i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution

Temu Kristi Noem was back at it this week www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

"He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible... Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday."

Lol, lmao. They're using the mustard and onions to impeach his testimony.

Today's all too accurate piece on American Women and Pain by Lyz Lenz. Her patreon is consistently one of my favorite reads. #amreading

Youngkin wins by two points? That’s a model to follow Spanberger and Sherrill win by more than a dozen each? Boooooring

Comments on this are a litany of women with their own stories, as the title says.

I wrote about my IUD hell and how everything feels so hard even when it shouldn’t be www.patreon.com/posts/142830...

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Eugene Debs, a Midwestern socialist? The coastal divide is being united

The woke is back

Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Hell acquired a new demon today 🥹

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

If you don’t see lettuce, the sandwich ain’t shredded

If the sandwich stayed whole, the defense meets its goal

“I could smell the onions and mustard” *extreme Liam Neeson voice*

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Dems: We need to win! *Zohran Mamdani runs a historic campaign focused on affordability and fair wages leading to large amounts of voter turnout.* Dems: Nooooo not like that!!

ICYMI: I raged against the wealthy

Another thing (and so they should consider leaving me alone) is that this “we need to forgive people for what they said in the past to grow the party” owes a significant discursive debt to the MeToo backlash that has unilaterally sold the idea that “woke feminism” went too far.

My goodness. Lex, like other staffers at Teen Vogue, is an astounding reporter so please keep them in mind for other opportunities. We need them.

Today's newsletter is about Fox News and fake news www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-r...

These are serious times and I am just a goofy guy 😭

Keeps getting funnier. Here's the Liberation link, by the way www.liberation.fr/checknews/lo...

Always has been. open.substack.com/pub/moiradon...

The number of liberal white guys absolutely spiraling out when you say “hey having a Nazi tattoo is bad” is also pretty bad

One of my favorite categories of friend is sister of my dear friend. I love this sister she is also my friend.

We have not paid ourselves at all this year, but we have managed to turn a small profit! Which is good for a first year online feminist publication that pays fair wages. We would really like to be able to pay ourselves. You can help make that happen: the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp

This might have been my last year taking kids out trick or treating 😭

Speaking of women musicians who have men in their lives who need to be thrown in the sea...

Read it for free! www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

occasionally I read a wikipedia entry that is so baldly self-promotional that I wonder how it came to be

I wish the reporter would have contacted me I would have given spicier quotes than my BlueSky posts www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/top-...

Baby’s first Times Square billboard

What does our health care system look like? What does our social safety net look like? It looks like Marcus. At 61, he spends most nights riding the Chicago Red Line or looking for a park bench or bus stop, trying to find sleep. He recently finished radiation treatment for prostate cancer.

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again. Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

Hiring a glorified shit poster isn’t working out

lmao no

I really feel like targeting @katmabu.bsky.social with criminal charges is going to backfire for the administration.

My friends just brought their baby over to see me in a dragon costume and I gave them gifts and booze and I realized, I am a grandma now.

Substack should be the name of a domme's polycule, not a newsletter platform.

Today's Must-Read by @lyz.bsky.social 1/2 "It’s understandable that in response to Trumpism, we want a savior. But holding up vaguely rural white dudes as potential Christ figures doesn't hold. You can’t just run a guy with hairy forearms & a Carhartt jacket & expect him to win independents..

Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.

In response to this piece a person commented that I’m not offering solutions. I am. Don’t abandon the base in favor of middle of the road humping white men. It’s not that hard. www.patreon.com/posts/142289...

While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. — @lyz.bsky.social