If you feel like there’s no good place to get up-to-the-minute, accurate breaking news anymore, allow me to recommend my personal favorite source: group chats with women.
Specifically, women between the ages of 35 and 45—this demographic is almost over-engaged on a broad range of topics, from politics to product recalls. They’re young enough to disbelieve what they hear on cable news but old enough to disbelieve what they see on TikTok. They’re how I found out Gorbachev died and that I could skip seeing The Zone of Interest. And in terms of trend forecasting, they can’t be beat—when two or more of my group chats begin circling the same topic, I know it’s officially gone from “in the ether” to “bona fide phenomenon.” This is how I know that married women everywhere are getting spectacularly horny for divorce.
