Amy Weiss-Meyer
@amyweissmeyer.bsky.social
senior editor at The Atlantic
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New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
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Patti Smith spoke with @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social over matcha lattes about her new memoir, “Bread of Angels.” In the book, Smith reflects on her lifetime of reinvention—and the twists in her story that have surprised even her. Read more from their conversation:
Patti Smith’s Family Secrets
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Patti Smith spoke with @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social over matcha lattes about her new memoir, “Bread of Angels.” In the book, Smith reflects on her lifetime of reinvention—and the twists in her story that have surprised even her. Read more from their conversation:
I spoke to Patti Smith about her new memoir, Bread of Angels—a book about childhood, fame, marriage, motherhood and so much more that also includes a big revelation about her heritage
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Patti Smith’s Family Secrets
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I spoke to Patti Smith about her new memoir, Bread of Angels—a book about childhood, fame, marriage, motherhood and so much more that also includes a big revelation about her heritage
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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For our November issue marking 250 years of the American experiment, the artist Joe McKendry painted a tableau of figures drawn from the stories in the issue—capturing the Revolutionary Era in all of its complexity, contradictions, and ingenuity.
Read more: https://theatln.tc/zEfqnh1q
Read more: https://theatln.tc/zEfqnh1q
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For our November issue marking 250 years of the American experiment, the artist Joe McKendry painted a tableau of figures drawn from the stories in the issue—capturing the Revolutionary Era in all of its complexity, contradictions, and ingenuity.
Read more: https://theatln.tc/zEfqnh1q
Read more: https://theatln.tc/zEfqnh1q
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"One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration."
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Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
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September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration."
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Important piece by my colleague Gisela Salim-Peyer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Important piece by my colleague Gisela Salim-Peyer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Today is a good day to read @mckaycoppins.bsky.social on the mind games, sibling rivalry, and war for power that culminated in Lachlan Murdoch winning his family’s succession fight:
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Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
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September 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Today is a good day to read @mckaycoppins.bsky.social on the mind games, sibling rivalry, and war for power that culminated in Lachlan Murdoch winning his family’s succession fight:
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When America entered World War I, Joseph Kurihara became a soldier. When it entered World War II, he became a prisoner, a dissident, and ultimately an exile. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social tells his story in our August issue:
How Joseph Kurihara Lost His Faith in America
He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When America entered World War I, Joseph Kurihara became a soldier. When it entered World War II, he became a prisoner, a dissident, and ultimately an exile. @andrewaoyama.bsky.social tells his story in our August issue:
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It’s official: Planned Parenthood has been (mostly) defunded for a year
My quick explainer:
My quick explainer:
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It’s official: Planned Parenthood has been (mostly) defunded for a year
My quick explainer:
My quick explainer:
“Ms. Glazer, 38, said former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the front-runner, reminded her of a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain.’”
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An Actor, a Bookseller and a Chef Walk Into a Voting Booth
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June 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“Ms. Glazer, 38, said former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the front-runner, reminded her of a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain.’”
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
“What we were promised was a reckoning, whatever that meant. What we got was a day off.”
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The Hollowness of This Juneteenth
The holiday was always an implicit warning that what had been done could be done again.
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June 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“What we were promised was a reckoning, whatever that meant. What we got was a day off.”
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May 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🧵 Last year, I came across one of the most harrowing studies I've ever read.
It found that 1 in 4 unresponsive brain-injury patients—many considered vegetative—might be cognitively aware but trapped inside their bodies. Could this be true? What did it mean?
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It found that 1 in 4 unresponsive brain-injury patients—many considered vegetative—might be cognitively aware but trapped inside their bodies. Could this be true? What did it mean?
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
May 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🧵 Last year, I came across one of the most harrowing studies I've ever read.
It found that 1 in 4 unresponsive brain-injury patients—many considered vegetative—might be cognitively aware but trapped inside their bodies. Could this be true? What did it mean?
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
It found that 1 in 4 unresponsive brain-injury patients—many considered vegetative—might be cognitively aware but trapped inside their bodies. Could this be true? What did it mean?
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I learned so much from this amazing @sarahzhang.bsky.social piece about the human brain and consciousness—which it turns out scientists are only just beginning to understand.
Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
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Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
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The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
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May 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I learned so much from this amazing @sarahzhang.bsky.social piece about the human brain and consciousness—which it turns out scientists are only just beginning to understand.
Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Like everything Sarah writes, this is an utterly fascinating, deeply human story:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Carl Hiaasen’s novels made him synonymous with “Florida Weird,” @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social writes. Now it seems like we’re all living in one of his books. https://theatln.tc/Br7uYfWp
May 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Carl Hiaasen’s novels made him synonymous with “Florida Weird,” @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social writes. Now it seems like we’re all living in one of his books. https://theatln.tc/Br7uYfWp
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Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
To say that something is straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel is only a slightly less clichéd way of saying that truth, especially in Florida, is stranger than fiction.
For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
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For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
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We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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May 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
To say that something is straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel is only a slightly less clichéd way of saying that truth, especially in Florida, is stranger than fiction.
For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
For @theatlantic.com's June issue, I went to Vero Beach to talk to @carlhiaasen.com himself.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Truly, we are all living in a Carl Hiaasen novel! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
May 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Truly, we are all living in a Carl Hiaasen novel! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
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April 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
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Lot of people need to grow spines, and fast.
@engber.bsky.social reports on PBS's decision to pull, then reinstate, a doc about a trans gamer:
@engber.bsky.social reports on PBS's decision to pull, then reinstate, a doc about a trans gamer:
PBS Pulled a Film for Political Reasons, Then Changed Its Mind
A window into how the network is handling the new Trump era
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April 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Lot of people need to grow spines, and fast.
@engber.bsky.social reports on PBS's decision to pull, then reinstate, a doc about a trans gamer:
@engber.bsky.social reports on PBS's decision to pull, then reinstate, a doc about a trans gamer:
"The Cuomo group’s promises appear to have amounted to little beyond a few private informational receptions and opinion essays." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
Andrew Cuomo’s Pro-Israel Group Promised Big Plans. It Delivered Little.
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March 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"The Cuomo group’s promises appear to have amounted to little beyond a few private informational receptions and opinion essays." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
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I've spent the past year talking to James Murdoch about his father's "twisted" behavior, the mind games at the family-counseling retreat, how Fox News really works, and the war over his family's media empire. My cover story for The Atlantic's April edition: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I've spent the past year talking to James Murdoch about his father's "twisted" behavior, the mind games at the family-counseling retreat, how Fox News really works, and the war over his family's media empire. My cover story for The Atlantic's April edition: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
It was such a privilege to get to work with @adriennelaf.bsky.social on this smart, thoughtful, thought-provoking story about Hawai'i—and America itself.
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government, Adrienne LaFrance writes. Now some Hawaiians want their nation back:
What Does America Owe Hawai‘i?
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. Now some Hawaiians want their nation back.
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December 11, 2024 at 1:36 PM
It was such a privilege to get to work with @adriennelaf.bsky.social on this smart, thoughtful, thought-provoking story about Hawai'i—and America itself.