Meg!

“We are, and will keep being, the greatest gifts in each other’s lives. And also, we will keep doing this: killing each other, making each other’s lives hells, maintaining our reverence to systems that both promote and benefit from the massacres.” — @garrettbucks.bsky.social 1/4

“ICE or migra watch is a practice that grew out of the community defense strategies developed by the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, which inspired cop-watching across the country. It is most visible on the streets, where pairs or teams document law enforcement in their own neighborhoods.”

Thanks all for literal weeks of takes, but I think we can power down the Olivia Nuzzi discourse factory now. You’re all correct! I just don’t think there’s anything more to say!

This seems relevant this morning www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...

Milwaukee, 58 years years ago “3rd grade children at the Palmer Street school waited anxiously for their teacher to carve a 25lb bird. Mrs. Eva Andrews brought a complete Thanksgiving dinner to class. 31 children feasted on turkey, salads, dressing and pumpkin pie." — Wisconsin Historical Society

This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi.... The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This is a great essay & the pix of Garrett & the Pink Poster Club are delightful. (I love it that the PPC ethos is inspiring resistors in Charlotte, too.)

As usual, you know who is right? @lyz.bsky.social is right.

I understand why so many folks feel that politics and social change is unwieldy and beyond their scope of influence (we're made to feel that way!) but you can just do this! And when do, you'll find others who want to do it with you!

This is very good and a great reminder to myself to stop appointing myself lord adjudicator of politics-as-horse-races and focus on what I’m doing.

A very good piece on how we all act like pundits now, but we don't have to! (h/t @ninametz.bsky.social )

"What bizarre collective behavior. I’m implicating myself here by the way. I too have been guilty of treating group chats like I’m a member of some tiresome CNN panel & I need to urgently fact check Van Jones for the sake of the Republic." Good blogging about the rancidness of mayo Pete (& us all)

“When did giving abstract advice about what a political party should or shouldn’t do become an acceptable discursive trope?”

Thinking about how during the last few elections we were inundated with news about polling, as if we should vote based on whom other people support, and not simply vote according to our own interests

I wrote about what happens when pundit brain breaks containment thewhitepages.net/p/abolish-pu...

The thing I"m always saying about the Epstein scandal, a case study in the rot at the heart of capitalism and power and patriarchy, is that New York isn't just a setting... it's almost, like, a character!

Gen Z, everything is forgiven. You're allowed to call the rest of us cringe whenever you want

Hi, Secretary Buttigieg, just one follow up question-- would you mind just laying out really quickly which Americans specifically you consider to be the "everyday" ones and which ones you feel "have identities?"

Be bold in your vision and actions. Speak plainly and tell the truth. Show up in real, authentic ways. Get to know folks. And fight like hell for them. It’s really not that complicated.

Not for nothing, but while I am sadly unable to have an undisclosed affair with RFK Jr. while covering his campaign (great work if you can get it, though!) I am VERY WILLING to be filmed in black and white while driving a convertible, so if that's all it takes NYTimes, my DMs are open!!

I hope that we build a world where our children and grandchildren ask "wait, how did you let men like that run everything, forever?" b/c it will be unthinkable.

Hey all, I need a writing tip. Let's say I'm emailing my good friend, noted demon Jeffrey Epstein, and I'm complaining about how the real victims are men accused of sexual harassment. What's a cool way to sign off that message? Ideally, I want to give off the vibe that I too am a sweaty sex pest.

I try to sound measured about this but I actually want to scream in a lot of people's faces. The mayor is deliberately ignoring so many experts to appeal to the barely concealed libidinal cruelty of business dorks and it's so fucking cowardly and awful and BUMBLINGLY INEFFECTIVE AND SELF-DEFEATING

You know what they say about leverage! When you have it, you should use it for just a bit, fail to get what you want, and cave at an entirely arbitrary moment!

What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.

Wait, why am I only now learning that the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for re-election yesterday all have EXTREMELY POWERFUL REGIONAL ACCENTS? youtu.be/ekIqnCYgLnk?...

Flyover country loves socialist policies! And we have for a long time! thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

More and more people saying this (b/c more and more people are correct).

Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts. thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts. thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

"Who knows me and my neighbors in Milwaukee the best? Manhattan-based opinion writers for the Times and The Atlantic, of course. It is they, not me, who understand what animates myself and my fellow flyover simpletons (girls high school athletics, I am told)." thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

Earnest socialist potluck season LET’S GO!

Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.

Obviously, the clear lesson from tonight is that NYC is the only place in the country where people care about their neighbors and want good things to happen and everywhere else Dems have to run sex pests, grumpy weirdos and McKinsey consultants! That’s just common sense!

Great thought piece & I'm looking forward to hearing more about the '48ers.

The thing about strongmen is that they're too dumb and short-sighted to know when they've planted the seeds for their own collapse (we're the seeds) thewhitepages.net/p/if-trump-a...

Joining a local ICE watch group > posting your 10th Luigi meme in a stranger's mentions

You all, nobody's talking about this particular public health risk, but this week we have reached absolute nuclear levels of Dad Discourse (meaning, "stuff that dads have opinions about") Here's a partial list...

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out." Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

I know that everybody is searching for any source of hope right now, but it's wild how many people convinced themselves that Maine is a real place with residents and Senate seats and everything.

"The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads, Marxists, the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party- they all adore the protests. They think it's a righteous time."

If you feel that big marches where people take pictures of their punny signs and do other things you consider cringe aren't effective, that's fine! Do something that you feel helps more! I am truly grateful for the big protests! And I would love to be grateful for you theoretical contribution too!

I published this a few hours before the Politico story about the Young GOP text chain but oh my God if it doesn’t reinforce the thesis— the choice right now is not just ideological, but between irony-pilled nihilism and an actual belief in and love for people thewhitepages.net/p/who-are-yo...

"And once again, I could be tremendously wrong. But I’d rather be wrong and in love than right and alone. I’d rather be a loser with an outstretched hand than the coolest person in the world with a closed heart. I’d rather build with you than despair alone." thewhitepages.net/p/who-are-yo...

SAL FRELICK

If you are wondering "is Woody Allen's tribute to Diane Keaton in The Free Press as cursed an artifact as I'd expect?... it's, um, worse? [TW: extremely insensitive discussion of eating disorders]