Logging off until the New Year. I hope you all find some peace and joy ❤️

The real media story of the year was Savannah Louie winning Survivor after losing her job as a TV news anchor.

I’m reliably informed that three days before Christmas is the ideal time to post exciting professional news on social media, so: I’m hosting a podcast! About media! For @columjournreview.bsky.social! It’s gonna be fun; subscribe here: www.cjr.org/the-kicker

Opinions can’t be wrong but “Face/Off is a bad movie” is wrong

Went out for my birthday last night and I bullied so many many men.

In this podcast episode I do the shocking thing of defending “baby it’s cold outside” youtu.be/Ms-6PufpvQI?...

I told my son that the Atlantic reported that the “six seven” phenomenon was over and my kid rolled his eyes and said, “respectfully, no kid is reading that magazine.”

simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean www.advocate.com/politics/sar...

The perfect gift for that women who should leave her husband bookshop.org/p/books/this...

It’s my birthday today so you have to share my stupid lil newsletter. That’s the law. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

you know, I'd understand if someone said "okay well before any photos come out, I had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010. I knew he was a scumbag but I wanted to meet Woody Allen. It was stupid and I regret it." but now it's just like oh there's David Brooks in a photo dump with some poor teenager

Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.

David Brooks in the Epstein photo dump. Mr. Traditional Marriage is Always Good for Women? That David Brooks? Mr. We Should Teach Morality in School? That David Brooks?

Tomorrow is my birthday, so you kind of have to do this

Okay I’m prepping the last podcast episode for the end of the year and I need you all to send me your LEAST favorite holiday songs memo.fm/dingus/

@lyz.bsky.social on aging, beauty and self image. As always, funny, and insightful. I include the image, because at first I read it as "I've done space lasers," & I hope I can get my old-ass face fixed by lasers from outer space. www.patreon.com/posts/what-d...

I just turned 43. “Old is the goal” I repeat to myself as I age like a fabulous bog witch. I hope when I’m 60 people look at my face and think “she must have laughed and smiled an awful lot in her life.” Anyway, Mar-a-Lago face looks like a collection of Habsburg portraits.

"But I have spent the better part of my life feeling bad about myself, and I’ll be damned if I spend the rest of it feeling that way too." I've thought about this a lot lately.

This week, I turn 43, in a time where Mar-a-Lago face is dominating the headlines and I’m increasingly confused about what aging even looks like. www.patreon.com/posts/146014...

I’m about 10 paid subscriptions away from being back to the number I had before leaving Substack a few months ago. 20% off annual pubs rn, & imo the Discord community alone is worth the price! Subscribe now: www.thefrankiedlc.news/upgrade

So glad my congresswoman’s kid doesn’t go to my kids school (they go to the other one down the road). Because she probably would have had the the place shut down after the kids sang “don we now our gay apparel” at the band concert.

Okay everyone is talking about what social media platform to be on and you should know I have pivoted to video and you should all follow me over there. I’m mostly yelling about IUDs but there is dog content too www.tiktok.com/@lyzlenz

Me and the teens chopping it up on the TiKTok

Okay maybe Erika Kirk is the only woman who should stay at home

what a horrible weekend

"how rape culture works[:] not through active conspiracy, the aiding and abetting, the plotting and the violence itself, but through the quiet complicity of turning your head the other way. The real conspiracy is always silence."

"So now, Americans want to know who did what to whom and when – poring over the photographs like the Zapruder film of a new generation. But I know that the victims have already told you the truth. The only conspiracy in America that remains is silence." @lyz.bsky.social bringing the truth home.

We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing…That silence is its own kind of sexualized violence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...

But I am a woman in America. I live in a family marred by sexual violence. I, too, was a victim of sexual violence, assaulted when I was in college…And I know that we don’t need complicated theories to hide the violence done to women and girls. All we need is silence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...

I wrote about the new Epstein pictures and the conspiracy of silence around him. Powerful men who say they didn’t know….they knew enough not to ask. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...

Newest episode of the dingus of the week podcast! www.patreon.com/posts/145739...

Posting “Taylor Sheridan passes the Bechdel test and Larry McMurtry does not” on the internet just to feel something

Remember, under the Trump administration, you can celebrate the birth of Jesus; it’s legal now. But also Mary and Joseph would have gone bankrupt delivering our Lord and Savior. Just before they got kidnapped by ICE agents. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

Dingus of the week. Read it and weep. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

So crazy everyone gendering this raccoon as a man when it’s clear she’s the people’s princess

If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu

My hero of 2025

I mean, I am pretty dead inside

Racism. The answer is racism.

Some nights, I need to crawl into bed, eat some Taco Bell, watch trash TV and remember my roots as a trash monster

Anyway, Gisele Pelicot should’ve been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize among many other honors. But, as I’m learning, rape culture is far more resilient than I previously understood.

I guess my new version of late night online shopping is late night buying shit from the school band fundraiser. My HS kid just texted me to say I purchased an “obscene” amount of cheese and her band teacher is worried.

In the Bible when the witch of Endor resurrects the prophet Samuel from the grave so King Saul can ask his advice, Samuel is pissed and is basically like. “Let me rest!”

I wrote about a trend I observed, the use of AI to make farming more accessible. Meanwhile data centers are swallowing up the land and making farming less accessible. www.patreon.com/posts/145520...

The problem with getting my son a book of space facts is that now he’s reading out loud from a book of space facts

Something I noticed this weekend was that at the Farmers of Color Conference I went to in Ames, Iowa, only one politician was there, Republican Mike Naig. Down the street was the Farmers Union Conference where Democratic reps were legion. Just an observation from Middle America.

Okay it’s official I can do an unassisted pull up. I’m your god and your ruler now.