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Ellen Cushing

@elcush

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I write about food and other stuff for @theatlantic and my email address is [email protected] 🌞

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@AdrienneLaF
Adrienne LaFrance
19 days
Want to know how to tell if a recession is coming? @elcush's latest:
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@elcush
Ellen Cushing
23 days
i went to the Tesla Diner and you'll be shocked to hear it wasn't very good!
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theatlantic.com
The Tesla Diner looks a lot like what we already have, just weirder and worse.
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@elcush
Ellen Cushing
2 months
have you noticed that everything is spicy now? i wrote about why:
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More Americans are setting their mouth on fire—for extreme sport, and for everyday thrills.
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
3 months
When did redeeming credit-card rewards get so complicated? @elcush looks into it: https://t.co/tcyJUdbP1x
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
3 months
Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.
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Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant.
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@kait_tiffany
Kaitlyn Tiffany
3 months
ok, @elcush and i are answering questions about the FUTURE OF BASEBALL on r/MLB today!! https://t.co/8NqiaHRMsh
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reddit.com
Explore this post and more from the mlb community
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@DKThomp
Derek Thompson
3 months
New newsletter: The death of partying in the USA The latest American Time Use Survey came out last month. I wanted to follow up on @elcush's declaration that Americans need to party more. The new data confirms: America's social crisis is dire. - Between 2003 and 2024, the
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
3 months
Why don’t women play professional baseball? Why do players always seem to be chewing on something? How could climate change alter the sport? Tomorrow on Reddit, @kait_tiffany and @elcush are answering your questions about the forces shaping the game: https://t.co/mrPeWaAL19
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@elcush
Ellen Cushing
4 years
As long as I've been writing about technology, friends and strangers have been asking me what they, personally, should do about Big Tech and its growing power. My answer has always been the same: Cancel your Amazon Prime account.
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theatlantic.com
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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@Mets
New York Mets
3 months
Francisco Lindor: ALL-STAR! Congratulations to @Lindor12BC on being named the NL starting shortstop for the 2025 All-Star Game! ⭐
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@kait_tiffany
Kaitlyn Tiffany
4 months
me & ellen talking about the mets
@evilmackenzie
mackenzie thomas
4 months
THIS SUMMER WE FAILING THE BECHDEL TEST 😝😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😩😩😩😩😩😩🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😋😋😋😋😋😋😋🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵😁😁😁😁😁🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😅😅😅🥹😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
4 months
Wraps are one of the worst foods: like a salad, but less refreshing, or like a sandwich, but less filling. And yet, they’re popular again—and not because they taste better now, @elcush writes: https://t.co/vudJd4AuAM
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@AdrienneLaF
Adrienne LaFrance
4 months
This @elcush essay portends the obvious: Sun-dried tomatoes are coming back next.
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theatlantic.com
Wraps are popular again. So is a certain kind of physique.
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@kait_tiffany
Kaitlyn Tiffany
5 months
apologies to the millions of listeners of New York's only anti-math baseball podcast Hits Different -- we had a technical snafu that was caused equally by all three of us (we were holding hands) and this week's episode, which we did record, was lost </3
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
5 months
These days, it seems like every restaurant has a riff on the fried-chicken sandwich, @elcush reports. Is this the end of the burger’s dominance?
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theatlantic.com
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
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@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
5 months
More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush writes:
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Why so many companies are inviting people to opt out of Mother’s Day emails
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@Longreads
Longreads
6 months
5. "There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People" @elcush "But after reading Ellen Cushing’s delightfully sardonic piece on how to load a dishwasher, I’m forced to admit: Maybe I’m part of the problem." https://t.co/6c5RNFk7eS
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And only one of them really knows how to load it.
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