It is not important and furthermore not anyone’s business how many times per day I fill out one of the little three-by-three squares at Immaculate Grid, or how many times I have done it since the site went online in 2023. I’m simply not going to be addressing that issue at this time, and feel … Read more
I can’t remember exactly what I was doing when it happened. The morning had started normally enough. It was a Tuesday and I’d woken up before my alarm—this part was not normal, and the subsequent consequences almost certainly ensure it will never happen again. I fed my cat and watered my plants. I made a … Read more
The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself lucky. It took 43 years to get here, to this spring day in 2025, standing in my nearly empty former bedroom in my mother’s house in Philadelphia, wearing a Mitski T-shirt, ratty yoga … Read more
Donald Trump was good friends with the notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for many years, the New York Times reported over the weekend, a friendship that included Trump hosting Epstein at “raucous parties with cheerleaders and models.” The Times wrote that one “woman has said that Mr. Trump groped her when Mr. Epstein brought her … Read more
This post was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 24. It has been republished here in conjunction with Bills Week. Everybody knows about the MAGA hat. It’s red. It says what it says on it. The content of the MAGA hat is obvious. It’s a team hat, a cult uniform, a panting, sniveling … Read more
The Buffalo Bills of my childhood are not the Buffalo Bills I live with now. They are certainly not the Buffalo Bills I’ve written about before on this website. It’s weird to think about in retrospect. The Bills went from clockwork ineptitude to clockwork competence with only a handful of transition years in the middle, … Read more
There is no shortage of entrepreneurial Bills in New York City. A trip around town can bring you to such businesses as the diner Bill’s in Ridgewood, the bike shop Bill’s Cyclery in Woodside, the jazz club Bill’s Place in Harlem, or Bill’s Supper Club in Midtown. (There is also a Brooklyn bar called Post … Read more
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On the way to Independence Day weekend, the United States Department of Education announced that, “thanks to the leadership of President Trump,” the University of Pennsylvania had agreed to retroactively change the results of 100-, 200-, and 500-meter women’s freestyle swimming … Read more
All across the United States and beyond on Saturday, millions of people got together and expressed—to put it in probably the most broadly acceptable terms to everyone who went—that Donald Trump needs to get out of everybody’s business. Coming after days of anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, as the community there fights to protect immigrants … Read more
There was a time in my youth where the anticipation of a concert was better than the concert itself. I saw a whole lot of incredible acts back then, but my memories of those shows are largely confined to their buildup. I remember waiting for hours—in a line that wrapped around the local Dayton’s department … Read more