Ellen
@elcush.bsky.social
let's go mets https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ellen-cushing/ https://bsky.app/profile/hits-diff.bsky.social
"Ranch dressing has become, deservedly or not, a face of the nation during the World Cup." @elcush.bsky.social's latest: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
America’s Greatest Food Export
Ranch dressing has become, deservedly or not, a face of the nation during the World Cup.
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new episode of our baseball podcast! sorry we missed a week we were all getting married open.spotify.com/episode/2ShZ...
73. A Bloop and a Blast and a Doink Off the Foul Pole
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@elcush.bsky.social has won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Criticism Award at the 2026 James Beard Journalism Awards. Read her award-winning work here:
A new class of toys has a very susceptible target audience: the parent with lots and lots of screen-time guilt, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Allure of the Anti-Screen-Time Toy
They're still high-tech—but they alleviate a very specific Millennial guilt.
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First, companies used AI to analyze worker productivity; now it’s supercharging corporate surveillance by monitoring employee emotion, @elcush.bsky.social reports:
The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.
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For decades, members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew planes for the U.S. Army during World War II, lobbied for recognition as service members—but they’re still largely unknown. Today, @elcush.bsky.social will answer questions about them on Reddit: bit.ly/3PbdEmx
where were you when the NEW YORK METS WON A BASEBALL GAME
new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
63. Meet the New Mets
Podcast Episode · Hits Different · April 3 · 1h
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my favorite opera writer, Chris Cohen, wrote about Tristan for @theatlantic.com! dreams do come true!! gift link! www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
A New Solution to the ‘Wagner Problem’
A bold restaging of Tristan und Isolde arrives at a moment of intense concern about the cultural inheritance of Western civilization.
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for the April issue, I wrote about my amazing grandmother, the forgotten women pilots of World War II, and the nature of progress: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.
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the sweeties at Low Cinema in beautiful RIDGEWOOD QUEENS asked me about my favorite baseball movies and now they’re going to show them on a screen!!! you should come!!! lowcinema.com/page/series/
Series - Low Cinema
Lowball: America's Pastime (Mon March 2 through Sun March 8) Movies and baseball: Easily the two best things this country ever invented. These films—hand-selected by baseball sickos—capture the sport ...
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My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
I was laid off from The Washington Post today. I know, real original sentence. My first plagiarism in 20 years of journalism. My job was stupid fun and I loved every minute of it. I’m sad for my talented colleagues but sadder the world will not get to read, watch and listen to their amazing work.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Once the ultimate Millennial power lunch, a symbol of moral superiority and hyperproductivity, Sweetgreen is now in free fall—along with the optimism it once represented, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Millennial Power Lunch
Sweetgreen didn’t change. We did.
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wrote about the fall of sweetgreen and the end of optimism ✌️https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/sweetgreen-rise-fall-power-lunch/685545/?gift=4WBWMfKv39sQTWzHBHFACFIisJpxNrOJK1Kks9GPxAM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Millennial Power Lunch
Sweetgreen didn’t change. We did.
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More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. I wrote about what that means for restaurants, restaurateurs, cities, and food: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
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I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants … it’s not good …. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
How Delivery Destroyed American Restaurants
We’ve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.
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last episode of our mets podcast for the season! miss you already <3 open.spotify.com/episode/4Yef...
59. Season Finale, RIP and LGM
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Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury
After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.
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Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
Has Air Travel Ever Been Good?
Not really.
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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new york's only baseball podcast turns 50 :) open.spotify.com/episode/4ca1...
50. The TRUTH About the New York Mets
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classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day: "The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Cancel Amazon Prime
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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some example questions to get you going: What's wrong with John Fisher? How did you two get so smart and fun? Why is Pete Alonso so strong? How many people could he carry out of a burning building? And so on and so forth
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.Why don’t women play professional baseball? Why do players always seem to be chewing on something? How could climate change alter the sport? Tomorrow on Reddit, @kait.bsky.social and @elcush.bsky.social are answering your questions about the forces shaping the game: bit.ly/3GCqV3b
what a big-hearted, big-brained, brave, searching, humane, lucid story by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...
My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.
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More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Absurdity—And Genius—of the Mother’s Day Opt-Out Email
This is what happens when brands try to be your friend.
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