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The One Battle After Another Mega Newsletter The final entry in The Ranks of the Freaks, a this is a newsletter series.

the final entry in our the ranks of the freaks series, a round-up of reviews of “one battle after another” by @philipchristman.bsky.social, @timmarkatos.bsky.social, @somers.bsky.social, @adamfpetty.bsky.social, @mtzero.bsky.social, @yrcnr.bsky.social, and everyone else, plus me & rachel!

the interlocking melodies on the trust devices, oh man

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

boooooooo

A Valentine to Grace: Tyler Malone on Licorice Pizza The ninth installment in The Ranks of the Freaks, a this is a newsletter series!

the final run-up piece in the ranks of the freaks: a thoughtful essay on licorice pizza by tyler malone that i am, yes, thrilled to share! thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/a-valentin...

Oh, I Like You Like This: Colin Mylrea on Phantom Thread The eighth entry in The Ranks of the Freaks, a This is a Newsletter series.

thrilled (i think i've said thrilled too many times about these essays) to share this essay by @yrcnr.bsky.social on phantom thread for our the ranks of the freaks series!!!!! thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/oh-i-like-...

not insisting upon a leadership role is not the same as a “full-throated defense of isolationism” — weird that you can’t fathom a third position in which america is a participant in int’l affairs but subject to the sort of restrictions and limitations that the US has imposed on others for so long

this mf can’t get enough of this master’s tools

'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2' was released on the PlayStation 25 years ago today in the US.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Oil Drilling in Eden: Sarah Healy on There Will Be Blood The fifth entry in 'The Ranks of the Freaks,' a This is a Newsletter series

really honored to have published this illuminating essay on 'there will be blood' and petrofiction by sarah healy as part of our PTA series!

Sit, Dragon!: Matt Zazzarino on The Master The sixth entry in The Ranks of the Freaks, a This is a Newsletter series.

thrilled with this essay by @mtzero.bsky.social on the PTA's the master for our newsletter series: open.substack.com/pub/thisisan...

The Wave Rolling Back: Erin Somers on Inherent Vice The seventh entry in The Ranks of the Freaks, a this is a newsletter series

so excited to share this essay by @somers.bsky.social on PTA's inherent vice and how he adapts pynchon:

very honored to be part of the series on PTA that @therealbradbabs.bsky.social is running before the release of one battle after another, especially given the quality of the 5 entries before mine. to all the bots and cam models who follow me, please juice brad’s numbers!!

front cover of the book “101 silly jokes for kids” by charlie chestnut

some of yall could learn a thing or two

any sincere apology would have been part of a statement announcing his voluntary resignation

funny how 100% of the people who believe IQ is a legitimate measure of intelligence also believe they are in the top 1% of IQ scores

that may be true, but the atlantic in particular has a habit of hosting writers with this skewed sense of what it means to be “civil” — it was in the atlantic that jesse singal pub’d his transphobe manifesto back in 2018 and i suspect that’s just the nature of the magazine

strange how she never responds to any of these replies

“if some people exercise their free speech in a way that makes me sad, it’s reasonable to have those people removed from society” ok lol

A Fairy Tale of Rage & Humiliation: Adam Fleming Petty on Punch-Drunk Love The fourth entry in "The Ranks of the Freaks," a This is a Newsletter series.

very grateful to @adamfpetty.bsky.social for this wonderful essay on punch-drunk love for our paul thomas anderson series newsletter series! read it here: open.substack.com/pub/thisisan...

i guess we can’t really do away with college football, since that’s what makes nfl football possible, and without the nfl, there would be no fantasy football. but that doesn’t mean anyone should be watching it, letting alone posting about it

i was talking about the engagement farming

lol good try

thinking about rfk jr getting hit by a truck, then getting scraped off the road by another larger and more leathery rfk jr who eats the first one for dinner saying fee fi fo fum and all that stuff before getting beanstalked (new violent act im inventing) by a small plucky rfk jr, etc etc

maybe trump’s dead now though

let’s start a willie wonka type sweepstakes to find a primary challenger for hakeem jeffries. hakeem jeffries would be like the chocolate factory, and ideally we’d get a bunch of kids to just go nuts on him and if we have to make one of those kids a congressperson, fine

doodoo brains

turn out yes, and there are like 500+ episodes of it. oh well.