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Eliot Landrum @eliotlandrum.com · 15h

"Men Yell At Me", my favorite newsletter that I obsessively read every single issue, is celebrating 5 years today. @lyz.bsky.social thoughtful takes on whatever is going on in a broader systematic view are always worth my time. Congrats and hope for 5 more, Lyz! lyz.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...

They want to replace women with AI

The 5-year anniversary of MYAM

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The Hometown Holler @thehometownholler.bsky.social · 16h

New Hometown Holler drop: We sit down with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social - scholar, writer, truth-teller. From North Carolina roots to national influence, Dr. Cottom talks about home, politics, and the power of paying attention. Don’t miss this one.

#home #community #politics #whiskey

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Nostalgia, Belonging, and Why Calling Trump an “Idiot” Misses the Point

YouTube video by The Hometown Holler

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

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Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s 🔥🔥🔥 read via @lyz.bsky.social
was just saying as much

There is no compromise with tyrants

And other links for your Sunday

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 5d

??? For five years I’ve been using it every week and sometimes more in a newsletter. No one is using that word more than me.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 5d

The man who looks like a non-denominational youth pastor seconds from being discovered on Grindr wastes all of our time this week lyz.substack.com/p/too-sauced...

Dingus of the Week: Pete Hegseth

This meeting could have been a fever dream

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6d

Remember when Hillary Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable“?

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 7d

"It’s ironic, I think, in a state that overwhelmingly votes to preserve gun rights and takes away food assistance for kids, that everyone who comes here is so worried about the safety of the playset." @lyz.bsky.social

Tearing down the playhouse

Some thoughts on raising kids and playsets and politics

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!!

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Brandon Hoàng @brandonhoang.bsky.social · 7d

all of @lyz.bsky.social posts are great, but her latest "Tearing Down the Playhouse" got me good this morning.

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Tearing down the playhouse

Some thoughts on raising kids and playsets and politics

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 9d

“She became a living legend in Havana, her very presence a reminder that the empire’s reach was not infinite.”

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Assata Shakur Died Free. White America Will Never Forgive Her For It

Assata’s death is not just the end of a life. It is the reopening of a wound that white America never stopped scratching and Black America never stopped trying to heal.

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Dale @dalegrauman.bsky.social · 12d

Lol

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 12d

With democrats like these who needs republicans? lyz.substack.com/p/anti-knot-...

Dingus of the Week: *takes drag of cigarette* fine, it’s Ezra Klein

I saw Goody Proctor getting health care!

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 12d

Feeling intensely grateful for the amazing writers, all of whose work means such a great deal to me, who took time out of their lives to read and endorse WITHOUT CONSENT. Here is a short thread of their praise, starting with the tremendous @lyz.bsky.social:

"Through detailed research and beautiful writing, Sarah Weinman has created an evocative, unputdownable, and haunting narrative about one woman and the trial that changed marriage for all women in America."
- LYZ LENZ,
AUTHOR OF THIS AMERICAN EX-WIFE

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 13d

“Can someone Google for me?” — you

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 14d

Some of y’all need to brush up on your Dietrich Bonhoeffer and it shows

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 14d

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision

It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to Halt Abortion Services

Sources say the affiliate isn't scheduling abortion appointments after September 30 in an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding."

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 16d

Working at a bar in Iowa and I just overheard a man say, “As someone who participates in protests, I can guarantee you no one is paid by George Soros. How would that pay scale even work?”

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 16d

You are always the most gorgeous

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 16d

Making me feel so good about turning 43 in December

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16d

Guess how old these MAGA men are?

Stephen Miller, answering the question "could Goebbels have looked worse without hair?"

Brendan Carr, answering a casting call to play "Ron Howard's dad"

Alex Jones, whose face has more lines than an epic poem

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16d

Exactly. “Jesus, come get your mess!”

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18d

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs

“Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18d

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs

“Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

If the concern is authoritarianism, I struggle to think of more than a very few things a state can do that are more intrusive of human rights, dignity and freedom than forced pregnancy.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19d

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden

Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

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This is something people really have to take seriously. We need to expand the tent.
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Ezra Klein says the more worried you are about authoritarianism, the more willing you've got to be to run pro-life Democrats in red states.
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almost always incredibly high. I think they happen to be higher now. And I do think a lot of what is happening in terms of the structure of the system itself is dangerous. I think that the hour is late in many ways. My view is that a lot of

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