I think there's a pendulum in newsletter writing that swings between "I'm sharing one high-impact thought" and "I'm assembling a small digital magazine," and right now I feel like I'm receiving too many magazines and not enough high-impact, self-contained thoughts
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RIP @crumbler 🪦
The latter approach offloads the labor of originality.
I empathize.
Authorial voice and perspective is why i subscribe. Appointment reading keeps me.
Moreover, we could argue, then, that our entire legal system, including the validity of our countries and governments, is socially constructed (made up) and relies on pragmatic utility that serves to hold social cohesion, —
Tldr: all this babbling to say I'm an anarchist.
(For what it’s worth, @womenofletters.org is the former, for anyone who might be seeking more of that in their inboxes these days!) 👋
https://mailchi.mp/ea3ee619336f/shakedown-street-landing-page?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3oXjXy6RLDEMmh1D39f3j9ngMtKNYV8JLosk0LFZ5s4QvOhnDXnapkp3I_aem_ICNw_yUzuZjjsmIucLoymQ
Trump is appointing unpopular, incompetent weirdos to his cabinet precisely because they are unpopular, incompetent weirdos. They need to be completely loyal to him alone, otherwise they have no prospects, which is all he really cares about.
He’s a celebrity used car salesman with a god complex. In Canada we would call that a standard issue American. But in Canada we don’t let these types run the country.
It's all deep thoughts all the time!