Lindsey Soward
@lindseysoward.bsky.social
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“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lamott
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lamott
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Nobody’s free until everybody’s free, and nobody has a better future than the least cared for child. Not you, me, or any of the children we know or love. Children will share this world, long after any one of us adults is gone, and they will inherit every debt we leave them.
January 30, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free, and nobody has a better future than the least cared for child. Not you, me, or any of the children we know or love. Children will share this world, long after any one of us adults is gone, and they will inherit every debt we leave them.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
January 19, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.
And try not to take your frustration and feelings of powerlessness out on each other.
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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Sorry, I’m losing it. I’m so hungry. But also all food is disgusting.
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Sorry, I’m losing it. I’m so hungry. But also all food is disgusting.
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The worst part of pregnancy is the first trimester because you feel absolutely terrible but you also can’t tell anyone so you’re just walking through the grocery store trying to pretend like you aren’t about to vomit because all the food is so disgusting.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The worst part of pregnancy is the first trimester because you feel absolutely terrible but you also can’t tell anyone so you’re just walking through the grocery store trying to pretend like you aren’t about to vomit because all the food is so disgusting.
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We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.
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The idea that the presence of strong emotion(s) disputes the validity of a person’s argument is at the core of what’s harming us all.
October 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The idea that the presence of strong emotion(s) disputes the validity of a person’s argument is at the core of what’s harming us all.
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Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie
How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.
www.eater.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
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These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.
July 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.
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A world led by ghouls.
July 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A world led by ghouls.
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Have reforms really triggered a crime wave? How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs or the profit motives of private prisons?
On International Fact-Checking Day, we're busting some of the biggest myths in the criminal legal system🧵
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On International Fact-Checking Day, we're busting some of the biggest myths in the criminal legal system🧵
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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025
The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why
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April 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Have reforms really triggered a crime wave? How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs or the profit motives of private prisons?
On International Fact-Checking Day, we're busting some of the biggest myths in the criminal legal system🧵
buff.ly/S8yZTrC
On International Fact-Checking Day, we're busting some of the biggest myths in the criminal legal system🧵
buff.ly/S8yZTrC
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they radicalized David Brooks
>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
they radicalized David Brooks
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As I’ve been saying, this all starts with how we talk and think about children. Everything else is a bandaid on a mortal wound.
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
As I’ve been saying, this all starts with how we talk and think about children. Everything else is a bandaid on a mortal wound.
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
I’ve never been cool, but the rush I got from grocery shopping in a fully-stocked store with almost no other shoppers before 8am…the ship has sailed, coolness is forever beyond my reach.
December 23, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I’ve never been cool, but the rush I got from grocery shopping in a fully-stocked store with almost no other shoppers before 8am…the ship has sailed, coolness is forever beyond my reach.
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We have to stop thinking that what affects children won’t affect us. It always has and it always will. We could change the whole world—no hyperbole—by truly putting the welfare of children first, with all the considerations of their full human rights.
December 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM
We have to stop thinking that what affects children won’t affect us. It always has and it always will. We could change the whole world—no hyperbole—by truly putting the welfare of children first, with all the considerations of their full human rights.
Parenting while both parents are sick is horrible, 0/10, got to be one of the absolute worst parts of being a parent
August 17, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Parenting while both parents are sick is horrible, 0/10, got to be one of the absolute worst parts of being a parent
I just heard a Hunger Games ringtone in a waiting room and it was deeply jarring!
December 6, 2023 at 5:52 PM
I just heard a Hunger Games ringtone in a waiting room and it was deeply jarring!
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I wrote a essay about the grim way being a mom in America is depicted today, and how women weighing parenthood struggle to absorb all these chilling warnings, statistics, and cautionary tales.
It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change.
www.vox.com/features/239...
It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change.
www.vox.com/features/239...
December 4, 2023 at 12:16 PM
I wrote a essay about the grim way being a mom in America is depicted today, and how women weighing parenthood struggle to absorb all these chilling warnings, statistics, and cautionary tales.
It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change.
www.vox.com/features/239...
It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change.
www.vox.com/features/239...