Megan Burbank

also the Jonas Brothers holiday movie (going in part 2) is surprisingly enjoyable. I truly had no idea

We Watched Holiday Romcoms So You Don't Have To From Champagne Problems to A Merry Little Ex-Mas, We Love Holiday Trash and So Can You

I'm pretty sure watching this many holiday movies made me dumber but it was worth it
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terrible news. Hush is so good!

just remembering the era of movie + TV trailers where pathos was conveyed ONLY thru slow, acoustic covers of the hits of the '80s

why... why did we do that

my favorite Christmas carols are Carol of the Bells and O Come Emanuel because they’re the scariest

For the Love of Lilith Fair Is it possible to be nostalgic for a concert you didn't attend?

wrote about my many Lilith Fair feelings ✨ be careful if you read this because I've heard it makes people want to listen to Sarah McLachlan which might make you seem cool and mysterious to the people around you 🔮
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Journalists turn that critical eye onto our own industry challenge

I promise I’m not writing a think piece but it’s wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get one million second chances from legacy pubs and a prestigious staff job after violating basic journalistic ethics multiple times while so many talented journalists I know who did not sleep with sources are out of work

very generous of Florence to make an album that sounds like the Yellowjackets soundtrack, she really knows her target demo

The People I Remember On This Trans Day Of Remembrance Elisa Shupe, Lia Smith, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and so many more names are worth remembering today.

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us.

In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward.

These are the people I'm remembering today.

how “am” I? I got the cold everyone else has this week and watched all of SLOMW and decided Jessi is my favorite because she has a job

The Washington Post is Wrong About Katie Wilson Her precarity turned out to be a superpower, not a liability.

I wrote about the Washington Post’s very silly take on Katie Wilson
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

writers! do not date writers

In one particularly weird situation we had to have two endorsement meetings for the mayoral race because so many people filed

I’m probably too close to the material, but this NYT framing suggests that the Mercury’s endorsement process is new and small-scale. Untrue: I was on the endorsement committee when I worked there years ago and the Merc’s endorsements have been similarly influential to The Stranger’s over the years

WaPo’s framing echoes what the Harrell campaign got wrong: For millennial voters, knowing someone lives in a small apartment and has experienced financial precarity is not a disqualifying dig of any kind. If anything it’s partly why Wilson was able to win

Jodi the frog

Jodi the frog

sure did

In Seattle, "ballots counted exceeded 55 percent of registered voters (compare this to 42 percent in the NYC mayor’s election)."

Hi if you’d like to hear about the mayoral race from people actually in Seattle I can help with that. We aren’t panicking 🙂
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Always the biggest compliment. Thank you, Lex!

My dad agreed, the election results (eventually) confirmed our suspicions, and this commentary is the result. Thank you for reading ✨

I remember when Wilson’s daycare “scandal” came out and my first response was that it would just make her more relatable because idk if you’ve heard but EVERYTHING is too expensive and most millennial parents I know get some kind of family help with child care if they’re lucky enough to have it

Establishment Democrats Tried to Derail Katie Wilson’s Campaign—and Failed The precariat rose up, with passion, desire for change, and votes.

This byline is special to me because, outside of Burbank Industries, it’s my first national story post-layoff, and it builds on decades of yapping at the dinner table, over coffee, in the car. That’s just what happens when you’re raised by an economic policy dad & a health policy mom

Establishment Democrats Tried to Derail Katie Wilson’s Campaign—and Failed The precariat rose up, with passion, desire for change, and votes.

Two Burbanks are better than one! My dad and I cobylined on this father-daughter collab at @thenation.com after seeing how Katie Wilson’s daycare “scandal” just didn’t stick because it only made her more relatable to millennials and Gen Z voters
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wait I love this!

Thanks, Alex! You can thank my dad for the Burien detail in this father-daughter collab

- I’m going on a long walk with a new friend and there are a lot of side quests
- Final girl and final cat
- There isn’t room in this ballet academy for the both of us
- Journalists are poorly dressed but competent
- Women in shoulder pads get their revenge

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