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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 12/12/2025

I have a question... and I'm not saying people need to return to office... but are people (specifically news people) talking to each other? I feel like the Atlantic is a place where people are not talking to each other

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I like how British people call everything a scheme. Like a headline will be “London launches scheme to provide low cost baby formula to new moms” and you’ll momentarily be like what are they doing, are they smuggling dog milk in?

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Mel Robbins wants us to imagine we had a year to live. Well let someone who's had even less time than that tell you what a load of crap that is. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/spare-me-m...

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Spare me, Mel Robbins, from your "thought experiments" about the dying.

Another in my series of dunking on authors I haven't read.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Exactly this. Be grossed out because it's Nuzzi and RFK, but God willing we'll all make it to our 70s, and if we're lucky we'll still be boning down.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I'm slowly recording my way through my substack posts, so if you like narration with a heavy side of the flu, you're in luck! Please enjoy my ruminations about how creatively inspiring mediocre men can be. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/a-very-bri...

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Lily Allen and the scourge of the subpar man

It's not me, it's you.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Everything I know about Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either." youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hot counter take: It's really not difficult to ask, "May I give you a hug?" It's never too early to instill in children that loving adults will not insist on touching them.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Happy holiday Sunday Funday! Hope you had a great holiday weekend, and please enjoy a few Scottish things that amused me this week. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/sunday-fun...

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Sunday Funday: Scottish things that amused me this week

I still don't know what a Babbity Bowsters actually is.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Happy holiday weekend, I decided to write about body dysmorphia and the Wicked of it all. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/everyone-l...

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Everyone looks weird and unwell and miserable and I don't know what to say.

*Dysmorphia intensifies*

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/11/2025

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I don't know much, but I know if The Cut runs a longform story about you or something that happened in your life, it is going to be a jaw-dropper.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Today in reddit comments that speak directly to my soul.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I decided to talk about why I deeply dislike The Body Keeps the Score. (and irrelevantly, Love, Actually.) maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/if-the-bod...

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If the body keeps the score, who's winning?

Wherein I once again critique a book I didn't finish.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Remember when the New York Times had a public editor? Weeks like this make me understand why they got rid of the position -- they'd have to be accountable in their own pages for their utter bullshit.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New episode of the podcast is out, with Devon O’Neil, author of the fascinating new book The Way Out: A True Story of Survival In the Heart of the Rockies. I loved talking about grief, resilience, and our fragile relationship with nature. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/when-you-s...

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"When you see this level of devastation up close, it really changes your worldview."

"The Way Out" authorDevon O'Neil on survival in the aftermath of the unfathomable

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Extremely important tea: I had lunch today with a young woman who once scooped ice cream for Chuck Schumer at a Haagen-Dasz and HE DID NOT TIP.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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Early Career Rescue Fellowship

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

You know what, I had a very cool day here observing a conflict mediation and learning things will definitely help with the anxiety and depression, my friends.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

He's a disgrace to the party. Not the only disgrace, but a disgrace nonetheless.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Here's my practical suggestion. Cancel your sub to the NYT today. Subscribe to a substacker or medium poster or youtuber who's doing something you love. Give a donation to your library. Support people and institutions who are de-shittifying the landscape.

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Jessica Valenti (@jessica)

What happened, New York Times? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable off...

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Just a few of the Scottish things that entertained me this week, and some birthday thoughts today. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Sunday Funday: Scottish (and London!) things that amused me this week

And the word of the week is "stauner."

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

New post that yet again delves into my wheelhouse, shitty men. This time featuring Andrews Cuomo and Mountbatten Windsor. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/bad-week-t...

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Bad week to be a shitty, predatory man, I guess

Or Debra Messing.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Dick Cheney is in hell and Mamdani is headed to Gracie Mansion. I'll take it.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not to take anything away from both men's qualifications and achievements, but Lindsay: Also a stone cold babe.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Please enjoy this photograph of a shitty, entitled, predatory man being sad. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

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Update from Tim Balk

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I literally cannot remember the last time the NYT used the big font for GOOD news. Now I can only hope every douche who threatened to move if he won makes good on their offer.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

You know the funny thing to those of us who remember is that Mario Cuomo was a fucking GREAT Democrat.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Well have you? If not, here's where: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Zohran kneeling, smiling and giving the thumbs up, next to a chalking on the sidewalk that says "Have You Voted Today" and "Make History, Vote Zohran, Nov. 4, 6am to 9pm"

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Mary Elizabeth Williams (she/her) @maryelizabethw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I talked to a fellow member of the Stage 4 club about getting diagnosed -- with pancreatic cancer no less! -- at the height of COVID. It was a lot of fun for two people who've gazed into the void of their own mortality, I promise. maryelizabethw.substack.com/p/i-remember...

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"I remember COVID as just being like, yeah, something else is trying to kill me."

What's it like to be diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer while a pandemic is raging? Dan McNamee lived to tell.

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