The right’s fixation on “organized gangs of wine moms” & other another pejorative descriptor, “AWFULS (Affluent White Female Urban Liberals),” reflect an ongoing, furious obsession with white women who don’t comply with Trump 2.0’s larger political project. open.substack.com/pub/meganbur...

I really don't enjoy Emerald Fennell's whole thing but I do feel like I have to actually read Wuthering Heights if I want to be offended by her version. has anyone ever started a book club out of spite

I know whenever football is on due to the screams

the friends and family members on Say Yes to the Dress who don't like ANYTHING & just sit shaking their heads with arms crossed no matter how lovely Tan France is? I love them

this really needs to stop

please stop trying to make SEA happen. as long as we have to walk a half-mile to light rail and take the rinkydink train to the N gates and park in those silly curvy parking garages SeaTac will always be SeaTac it smells like jet fuel and isn't very nice but it's OURS

if you send me an unsolicited AI pitch it goes straight to junk. I’m sorry but that’s the law

the musical choices on the Golden Globes show that millennials have finally reached pandering age this is not a complaint

believe it or not Maggie and I are still watching holiday romcoms and we really liked the Jonas Brothers one despite not being AT ALL the target demo gilmorewomen.substack.com/p/holiday-ro...

Dwayne the frog

it's truly so silly like have they met a woman before

The final line IS the whole article. Nuff said.

“For once, Leavitt and her cronies were caught in the act of their greed-based political project, complete with unflattering makeup, rumpled clothing, exposed outlets, deflated posture, and a crumpled American-flag blanket that would be almost funny if it weren’t so deeply tragic.”

this story is now paywall-free and I'm really proud of it! please read it if, like me, you could not stop looking at the Vanity Fair photos last week, I promise you'll laugh and learn

not to court controversy but "has feminism failed women?" is not a question I find interesting at all, and even if I did, SPONSORED BY BANK OF AMERICA is not who I would be asking imagine having CBS $ when so many journalists have no $ or institutional support and choosing to spend it... on this

For Republican women, going full MAGA seems to mean getting a new face too. slate.trib.al/KyJ1LFg

“. . in the end, it’s not really about Karoline Leavitt’s filler at all, . . It’s about the worldview her aesthetic choices reflect and the harm that worldview is actively causing to marginalized people across the nation, making our country a little bit worse and a little bit more cruel . . “

I wrote about Karoline Leavitt's lip filler for @slate.com slate.com/life/2025/12...

can’t think of anyone who would make me less interested in buying a phone plan than Ryan Reynolds

today’s inbox hell

a few months ago I was in zoom meetings all week and now I'm interviewing OB/GYNs about health policy, investigating the politics of plastic surgery trends, reviewing The Nutcracker, reorganizing my home, and deciding what kind of tutu I want for a ballet intensive this summer freelancers are free✨

I'm pretty sure watching this many holiday movies made me dumber but it was worth it gilmorewomen.substack.com/p/we-watched...

terrible news. Hush is so good!

just remembering the era of movie + TV trailers where pathos was conveyed ONLY thru slow, acoustic covers of the hits of the '80s why... why did we do that

my favorite Christmas carols are Carol of the Bells and O Come Emanuel because they’re the scariest

wrote about my many Lilith Fair feelings ✨ be careful if you read this because I've heard it makes people want to listen to Sarah McLachlan which might make you seem cool and mysterious to the people around you 🔮 meganburbank.substack.com/p/for-the-lo...

I promise I’m not writing a think piece but it’s wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get one million second chances from legacy pubs and a prestigious staff job after violating basic journalistic ethics multiple times while so many talented journalists I know who did not sleep with sources are out of work

very generous of Florence to make an album that sounds like the Yellowjackets soundtrack, she really knows her target demo

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

how “am” I? I got the cold everyone else has this week and watched all of SLOMW and decided Jessi is my favorite because she has a job

I wrote about the Washington Post’s very silly take on Katie Wilson open.substack.com/pub/meganbur...

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

writers! do not date writers

I’m probably too close to the material, but this NYT framing suggests that the Mercury’s endorsement process is new and small-scale. Untrue: I was on the endorsement committee when I worked there years ago and the Merc’s endorsements have been similarly influential to The Stranger’s over the years

WaPo’s framing echoes what the Harrell campaign got wrong: For millennial voters, knowing someone lives in a small apartment and has experienced financial precarity is not a disqualifying dig of any kind. If anything it’s partly why Wilson was able to win

Jodi the frog

sure did

In Seattle, "ballots counted exceeded 55 percent of registered voters (compare this to 42 percent in the NYC mayor’s election)."

Hi if you’d like to hear about the mayoral race from people actually in Seattle I can help with that. We aren’t panicking 🙂 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Two Burbanks are better than one! My dad and I cobylined on this father-daughter collab at @thenation.com after seeing how Katie Wilson’s daycare “scandal” just didn’t stick because it only made her more relatable to millennials and Gen Z voters www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Thanks, Alex! You can thank my dad for the Burien detail in this father-daughter collab

- I’m going on a long walk with a new friend and there are a lot of side quests - Final girl and final cat - There isn’t room in this ballet academy for the both of us - Journalists are poorly dressed but competent - Women in shoulder pads get their revenge

I started reading The NY Times Olivia Nuzzi book reveal story and then I remembered I have free will so I stopped

if you drive a Tesla in Seattle and you think your brights aren’t on can you do us all a favor and double-check? sincerely, a person in a little sedan who just wants to get home without being blinded by you

Four years from now serious people will point to Wilson's narrow margin as a sign of vulnerability, but they'll be fooling themselves. I pretty much agree with Erica's take. Attacking Wilson as unready and inexperienced worked. Just not quite enough. But that attack can't work against an incumbent.

with so much criticism going toothless or getting cut altogether, I am so happy that Ned and Bob are writing pieces like this one at The Vinyl Cut www.vinylcut.net/review-patti...

I know I'm fully ballet-pilled because every time I see a pointe shoe-inspired ballet flat I'm like "ugh gross the ribbons on that look ALL wrong"

I guess this is a good time to resurface my analysis of Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani's social media and ad buy strategies meganburbank.substack.com/p/lets-discu...

New: Katie Wilson has taken the lead over Bruce Harrell by just 91 votes. Not enough for anyone to declare victory or concede defeat, but it likely makes her the favorite with roughly 6400 ballots left. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Wilson needed about 54.6 percent of the rest of the votes outstanding and got 55.6 percent of this latest batch, with about 6,000 ballots still out there (and not counting the 2,000 or so that have been challenged due to signature discrepancies, etc.)