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Jaya Saxena
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James Beard Award-nominated writer and editor // Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing // Queens, NY // she/her // jayasaxena.com
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · Sep 24
Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie
How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.
www.eater.com
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"All the newer guides in the United States are pay-to-play. Yet this fact is not loudly publicized...despite indicating that Michelin’s arrival has more to do with a city’s investment in tourism than its perceived prowess in eating out" slate.com/life/2025/11...
Restaurants in Boston and Philly Have Finally Gotten Some Michelin Stars. The Reason Why Should Give You a Stomach Ache.
This ever-expanding pay-to-play scheme needs to stop.
slate.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
All the tawdry details aside, between Nuzzi’s ethical lapses, the revelations from the Epstein emails of journalists withholding information, and Trump’s continued degradation of the press, what’s been reinforced is a crisis of elite control of journalism and of profound rot. That rot appears in journalists in different forms: debasing themselves at the feet of power because it’s rewarded; allowing themselves to be debased by the powerful to maintain status and access; and identifying more with their powerful subjects than regular people because they believe it will insulate them from retribution. Each scenario reinforces how people behave differently under crumbling institutions than in a stable democracy: As rot spreads across journalism, politics, academia, law, and more, achieving success has become more of a riddle than a road map.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Doing some research on ACA tax credits to see if I should stay on COBRA out of pocket or sign up for a plan next year and things seem great. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
Hourly workers or others who have flexible incomes might simply choose to work less in 2026 to ensure their income is low enough to qualify for a premium tax credit, advisors said. "If someone is going to end up being $5,000 over the cliff, they should literally just stop working," said Levine of Focus Partners Wealth.
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Oh my god they did it www.youtube.com/shorts/uVT-S...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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tired: recession indicator
wired: epic bacon time
Inbox: Why Pork Is The Secret To Flavor-Forward Comfort Food in 2025
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I know I know what she does with her one stupid life is one of my business but imagine paying this woman to be an astute observer of American life
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 2d
bro there's a whole paragraph about his brain worm lmfao
I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. “Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.” A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Hey are you holiday shopping cause you should buy someone my wife's book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739012...
Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky: 9780593701126 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
that story is repulsive but you needn’t waste your brainpower envying that vanity fair reporter the things she got behaving abhorrently with a disgusting man. i wouldn’t have an affair with RFK jr to secure the journalistic bag and you wouldn’t either. look at him. he looks like he cums battery acid
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Just a reminder that the latest Best American Food and Travel anthology is for sale now, and you can submit pieces for next years anthology to bestamericanfoodtravel@gmail.com! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025
“These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. “They are acts of remembrance, r...
www.harpercollins.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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mattnegrin.bsky.social
not knowing how to write but taking the Big Writing Job because your parents are famous writers means writing this instead of “she put the Bible and the Divine Comedy on the table for me to see”
NYT: The Edge of Oblivion Nuzzi, 32, lives in a tiny house in the heart of Malibu where lizards crawl into her kitchen and the King James Bible and “The Divine Comedy” — two books she was reading while she was writing “American Canto” — sit on her dining room table. She drives around in a white Mustang convertible, like a Lana Del Rey song come to life.
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Ok got enough people thank you! And for everyone asking, yes these products do exist and a lot of people seem to use them without going into a coma! (Not me though)
jayasaxena.com Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 5d
Does anyone who regularly drinks 50mg+ THC bevs wanna talk to me about it for a story?
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Does anyone who regularly drinks 50mg+ THC bevs wanna talk to me about it for a story?
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
most on the nose “he’s on a mission from god” reference in recorded history
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 7d
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
Friendly reminder that there’s no such thing as “sex with underage girls”! We have a word for that! That word is “rape.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Excited to return from vacation and log onto open enrollment to figure out what to do after COBRA runs out in January
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
these stupid assholes got me leaving angry voicemails for senators at 4:30pm on a sunday. the only thing i want to do at 4:30pm on a sunday is serenely contemplate my evening sandwich
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Thank you all so much for your support 💛💛💛 our petition demanding the company reinstate us and reverse our illegal terminations is now live! show your support at the link below

actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
what if for my birthday you bought my book. haha jk. unless……. simplicitybook.xyz
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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There are many things I want to celebrate on my wife’s 40th but for now I’d love to focus on her being an absolute smokeshow.
mattielubchansky.com mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11d
she is forty years old today. can you believe it. a modern miracle
a picture of some middle-aged woman
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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mariabustillos.com
Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.

You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 12d
How does one invest in left-wing media without a far-right billionaire coming along in a few years, buying said media, and remodeling it in his own image?

That seems to be a recurring problem.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
got to post-Zohran blog @thecut.com — multiple election outcomes on Tuesday showed that refusing to fold on trans people, migrants, Muslims, and marginalized communities while pushing kitchen table issues is a winning strategy. the pundit class’s “Decision to Win”-style arguments can be put to bed
Welcome to Woke 2.0
Democrats won by running on kitchen-table issues and accepting or embracing trans people and immigrants.
www.thecut.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM