Working at a bar in Iowa and I just overheard a man say, “As someone who participates in protests, I can guarantee you no one is paid by George Soros. How would that pay scale even work?”

Making me feel so good about turning 43 in December

Exactly. “Jesus, come get your mess!”

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

If the concern is authoritarianism, I struggle to think of more than a very few things a state can do that are more intrusive of human rights, dignity and freedom than forced pregnancy.

I was giving breakfast sandwiches to my kids swim team as they left for a meet, & one of the moms was asking me about the recipe I used & I told her about my spreadsheet w/ recipes for making breakfast for the team & she said, “Girl you need a boyfriend.” & I said, “The love of my life is sandwich.”

Please someone fire me for these jokes. I’m so tired. lyz.substack.com/p/dictators-...

Ben Smith: "What you saw with Mahmoud Khalil is that in some ways he is *less* vulnerable than Jimmy Kimmel. The people who are most vulnerable are the employees of big consolidated megacorporations—" Chris Hayes: "Yeah, although he's about to get deported."

New "Standing Room Only"! I react to the MAGA claims about Taylor Swift's engagement and debunk their lie that feminists oppose marriage. Taylor is modeling a feminist view of what marriage should be. But is it available to everyone? @lyz.bsky.social weighs in. youtu.be/nrbCLVAZ9P4?...

Today's episode of "Standing Room Only" is about the ridiculous rush for MAGA to own Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagment — and why Taylor will defy their efforts. My guest is the fabulous @lyz.bsky.social, a fan of both Taylor Swift and divorce. youtu.be/nrbCLVAZ9P4?...

It just feels so irritating that we spent the last Trump presidency in the grip of conspiracy mongers and no one has learned anything. In fact, everyone seems to be more brain rotted than before.

The conspiracy grifter economy is going strong. Stay safe out there.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

"I’d seen nothing more than a young man irritated by questions about his organization. If I wrote he got mad at me, then I’d just be another triggered lib. If I wrote about his defensiveness, then I’d just be another lying media elite." lyz.substack.com/p/the-day-i-... by @lyz.bsky.social

"He answered questions without answering. Won debates without really engaging. And he didn’t lose his cool the rest of the night, maintaining always the tailored appearance of hate. The calm demeanor of racism. The appropriateness of illogic." @lyz.bsky.social

In 2019, I interviewed Charlie Kirk. I asked him about TPUSAs funding and he got mad and ended the interview. lyz.substack.com/p/the-day-i-...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

In June, Utah Sen. Mike Lee made jokes about Melissa Hortmans assassination and had to delete his posts. Yesterday, he lauded “civil debate” and mourned Charlie Kirk’s death

Yes, there are dangers out there….but they aren’t the subway or immigrants. lyz.substack.com/p/republican...

people are all like oh my god what if the AI robots take over? and listen, I’m not worried because it can’t be worse than men running things

My newsletter is almost five (time for kindergarten!) and I’m doing a survey of my readers to help me get it to the next level. Please take the survey! As a thank you here are pics of my dogs bit.ly/4m2EdEO

Okay but let’s put them both in jail

Hey hey PW liked my book

Malcolm Gladwell is the perfect face of this bullshit, because he is the epitome of a person dumb people think is smart. Because he takes complex issues and reduces them to glib "one neat trick" stories. lyz.substack.com/p/help-help-...

went to moderate a book event for my little indie bookstore in Cedar Rapids and I came home with a purse full of homemade cookies and so many hugs it might melt my cold heart

Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I saw Roses last night and the whole premise is about how violently hateful a man gets while watching his wife get successful

My 14yo daughter is taking a welding class and this means she has more of a claim to her carhartt boots than any man in Brooklyn

phewww

Don’t worry, RFK is using leeches to balance his humors

I have received no less than three very long and condescending emails from men explaining burning man to me because of this jokey newsletter.

If Ashley Hinson runs for this seat it could still lean R. But the interesting thing is with Feenstra running for governor, two congressional races would be in play in Iowa. With the third being Miller Meeks seat, which is only tenuously R. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...

Want to read something silly about Burning Man? Well, you are in luck lyz.substack.com/p/a-haboob-o...

basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit

We can ban cell phones! We should ban guns! www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

"In this case, what resonates for many women — who will undoubtedly be scolded for fawning over this royal American wedding — is that this fairy tale features an ambitious and successful woman actually finding a supportive partner." @lyz.bsky.social

Taylor Swift getting engaged is a recession indicator

I’m in a state with a ban and I think the ban will be good. Like a lot of parents my main concern is a school shooting situation and phew. That says more about America than me. But the constant surveillance parents have over their kids feels like good parenting but I think it’s the opposite

NEW: Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio could lay off 20-30% of its clinical staff as soon as next week, the workers' union tells me. The union is asking PPGOH management to commit to exec pay cuts before laying off any patient-facing workers www.autonomynews.co/ohio-planned... @autonomynews.co

Not a lot we can agree on these days, but Dustin Burrows being a weasel is one of them. lyz.substack.com/p/focus-on-b...

Sure, doing fascism apologetics is bad. But what annoys me is the sheer stupidity of his writing.

Cracker Barrel reminds me of my mom’s cooking in that both have made me have violent diarrhea

I love when people are like “act your age” because it’s like okay I’m wine tipsy crying to Celine Dion while wearing a crop top if that’s not 42 THEN WHAT IS?

I dropped my daughter off at high school freshman orientation and I was like “have a nice day! don’t get bullied” and she was like “I will bully them back and worse!” 🥰that’s my sweetie 🥰

I’d die without my perfect editor

My toddler who was falling off the growth chart because he refused to eat just made me a pan of brookies — cookie brownies — and explained what umami is

idk the backstory but she’s innocent