Kristen Steenbeeke

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.

Some screenshots I took during my arduous reporting

Burned Out on the News? Watch These Texas Critters Frolic Instead Spy on curious meerkats in El Paso, adore the Houston Zoo’s baby giraffe, or watch North Texas bats snooze in tiny hammocks.

Again I have reported the essential news of Texas

Why Chrystabell Moved Home to Texas to Run a Green-Burial Cemetery The co-owner of a Texas memorial park that uses solely biodegradable materials explains the dos and don’ts of decomposition.

My newest TM piece about David Lynch's musical muse, who told me all about what it's like to run a natural-burial cemetery:

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Christopher Brown’s Abandoned Lots Are Anything but Empty The Austin author’s sprawling, philosophical new book is an ode to overgrown and abandoned spaces.

Thanks to @common-loon.bsky.social @texasmonthly.bsky.social for taking the invitation to step off the pavement and see what might be hiding in plain sight. Super fun to see a review that so innovatively riffs on its narrative subject: www.texasmonthly.com/travel/natur...

A Q&A With Actor Jensen Ackles’s Biggest Fan: My Mom “He’s a very positive person,” my mom says.

This Q&A by @common-loon.bsky.social with her mom about Jensen Ackles, incredibly niche fandom, age, and grief is a really fantastic read www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

😭😭 thank you dan

A Q&A With Actor Jensen Ackles’s Biggest Fan: My Mom “He’s a very positive person,” my mom says.

Straight-up interviewed my mom for @texasmonthly.bsky.social and this is NOT an April Fool's joke: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

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fellas, is it jay to be a medium-sized, colorful, frequently noisy member of the crow family Corvidae?

Since Oct 7th, NYT reported on antisemitism 5 times more often than on Islamophobia

The Times mentioned Israel and Israelis more often than others in their coverage each week since October 7th ... while the death toll in Gaza surpassed 25 times the Israeli death toll as of March

Times coverage of the war on Gaza quoted both Israeli and American sources more often than Palestinian ones

The Times used passive voice to describe Palestinians 1.7 times more often than when describing Israelis ...and used active voice with different vocabulary

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

can confirm

presidents will literally build a pier instead of demanding a ceasefire

Africa’s Smallest and Deadliest Wildcat Is Making a Comeback in Texas Thirteen black-footed cats have been born at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, in Glen Rose. The felines weigh barely four pounds, but watch out: they’re killers.

The brilliant @common-loon.bsky.social and I went to visit the Fossil Rim animal sanctuary, and she wrote about it for Texas Monthly. I was not allowed to see the cats on account of “wanting to just wrassle em around a bit.” Apparently that’s against protocol.

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Africa’s Smallest and Deadliest Wildcat Is Making a Comeback in Texas Thirteen black-footed cats have been born at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, in Glen Rose. The felines weigh barely four pounds, but watch out: they’re killers.

They're tiny! They're small! They're wee! They'd kill you if they could ❤️ Got to meet some black-footed cats for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/afric...

Journalism is really thriving under the business model of “private capital takes over, the new bosses pay themselves whatever money is on hand, and then they announce oh jeez this place is broke we gotta shut it down“

Imagine emerging from this bathroom to find you’re on the freeway

someone said the word “pedant” today and suddenly all I could think about was this guy crossing a street

iBook showing a dialog with the text Are you sure? It's simple and fun. You'll get your own e-mail address and software to keep in touch with family and friends. Explore the World Wide Web. Shop online. Isn't getting on the Internet why you bought your iBook in the first place? Take me to the Internet. Tell me more about the Internet. I'm not ready for the Internet. The last item is selected

once again it’s time to revisit the one moment we could’ve all come to our senses and collectively decided “I’m not ready for the internet”

I would give a lot of money for the slime watch

a group of ten year old boys on the plane just finished NYT Connections before @williefitz.bsky.social and me, two people with master’s degrees in writing

last night I watched a guy flirt by explaining how to tie a keffiyeh to a woman who told him she’d bought it on amazon

So many people have been asking so I thought I’d finally share some glimpses of the frogs in my father’s antique stein collection

alternately: me and who

thigh gaps are OUT, being only a set of legs with no torso or head is IN

a cat standing in a pair of shoes

a meme from Star Wars, Finn saying "they wear shoes now?" and Poe replying "they wear shoes now"