Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff.
Someone had a very good thanksgiving.
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Someone had a very good thanksgiving.
Timeline cleanse: Grizzle wrestling with her friend Hugo.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Timeline cleanse: Grizzle wrestling with her friend Hugo.
My dog just knocked the laptop off my lap and took its place.
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My dog just knocked the laptop off my lap and took its place.
Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.
October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.
Everything in the world is so terrible, but we have a new dog and she is perfect. Introducing: Grizzle!
October 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Everything in the world is so terrible, but we have a new dog and she is perfect. Introducing: Grizzle!
It is just so maddening to see the language of honest science weaponized against trans people. Treatments based on "weak" and "low-quality" evidence are so very common in medicine, especially pediatrics. It does not mean what people think it means!
September 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It is just so maddening to see the language of honest science weaponized against trans people. Treatments based on "weak" and "low-quality" evidence are so very common in medicine, especially pediatrics. It does not mean what people think it means!
On that trip to Eastern Congo, I watched a two year old boy die of measles because the war prevented routine vaccinations and other vital care. He was the third child his mother buried. They were all casualties of that war.
August 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On that trip to Eastern Congo, I watched a two year old boy die of measles because the war prevented routine vaccinations and other vital care. He was the third child his mother buried. They were all casualties of that war.
The ghoulish fixation on preexisting conditions and starving children in Gaza is bizarre. In all modern conflicts the death toll is measured in excess deaths. This is something I wrote about Congo's civil war almost 20 years ago:
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The ghoulish fixation on preexisting conditions and starving children in Gaza is bizarre. In all modern conflicts the death toll is measured in excess deaths. This is something I wrote about Congo's civil war almost 20 years ago:
Great piece. This is particular is very wise!
July 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Great piece. This is particular is very wise!
Much to digest in the Catalist report on the 2024 election, but this really stood out to me: slow leak of new voters out of the Dem coalition through 2020, then a sharp drop in 2024, though from a smaller cohort of new voters.
May 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Much to digest in the Catalist report on the 2024 election, but this really stood out to me: slow leak of new voters out of the Dem coalition through 2020, then a sharp drop in 2024, though from a smaller cohort of new voters.
It is literally in the oath of office that it is his job to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It is literally in the oath of office that it is his job to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
An ad I was just served on the other app.
March 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
An ad I was just served on the other app.
Justice Jackson asks about a child who does not want to grow breasts. Notable that thousands of boys have cosmetic surgery to remove unwanted breast tissue from their chests.
December 4, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Justice Jackson asks about a child who does not want to grow breasts. Notable that thousands of boys have cosmetic surgery to remove unwanted breast tissue from their chests.
Today I went for a hike and saw this Sequoia that has clearly seen a lot in its centuries of life and it helped me put some things in perspective.
November 30, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Today I went for a hike and saw this Sequoia that has clearly seen a lot in its centuries of life and it helped me put some things in perspective.
What a lot of anti-trans activists who fret over the future fertility of trans kids (an important issue, this is why informed consent is so important) don't realize is that for much of history trans people who wanted to transition were required in many countries to be sterilized.
November 22, 2024 at 9:51 PM
What a lot of anti-trans activists who fret over the future fertility of trans kids (an important issue, this is why informed consent is so important) don't realize is that for much of history trans people who wanted to transition were required in many countries to be sterilized.
I am finding it quite unbearable to watch Sarah McBride bear the grotesque attack of her colleagues with so much grace. I know it is what we have been taught to expect of trailblazers, but I am increasingly struggling to accept this.
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM
I am finding it quite unbearable to watch Sarah McBride bear the grotesque attack of her colleagues with so much grace. I know it is what we have been taught to expect of trailblazers, but I am increasingly struggling to accept this.
Totally fascinating replies from @aoc.bsky.social/Trump split ticket voters on her IG.
November 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Totally fascinating replies from @aoc.bsky.social/Trump split ticket voters on her IG.
Seriously this is what it is all about!
November 10, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Seriously this is what it is all about!
Since we're really libbin out today...
November 5, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Since we're really libbin out today...
Libbin on a prayer!
November 5, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Libbin on a prayer!
And thank you to the great Sarah Schulman, who never stops working to try to repair our world. We are not the only people with dreams.
November 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM
And thank you to the great Sarah Schulman, who never stops working to try to repair our world. We are not the only people with dreams.
Thank you to my incredible wife, Candy Feit, for coming up with a word to capture this awful feeling we all have rn: DESPAIRALYZED.
November 2, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Thank you to my incredible wife, Candy Feit, for coming up with a word to capture this awful feeling we all have rn: DESPAIRALYZED.
Imagine going back to the scene of that incredible post assassination attempt image, trying to recapture the moment and ending up with… this.
October 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Imagine going back to the scene of that incredible post assassination attempt image, trying to recapture the moment and ending up with… this.
Reagan, meanwhile, gave up golf after an incident, saying he didn't want to put others at risk.
September 16, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Reagan, meanwhile, gave up golf after an incident, saying he didn't want to put others at risk.
I had wondered about other golfing presidents - Obama seems to have golfed mostly at an Airforce base in Maryland, but Trump preferred his clubs, despite the danger. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
September 16, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I had wondered about other golfing presidents - Obama seems to have golfed mostly at an Airforce base in Maryland, but Trump preferred his clubs, despite the danger. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...