Hillary Busis
busis.bsky.social
Hillary Busis
@busis.bsky.social
I work at Vanity Fair!
In This House, We Believe Ken Burns’s The American Revolution Launches November 16 on PBS
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow!
BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Today, Ross Douthat sincerely asked in 'The New York Times': “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” The women of VF found the question to be hysterical, in the funny and shrieking-female senses.

Drawing on the hallowed form of publishing workplace instant messages, we are issuing this considered response.
Women of Vanity Fair Consider: Wait, Did We Ruin the Workplace?
Today, The New York Times published a conversation between the conservative columnist Ross Douthat and two writers about just how bad ladies have screwed up corporate culture with their presence. We f...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I cosign this, and would like to add that Matthew Macfadyen is SO GOOD at playing a delusional, entitled little weasel. ("little" is not meant literally, he is very tall)
No piece on it at the moment but Death by Lightning is out and Death by Lightning rocks, the nomination of James Garfield at the 1880 RNC is just like conclave
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My friend and editor @busis.bsky.social referred to this as a "Ken BURN!"
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Decisive wins being called before 9:30pm proves that tired white women in their late 30s really ARE having a moment
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Now's as good a time as any to remind everyone that Vice is perhaps the worst trying-to-be-good movie in recent history, and also that I'm still proud of the headline on @rilaws.bsky.social's review www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
Dick Cheney Biopic Vice Is as Subtle as a Shot to the Face
Adam McKay's film doesn't know what to do with Christian Bale's beguiling act of transformation.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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What a long, stranger-than-fiction trip it’s been for Cheryl Hines. Over the last year and a half, her transition from Hollywood liberal to MAGA wife has stunned 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' fans, not to mention some of her friends and entertainment industry colleagues.
Cheryl Hines’s MAGA Makeover Has Her Hollywood Colleagues Scratching Their Heads: “I Don’t Know You Anymore!”
“It’s a sense of betrayal, like, who are you?” says one industry insider, of the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star and wife of RFK Jr.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Vanity Fair spoke with David Cross about Riyadh, “woke” comedy, and why he keeps a “go-bag” packed just in case things get too dicey during the second Trump administration.
David Cross Doesn’t Care If He Offends You
The candid comic still thinks those who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival participated in “a very dangerous, upsetting thing,” he tells ‘VF’—but he also thinks rape kit jokes and the r-word can ...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I just want a day alone with my tabs
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have never heard a yinzer say CARnegie, only carNEGie
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard
Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Watched the first two episodes last night, and Daniel really nails it!
October 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Me when my three year old gently nudges a ball without immediately falling flat on his face
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did Carrie Bradshaw seriously never write a book called Womanhattan
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We need a word for the joy derived from speaking to the same friends in slightly different configurations on various messaging apps simultaneously
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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In a likely turn of events, I am once again writing about late night. Read Part One of my report @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Late-Night TV Isn’t Dying—It’s Being Murdered
And we’re not just talking about Jimmy Kimmel. In part one of a two-part series, nearly a dozen insiders explain how one of comedy’s oldest genres is being strangled—starting with the chilling effect ...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The spammers are getting cruel (and weirdly accurate)
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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after reading media theory about this for MONTHS, i present my Grand Unified Theory of why video essays are so good these days! With many thanks to @lindsayellis.bsky.social, who provided her thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Where the “Woke” Debate Burns Hottest: In Incredibly Long YouTube Essays on the Likes of RFK Jr. and Ms. Rachel
Why are audiences flocking to feature-length examinations of Joe Rogan with academic-quality citations? Creator Lindsay Ellis has some theories.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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wrote about the memes allegedly left by Kirk’s killer, the desire for a coherent narrative in a world without context, and the widening digital culture gap that’s going to make these very hard times even harder
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Groypers, Helldivers 2, Furries: What do the Messages Left by Charlie Kirk's Alleged Killer Actually Mean?
Suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly inscribed messages on bullet casings that reference video games and internet culture—but they hardly point toward a coherent ideology.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why does Lego make a “street harassment” set
September 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s a straight-up masterpiece, I inhaled it in two days
I feel like there is not enough attention being paid to LONG STORY SHORT, which is the best tv show I’ve seen in quite a bit.
September 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Don’t you love when 30 Rock jokes become real
August 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The chickens are coming home to roost (all the Goodnight Construction Site books I put on hold are coming to the library at the same time)
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM