Nellie Bowles

California

Head of Strategy at The Free Press

Head of Strategy for The Free Press (@TheFP), a very real job. I also write TGIF. Author of Morning After The Revolution. Wife, mother.

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TGIF: Monitoring the Situation

1 week ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome back to TGIF, where I take you on a tour of the various fires engulfing the world. World War III: Ayatollah’s Revenge meant our vacation was canceled, and also that I haven’t seen my family in years. I just slide individual french fries under Bar’s door, and sometimes a vitamin. Sometimes she’s working, but all the time she is Monitoring the Situation. TGIF is brought to you by a team today. I don’t really deserve a byline, but of course I’ll take it, thank you.
The Triumph of the Plastic Straw: ‘They took our straws and made us drink from mushy paper. And it was based on a 9-year-old’s bad math’

1 week ago | climatedepot.com | Nellie Bowles

https://www.thefp.com/p/donald-trump-plastic-strawsBy Excerpt:The biggest environmentalist craze of my generation started in 2011 with Vermont 9-year-old Milo Cress cooking up an arbitrary number for how many plastic straws Americans used daily. This 9-year-old figured it was so many. He says he called up straw manufacturers and calculated 500 million a day. Boom, big number, good number. The mainstream media was off to the races.
TGIF: ICE Raid on Aisle 4

2 weeks ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

If you’re looking for Israel-Iran war takes and news, you won’t find them here but you will find them all over The Free Press. As a warning, I’m on vacation for the next two weeks. My replacement is Will Rahn, chosen because he’ll be terrible at this and therefore poses no danger to my position. As usual, please “be nice” to Will in the comments (defend my honor with the strength of a thousand men).
The Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome back. This is a weekly news summary, told with bias. → Elon x Trump divorce: It’s the breakup of the year. Elon Musk is turning on Trump, Trump on Elon, and there is no prenup. It started slowly.
TGIF: Scammander in Chief

4 weeks ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome back to your week in review. My only housekeeping announcement is that new merch has hit the store just in time for those who use “summer” as a verb or live in the White House: Free Press golf balls. Please add your best tagline for them in the comments.
TGIF: Fit to Serve

1 month ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

TGIF: Fit to ServeBiden’s cover-up gets aired out. Trump yells at Walmart. Wannabe citizens compete on reality TV. DOGE fumbles. Dems can’t find their Joe Rogan. And much more. Welcome back. I loved meeting some of you at the San Francisco debate, where I handed out VIP wristbands to anyone who complimented my cropped trousers—which in SF is as close as we get to shorts—or who brought a book for me to sign (any book, I just like being asked to write my name). Let’s turn to the news.
TGIF: The Emir of America

1 month ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome back to your trusted week in review, written this week from the middle seat on my way to San Francisco for a Free Press debate. Our first flight was canceled after we sat in the plane for many hours, and I’ve slept very little, so I am ready for war. This week is a short one because of that, plus I have to prepare for the big event (attending the debate after-party, and wondering why my pinot noir is taking this long).
TGIF: In This $TRUMP Economy?

1 month ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome to TGIF, a news summary from a very unreliable narrator. → Pope Bob: A billow of white smoke, and we have a new pope! And he is an American! His name is Robert Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV—and he was born in Chicago before serving as a bishop in Peru. The Vatican chose an American to avoid tariffs, I presume. Prevost was known to be close to Pope Francis and seems likely to carry forth many of his philosophies and efforts, though it’s too soon to tell.
TGIF: Gangster Government

1 month ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Hello, and welcome back to your week in review of strong opinions, loosely held. → The U.S. economy contracts: Our GDP has started contracting at an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, after three years of robust growth. Usually there’s a logical reason for something like that (a pandemic? A housing market collapse?
TGIF: Vladimir, STOP!

2 months ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome back to the week’s news, dissected, digested, and then sent up. This is like if the Free Press Slack leaked but it’s only my messages, so all-caps announcements to the whole company asking where the bathroom key is, plus DMs of conspiracy theories that I send to interns. But first, a shameless sell: Bari and The Free Press are headed to San Francisco on May 15 for a debate on the future of AI. Tickets are almost sold out. Get yours today.

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