Bartender tried to “top off” my drink when I barely had two sips. He just offered a woman another drink and she said “no, get away from me!”

Men/white people will be like “I’m so sorry that happened to you” and it’s a thing that happens like 3 times a day.

Joe and Kamala look like a president & VP from a 90’s movie except in the movie they wouldn’t be dealing with growing fascism, it would be more like “Mr. President you have to tell America that ur son’s a chimpanzee.” And then the chimp helps poor people somehow and is accepted.

My son got a trivia question of who killed Abraham Lincoln. “You mean I have to say the NAME of the MURDERER?”

Took my six-year-old to the Met this weekend. Pointed out a Pablo Picasso painting. She said, “oh, I know Pablo.”

Met a 27 yr old w/ stage IV triple neg breast cancer. Multiple med oncs refused to give her Keytruda bc she is 9 wks pregnant. Thanks to Abbott’s extreme abortion ban, she has to find the resources to terminate her pregnancy in another state or die from her cancer #Roevember

It’s really wild reading how US news outlets report on prison conditions elsewhere, as if solitary confinement, prison labor, psychological torment, and *checks notes* death by firing squads don’t exist here

AITA for taking over Twitter?

a map of local community fridges in nyc to drop off or pick up food. 🫶🏾 tinyurl.com/c55ma6uv

Today, Rikers island claimed its 18th victim this year. The death toll in NYC jails is at its highest since 2013. People are not just “dying”on Rikers Island. The jail is killing them through a combination of mismanagement, racism, and horrid conditions . It’s a hellhole.

Only a decade or two until we can elect the Steve Harvey girls to every office in the land. The future is sit on it.

Love to do work at a bar sipping my lil drink but so many male bartenders are absolutely determined to ruin that for me.

Gonna try this thing where I “shop my closet” (eat the food that’s already in my fridge).

Inside of you are two wolves. One of them wants to live in a country where people of all genders/races/nationalities/sexualities/incomes have bodily autonomy. Which do you feed?

Twitter is like the nyc subway system - difficult to appreciate until it’s not there.

I was in prison with moms who didn’t have anyone to care for their kids during their sentence. Their parental rights were permanently revoked, which is the most cruel and permanent collateral consequence that exists.

I wrote about those darker Decembers. bethnewell.substack.com/p/darker-decem…

I wrote about balance and making peace with the fact that my home will never be perfect. bethnewell.substack.com/p/finding-flow

New substack post on staying present through the sweat and puke of life. bethnewell.substack.com/p/staying-pres…