Margaret Monteith

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

So say we all

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Terrifyingly on point this morning.

Look where so many people falling for the excuse that “it was only locker room talk” has gotten us.

who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things

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It’s all so horrifying. 😞 It will never stop being amazing to me that millions and millions of people chose and back him.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Immigrants didn't make healthcare too expensive, insurance companies did.

Immigrants didn't buy up the housing market, private equity did.

Immigrants didn't turn our tax code upside down, billionaires did.

Immigrants aren't taking your jobs, billion-dollar corporations are.

Self care.

personally if I were sitting behind a man proclaiming that my entire job was meaningless and my power was as dust in his eyes I would not smile and clap and nod and stand but that is one of many ways Mike Johnson and I are different

Where Can I Run by Run for Something Take the next step: Look up offices you can run for

It’s a great night to consider running for office. runforwhat.net

The state of our union is unaffordable.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

She is a hero we all need right now, and I am in awe of and so appreciative of her pure joy in the sport, the challenge, the very doing of it on her own terms.

So in awe of an appreciative of the amazing Alysa Liu. Absolutely the hero I need right now.

The U.S. Men's Hockey Team Failed the Locker Room Test Men need to stop bonding over humiliating women

This isn't my newsletter's usual beat, but I had to write something jessica.substack.com/p/mens-hocke...

7. The solution isn't complicated. We need to let folks build all kinds of housing where people actually want to live. By restoring mobility, we can restore agency, dignity, opportunity, and hope.

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

So true. We’re in another dimension now.

Instead of blaming undocumented kids for the high cost of college, how about blaming the defense contractors?

How about blaming the billionaires who aren’t paying their taxes?

How about blaming an economic system that has not invested in the health and education of our country?

😕

This summary of masculinity politics is amazing. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Except maybe worse.

This is amazing work.

That overview is equal parts amazing and depressing to read, but the summary of girls versus boys in school is amazingly on point from my time as a student and as a teacher and as a parent. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose…

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

The link to the Colbert Talarico interview.
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