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1 month ago | 
laurafenton.substack.com | Laura Fenton |Paul Krugman |Garrett Bucks
Last week, I announced that 10% of the profits for each month’s paid subscriptions will be donated to a different charitable cause. My first donation went to EarthJustice. In Small Takes, I ask people who are living small how they make it work. This month, I’m introducing you to Merie Subryan, an interior stylist and design consultant, who lives with her husband Alex and two children in a 850-square-foot one bedroom that the family recently converted to two.
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1 month ago | 
lyz.substack.com | Garrett Bucks |Moira Donegan |Kate Manne
Last year, at a book event with , someone in the audience asked him how he, a family man, felt being up on stage with me, an advocate for divorce. Garrett handled the question with his usual disarming wit, replying that he felt great about it. I was a little less charming. Feminists have families too, I pointed out. Divorced people are still part of families. In fact, a good portion of my book is dedicated to talking about the joys of parenting with freedom and love.
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1 month ago | 
courtney.substack.com | Courtney Martin |Sarah Wheeler |Garrett Bucks
It hasn’t been a big movie-watching year for me, truth be told, but I still enjoyed hearing my very smart, very funny palstalking about the Oscars tonight. I’ll be watching, clueless about the movies but very much enjoying the vibes, I’m sure.
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1 month ago | 
thegoldenhour.substack.com | Anya Kamenetz |Sarah Mathews |Courtney Martin |Garrett Bucks
Hello friends. Community, friendships, and mutual aid have been on everyone’s lips, seemingly, since the election. I’ve been listening and learning from so many amazing writers like , , , , and ; we touched on this theme in my podcast conversation with a little while ago, too. Katharine Wilkinson: " Extraordinary, productive, magical things happen in the dark" Building community IRL is difficult when people are even more stressed out than normal and, as always, feeling pressed for time.
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2 months ago | 
momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler |Amanda Montei |Tracy Clark-Flory |Garrett Bucks
I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about what holidays means as a parent in these times. In the fall, I mostly guffawed at the new trend of Boo Baskets for Halloween for The Cut. I also wrote in my Good Enough Parent column for Romper about how to engage as a parent with a holiday you don’t particularly love.
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2 months ago | 
lgumbinner.substack.com | Liz Gumbinner |Garrett Bucks |Asha Dornfest |Brad Montague
I am not a home design influencer and thus, I have no obligation to swap out the tired letterboard on my desk for something more on-trend. But I did need to change the message on it. In January of 2024, it displayed a reminder I needed to hear at the time, but which no longer feels relevant.
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2 months ago | 
makemenemotionalagain.substack.com | Jeremy Mohler |Ruth Whippman |Garrett Bucks
In my relatively new career as a therapist, I spend a lot of time around women. Most of my clients are men. But my colleagues and work friends tend to be women, as women make up an estimated two-thirds of therapists. One thing I’ve noticed compared to being around other men is that women tend to ask more questions. Not directly to me about my life or experience—though that seems to happen a bit more often too, maybe because they’re therapists? But out loud. Into the air.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
lyz.substack.com | Garrett Bucks
This week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company Meta would be shutting down its fact-checking department. He delivered this news in a reel in which he also unveiled his new look, which can only be described as a cross between Kid Rock and a damp paper towel. Vanilla Rice is back with a brand new invention. Also, what happened to his eyelashes?
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thewhitepages.substack.com | Garrett Bucks |Martha Bayne |Elise Granata
There is a debate happening in the wake of the U.S. election, but it feels like it’s been going on my entire lifetime. Basically, a lot of people who pride themselves on being smart Democratic Party thinkers have proclaimed that we have seen the enemy and it is wokeness. They have charts and graphs and exit poll results, these pundits.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Garrett Bucks
Skip to content essays The actor had to be tough but never scary, wise-cracking but rule-abiding, and play his White audience’s cool Black friend I watched Bad Boys: Ride or Die on a long summer Sunday night in Malmö, Sweden, halfway between Midsommar and the Fourth of July. I was on vacation, visiting family and friends, but took advantage of a free night to see what summer blockbuster season felt like in another country. The theater was packed for the 9:00 PM showing. Packed and rowdy,...
