I knew it! I fuckin’ KNEW IT! I never trusted that mouse.

Yeah, read this last year and really liked it.

Lovely building. My grandparents used to live in Evanston and apparently the temple was colloquially known as “God’s lemon squeezer.”

I still remember blankets freezing to the walls in winter, pillbugs under the heater in the middle of the house (water heater? furnace?), and that time the fire inspector came and I got put into the bathroom with the illicit kitty until he left. 😂

That is astonishing. What a coincidence/connection!

I did too! Definitely married student housing, my dad was ex-Navy, in med school there. I would have been 5 or so, in the mid-60s. You?

Great, thanks! And while you’re listening, search “substack has a Nazi problem” and consider moving to e.g. Ghost or beehiiv. 😉

Serendipity in my timeline

From your lips to gods’[sic] ears

These five signals are from the executive summary, which is a pretty good synopsis. If you’re strapped for time at least give that a read, it’s only two pages! (But check out the appendices too. How voters think is key, and we were surprised Dems have more than 1.5x as many moderates as Rs!)

Voters in 2024 had both chronic and acute frustration about the economy. They wanted change and were skeptical of Harris and Dems’ capacity to deliver it. Right wing and corporate media effects are huge, but not insurmountable. But a lack of movement alignment makes this challenge more difficult.

Hey new verb just dropped!

Forgive me regular meghan for I have threaded