Nellie Bowles

California

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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The Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue

1 day 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

1 week 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

2 weeks 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

3 weeks 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?

4 weeks 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!

1 month 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.
Homegrown Criminals

1 month ago | thefp.com | Sean Fischer |Nellie Bowles

Hello! It’s me, Sean, Bari’s assistant. If you’re wondering why Nellie is sharing this byline with me, don’t. I’m here. That’s all that matters. Nellie solemnly told me last week that I was “ready” to lead TGIF, and that “my time had come” to share the heavy mantle. But all I heard was: “I have a birthday dinner and want to leave early.” Which, fair enough. You only turn 37 26once, I guess. As for me? I’ve trained for this my entire life. Be kind in the comments.
TGIF: Yippy and Afraid

1 month ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Hello and welcome. As a good American, my mood tracks the stock market, which is to say I feel muddled, stuck, kind of okay, but also ready to collapse. → Yippy: After tariffs officially set in, hitting a 100-year high this week, Trump finally blinked. He blamed Americans for getting “yippy” and “afraid.” And so the tariffs are paused, except a blanket 10 percent, and then of course a huge one just on China, which makes sense! In the end, did it all work out well?
TGIF: Our Beef Is Beautiful

2 months ago | thefp.com | Nellie Bowles

Welcome back to the week in review told from the perspective of The Free Press’s least informed columnist. If it’s messy it’s because we’re having an office party, and I can’t miss lawsuit opportunities like that. I recently told my TGIF helper Sean that blonds such as himself don’t age well, so he should enjoy his youth. And that was just this Tuesday morning—at night, and there are going to be drinks? By next week I’ll be in jail.