If you’re in central Iowa, @lyz.bsky.social will be speaking at ISU on April 2. 🎉 Yay!

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

A Mayor named Dingus being a dingus? A real case of nominative dingusterminism.

This one hit me.

Today is a great day to sign up for my newsletter (free is wonderful! you get a podcast and two newsletters a week for nothing!) also, its not on Substack www.patreon.com/cw/lyzlenz

The Dow did dip below 50,000 so I guess consequences are in order

How the fuck am I sitting here alternately crying/laughing at a piece about Guy Fieri? Great read.

This is really good and really Fieri. Throw him in a dive kitchen and he will find 5 enthusiastic things to say in seconds. A superstar.

For the past two years I’ve been binging Guy Fieri shows with my son and honestly? It’s been delightful www.patreon.com/posts/what-g...

Here's a little excerpt from my pep talk for the (romantically, not athletically) cheating Norwegian biathlete for my newsletter That's Marvelous. Read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/171-the-chea...

ht @lyz.bsky.social and her wonderful essay, out today! www.patreon.com/posts/151038...

okay but now I’m watching men’s ski jumping wondering about the size of the winners 🍆 so well played Penisgate

I hate Valentines Day because what do you mean the tickets to the Isabella Stewart Gardener museum are all sold out!?

People replying to this like “I’m going to insult red places and see how they like it!” Guys, you insult red places ALL THE TIME.

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned. (Yes it’s good character detail.)

Just a reminder, if you send me a voice memo for my podcast I’ll call you beautiful. Send in your dingus nomination! memo.fm/dingus

@lyz.bsky.social "The film seemed as though it wanted to make America love her. To convince audiences that Melania, Trump’s willing accessory, should become as beloved as her husband thinks he is. I’m not sure what other point there could be. No one is having fun with this. Nothing is being learned"

Y'all need to check out @lyz.bsky.social's newsletter because it's always killer, like this review of the Melania movie. 'Simone Weil once noted, “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, and boring.” And that’s what this documentary is accidentally showing us'

“Simone Weil once noted, ‘Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, and boring.’ And that’s what this documentary is accidentally showing us: the barren and monotonous evil of this American moment.” By @lyz.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/evil-i...

Another witty & incisive essay from @lyz.bsky.social, this time on a cinematic airbrushing that’s evidently “designed to placate and satisfy the whims of a quasi-totalitarian regime and its supporters who are clinging to every narrative that assures them the world is as they see it.”

I’ve been writing pretty extensively warning about the plan to end no fault divorce in America. And Iowa is often a testing ground for the administration’s plans. So its worth paying attention to this bill iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/09/b...

Peekaboo, River, Breezy It’s either a cult or it’s an American ski team

Why do American skiers all sound like they were named by someone who graduated from Bennington College in 1978?

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I think the mold in my humidifier is making me villainous

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

Told my kid to go to bed since the Patriots are already asleep

Wait so Kid Rock only played one song? And was my YouTube glitching or was he dubbed? Lol

My 14yo just said “I guess you know you are old when your era is a Super Bowl ad.” ☠️

The podcast: www.patreon.com/posts/150148...

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

you are mad because I made fun of chinless incels? my guy, go touch grass. also, this idea of holding women up to some sort of made up standard that you invented in your head is just another form of misogyny, which is what I truly despise

“Usha Vance sobs quietly in a VIP box. JD Vance sits next to her, clapping along to the 1 and the 4. The whole thing is sponsored by Miracle Whip and Ballerina Farm dairy products.” The latest from @lyz.bsky.social

“Send Help” is the only movie with a truly happily ever after ending

More proof that men don’t grocery shop

Looking at Lorin Stein and Stephen Elliott in the Epstein files and I’m repeating what I said in November, MeToo wasn’t allowed to go far enough www.patreon.com/posts/metoo-...

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

Grammy? You mean the lady who makes me cookies?

I wrote about Iliana Omar squaring up and being cooler and more powerful than all of the administration combined. It’s also about the administration’s misogynoir and its calculated war on women www.ms.now/opinion/ilha...

Mr Beast is evidence that a white guy with no talent can rise to the top

The college professor who told me to be a writer just sold her first book and I’m one of the first people she emailed to tell. And I know it’s a bad time but I feel so lucky to know so many wonderful people. And I’m so excited for her!

another great piece from @lyz.bsky.social

I went to the Trump rally in Iowa where there were more people outside protesting than inside cheering for Trump. And I watch Trump, try to regain control of the narrative www.patreon.com/posts/realit...

No ICE agent looks tougher than Illhan Omar did when she stepped into the face of the man who assaulted her like she was going to clock him

Defeated by Antifa wine moms

“For years, a certain kind of liberal has either minimized such culture war rhetoric coming from the other side, or urged political actors of all stripes to ignore this, in favor of ‘material’ & ‘kitchen table’ issues—as though the state regarding one’s life as ‘garbage’ has no tangible consequence”

At last, a gift link!

the funniest thing about media outlets refusing to call these guys Nazis is that they so clearly want to be called Nazis and are doing literally everything to be called them and outlets are like “who can say???”

In a way, we ARE paying for it. Paying in lost daycare hours, lost sleep. Small businesses are suffering, particularly those that are immigrant owned. And people are paying with their lives.