Rebecca Fishbein
@bfishbfish.bsky.social
Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
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Burned Out At Work? Maybe You Need A "Hallmark Job"
What it's really like to quit the corporate grind, find charming work in a tiny town, and marry a local fisherman.
www.bustle.com
Wrote this fun piece about women who quit their corporate city gigs for Hallmark jobs! It was a real blast to report out (and lowkey inspiring) www.bustle.com/life/hallmar...
TIME should have awarded 2025’s Person of the Year to my mom, who convinced me in March to buy real snow boots “just in case.”
December 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
TIME should have awarded 2025’s Person of the Year to my mom, who convinced me in March to buy real snow boots “just in case.”
I've been thinking a lot about Marty Supreme, a movie that stressed me out *and* made me think about how my grandfather, a poor "bad" Jewish kid from The Bronx who was just a few years older than Chalamet's character, made it to Yale Law School by a combination of will, genius and the GI Bill.
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I've been thinking a lot about Marty Supreme, a movie that stressed me out *and* made me think about how my grandfather, a poor "bad" Jewish kid from The Bronx who was just a few years older than Chalamet's character, made it to Yale Law School by a combination of will, genius and the GI Bill.
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A great Christmas meal with @amidanruo.bsky.social, @mgoldstein.nyc, @bfishbfish.bsky.social, and @lindseyadler.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
A great Christmas meal with @amidanruo.bsky.social, @mgoldstein.nyc, @bfishbfish.bsky.social, and @lindseyadler.bsky.social
Just wanna ask the Safdies if everything’s okay at home
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just wanna ask the Safdies if everything’s okay at home
If we’re doing Christmas movie confessionals, when I finally read A Christmas Carol I was super confused to learn Jacob Marley didn’t actually have a twin brother named Robert.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If we’re doing Christmas movie confessionals, when I finally read A Christmas Carol I was super confused to learn Jacob Marley didn’t actually have a twin brother named Robert.
Sorry, we’re getting a snowstorm when?
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sorry, we’re getting a snowstorm when?
Is this a good day for me to confess that I’ve never seen A Christmas Story
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Is this a good day for me to confess that I’ve never seen A Christmas Story
I have watched all of Pluribus and my take is that it is very good.
December 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have watched all of Pluribus and my take is that it is very good.
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lol I just can’t believe she’s comfortable talking to people who put together “60 Minutes” like this
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
lol I just can’t believe she’s comfortable talking to people who put together “60 Minutes” like this
If you're looking for a last minute Christmas gift or somewhat large stocking stuffer, Amazon has my gorgeous coffee table book, Floral Estrangements, on sale for only $10! www.amazon.com/Floral-Estra...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you're looking for a last minute Christmas gift or somewhat large stocking stuffer, Amazon has my gorgeous coffee table book, Floral Estrangements, on sale for only $10! www.amazon.com/Floral-Estra...
I had a friend in elementary school who almost died because she had celiac disease and it took a while for the doctors to figure out she was incredibly malnourished
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I had a friend in elementary school who almost died because she had celiac disease and it took a while for the doctors to figure out she was incredibly malnourished
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Pretty brave for a guy who has stiffed all his creditors.
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Pretty brave for a guy who has stiffed all his creditors.
I know there are bigger problems in the world but I have been watching The Americans for over five years now and I still can’t get through season 4, send help
December 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I know there are bigger problems in the world but I have been watching The Americans for over five years now and I still can’t get through season 4, send help
Two seasons ago the Mets were the most fun team to watch in the MLB and next summer I don’t even know if I’ll bother to go to a game.
ah cool the mets traded jeff mcneil to sacramento for a high school pitcher so the longest-tenured met left on the roster is...tylor megill? david peterson?
December 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Two seasons ago the Mets were the most fun team to watch in the MLB and next summer I don’t even know if I’ll bother to go to a game.
Also the soundtrack slaps
one of the reasons Smile 2 is a really effective movie is that you can really easily imagine like half of our contemporary female pop stars in a situation where they're afflicted by a supernatural curse
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Also the soundtrack slaps
Yeah, no one’s gonna buy this
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Yeah, no one’s gonna buy this
Unfortunately I am a MetroCard hater and side with the “good riddance”
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Unfortunately I am a MetroCard hater and side with the “good riddance”
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I do think one small silver lining is that Bari had previously enjoyed a pretty neutral reputation among the uninitiated and I think she has burned that
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I do think one small silver lining is that Bari had previously enjoyed a pretty neutral reputation among the uninitiated and I think she has burned that
The thing about this is that there are some otherwise reasonable people out there who had not yet figured out that Bari Weiss is a tool of the Trump administration and this is, uh, gonna be a pretty big signal
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The thing about this is that there are some otherwise reasonable people out there who had not yet figured out that Bari Weiss is a tool of the Trump administration and this is, uh, gonna be a pretty big signal
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"I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife, who ...fears retaliation from federal officials. "They are so rude to him... They treated him like he was a murderer."
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife, who ...fears retaliation from federal officials. "They are so rude to him... They treated him like he was a murderer."
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I'm kinda getting tired around people putting caveats around antisemitism, there's been two mass shootings related to it, major political parties are openly saying antisemitic things and shuls have sophisticated security systems, you can just say it's bad
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm kinda getting tired around people putting caveats around antisemitism, there's been two mass shootings related to it, major political parties are openly saying antisemitic things and shuls have sophisticated security systems, you can just say it's bad
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”
R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”
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"For a moment, I was taken aback when the Politician told me he didn't want children. On Earth. Anyway, back to my metaphor,"
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"For a moment, I was taken aback when the Politician told me he didn't want children. On Earth. Anyway, back to my metaphor,"