Why is it easier for Dems to agree on banning Juuls but they can’t figure out how to ban for profit healthcare?

In 1975, women of Iceland went on strike for equal rights. 90% of women walked off their jobs & homes, shutting down the entire country. The men could barely cope. Five years later, Iceland elected first female President. Now Iceland has the highest gender equality in the world.

You know why the French get free healthcare and a year of parental leave and the entire month of august off to avoid you? It’s because they burn the motherfucking country to the ground if their leaders act like ours. But yeah playing nice has worked out super good for us.

The popular rage against Dems and liberals right now is giving me some hope, as is, in a way, the utter disconnect between the liberal media of record and mass thought. I think people are beginning to see that liberals have no intention of even trying to win the coming civil war?

Critics say the targeting of single-family rental homes by private equity and other corporate landlords has undermined homeownership and driven up rents. The firms’ all-cash offers typically win over bids with mortgages. A Congressional subcommittee has new findings: 1/

They made us some fancy graphics lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…

“So we have forced treatment in California, and a lot of it. It’s in our jails and prisons, and we disingenuously ignore it every day. Worse, we are using those jails to warehouse severely mentally ill people in a Kafkaesque state of uncertainty.”

Something to look forward to!

"Sophie Lewis is our most eloquent, furious and funny critic of how the family is a terrible way to satisfy all of our desires for love, care, nourishment." --- coming from the incredibly brilliant @ErinMaglaque! I am dead. RIP.

Just got a copy of this gem and can’t wait to dig in. Amanda’s reading Seminary Co-op tonight, chicago folks. Check it out.

My latest for The Cut. Thanks to all the volunteers @ElevatedAxs who shared their stories.

1 of 3 INCREDIBLY important piece in today's NYTimes on how Child Protective Services continually mistakes POVERTY for NEGLECT. Even caseworkers say the system loops in (and screws up) way too many decent families: nytimes.com/2022/11/22/nyr… (Continue thread) 🧵

If you want to know more about Johnnie Tillmon, I wrote about her in The Stolen Year! smile.amazon.com/Stolen-Year-CO…

Can’t wait!

Highly recommend this essay by ⁦Bethany.a.bal⁩ . Never Made a Living Wage When I Worked in Publishing - Electric Literature electricliterature.com/i-never-made-a…

A shortened version of an essay I wrote about the "essential labor" framing of care labor is coming out in the LRB tomorrow. In anticipation of that, I want to air a few points I feel are crucial when talking about the history of struggles to denaturalize private motherhood.

"Book publishers in the twenty-first century have created a market for white maternal memoirs in which relatively privileged women faux-transgressively confess mixed feelings about motherhood, apolitically." thebaffler.com/latest/the-goo…

Chicago was chosen over dozens of cities to join Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and receive a $250M investment to study how to eradicate disease. They recognized that there's no better place to build a top-tier workforce and develop cutting-edge technologies than Illinois. chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi…

It’s been a while since I’ve written a personal essay. Feels good to come back to it. Also, I love you, Mom, even if i get my low, travel frustration tolerance from you.

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