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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
bad news, we all have to like macklemore now slate.com/life/2026/09...
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A Major Artist Was Just Kicked Off a Tour For His Political Beliefs. Now I Have to Do the Unthinkable.
Yes, we're talking about the man behind "Thrift Shop."
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
profiled carla lalli and her divorce cookbook for @slate.com slate.com/life/2026/09...
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A Food-World Star Is Back in the Spotlight. She’s Not Sure Her Fans Will Love Who She’s Become.
The original subtitle was “Everything I Cooked and Ate the Year I Got Divorced That Made Me Feel Better.”
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
i watched all the tiktoks about lindsay clancy and i have cracked the case slate.com/life/2026/08...
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True Crime Conspiracists Have Homed In On Patrick Clancy. I Can’t Believe What I’m About to Say.
The amateur sleuths online seem to be united by one shared belief.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
tried to understand hailey bieber through product review slate.com/life/2026/08...
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The Hottest Girl in the Country Is Making Millions Off Us. To Find Out Why, I Did the Unthinkable.
There’s a common mistake we make in trying to figure her out.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This conversation between @maryharris.bsky.social and @scaachi.bsky.social is so humane and thoughtful. I benefited from it slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Why Ariana Grande Is Stepping Away
A social disease at the limits of a parasocial relationship.
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FINEWINE @finestwinest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Best take on things I’ve seen so far.
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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 04/08/2026
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.
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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@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.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
wrote about ariana grande and karen carpenter slate.com/life/2026/08...
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The Ariana Grande News Leaves Us With Two Unsavory Options
The audience has two unsavory options.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
oop they let me give advice on main again slate.com/advice/2026/...
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My Husband Just Retired and Has Given Up Far More Than His Job. I’m Disgusted.
This is not what I signed up for.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
gender affirming care
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sp @sarahpaol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
new indignities every day: scaachi.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...
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A List Of People I Am Mad At, 7/10/26
This is a weekly (sometimes) list of people I am mad at.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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...
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
i read the new dave portnoy book so you don't have to, so you never have to: slate.com/culture/2026...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
oh whatever. who fuckin cares. just let him do it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Walked Into a Jack Schlossberg Campaign Event a Skeptic. That’s Not Quite How I Left.
He’s not the least qualified, or the most evil.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 11/06/2026
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:
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
new jlo movie is so bad. i loved it. i hope she makes it one million more times. slate.com/culture/2026...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
eh i've been meaner
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
omg girl shut up no one cares about your boyfriend!!!! slate.com/culture/2026...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
increasingly unsure if people who claim to have read books can actually read? slate.com/culture/2026...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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-...
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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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Rextyn 🏳️‍🌈 ㋐ @rextyn.tygerbox.social · 16/04/2026
I quite liked this bit as well.
Snippet from article interview:

EMBEDDED: What, if anything, is there to learn from the popularity of the looksmaxxing trend and influencers like Clavicular?

SCAACHI KOUL: Men are so weak that we have to make up words like
"looksmaxxing" and "mogging" and "optimization" just to get you fucking losers to take care of yourselves.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
just admit you can't do anything and leave me alone about it! god!!!!!!!
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i liked the new lena slate.com/culture/2026...
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We’re Always Asking Famous People to Do One Thing. Lena Dunham Did It.
Famesick is a self-aware recasting of Dunham’s many public controversies.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
😋
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
SUCKER PUNCH, out now 🍏
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Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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-...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
scamfluencers won a GRACIE! good for us!!!!!!! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
memoir writing is painful and excavating. i know it well. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/s...
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
i profiled lindy west: slate.com/life/2026/03...
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The Ur–Internet Writer Is Back With a New Memoir. This Time, She’s Polyamorous.
In Adult Braces, West wants her loyal fans to find empathy for someone who hurt her.
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Slate @slate.com · 14/03/2026
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
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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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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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...
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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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Virginia Sole-Smith @virginiasolesmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The best piece I’ve read on Lindy’s (excellent!) new book. @bitchesgottaeat.skystack.xyz’s quote is 👌
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
i profiled lindy west: slate.com/life/2026/03...
slate.com
The Ur–Internet Writer Is Back With a New Memoir. This Time, She’s Polyamorous.
In Adult Braces, West wants her loyal fans to find empathy for someone who hurt her.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
i hate that i can read.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
ENOUGH. SHE WAS JUST WEARING JEANS. PUT ON AN INSANE CAFTAN YOU LOSER.
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Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
On unhoused migrants in Paris displaced by police sweeps of encampments before the 2024 Olympics: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...
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A grand Olympic plan for the Seine. But first, the tent camps.
With the Summer Games coming to Paris, migrants there face a new choice: Get on the bus or wait for the next police sweep.
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Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
On UFC fans reckoning with the sport’s growing reputation as a haven for Trump supporters: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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Two nights in Vegas with the fan-bros of UFC
In Las Vegas for UFC 313, a weekend of violence and ‘escape.’
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Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
On the doctor who prescribed ketamine & opiods to Colts owner Jim Irsay before his death: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/... & the subsequent FBI investigation that our reporting sparked: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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NFL owner secretly relapsed, got ketamine from private doctor before death
As a recovery doctor provided ketamine and opioids, Colts owner Jim Irsay spent his final years suffering through a relapse that he and executives hid from the public.
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Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I’ll miss working with all the brilliant folks at @postsports.bsky.social: we published bangers, reached millions of readers, made a real impact. Jeff Bezos killed the world’s best sports section. Here are some stories I’m proud of:
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
boston lost the superbowl and now they have to deal with me, what a fucking week :(
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Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Here’s our story on the gambler accused of orchestrating one of the biggest matchfixing schemes in US history.  @postsports.bsky.social has long delivered some of the best sports reporting out there. I’m grateful to contribute to that legacy. #SaveThePost wapo.st/4tv5Co7
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‘Cashing all day’: The Instagram star accused of corrupting NCAA hoops
His social media is a flood of diamonds, celebrities and winning betting slips. His edge, prosecutors allege, was paying players to underperform.
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Kid from the End of Nevada @dalydes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"Is it still locker-room talk if they say it to our faces, gun cocked? . . . There was plenty of incendiary invective for Ross to pull from. He chose to call Good a bitch because it’s what men call us all the time." Scaachi Koul on what Ross' language signifies. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Last Thing the ICE Agent Said to Renee Good
He said it after he killed her.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
asked some ottawa journalists and politicos about justin and katy and you know what: i'm really rooting for those two dorkasses slate.com/life/2025/12...
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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Deserve Each Other
Trudeau was all talk and all looks as prime minister, but talk and looks are pretty good qualities in a boyfriend.
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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Incredible stuff. Real tears in my eyes, man slate.com/culture/2025...
American Canto was the last real opportunity for Nuzzi to talk about what happened: tangibly, what she did to torpedo her career and personal life. It could have been a pulpy tell-all that explains how she fell in love with the worst Kennedy or a political book opening up her reporter’s notebook to share from a vantage point few people ever reach. After these brief weeks around Christmas, already a chaotic time to publish a book, the interest around her will ebb. American Canto could have helped redeem her if only it were interesting.

Instead, it is illegible in ways you can’t imagine. Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do. Three hundred pages with no chapter breaks, it swerves back and forth through time, from Nuzzi’s interviews with Donald Trump over the years to her combustible relationship with fellow annoying journalist Ryan Lizza to her alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he was running for president himself. Reading it is like spending time with a delusional fortune cookie: platitudes that feel like they were run through a translation service three times.I don’t begrudge Nuzzi for being shameless enough to churn a book out this fast. This is America, baby! Why wouldn’t a well-known journalist capitalize on her opportunities? Besides, if she pulled this off, her scam would be complete, and she’d deserve her success. Torpedoing your career with the brain-worm guy and then getting a job at Vanity Fair and writing a juicy tell-all about it? Put her on every television in the nation—she’s earned that much.

But with little distance and zero self-reflection, Nuzzi has given us the least interesting version of her own story. It’s disappointing only because the reader knows there’s more, and Nuzzi is deciding too late to be cute about her derelictions. “I could tell you the truth,” she writes, with irritating coyness. “I could tell you, probably, nothing that you would like. I could tell you, almost certainly, nothing that would redeem me. I could tell you that the year flew in birds. And I could tell you that the year flew in bullets.” Really, just dogshit writing all around.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
workshopping a take that this book may actually be era defining. the rub is that it's the era of people who can't really read books because their minds are so addled and outsourced to algo slop/chatbots slate.com/culture/2025...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I cannot believe I am going to force myself to read this thing slate.com/culture/2025...
But with little distance and zero self-reflection, Nuzzi has given us the least interesting version of her own story. It’s disappointing only because the reader knows there’s more, and Nuzzi is deciding too late to be cute about her derelictions. “I could tell you the truth,” she writes, with irritating coyness. “I could tell you, probably, nothing that you would like. I could tell you, almost certainly, nothing that would redeem me. I could tell you that the year flew in birds. And I could tell you that the year flew in bullets.” Really, just dogshit writing all around.
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
golly. but i'm just a girl!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/12/2025
"God, everyone sucks so much in this—you really have to pick the brain worm." slate.com/culture/2025...
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Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That.
God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.
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