Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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I get included in a lot of political polling outreach for some reason and lately it’s getting just spectacularly batshit
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I get included in a lot of political polling outreach for some reason and lately it’s getting just spectacularly batshit
And wishing a very happy 2026 to Brad Lander
In a frankly bizarre interview with the New York Times, Dan Goldman says he's not ready to conclude that Israel has committed any war crimes in Gaza.
Not genocide, any war crimes at all.
Not genocide, any war crimes at all.
Facing Challenge From Lander, Dan Goldman Prepares to Defend His Seat
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
And wishing a very happy 2026 to Brad Lander
Oh this thread made me extremely happy and also slightly angry
I have a long-running list of surprising eponyms, and in this dark time I wish to share my amusement with you.
To clarify, an eponym is something named for a person. “Newton’s Laws” are called that for Isaac Newton. A surprising eponym is just that.
So, let’s begin.
Eponyms/0
To clarify, an eponym is something named for a person. “Newton’s Laws” are called that for Isaac Newton. A surprising eponym is just that.
So, let’s begin.
Eponyms/0
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Oh this thread made me extremely happy and also slightly angry
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Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros
I feel like all this massive global politics hellscape situation is somehow, cosmically, eldritchly, connected to Armando Iannucci being a contestant on the new Taskmaster
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I feel like all this massive global politics hellscape situation is somehow, cosmically, eldritchly, connected to Armando Iannucci being a contestant on the new Taskmaster
In the same repurposed complex as the Restoration Hardware outlet and a Costco!
MS NOW confirms that Maduro will be taken to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), the same facility—with horrific conditions—that held prominent prisoners like El Chapo, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Sean Combs, as well as ICE detainees.
January 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM
In the same repurposed complex as the Restoration Hardware outlet and a Costco!
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.
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Claudia Sheinbaum could do the funniest thing right about now.
January 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Claudia Sheinbaum could do the funniest thing right about now.
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I need someone to explain to me how a single Poshmark account can have a quarter of a million active listings
December 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I need someone to explain to me how a single Poshmark account can have a quarter of a million active listings
When I worked at a bookstore I sold Anna Chlumsky her college textbooks
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
When I worked at a bookstore I sold Anna Chlumsky her college textbooks
A restaurant I utterly hate is closing, but I cannot be even a little happy about it because I know in my bones it’ll be replaced by something unfathomably worse
December 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A restaurant I utterly hate is closing, but I cannot be even a little happy about it because I know in my bones it’ll be replaced by something unfathomably worse
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I’ve started to realize that a whole lot of people think that calling a book “well-written” means it doesn’t have a lot of spelling or grammar errors …?
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’ve started to realize that a whole lot of people think that calling a book “well-written” means it doesn’t have a lot of spelling or grammar errors …?
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@hels.bsky.social cold oven turkey recipe never disappoints. Just do the prep, friends, you will not be disappointed.
December 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
@hels.bsky.social cold oven turkey recipe never disappoints. Just do the prep, friends, you will not be disappointed.
Good thread
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Good thread
Got me crying in this Hilton Garden Inn rn
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Got me crying in this Hilton Garden Inn rn
Long-overdue update (this is like the third or fourth iteration — washable markers, baby!)
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Long-overdue update (this is like the third or fourth iteration — washable markers, baby!)
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White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
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What utter BS. So if gender affirming care is not subject to 42 U.S.C. 1395, which stops CMS from controling the practice of medicine, because they claim it's not healthcare... then what the hell authority and basis does CMS have for getting involved in this at all and extorting hospitals over it?
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What utter BS. So if gender affirming care is not subject to 42 U.S.C. 1395, which stops CMS from controling the practice of medicine, because they claim it's not healthcare... then what the hell authority and basis does CMS have for getting involved in this at all and extorting hospitals over it?
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The news of HHS potentially pulling funding for any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth should terrify everyone. This means the govt can decide what care any of us can receive and hold funding hostage for any hospital that doesn’t bend to its will.
December 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The news of HHS potentially pulling funding for any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth should terrify everyone. This means the govt can decide what care any of us can receive and hold funding hostage for any hospital that doesn’t bend to its will.
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I ordered something, paid $90 for rush shipping, & it didn’t even get sent until a full week after it should have arrived, so I wrote a politely bitchy email and they refunded my $90. I’m not sure if I’m more proud for standing up for myself, or ashamed that I paid ninety entire dollars for shipping
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I ordered something, paid $90 for rush shipping, & it didn’t even get sent until a full week after it should have arrived, so I wrote a politely bitchy email and they refunded my $90. I’m not sure if I’m more proud for standing up for myself, or ashamed that I paid ninety entire dollars for shipping
This is so fun
I spent $900 at 1587 Prime so you don’t have to.
Two nights playing with fire at Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's steakhouse: defector.com/two-nights-p...
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is so fun