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No plans to socialize tonight? You're not alone. As Julie Beck reports for @TheAtlantic, Americans have been spending less and less time with their friends over the past two decades. According data studied at the University of North Carolina, starting in the mid-2010s, the biggest loss of friend time happened on Friday nights. But why? theatlantic.com/family/2026/…

This week's The Lineup sports newsletter has landed! We have the most cursed teams in sports, some insider baseball, Steve Kerr's doppleganger, and more! Read the issue and subscribe: bit.ly/4zG0Ki6

From this month's True Crime newsletter: Sarah Kliff makes a convincing case in the @nytimes for Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall being the worst person in the world. In his years working as an obstetrician, the Republican running for re-election filed suits against more than 700 of his patients, mostly in rural Barton country, which Kliff notes has above average uninsured and poverty rates. In 81 of the cases, patients with unpaid bills as small as $101 were arrested for such things as missing court dates. A patient who Marshall sued in 2015 over a $129 bill insisted, “I had every intention to pay. I was just struggling.” Whatever happened to do no harm? nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/po…

In @GQMagazine: "For over 50 years, Ken Russell's outrageous The Devils has been nearly impossible to watch. A new 4K restoration has moviegoers champing at the bit." gq.com/story/the-devils-ken-…

Behold the wondrous origin story of the Der Viener Schlinger, the world’s first handheld hot dog launcher and the unlikely pride of Nebraska. From @flatwaterfreep. flatwaterfreepress.org/der-v…

From this week's The Lineup: I was in Houston a few weeks ago for the Untitled Art Fair, a Miami-based expo in its second year in Houston, and went to a cool exhibit (Refresher: New Acquisitions) at the Cat Spring Collection. “Match Point” (2024) by Fatima Fooladi is a painting that really grabbed my attention because it depicts, in part, a tennis court. Spent a good deal of time looking at this painting but didn’t give it a second thought—other than tennis being an interesting graphic subject— until coming across this recent piece by Tara Anne Dalbow. So cool. artsy.net/article/artsy-edit…

In the @washingtonpost, SLR contributing editor Geoff Edgers retraces Todd Snider's last days, "the confounding end to his confounding life." A search for answers ends with a gut punch of a kicker. washingtonpost.com/style/202…

In late May 2021, toward the end of Ireland’s third Covid lockdown, the novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry gave an unusual public lecture from his dining room in Wicklow. His subject that day, as it often tends to be, was family — both his own troubled clan and the wider human fold. Another top pick from @DVNJr. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/magaz…

Musk or Bezos? You decide! Senator Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, was asked who between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, whose extraordinary concentration of wealth and power are likely not what the Founding Fathers had in mind, would do what’s right for America. “Kind of a loaded question,” he told Josh Tyrangiel from @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

Farmed fish was designed to curtail overfishing in the world’s oceans, but as Ian Urbina reports, the practice has only made the crisis worse. From the @nytimes Magazine. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

A breathtaking story in the @WSJ revealing one of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history. The man is a Russian officer named Lt. Lev Stupnikov who delivered battle plans and troop locations to the enemy, helping Ukraine kill hundreds of his fellow countrymen, before managing to escape. wsj.com/world/russian-defect…

An award-winning ESPN producer, Nicole Noren, quit the network in protest over its all-in embrace of legalized sports wagering. “ESPN Bet”—combined with what Noren says was a reluctance to rigorously report on gambling and its insidious harm on the culture—amounted to the final straws. For Noren, some of whose family members were gambling degenerates (and her brother died homeless in Vegas at the age of 36), the decision was intensely personal. Here is the instantly viral Q&A. cjr.org/the-interview/nicole…

From the latest edition of The Lineup: Mikal Gilmore is a great journalist and his newsletter, Night Beat, is as entertaining and enlightening as it is prolific. Gilmore mostly writes about musicians and the arts but here he dives into Muhammad Ali’s early career in the second of a three-part series on his Substack account. mikalggilmore.substack.com/p…?

Reporting on immigration enforcement from Alabama to Illinois to California for @TheAtlantic, Caitlin Dickerson finds story after story of children left parentless in the U.S. in the latest form of family separation. The most troubling part of her investigation might be that we simply don’t know how many kids have been so traumatically affected. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

We love stories about people leading double lives, usually, inevitably, unsuccessfully. They’re irresistible. This one by Bradley Hope for The Foundry, about a Supreme Court litigator who secretly amassed a $100 million fortune playing poker before losing everything, goes to 11. @brazenFM thfndry.com/the-tell/

The soul is being sucked out of Hollywood, one formulaic vertical video at a time—and yet, just when there appears to be no hope left, Daniel Kolitz identifies a surviving bit of humanity. From the @nytimes, one of Jacob's Top Picks. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/magaz…

From The Lineup, our weekly sports newsletter, Sean Gregory (@seanmgregory) writes about the excellence of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Shai following an interview with the star for his @TIME Cover Story. time.com/article/2026/10/08/…

Check out this week's SLR, featuring @alessioperrone, @BlairBraverman, @danielkolitz, @bradleyhope, @mjluxmoore, @ian_urbina & more mailchi.mp/sundaylongread/oc…

Reza Farazmand is a New York Times-bestselling author, cartoonist, and creator of the popular internet comic series Poorly Drawn Lines. @PDLComics 🔗 Read the rest of this week's SLR: bit.ly/4hO0cRa