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Loather
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I am not, nor have I ever been, a Las Vegas showgirl.
I am a headliner!
I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/
I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather
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I’m setting up a newsletter on @buttondown.com. I would like to do more long form writing and I don’t have the capacity for pitching. There are gonna be some essays about bad management and about writing and about my load bearing grudges. It’s called love, the nailbiter. buttondown.com/loather
love, the nailbiter
This newsletter is sometimes about work, and sometimes about libraries, and also sometimes about writing, and also sometimes about music, and there is sometimes politics yelling. Love, the nailbiter...
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If you want to take your mind off the horrors for a bit, find some clips of the tribute concert for Mariah Carey
February 1, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM
A secret shadowy cabal that just makes admission to museums free and pays every late hospital bill
hear me out, what about a secret shadowy global cabal but for GOOD
January 31, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The trump admin does not believe that the constitution applies to noncitizens and they are eager to take that issue before the Supreme Court
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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oh shit we got hennepin hannah
January 31, 2026 at 2:55 PM
You may not like it but this is what peak ADHD performance looks like
January 31, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I for one appreciate all the time Harry Styles spent in Berlin
January 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Forgot that WALL E also shows huge amounts of satellite junk surrounding the earth. They knew about starlink
January 31, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Cannot believe these times are making me defend don lemon
January 30, 2026 at 2:33 PM
ok??? Maybe I’m sad and looking at andor gifs on tumblr??? What coping mechanism would you prefer, FENTANYL???
January 30, 2026 at 5:02 AM
husb found the orange cat drinking out of the toilet. Terminal levels of orange detected
January 30, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Knocking on my door at 7:30 at night? not in my world. Not in the world I’m living in
January 30, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Pachebel’s canon in d always slaps!!!
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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Yes. They also “lost” in Los Angeles last summer and just yesterday they carried out a record number of kidnappings here in the city.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.

people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
January 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
honestly would pay money to watch Amy K harangue ICE like a staffer, dunno why they haven’t put her up to this yet
Like I said, if Amy wants my vote, she’s driving to Texas and she’s coming back with Liam.
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I keep seeing references to new apps to replace TikTok….I just don’t think at my age I’m meant to join a new platform
January 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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lander should run against schumer. i'm serious. schumer has to invent imaginary friends and lander is out there making friends and doing retail politics like a boss.
This is Brad Lander doing pulltabs in the Uptown VFW. He’s one of us now
January 29, 2026 at 3:21 AM
They sent Dr. Oz, a Turkish citizen, after Armenians in LA?
a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Blaming tabs for the multiple tabs I have open now as I piece together what seems to be entirely one sided beef between jessa crispin and emily gould
January 28, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I look at him and I see my son, and I imagine how many other precious children are being held prisoner in this country, and I am so, so angry.
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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She was about to throw

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ill hands

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January 28, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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Americans voted to bring back measles.

Wasn’t front of mind for most voters, sure, but the pro-measles contingent was a key part of the Trump 2024 coalition, with RFK Jr. and “MAHA” possibly the margin of victory in a close race.

Vaccines were on the ballot. The plurality was anti- or didn’t care.
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I said the name “Andy Dick” in front of five year old. He asked who that was. I said he’s an actor. Five year old: “I’d like to see that guy.” You’re in luck, son. Everyone in LA sees Andy at least once
January 28, 2026 at 2:34 AM