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2 weeks ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
Victoriana Brooke, The Curtsy, 1873I need your recommendations on top notch attorneys to have on retainer if we are detained at an airport or border crossing. Signed— A-writer-everybody-knows-so-I-will-not-be-printing-her-fabled-nameWait! What are you up to??!! I’m just opening my eyes.... Nothing. I swear. I have done nothing!!My bestie—[another distinguished name I won’t be printing]— travels extensively for her work. She has had friends stopped at airports and border crossings.
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3 weeks ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
People are ready for fighters. I see people waving signs in front of the Tesla dealership near me. We’ll see who shows up for the demonstrations across the country nation-wide on Saturday. It’s a good day to make good trouble, and not just because it’s April Fools’ day.
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4 weeks ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
More integrity than anyone else on that group chat!
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1 month ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
“Dear E. Jean, WAIT ONE HOT DAMN MINUTE. The prize? The prize?!I can’t believe my eyes. I read it once, twice, thrice—surely, some cruel trick of the mind,some misprint, some clerical error—but no. There it is, staring back at melike a poorly lit mugshot of democracy itself:Balsamic & Basil Triscuits. Eewww. E. Jean, my beacon, my battle cry,you wound me. Balsamic? Basil? On a Triscuit? Why must a perfectly decent crackerbe humiliated like this?
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1 month ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
Musk Has Husked: The Department of Defense The Department of Education The CIA The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid The U.S. A.I.D. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The National Institutes of Health The Internal Revenue Service The Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Aviation Administration The Social Security Administration The Department of Veteran Affairs The Interior Department The Energy Department The National Science Foundation The EPA The TSA The General Services...
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1 month ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
Leave a commentLet's Turn This Shit Around!!Photos“Pain” Brighten Dog Photography, Getty Images“Stress” JWLTD, Getty Images“Defense” Angel Pietro, Getty Images“Bonding” Madhuka Mihiranga, Getty Images“Beauty” Raomer Elsterman, Getty Images
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1 month ago | 
theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com | Poorna Bell |Elif Shafak |E. Jean Carroll |Rosie Spinks
This is the monthly free Friday links and recs round-up from The Shift. If you’d like to receive posts like this every week, plus my weekly post, access the bookclub, archive and chat and more, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. SCROLLING• I knew I wouldn’t be the only one who noticed the way the best actress Oscar race was turned into an instant face-off. “Demi lost to Mikey!” screamed one headline.
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1 month ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
Even on a dark and rainy day. Dear E. Jean:I'm sorry. I appreciate you wanting to keep it light and lively but that’s a hard ask as our lives are collapsing. It makes it hard to appreciate your fluffy emails. I just am thinking about unsubscribing and wanted you to understand. Thanks,Betty * * *Betty! You Brilliant Woman!OF COURSE! You’re thinking of unsubscribing! Things are “collapsing.” Of course you’re angry. America is in danger. And our president is Nero.
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1 month ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
Next week we will be whooping it up over the winner of the IMMORTAL contest—thecontest. But for now, we are stuck with the Oscars.
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1 month ago | 
ejeancarroll.substack.com | E. Jean Carroll
The Great Blake Said:Which are you? Delight? Or endless night? And if you are neither, what were you born to? Merriment? Deceit? Upset? High Jinks? Dullness? Exasperation? Boredom? Tears? In other words: Are you lucky? Or unlucky? Leave a commentthe competition is ferocious!. Half the entrants are dreaming up ideas better than Tom Paine, the other half are composing solutions twice as wise as James Carville’s idea today in The New York Times: (i.e. roll over and play dead).
