Lizza (who's got multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment) is most likely posting all the gross RFK stuff now because Nuzzi had a restraining order against him until very recently. There is nothing about this story that is not depressing and I would like to unsubscribe.

It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care

🎼 Ich habe mein Leben in Stücke gerissen Das ist mein letzter Ausweg 🎶

Also: I think most bullies have an instinct for when the person they want to pick on is too popular for them to go at without getting blowback, and they know how to miraculously become charming when that fits their preferred narrative. If you've never seen this, it's confusing! Do not be fooled!

Honestly, when I heard about this meeting, I thought Trump was going to have him killed, and this hasn't exactly dialed down my suspicions

my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner

One thing "Eddington" got right is that "child sexual abuse" is a very easy thing to base a conspiracy theory on, because most of us know people who were abused as children, or were those kids. So it's easy to conclude there's some hidden structure, but the actual "conspiracy" is just rape culture.

This very nice review of DILF contains an extremely tactful yet accurate depiction of My Process mibookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/d...

I keep wanting to do that "fictional character I remind you of" meme but I know in my heart it's just going to be a half-dozen pictures of ALF

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

Just one of the many benefits of finishing this book!

ICYMI I'm writing the Fantastic Four and Planet of the Apes!

This TDoR, I'm thinking about Elisa Rae Shupe, who died by suicide in January of this year. It's been hard for me to think about Elisa; she did what she did because she believed it would call national attention to a crisis, and it didn't. Stay alive, because death saves no-one, especially not you.

ICYMI: I'm watching "Climax" on a loop. Let's see if this can possibly be healthy, psychologically speaking: jude-doyle.ghost.io/the-movement...

I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.

We can all agree that O.N. is a bad journalist and a conservative, but the news that she was a child actor -- an industry rife with child sexual abuse -- and releasing songs about being "jailbait" at 16 just makes me think we're witnessing something terribly sad that she didn't ever want us to know.

Patriarchy treats rape and abuse of children as a luxury item -- every man "gets" to abuse "his" wife and children, and the further you go up the ladder, the more rape and abuse you get to do.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

We told them it would be used for this and not only did they all not listen, they don't fucking care! AI amplifies abuse against women and it is a plague.

In a way, EVERY day is International Men's Day

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is, of course, a stark betrayal of the New School’s storied history and animating spirit. It demonstrates something many of us know intellectually but have trouble grasping: many university leaders *do not care* about, even *actively despise*, the basic values that bring us to work every day.

At the newsletter: The Dance Dance Devolution of "Climax," and the bad trip of living through this year: jude-doyle.ghost.io/the-movement...

"If that's rape, then ALL men are rapists" -- favorite saying of rapists everywhere

$125 left to go; let’s push it over the edge!!!

I am a public educator. I provide a service.

What are you guys talking about, I LOVE Bill Maher

This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.

I decided recently to let myself start Feeling My Anger because it was A Healthy Emotion and I've learned very quickly why I stopped

It wasn't that long a wait, was it

Keith Olderman

In 2010, Keith Olbermann smeared the Assange rape accusers, went on a week-long tear of blocking everyone and quitting Twitter when criticized, then accused me of "glorifying smoking" because I had a cigarette in my PFP, but it would have made more sense if I'd known he was living with a teenager.

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

Oh, man, thank you so much!

Also I love the way Ryan characterizes sexual misconduct allegations against him in his little piece. Just kidding I did not love it at all www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/b...

“Sir, it seems Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with a second old man who was running for president”

Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

And to think, it only took saying exactly what she's always said while doing exactly what she always does over the course of the past ten years

As they say, the desire to desire desire is the desire of the desiring, desirers who desire to desire what desire desires. I too desire this desiring desiring.

I desired, and -- desiring his desires -- desired desiring, with a desire that desired more desire than desire itself

AllergyJelly is concerned about encountering a "now a major motion picture" sticker on WUTHERING HEIGHTS, a book that has been made into a movie (checks notes) five times

Important Skarsgard update on my last newsletter post:

I beg of you: please read the plot summary of this film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luc...

Top 5 film genres: - Several spectacular dance scenes and then murder - Teens of a bygone era get killed in sequence - Teen girls forge an intense psychosexual bond; uh-oh - Direct transcription of the director's recurring nightmare (great cinematography) - Gender Roles Have Caused Me To Kill

1) I'm not an Amis-head but the primary objection people had to Roth or Mailer (or Updike, or Miller, or Franzen, or) was not that they "wrote about sex" but that they were misogynists 2) "Sex from the male perspective" -- which man? Which perspective? 3) Have you read literally any book because

please join me in screaming for almost 3 minutes uninterrupted at this old vh1 clip about jeffrey epstein

Oh thank god

I feel really exhausted and demoralized lately, and I genuinely cannot tell if it's seasonal depression or just the curse of being able to perceive reality

I’ve always found it interesting how much microblogging character limits streamline language use. No room for weasel words, purple prose, digression. But I think it’s also part of how extremism ramps up. Because neither is there room for nuance, citation, qualifiers, any softening or mitigation.