Ariana King

Editor FAR—NEAR / MFA Fiction '25 @TheNewSchool / ex-Comms @WEAI_Columbia / ex-Journo @NikkeiAsia covering @UN / native New Yorker but left my heart in Tokyo

[ぱーる @Perl_1208]

地震怖かったぺん😭

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

[Ariana King @ariananking]

@themoontography @TheEbonyMaw 🪜

[Ariana King @ariananking]

@hgoldman77 @simpledesign17 @andrewsiff4NY @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo You’re basically saying that he should be paying a larger fraction of his salary in rent because he can technically afford it. As in, the allocation of our living expenses should be predetermined based on our salaries? Bit of a draconian expectation, no?

[Ariana King @ariananking]

@hgoldman77 @Sauce_69_ @andrewsiff4NY @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo And he understands the value of them firsthand and thus will work to give more people such opportunities. Would you be angry at a candidate whose family bought a home in the ‘70s because they paid a fraction of what you’d pay now? “But I could be living there!” 😒

[Ariana King @ariananking]

@Eldonchorizo_ @NoKamalatoe @ClownWorld_ Lmao someone clearly hasn’t engaged with Japan. Japanese media is FULL of gay and trans characters. Way more than American TV. The US version of Sailor Moon notoriously turned a lesbian couple into “cousins” during the localization process.

[Zito @_Zeets]

This is my favorite part. Paulo, I’m glad you’re not alive to see this.

[Alec Ash @alecash]

"Huan Zhu Ge Ge is my Memory City. As the years pass and home in every sense becomes harder to access and the cultural halves of myself harder to unite, the nostalgia of Huan Zhu Ge Ge will remain that place of eternal spring, my home away from home." https://t.co/gDexVVP5Ju

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Kind of extraordinary for a president to admit that he makes foreign policy decisions on the basis of how deferential his counterparts behave in media appearances, rather than on an analysis of America’s interests or the global good

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Marco Rubio in March 2016:

“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media and voters at large, that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump.”

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

*record scratch* Yep, that's me. I bet you're wondering how I ended up in this situation...

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

surely the last gift anyone should want from Israel is a pager

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

The FBI Reddit is openly discussing how to avoid being caught leaking.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

HE’S REPLACING NPR WITH BREITBART !?!?!?

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

The world we live in where "have mercy on the weak and vulnerable" is sneered at as spewing hate...

[Ariana King @ariananking]

@HannahDCox @CatOrman1 What I’m reading is “TikTok did a better job of harvesting my data to give me exactly the content I want.” (For the record I oppose a ban, but there’s something ironic about not liking when companies know all about us, but clearly liking when companies know all about us.)

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Kyle MacLachlan, who starred in ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ wrote a touching tribute to his late friend and director, David Lynch, calling him ‘the best version of human.’ https://t.co/2orckHxqxA

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

I’m quickly discovering how nobody is better at roasting Americans than the Chinese 😂

[Ariana King @ariananking]

I swear, some of the people defending Hegseth on this site talk like the Secretary of Defense job entails standing at the border with a gun, physically defending the country from invaders…