Talia Barrington

How Megan Hilty, a Tony Nominee, Spends Her Show Days

It was so inspiring talking to the peerless Megan Hilty for @nytimes.com last week. Here’s just a small window into her day, and everything it takes to dominate on Broadway!

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

I Can’t Believe How Many Parents Are Telling Me Not to Have Kids Everyone agrees that raising children can be difficult, thankless work—but it’s still worth it, right? This Mother’s Day, the answer is...maybe not.

For Cosmopolitan I wrote about a phenomenon I've experienced more and more in recent years. Why ARE people telling me not to have kids? (also, yay, casual front page of the magazine!)

www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

I feel like it’s used to affirm that yes, perhaps it’s an obvious question, but it’s the heart of the issue

It makes sense that he doesn’t seem to have heard of WW2.

Perfect take.

Jessica Berman Is Taking the NWSL to New Heights The women’s soccer commissioner talks growing the league as the curtain rises on the 2025 season.

For @thecut.com I spoke to the @nwslsoccer.com’s Commissioner Jessica Berman about the direction of the league, work/life balance and living in fluidity instead of artificial boundaries.

www.thecut.com/article/how-...

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

There are several arts programs/conferences doing this. And who can blame them?

If ‘going through it’ were a person:

There is a woman in the laundromat with me who has been standing in front of her dryer staring at it spin for the past 30 mins.

“Supine” is now my go to insult. The single best description of these people.

Your posts are the sole reason I started The Pitt and… despite never watching medical dramas, I get it.

Jane Fonda. “This is our documentary moment.”

It’s a hockey game. And I’m rooting for a team.

The Ice Broke When It Shouldn’t Have. This Expert 'Wild Ice' Skater Is Determined To Figure Out Why. The traumatic incident changed her in more ways than one.

For Women’s Health, I wrote about how a 5000 year old sport is meeting new challenges, and the devastating accident that is inspiring change.

www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a636884...

Seriously

Screen shot of weather app show 1 yard visibility in NYC.

Not at all apocalyptic right now in NYC.

So beautiful

True, but my cats stopped paying attention to when I randomly shout, Oh. My. God.

Would be really nice to be able to read just about anything these days without involuntarily screaming What The Actual Fuck in my head.

Aldous Huxley on Technodictators YouTube video by Blank on Blank

Timely — "If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" Aldous Huxley

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article) The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Source:

Hey, you aren’t crazy or depressed.
It’s fascism.

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...

This seems bad www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

‘Our youngest and brightest’: grief of DC plane crash rocks figure skating community The loss of the young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short in the American Eagle flight 5342 crash has ripped a hole in the tightly knit world of figure skating

For @theguardian.com, I wrote something I wish I didn’t have to.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only tempor...

www.wired.com/story/life-s...

“Not surprised. Disgusted.”: Capt. Sully Sullenberger responds to Donald Trump’s attempt to blame the D.C. plane crash on DEI

#LastWord

This.

patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a room and talking about chaos . ALT: patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a room and talking about chaos .

Trying to cover a story on the federal funding freeze

Ilia Malinin: ‘I have a little more pressure on myself. I don’t think I’m really that far away from everyone’ Figure skating’s ‘quad god’ takes aim at a third straight US national title starting on Saturday, but for the first time as the incumbent world champion

For @theguardian.com I spoke to Quad God Ilia Malinin on a second world title, a new golden age of figure skating, and landing a ‘quint’

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision (Gift Article) A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.

For everyone who said it wouldn’t come to this

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...