Jennifer Barnett

Kids are doing a better job reporting the news than legacy journalists. A 15 year old kid in Amsterdam documented and reported the Maccabi soccer fan vs. Muslim cab driver violence in Amsterdam better than the NYT. A kid on Tiktok explained the Kirk shooter's motives and ideology better than anyone.

Robert Redford as Hubbell in The Way We Were

Robert Redford was nearly cast as the husband in Rosemary's Baby. Imagine how amazing and dynamic that would have been. He'll always be handsome, aloof, dastardly Hubbell to me. I've had a crush on him since I was a kid. Who didn't? RIP you beauty.

Troublemaking at Parties A coffee table how-to book I'd like to write

I wrote about how I get into trouble when I'm bored and the mischief I make at parties for my own amusement. After last week I figured we could use some levity. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...

Yeah your principles got Trump elected fuckwad.

Good job not voting for Harris because genocide, assholes.

Magic mushrooms, tall ships, and Condé Nast I’m quoted in the new Condé Nast book — two pages on how you had to know how to speak Condé Nast, which at first I did not know how to do, but I learned quickly.

I wrote about being quoted in the Condé Nast book, drinking magic tea in the Vondelpark with strangers, and the tall ships sailing into Amsterdam. Walter, a new reader, was not impressed with this post. Poor Walter. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...

Same Time, Next Year A short post about a movie I love

A short post about a movie I love that hits differently in middle age. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...

It's first on our list when we go next week. I still wonder who got Kate Bush's fake head stone from Spookslot.

Oh, love these wintry Efteling photos! We love to spend the night in the haunted forest cottages. It's such a cool, weird, awesome place. So glad you've been and are in the know.

Last gasp of summer in Amsterdam My brain does not like to be harnessed.

I wrote about the end of summer in Amsterdam and bones that fall out of feet and pirate vampire gods and some other things. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/last-gasp-...

Seven Years in Amsterdam On healing

I wrote a new Stroopwaffled about... everything. We moved to Amsterdam seven years ago. It’s a winding tale of a midlife reckoning. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/seven-year...

so shocking!

Shitty media men still running the place.

I didn't trust Ben Smith to report about my experience as the managing editor of The Atlantic as I thought he was too buddy buddy with my former bosses, then he formed a company with one -- the former president of The Atlantic who was in a relationship with the head of HR at The Atlantic. Anyway...

Ramshackle Structures I love a contraption.

New Stroopwaffled up about the contraptions you see floating on the Amsterdam canals, and how not everything has to be polished or fancy to have value. Weird stuff is cool.
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The Dutchies kissed Trump’s ass to prevent WWIII It’s working. For now.

I'm going to lose people over this, but so be it. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/the-dutchi...

I remember when Clinton was running against Trump and Frum didn't care for her smile.

😂

Solidarity with not only the women who went on the record here, but also all the women who are plunged back into their own trauma after reading this. 💙

“I’m sober now” is such a shitty excuse for abusers to wash themselves clean of their past behavior. Too many women have to endure this.

Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.

When women experience something disorienting and abusive from someone they trust (particularly a person who holds power) the first instinct is usually to push it aside while they gather themselves and it can take time for them to fully face it
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This is true. The Washington Post had everything CJR had from me, also on the record by name.

Can relate. I went on the record with Wapo about The Atlantic and the story ended up being a puff piece with a wildly out of context quote from me, buried in the piece, and I was told Wapo and the Atlantic were talking off the record which is unethical. (I have receipts.)

Yes

I’m sorry you are going through this. Solidarity.

I wasn’t aware of this. This is excellent reporting.

Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.

Many of my friends expressed support for Wes Lowery when American University fired him. I was so upset to see that but I understood that few knew just how bad a person he is. Please read this. You will see.

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I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In… I had the plumb job. The top of the masthead of one of the most prestigious and respected publications with more than a 150-year-old…

I wrote an essay/rant a few years ago called I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge, and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up, and it’s still relevant and Jake Tapper can fuck all the way off. jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-ca...

On Longing You want to do nothing, but you are in a constant state of longing.

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On Longing You want to do nothing, but you are in a constant state of longing.

New Stroopwaffled on longing vs. the desire to do nothing. Also, one time I peed on Kenneth Starr's daughter's front lawn for reasons only tangentially related to Kenneth Starr. Xoxo open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...