hater nation

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SUCKER PUNCH, out now 🍏
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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-lede/how-world-cup-players-are-navigating-trumps-immigration-crackdown
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memoir writing is painful and excavating. i know it well. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/sucker-punch-9781250270504/
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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
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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/lindy-west-polyamory-open-marriage-husband-roya.html
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The best piece I’ve read on Lindy’s (excellent!) new book. @bitchesgottaeat.skystack.xyz’s quote is 👌
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i hate that i can read.
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ENOUGH. SHE WAS JUST WEARING JEANS. PUT ON AN INSANE CAFTAN YOU LOSER.
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On unhoused migrants in Paris displaced by police sweeps of encampments before the 2024 Olympics:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/05/09/paris-olyimpics-homeless-migrants/
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On UFC fans reckoning with the sport’s growing reputation as a haven for Trump supporters:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/05/10/two-nights-vegas-with-fan-bros-ufc/
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On the doctor who prescribed ketamine & opiods to Colts owner Jim Irsay before his death:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/08/28/jim-irsay-colts-addiction-death/

& the subsequent FBI investigation that our reporting sparked:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/01/22/jim-irsay-death-fbi-addiction/
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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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boston lost the superbowl and now they have to deal with me, what a fucking week :(
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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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"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-politics/2026/01/renee-good-ice-agent-slur.html
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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/katy-perry-justin-trudeau-dating.html
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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/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-donald-trump-ryan-lizza-book.html?pay=1764733385170&support_journalism=please
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I cannot believe I am going to force myself to read this thing
slate.com/culture/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-donald-trump-ryan-lizza-book.html
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golly. but i'm just a girl!
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"God, everyone sucks so much in this—you really have to pick the brain worm." slate.com/culture/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-donald-trump-ryan-lizza-book.html
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I'm glad Olivia Nuzzi wrote a book if only so @scaachi.bsky.social could dance on its corpse

slate.com/culture/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-donald-trump-ryan-lizza-book.html
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“Her security fees also total in the millions, and she says she’s been harassed and stalked by [DJT] supporters ever since 2017. ‘These people are crazy and violent. They’ve come to my house.’” apple.news/AR9qUSGkNRr2ksxvqg1kIGA
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Can’t wait to talk with @theferocity & @scaachi and Christopher Shay about burning it down and building back better at the Brooklyn Book Fest brooklynbookfestival.org/event/breaking-and-rebuilding/
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