Victoria Barrett
@victoriabarrett.bsky.social
Writer, editor, founder Engine Books. Zero-trick pony, the kind that bites. Writing in Washington Post, Salon, SyFy Wire, Gay Mag, etc. She/her.
Do not
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Do not
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
I’ve been reading all of these to my kids for the last year, except we’re accidentally reading them out of order because my kid played with them and put them back in the slip case wrong. It’s somehow even weirder.
My current source of outrage is everyone thinking Oz started in 1939.
Schwartz is talking about another movie to “expand the Oz franchise” like L.Frank Baum and subsequent writers Ruth Plumly Thompson, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, and Eloise Jarvis McGraw haven’t already written 40 books about Oz.
Schwartz is talking about another movie to “expand the Oz franchise” like L.Frank Baum and subsequent writers Ruth Plumly Thompson, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, and Eloise Jarvis McGraw haven’t already written 40 books about Oz.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I’ve been reading all of these to my kids for the last year, except we’re accidentally reading them out of order because my kid played with them and put them back in the slip case wrong. It’s somehow even weirder.
Truly, I’ve never been so grateful for a paywall.
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Truly, I’ve never been so grateful for a paywall.
“This post is for paid subscribers.”
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“This post is for paid subscribers.”
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
This dude should never be allowed in a classroom again.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This dude should never be allowed in a classroom again.
Whoever was editing the both of them should’ve been paid more.
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Whoever was editing the both of them should’ve been paid more.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I am so happy to hear that they don’t do this anymore. It was such a gross practice.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I am so happy to hear that they don’t do this anymore. It was such a gross practice.
I knew from the second I heard that she didn’t use names that the prose was gonna be pretentious, insufferable trash.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I knew from the second I heard that she didn’t use names that the prose was gonna be pretentious, insufferable trash.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
Northern lights from downtown Indianapolis!
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Northern lights from downtown Indianapolis!
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This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Watched Materialists last night. It should’ve been called 50 Shades of Beige.
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Watched Materialists last night. It should’ve been called 50 Shades of Beige.
It’s 54° and sunny. The frost has burned off the grass and the leaves are turning. Days like this were made for walking across a college campus with your headphones on and your Walkman in your pocket playing a mixtape some boy made for you, feeling free for the first time in your life.
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s 54° and sunny. The frost has burned off the grass and the leaves are turning. Days like this were made for walking across a college campus with your headphones on and your Walkman in your pocket playing a mixtape some boy made for you, feeling free for the first time in your life.
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
I took a several-year break from watching baseball and started again this postseason, and the quality of hair care and dental whitening has improved considerably of late.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I took a several-year break from watching baseball and started again this postseason, and the quality of hair care and dental whitening has improved considerably of late.
Kinda wish someone would tell my kids' gym teacher that the clichés about gym teachers being fascists don't actually have to be true for every gym teacher, every time. Apparently we call parents when a kid is skipping instead of walking, when he's been instructed to walk. In gym class! Holy moly.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Kinda wish someone would tell my kids' gym teacher that the clichés about gym teachers being fascists don't actually have to be true for every gym teacher, every time. Apparently we call parents when a kid is skipping instead of walking, when he's been instructed to walk. In gym class! Holy moly.
What does he mean, “now”?
Mike Johnson on Democrats: "They like to drop the F bomb now for fun, for emphasis, apparently"
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What does he mean, “now”?
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democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
This is SUCH a concise and useful description of the problem.
2) Republicans use polls to shape strategy, not to shape their positions.
Public opinion is malleable. Most people don't have firm opinions. Republicans shape the river. Democrats chase the currents--and it hasn't worked.
@anatosaurus.bsky.social has written on this also
Public opinion is malleable. Most people don't have firm opinions. Republicans shape the river. Democrats chase the currents--and it hasn't worked.
@anatosaurus.bsky.social has written on this also
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is SUCH a concise and useful description of the problem.
My mom’s best friend’s parents were Uncle Bob and Aunt Doris. Another friend of my mom’s was Grandma Diane (my middle name is Diane after her). Really and truly, so fucking what?
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My mom’s best friend’s parents were Uncle Bob and Aunt Doris. Another friend of my mom’s was Grandma Diane (my middle name is Diane after her). Really and truly, so fucking what?
Who TF wrote that pitch-perfect Hawley op-ed?
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Who TF wrote that pitch-perfect Hawley op-ed?