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samaha.bsky.social
On unhoused migrants in Paris displaced by police sweeps of encampments before the 2024 Olympics:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...
A grand Olympic plan for the Seine. But first, the tent camps.
With the Summer Games coming to Paris, migrants there face a new choice: Get on the bus or wait for the next police sweep.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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samaha.bsky.social
On UFC fans reckoning with the sport’s growing reputation as a haven for Trump supporters:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Two nights in Vegas with the fan-bros of UFC
In Las Vegas for UFC 313, a weekend of violence and ‘escape.’
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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samaha.bsky.social
On the doctor who prescribed ketamine & opiods to Colts owner Jim Irsay before his death:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

& the subsequent FBI investigation that our reporting sparked:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
NFL owner secretly relapsed, got ketamine from private doctor before death
As a recovery doctor provided ketamine and opioids, Colts owner Jim Irsay spent his final years suffering through a relapse that he and executives hid from the public.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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samaha.bsky.social
I’ll miss working with all the brilliant folks at @postsports.bsky.social: we published bangers, reached millions of readers, made a real impact. Jeff Bezos killed the world’s best sports section. Here are some stories I’m proud of:
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
scaachi.bsky.social
boston lost the superbowl and now they have to deal with me, what a fucking week :(
wburcityspace.bsky.social WBUR CitySpace @wburcityspace.bsky.social · 12d
What does marriage mean now — and what happens when it ends?

Join @cogwbur.bsky.social on Weds. Feb. 11 for a convo about love, loss and how divorce has evolved w/ therapist Oona Metz, essayist Scaachi Koul & author Nicole Graev Lipson. @wbur.org’s Tiziana Dearing moderates. Tickets available here👇🏾
Cognoscenti Presents: The realities of modern marriage and navigating divorce
Join us for a panel conversation exploring how divorce has shifted over the years and how to navigate its emotional complexities.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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samaha.bsky.social
Here’s our story on the gambler accused of orchestrating one of the biggest matchfixing schemes in US history. 

@postsports.bsky.social has long delivered some of the best sports reporting out there. I’m grateful to contribute to that legacy. #SaveThePost

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‘Cashing all day’: The Instagram star accused of corrupting NCAA hoops
His social media is a flood of diamonds, celebrities and winning betting slips. His edge, prosecutors allege, was paying players to underperform.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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dalydes.bsky.social
"Is it still locker-room talk if they say it to our faces, gun cocked? . . .

There was plenty of incendiary invective for Ross to pull from. He chose to call Good a bitch because it’s what men call us all the time."

Scaachi Koul on what Ross' language signifies.

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I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Last Thing the ICE Agent Said to Renee Good
He said it after he killed her.
slate.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
scaachi.bsky.social
asked some ottawa journalists and politicos about justin and katy and you know what: i'm really rooting for those two dorkasses slate.com/life/2025/12...
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Deserve Each Other
Trudeau was all talk and all looks as prime minister, but talk and looks are pretty good qualities in a boyfriend.
slate.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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jb4nay.bsky.social
Incredible stuff. Real tears in my eyes, man slate.com/culture/2025...
American Canto was the last real opportunity for Nuzzi to talk about what happened: tangibly, what she did to torpedo her career and personal life. It could have been a pulpy tell-all that explains how she fell in love with the worst Kennedy or a political book opening up her reporter’s notebook to share from a vantage point few people ever reach. After these brief weeks around Christmas, already a chaotic time to publish a book, the interest around her will ebb. American Canto could have helped redeem her if only it were interesting. Instead, it is illegible in ways you can’t imagine. Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do. Three hundred pages with no chapter breaks, it swerves back and forth through time, from Nuzzi’s interviews with Donald Trump over the years to her combustible relationship with fellow annoying journalist Ryan Lizza to her alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he was running for president himself. Reading it is like spending time with a delusional fortune cookie: platitudes that feel like they were run through a translation service three times. I don’t begrudge Nuzzi for being shameless enough to churn a book out this fast. This is America, baby! Why wouldn’t a well-known journalist capitalize on her opportunities? Besides, if she pulled this off, her scam would be complete, and she’d deserve her success. Torpedoing your career with the brain-worm guy and then getting a job at Vanity Fair and writing a juicy tell-all about it? Put her on every television in the nation—she’s earned that much. But with little distance and zero self-reflection, Nuzzi has given us the least interesting version of her own story. It’s disappointing only because the reader knows there’s more, and Nuzzi is deciding too late to be cute about her derelictions. “I could tell you the truth,” she writes, with irritating coyness. “I could tell you, probably, nothing that you would like. I could tell you, almost certainly, nothing that would redeem me. I could tell you that the year flew in birds. And I could tell you that the year flew in bullets.” Really, just dogshit writing all around.
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
workshopping a take that this book may actually be era defining. the rub is that it's the era of people who can't really read books because their minds are so addled and outsourced to algo slop/chatbots slate.com/culture/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
I cannot believe I am going to force myself to read this thing
slate.com/culture/2025...
But with little distance and zero self-reflection, Nuzzi has given us the least interesting version of her own story. It’s disappointing only because the reader knows there’s more, and Nuzzi is deciding too late to be cute about her derelictions. “I could tell you the truth,” she writes, with irritating coyness. “I could tell you, probably, nothing that you would like. I could tell you, almost certainly, nothing that would redeem me. I could tell you that the year flew in birds. And I could tell you that the year flew in bullets.” Really, just dogshit writing all around.
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
scaachi.bsky.social
golly. but i'm just a girl!
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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"God, everyone sucks so much in this—you really have to pick the brain worm." slate.com/culture/2025...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That.
God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.
slate.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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lizrenzetti.bsky.social
I'm glad Olivia Nuzzi wrote a book if only so @scaachi.bsky.social could dance on its corpse

slate.com/culture/2025...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That.
God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.
slate.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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lizzieohreally.bsky.social
🚨 @scaachi.bsky.social siren slate.com/culture/2025...
Her Book About Her RFK Jr. Affair Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That.
God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.
slate.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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amyalexca.bsky.social
“Her security fees also total in the millions, and she says she’s been harassed and stalked by [DJT] supporters ever since 2017. ‘These people are crazy and violent. They’ve come to my house.’” apple.news/AR9qUSGkNRr2...
She’s Been Booted Out of Hollywood and Investigated by the Secret Service. When She Let Me Into Her House, I Could See Why. — Slate
After she held up a dummy of Donald Trump’s severed head, the comedian became a Hollywood pariah. The way she sees it, she was right all along—and not just about the president.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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soupytoasterson.bsky.social
Good lord, @scaachi.bsky.social reading Canada’s banks for filth.

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Text that reads I don’t really know why Will Arnett is doing ads for RBC but it feels like RBC is the Will Arnett of Canadian banks (Scotiabank is Jason Bateman and you all /immediately/ know I’m right)
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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maris.bsky.social
Can’t wait to talk with @theferocity & @scaachi and Christopher Shay about burning it down and building back better at the Brooklyn Book Fest brooklynbookfestival.org/event/breaki...
Breaking and Rebuilding - Brooklyn Book Festival
As our social and political systems continue to falter—or fall apart completely before our eyes—many of us have started to interrogate what progress looks like, both now and in the more distant future...
brooklynbookfestival.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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salon.com
Divorce him already, Usha! On the latest episode of #StandingRoomOnly, @amandamarcotte.bsky.social dives into VP J.D. Vance’s public treatment of his wife and the politics of divorce — with guest Slate senior writer @scaachi.bsky.social. Premiering now: bit.ly/45vXh8b
Divorce him already, Usha
Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha seem very unhappy together in their public appearances. Usha looks miserable and talks about wanting to return to her career and home, while J.D. runs her down, uses her as a prop, and discusses marriage and parenthood like they’re requirements that must be endured. But what disturbs me the most is that his policy positions suggest that he wants Usha to subsume her South Asian identity to his family’s whiteness. Joining me this week to discuss the politics of divorce, the Vice President’s interracial marriage, and what Usha should do next is Scaachi Koul, a Senior Writer for Slate and the author of “Sucker Punch,” available now. Subscribe here on YouTube for more Standing Room Only, airing weekly Thursdays at 5 PM ET on YouTube. 🥳 Standing Room Only started as a newsletter. Join the party and get it in your inbox 2x a week by clicking here: https://www.salon.com/newsletter?utm_... 🤓 Read Amanda Marcotte's writing on Salon.com here: https://www.salon.com/writer/amanda_m... 👍 Follow Amanda on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/amandamarcot... ✌️ Support Salon’s mission—become a member: https://www.salon.com/premium?utm_sou... #standingroomonly #salon #salondotcom #amandamarcotte #jdvance #ushavance #maga #scaachikoul #divorce
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August 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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jlussenhop.bsky.social
When @scaachi.bsky.social tells you the internet isn't fun even for HER anymore, it's time to get off the internet. slate.com/technology/2...
The Internet As We Knew It Is Over. The Only Thing Left Is to Go Outside
We used to have fun online. Not anymore.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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sgbuggs.bsky.social
lol Scaachi with this fairly polite dragging lololol

also this segment really says it all for me. folks don’t care if Perry’s politics are flimsy or if she’s unethical, they just wanna be entertained. that says a lot about everything we’re dealing with these days.
a screenshot from the article in the quoted post, stating: In Oklahoma City, plenty of her fans weren’t plugged in enough to know about Dr. Luke, or about the song’s production credits, or about Perry’s political and personal associations. The ones who were aware seemed downright pragmatic about it. “If every single dollar you had to spend had to be accountable to some social issue, you would not be able to spend one dollar in America,” 35-year-old Stephen Fitzsimmons said while walking into the concert. “I just want to see her sing ‘Firework.’ ” And Perry gave Fitzsimmons exactly what he wanted. When she emerged from the undercarriage of the stage, connected to futuristic-looking wires like an intergalactic science experiment, singing weakly into a microphone with a butterfly on the end of it, her audience was with her, screaming. Perry transmuted into exactly what she’s known for: not a singer, not a dancer, but a performer.
June 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
scaachi.bsky.social
i hate AI because i care that you, and not anyone else, made something slate.com/culture/2025...
I Found an Entire Book About Me for Sale on Amazon. It Only Got Weirder From There.
I shelled out $7.99 to read what a mindless bot had cribbed about my life.
slate.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I had so much fun hosting a discussion with @scaachi.bsky.social at Ottawa Writers Fest on Wednesday. I love WritersFest and all of the bold ideas it brings to our city.
Ariel and Scaachi on stage at Writers Fest
April 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM