Lindsey Soward

We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.

The idea that the presence of strong emotion(s) disputes the validity of a person’s argument is at the core of what’s harming us all.

Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

Children's Spaces With No Children Have we lost our very minds?

“Folks say “I don’t like kids,” as casually as they’d say they prefer Pepsi to Coke. When people say things like “kids are okay, but I just don’t want them around me,” we don’t generally question that. I think we should.”

These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.

A world led by ghouls.

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025 The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

Have reforms really triggered a crime wave? How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs or the profit motives of private prisons?

On International Fact-Checking Day, we're busting some of the biggest myths in the criminal legal system🧵
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they radicalized David Brooks

As I’ve been saying, this all starts with how we talk and think about children. Everything else is a bandaid on a mortal wound.

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

I’ve never been cool, but the rush I got from grocery shopping in a fully-stocked store with almost no other shoppers before 8am…the ship has sailed, coolness is forever beyond my reach.

We have to stop thinking that what affects children won’t affect us. It always has and it always will. We could change the whole world—no hyperbole—by truly putting the welfare of children first, with all the considerations of their full human rights.

Parenting while both parents are sick is horrible, 0/10, got to be one of the absolute worst parts of being a parent

Bc if we aren’t here….where are we?

I just heard a Hunger Games ringtone in a waiting room and it was deeply jarring!

I wrote a essay about the grim way being a mom in America is depicted today, and how women weighing parenthood struggle to absorb all these chilling warnings, statistics, and cautionary tales.

It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change.

www.vox.com/features/239...

Love to spend an hour on the phone with a handful of pharmacies & my doctor’s office trying to track down a single pharmacy in this town that has my ADHD meds & figure out how to get them. It’s like that haunted house meme (for ADHD) except I’ve actually had to do this every few months 🫠

The most knock-me-to-my-knees thing about becoming a parent, that I didn’t expect, was how much I suddenly see every person of every age as a baby. A tiny, beautiful, stupid baby who was loved, or wasn’t loved enough, or deserved love they never realized they were missing.

It’s cooking weather, babyyyy

The tigers in Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood have tiger print curtains in their living room. I have a lot of questions.