Meaghan O’Connell
@meaghano.bsky.social
writer // author of And Now We Have Everything // no longer the senior features editor at Romper // email: oconnell.meaghan@gmail // https://www.meaghano.com/
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2025 Was the Year of Movies About Mothers on the Edge
In Hamnet, Die My Love, and If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You, female directors tapped a potent vein of maternal rage
www.harpersbazaar.com
the mommy's moods canon is THRIVING and i got to play film critic www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...
i want to join the book review coop that comes out of this 😭
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
i want to join the book review coop that comes out of this 😭
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The irony of my child’s sign they were so proud to bring this afternoon.
February 1, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The irony of my child’s sign they were so proud to bring this afternoon.
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abolish ice is the moderate position
February 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
abolish ice is the moderate position
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When they decided to teach the kids (such as my 11yo) a lesson I don't think they understood the lesson was fuck ICE
Congrats to ICE for dropping a metric ton of tear gas on a bunch of nurses, teamsters and children just now
February 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
When they decided to teach the kids (such as my 11yo) a lesson I don't think they understood the lesson was fuck ICE
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trying to be the bookternet i want to see in the world substack.com/home/post/p-...
on the calculation of volume
just read them please
substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
trying to be the bookternet i want to see in the world substack.com/home/post/p-...
Sometimes I think about how much hate I had for Maria P*pova because in 2012 I thought her culture blog was too philistine lol
Wrote about the good(ish) old days thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Sometimes I think about how much hate I had for Maria P*pova because in 2012 I thought her culture blog was too philistine lol
"It was a strange feeling to look back at the scarcity of yesteryear and feel abundance." thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
thebaffler.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:49 PM
"It was a strange feeling to look back at the scarcity of yesteryear and feel abundance." thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
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Levels of "would" are simply off the charts.
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Levels of "would" are simply off the charts.
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
will the times boot brooks or will he appear on Ezra Klein’s show within the week 🕰️
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
will the times boot brooks or will he appear on Ezra Klein’s show within the week 🕰️
the mommy's moods canon is THRIVING and i got to play film critic www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...
2025 Was the Year of Movies About Mothers on the Edge
In Hamnet, Die My Love, and If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You, female directors tapped a potent vein of maternal rage
www.harpersbazaar.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the mommy's moods canon is THRIVING and i got to play film critic www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...
I LOVE BUZZ GRAMBO
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I LOVE BUZZ GRAMBO
I‘d like to volunteer myself for a $400k author buyout lithub.com/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Gambled on Me… and Lost
Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I‘d like to volunteer myself for a $400k author buyout lithub.com/the-publishi...
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
how does this not say NewsGuild is filing a grievance with the NLRB for retaliation
In response, Conde has filed a charge with the NLRB against the NewsGuild of New York over the union's "repeated and egregious disregard of our collective bargaining agreement."
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
how does this not say NewsGuild is filing a grievance with the NLRB for retaliation
my favorite time of year!!!
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November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
my favorite time of year!!!
at this pivotal time in American letters I propose I should only have to know one style manual
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
at this pivotal time in American letters I propose I should only have to know one style manual
whites... i'm avail to teach a seminar on being an untrusting hater
White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
whites... i'm avail to teach a seminar on being an untrusting hater
the only woman in this world i can rely on is PURELY ELIZABETH
October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
the only woman in this world i can rely on is PURELY ELIZABETH
i'm giddy
If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
September 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
i'm giddy
on rapturetok they are postulating that facial recognition technology and possibly AI is the mark of the beast -- wondering if we could harness this somehow
September 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
on rapturetok they are postulating that facial recognition technology and possibly AI is the mark of the beast -- wondering if we could harness this somehow
"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career." bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career." bidoun.org/articles/hou...
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This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
In case you’re at all confused.
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
In case you’re at all confused.
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