Emily Nussbaum

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New Yorker staff writer. Books: "I Like To Watch" & “Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV." I’m not here— Find me at Bluesky/Insta: emilynussbaum

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1Mar 29, '24I’m making a playlist of songs in which the singer describes *another* song, but we don’t actually hear that song… and so far the only two entries are Killing Me Softly With His So122×2.9M19k4863k
2Jul 25, '24I remember in my 30s, I had this feeling that ppl saw me as less than fully adult bc I wasn't married & had no kids, but I also thought, Hey, that's kind of self-centered, I'm 73.6×1.8M23k7452k
3Sep 26, '24And THAT’S why you don’t play chicken with the public library budget60.7×1.5M35k3.5k709
4Apr 23, '24Hmm okay, so now I’m starting to LIKE a bunch of the songs on this massive, messy, feverish Taylor Swift album… Also, she’s very funny. “We’ll tell no one except all of our friends52×1.2M7.2k194470
5Aug 29, '24It’s deeply disturbing how normal it has become for ordinary people to fear MAGA retribution if they speak up about the Trump campaign’s behavior44.1×1.1M9.9k2.9k324
6May 21, '23I hope the Succession finale is a musical42.8×1M17k1.5k115
7Aug 13, '24The person who writes these is the Dorothy Parker of PR, tonal perfection33.4×799k19k2.3k332
8Apr 1, '24One underestimated aspect of Parks & Rec was how fully it nailed the media, from Perd Hapley to Joan Calamezzo & the Gotcha Dancers to Crazy Ira and the Douche to that hila27.4×656k12k416392
10Jan 16, '24The Emmy categories should be Funny Drama, Sad Comedy, Legit Hilarious, Pioneering Weirdos, Only Okay But We Like The People Involved, Cast So Sexy That We Want To See Their Speech17.2×412k7.2k726164
11May 29, '23The best part of the finale was when Shiv and Roman were doing imitations of how Kendell would react if they murdered him13.7×328k6.3k20368
12Apr 29, '18The more I think about it, the more impressed I am that Michelle Wolf did such a harsh act WITHOUT insulting any woman's looks. She aimed straight at the white female enforcers &am9.6×055k8.6k85
13Nov 27, '20This is the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of tables.9.5×062k3.4k220
14Jul 23, '23What I loved about Barbie was the way the Ken arc wasn’t about men, it was about patriarchy, flipped: when your only route to feeling real is thru the loving gaze of the dominant g9.2×221k7.3k484461
15Apr 26, '20Dr. Birx is going to leave a horrible legacy. It's one thing to be a cynical paid fixer. It's worse, in my eyes, to be the expert who props up the mad king. I get that it's an emer8.7×048k7.2k157
16Sep 23, '22Normalize liking your spouse7.8×050k3.8k354
17Aug 25, '22I’m currently on vacation in Canada, where college tuition runs <9K (in American $), everyone has health insurance & maternity leave lasts a year. Also, abortion is both leg7.7×040k4.5k275
18Jan 13, '21This really does remind me that the most dangerous period in an abusive marriage is when you leave.7.3×046k4.1k277
19Dec 30, '20View post on X6.8×030k6.5k1.8k
20May 18, '22Elon musk should be slang for the scent a person gives off when they’re sketchy/disappointing. “I was excited to meet his brother, but the guy had an unsettling elon musk.”6.6×038k4.3k251
21Feb 14, '18Someone on FB just posted this all-female version of the Presidents, using that face-swap app.5.1×019k5.1k10
22Jan 28, '21I'm glad that AOC is being so direct about this. It's no joke: these guys egged on a movement that tried, quite literally, to murder her, Pelosi, Pence and so on. The idea of "movi5.0×031k3.4k86
23Mar 6, '20I wish just one person standing there would yell out, “I can’t do this anymore! This guy is crazy, it’s obvious, it’s dangerous, it’s not funny.”4.8×024k4.2k218
24Feb 1, '22Time feels warped, so I think we should add a second Halloween to the year, maybe in March4.4×028k2.5k88
25Mar 4, '22I was just on TikTok and a guy there presented his theory that in The Piano Man, the narrator is working in a gay bar and doesn’t realize it. It completely holds up4.4×027k1.3k1.5k
26Jan 18, '19When Pence's wife is doing is disgusting. It's no different than if she took a job at a racially segregated school. And people should view it that way.4.3×024k3.6k42
27Jul 12, '18Honestly, among the most damning and suspicious things is that he has no idiotic nickname for Putin.4.2×023k3.9k26
28Jun 3, '19Flowers in the Attic.4.1×023k2.5k86
29Apr 20, '18Anyone else having trouble absorbing all the terrible news and getting your work done and sleeping through the night and reading all the books and watching all the TV shows?4.0×022k3.3k46
30May 6, '18Call a lie a lie. Call a money launderer a money launderer. Call a racist statement a racist statement. That’s what language is FOR.3.9×021k4k20
31Feb 25, '19Paul Rudd, what dark bargain have you cut with the Gods of Time.3.7×023k2.7k55
32Feb 21, '20Warren got this done.3.7×023k2.5k33
33Feb 1, '22A positive Wordle development, via Reddit…3.5×023k1.5k242
34Nov 9, '20Yeah, it's true, I lost my virginity to George Clooney. George Clooney Total Landscaping.3.4×022k1.4k112
35Mar 31, '20Trump is not "somber," he's not "acknowledging facts" or "deferring to experts." I doubt he even has a friend in a coma. His goal is strategic: to erase history (his week-ago Easte3.2×016k3.5k85
36Apr 20, '22Which 30 Rock fictional project do you think was the best one (i.e. highest quality/most entertaining), in a universe in which they’re all real? My bet is on The Rural Juror.3.1×017k488515
37Apr 21, '19This is what not impeaching the president leads to: The shrugging expectation that everyone is corrupt and even objecting to it is being a prig. It’s the central goal of The Grifte3.0×014k4.3k94
38Oct 2, '17Langston Hughes’ “Tired.”3.0×013k5k5
39Mar 8, '21The monarchy is repulsive. This began as a dishy watch but it's gotten genuinely upsetting. Also, Oprah is such a good interviewer.3.0×020k1.1k70
40Jan 3, '20View post on X2.9×014k3.8k48
41Jul 11, '22Weird to rewatch Seinfeld bc JS is a bad actor, Kramer isn’t all that funny & yet George and Elaine are the most hilarious, watchable actors/characters ever to appear on TV2.5×016k311373
42Mar 7, '18This pic makes the Oscars feel worth it.2.5×015k2k14
43May 14, '18I do say “oh God“ and “Jesus Christ“ more than usual.2.4×014k2k9
44Apr 30, '18Hey in case everybody forgot, the President is quite clearly trying to destroy journalism. Maybe let’s not help him.2.3×013k2.3k12
45Jul 17, '18Jesus, Congress is soulless. "The most important thing is to just keep moving forward" is the ethical philosophy of a hit-and-run driver.2.2×012k2.4k12
46Oct 4, '18I hate that everybody is offering up their most painful memories to help stop this and it’s not going to stop this.2.2×013k2k17
47Apr 13, '17I think they should keep moving Fearless Girl a quarter-inch closer to the bull every week to really drive that sculptor crazy.2.2×011k2.8k0
48Oct 23, '20Jaw dropping. That lowest IQ crack about asylum seekers returning to the authorities is a) racist b) factually wrong c) part of his *life-long* eugenics obsession & d) directly2.2×011k2.6k82
49Nov 6, '17If pretty much all mass killers were women, I think we'd probably highlight that fact.2.2×012k2.2k0
50Mar 14, '20Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he masturbated incessantly.2.1×013k1.1k88
51Nov 26, '17Perfect parody of the NYT Nazi profile.2.1×09.6k2.9k1
52Jun 3, '17The Nanny in reruns is a more powerful Jewish woman than Ivanka Trump.2.1×011k2.3k0
53Nov 29, '20The reason that he keeps obsessing about “standing” and snapping “don’t talk to the President of the United States that way“ is that it’s sinking in that he’s not going to have tha2.0×013k72423
54Apr 28, '22Today one of my kids asked me what was going on with Netflix & I told them about how the company used to send DVDs in envelopes as though it was some ancient tale of YORE2.0×014k384100
56Apr 8, '22Teen girls in the 80s were required to have a season, a face shape, a 6-pack of shoulder pads, mousse, astringent, a scrunchie & a terrifying skin cream full of apricot shards1.9×012k527189
57Feb 1, '18Fingers crossed that my "Hope Hicks Sinks Ships" headline is coming truuuue.1.9×011k1.5k0
58Jan 11, '18I’m not normally all “but the children” but it makes me sick with rage that kids—especially black brown & immigrant kids—would hear the President call the countries their famil1.8×09.4k2.1k0
59Mar 22, '19"Warren is bursting with what we might call charisma in male candidates: She has the folksy demeanor of Biden, the ferocious conviction of Sanders, the deep intelligence of fellow 1.8×09.1k2.1k79
60Jul 19, '18Maybe stop using the word “meddling” for theft, fraud and international espionage.1.8×09.6k1.8k12
61Jan 7, '19They should do a split screen, with Trump on one side and an extremely weary Daniel Dale on the other side, with Red Bull and a laptop, fact-checking.1.7×09.2k1.5k14
62Jan 13, '19SPIDERVERSE: gorgeous, funny, definitely see in the theater.1.7×011k9958
63Mar 12, '20Trump refused to begin testing early, because he thought higher numbers would hurt his re-election prospects. This isn't an ambiguous situation. This is why we're here.1.7×06.8k2.7k84
64May 13, '21Does the CDC have any advice about pants.1.6×010k89431
65Feb 8, '18Ya know Bannon also hit his ex-wife & no one gave a damn. This is a pattern with these guys, not an exception.1.6×07.9k2k0
66Jan 8, '18The wild thing about Portman's gesture was the fabulous brass of it: by inserting those words into the award intro (rather than a winner's speech), she guaranteed that the next fiv1.6×09.8k1.2k0
67Nov 5, '20So in some parts of the country, Republican crowds are chanting “count those votes“ and in other parts, “stop the count“??1.6×08.6k1.1k54
68Apr 29, '18Wow. The idea that MW's joke "called out" Sander's eye makeup is madness. She PRAISED her eye makeup—she said it was a "perfect smokey eye"—she just pointed out that it was made of1.5×09.8k8506
69Jan 15, '21I am genuinely interested in the smart reporting on these fascist creeps who stormed the Capitol, but I was also looking forward to reading diner-profiles of black Georgia voters a1.5×09.4k94731
70Jan 26, '19I’m enjoying this new thing where Gen X doesn’t exist in any generational analysis. It’s like we’re a bunch of gloomy, curmudgeonly ghosts, which feels accurate.1.5×08.4k1.1k37
71Apr 2, '20It is wild that people treat as normal a President who—midway through public discussions of a pandemic!—obsesses over whether people praise him properly. He is clearly mentally ill1.5×08.3k1.4k32
72Jul 1, '17Release your taxes.1.5×07.6k1.8k0
73Jul 14, '19Racially charged. Racially tinged. Racism-flecked. Marbled with racism. Racism adjacent.1.4×08k1k39
74Jan 21, '19One of my kids just suggested that the Queer Eye team should add a “Tax Guy.”1.4×09.4k49618
75Nov 21, '19Jim Jordan apparently trying to demonstrate that someone can in fact talk loudly enough to be overheard on a cellphone without the speaker on.1.4×07.8k1.2k20
76Jan 28, '22I grew up in a house with a lot of books on the Holocaust, including a photo book with a picture of naked bodies in a mass grave. It was a useful thing to see, part of a larger mes1.4×08.8k69544
77Apr 18, '16Hot damn. I won a goddamn Pulitzer. Thank you to this wonderful magazine for letting me mouth off & think out loud.1.3×07.2k9610
78Apr 21, '18The new slang for vagina is "Southern White House." Pass it on.1.3×06.4k1.4k12
79Oct 26, '20I had no idea that was the plural for a group of Pence aides.1.3×07.9k63737
80Mar 30, '22Guys, I’m starting to think Trump might be trying to get election help from foreign governments, it’s just this vibe I’m picking up1.2×07.9k54215
81Jan 9, '19It is a major deal to finally have someone saying this stuff clearly and directly.1.2×07.2k867114
82Apr 20, '17During Passover, it is traditional to remove all the Chaffetz from the House.1.2×06.4k1.2k0
83Sep 30, '20“Stand by” was so chilling.1.2×07.3k74410
84Sep 16, '20Killing me softly.1.2×06.2k1k146
85Jul 6, '18Whoa I just got new glasses and it is AMAZING. Among other things, I can now see clearly enough to realize that the (awful) #metoo icon is three hands raised, not a tiny vagina, wh1.1×07k32611
86Nov 7, '18The fact that Beto came so close still feels like a big deal.1.1×06.9k4631
87Oct 20, '17You know, the Trump University scam *alone* should have been enough to defeat him. Kills me that people didn’t give a damn about that con.1.1×06.5k8480
88Nov 9, '17HUGE props to everyone who told their story in that piece on Louis CK. It takes big guts to tell the truth about such a powerful guy. I'm glad that in the wake of the Weinstein exp1.1×06.8k7500
89Apr 17, '22Just put on Steve Miller’s The Joker during a road trip and one of my kids said, “All rise for the Boomer National Anthem.”1.1×07.5k24859
90Mar 14, '22Sadly, my beloved father Bernie Nussbaum died yesterday of cardiac disease. He’d been sick, but it was still sudden. A rare combination of a total mensch & a legal powerhouse, 1.1×07.2k7315
91Feb 11, '21The really notable thing was how panicked Mike Lee seemed about doing *anything* that seemed less than utterly submissive to Trump.1.1×06.3k72118
92Nov 9, '17Last night a group was talking about Farrow's expose & someone pointed out the obvious: if Rose McGowan had told the story of the Mossad spies earlier, everyone would have simp1.1×05.5k1.2k0
93Oct 23, '17This would all be so easily resolved if DT said "I'm sorry that phone conversation caused her pain. These are hard times & I wish her well."1.0×06k7180
94Sep 4, '19The Sharpie thing is weirdly upsetting, bc it is so trivial, petty & transparent—which makes it hard to take seriously. Just like the Sean Spicer crowd-size garbage that opened1.0×06k64823
95Feb 12, '22Into The Spiderverse is the one installment that actually SHOULD have been nominated for an Oscar1.0×06.8k32438
96Nov 8, '24Gonna maintain this cursed account for voyeuristic purposes but will no longer post here— I should have ditched a long time ago, but have never been known for my self-control... Yo1.0×24k8337
98Mar 20, '18I told my kids about Jews controlling the weather and they are PSYCHED.0.9×06k4251
99Jun 15, '20Clive and I are drunk on scotch and he wants to create a company that will “pay people not to podcast.”0.9×05.9k24223

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