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I think this is a really good post about the double bind that the recent images of Ariana have put us in as media consumers observing a distressing cultural swing back to ultra-thinness.
scaachi@scaachi.bsky.social · 2d agowrote about ariana grande and karen carpenter slate.com/life/2026/08...
@scaachi.bsky.social with the best take on the recent Ariana Grande developments: she and *especially* her team have put us, the public, in a no-win situation.
scaachi@scaachi.bsky.social · 2d agowrote about ariana grande and karen carpenter slate.com/life/2026/08...
wrote about ariana grande and karen carpenter slate.com/life/2026/08...
The Ariana Grande News Leaves Us With Two Unsavory Options
The audience has two unsavory options.
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just discovered the existence of The PowerPoint while casually reading about my two least favorite people, one of whom i've had a literal, personal, IRL beef with lolol "The PowerPoint is now basically The Da Vinci Code for women age 28 to 41." lolol @scaachi.bsky.social slate.com/life/2026/07...
Taylor Swift’s Wedding Was Missing One Notable Guest. A Few Days Later, the World Learned Why.
We’re going to get an album out of this.
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dave portnoy read (looked at the headline maybe?) my review of his book for @slate.com and the best retort he had was a suggestion that i'm ugly. womp womp: slate.com/culture/2026...
i read the new dave portnoy book so you don't have to, so you never have to: slate.com/culture/2026...
I’m Not Sure the Dave Portnoy Memoir Is Meant to Be Read by Humans. I Did Anyway. Oof.
It must be tiring to be this right and this misunderstood and this rich, all at the same time.
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Sam and many others (@schweather.bsky.social, @rebeccaonion.bsky.social, @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, @lukewinkie.bsky.social, @fredmkaplan.bsky.social, @calllmenadira.net, @madelineducharme.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, still more) helped me break down the cultural recesses of Trump's brain:
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 2mo agoI wrote about Donald Trump's enduring obsession with '80s musical-theater schlock, and why he's probably not crazy about the new version of Cats.
new jlo movie is so bad. i loved it. i hope she makes it one million more times. slate.com/culture/2026...
Jennifer Lopez’s New Netflix Rom-Com Proves Exactly What She Needs to Do for the Rest of Her Life
I’m here because I want to pretend that a woman as hot as JLo somehow hasn’t gone on a date in four years.
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omg girl shut up no one cares about your boyfriend!!!! slate.com/culture/2026...
Jill Biden’s Brutal Memoir Proves One Thing for Sure
Just show me some shirtless photos of Hunter Biden and leave me alone.
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increasingly unsure if people who claim to have read books can actually read? slate.com/culture/2026...
One of the Most Popular Books of the Year Has Some New, Famous Haters. Don’t Buy In to the Backlash.
What’s worse: wanting to keep your family home of 20 years or ceding access to your kids?
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here is a list of people i am mad at for the week. hope you have a good weekend, unless you are on this list. scaachi.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...
A List Of People I Am Mad At, 4/17/26
This is a weekly (sometimes) list of people I am mad at.
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Haiti will play in the World Cup for the 1st time in 52 years. But Haiti happened to qualify when it takes place in a country that has banned Haitians from visiting. My story in @newyorker.com on how players around the world are navigating Trump’s policies: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
How World Cup Players Are Navigating Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Donald Trump’s decision to ban tourist visas for some participating countries in this year’s World Cup, which the U.S. is co-hosting, has created an unprecedented level of uncertainty for players and ...
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scamfluencers won a GRACIE! good for us!!!!!!! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...
Oprah Winfrey, Katherine LaNasa, Rachel Sennott and Hulu’s Barbara Walters Doc Win Gracie Awards
Winners will be feted at a pair of Gracie Awards galas, one set to take place in Los Angeles at the Four Seasons’ Beverly Wilshire on May 19, and another at New York’s Cipriani 42nd Street on June 16.
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memoir writing is painful and excavating. i know it well. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/s...
Sucker Punch
New from the author of the bestseller One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes the long-awaited follow-up about what happens when the life you thought you’d be living radically cha...
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Guest host Scaachi Koul speaks with journalist and creator Melanie Hamlett about the time Kristen Bell went off in her comment section and why it seems like straight couples get off on acting like they hate each other. slate.trib.al/6HvYY3G
The “My Husband Hates Me” Influencer
From wedding cake smashing to dogfood lunches, why do so many straight men hate their wives? And why do these wives put up with it?
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im from calgary but yeah i just dont believe in being reliant on private vehicles. anyway there's a whole profile after that: slate.com/life/2026/03...
The Ur–Internet Writer Thought About Divorcing Her Husband. Instead, She Entered a Throuple. I Visited Her to Find Out Why.
In Adult Braces, West wants her loyal fans to find empathy for someone who hurt her.
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THE SKULL COLLECTOR@thankyoukindly.bsky.social · 5mo agois this how people from LA or NYC feel when fic writers try to describe their cities
