www.vanityfair.com/story/fatfir...
That intro's the shortest speech Adrien Brody has ever given
If the The Rent Is Too Damn High guy had run last year, he'd be New York's mayor now
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2mo agoReally hurts the idea that trump is sui generis in terms of the mass political appeal of famous people with zero redeeming characteristics or qualifications for office. Maybe we're in the age of meme candidates for the long haul
(scary wrestling announcer voice) IT'S TUMMY TIME
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 2mo agoWelp there’s no unseeing this
This ding-dong can’t even get the fallacy right: it’s “when did you stop beating your wife?” Which I can remember on my own, without consulting a large language model, because my brain hasn’t dissolved into a pile of goo
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 2mo ago"It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to." (The only acceptable response to both accusations, to be clear, is "no.")
This is a really crazy assertion, like a kid claiming they're only peeing in the pool because everyone else does it
Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social · 2mo agothis is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...
I am begging you: stop trying to get me to care about "the problem on college campuses." Stop telling me about college campuses, period! I don't go there anymore!!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com The problem on college campuses is not just that students lack civility, Michal Leibowitz writes, but that “our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.”