Garrett Bucks
@garrettbucks.bsky.social
I write The White Pages (https://thewhitepages.net) From Montana, now in Milwaukee. I probably like you.
"We put on ZZ Top and turned it up, real loud"
"We put on ZZ Top and turned it up, real loud"
You know what they say about leverage! When you have it, you should use it for just a bit, fail to get what you want, and cave at an entirely arbitrary moment!
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
You know what they say about leverage! When you have it, you should use it for just a bit, fail to get what you want, and cave at an entirely arbitrary moment!
Reposted by Garrett Bucks
What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.
Wait, why am I only now learning that the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for re-election yesterday all have EXTREMELY POWERFUL REGIONAL ACCENTS?
youtu.be/ekIqnCYgLnk?...
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Team
YouTube video by Vote Yes for Fair and Independent Courts
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November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Wait, why am I only now learning that the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for re-election yesterday all have EXTREMELY POWERFUL REGIONAL ACCENTS?
youtu.be/ekIqnCYgLnk?...
youtu.be/ekIqnCYgLnk?...
Flyover country loves socialist policies! And we have for a long time!
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Flyover country loves socialist policies! And we have for a long time!
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More and more people saying this (b/c more and more people are correct).
Unironically, leftists need to reclaim Sewer Socialism.
Abundance is just Sewer Socialism for neoliberals.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
More and more people saying this (b/c more and more people are correct).
Reposted by Garrett Bucks
Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts.
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Wherever you live, you deserve to fall in love with a candidate for a change
A few thoughts, in advance of an insufferable wave of discourse about "what kind of Democrats can win in what kind of places"
thewhitepages.net
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts.
thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts.
thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
Wherever you live, you deserve to fall in love with a candidate for a change
A few thoughts, in advance of an insufferable wave of discourse about "what kind of Democrats can win in what kind of places"
thewhitepages.net
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts.
thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
"Who knows me and my neighbors in Milwaukee the best? Manhattan-based opinion writers for the Times and The Atlantic, of course. It is they, not me, who understand what animates myself and my fellow flyover simpletons (girls high school athletics, I am told)."
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Wherever you live, you deserve to fall in love with a candidate for a change
A few thoughts, in advance of an insufferable wave of discourse about "what kind of Democrats can win in what kind of places"
thewhitepages.net
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Who knows me and my neighbors in Milwaukee the best? Manhattan-based opinion writers for the Times and The Atlantic, of course. It is they, not me, who understand what animates myself and my fellow flyover simpletons (girls high school athletics, I am told)."
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Earnest socialist potluck season LET’S GO!
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Earnest socialist potluck season LET’S GO!
Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.
Obviously, the clear lesson from tonight is that NYC is the only place in the country where people care about their neighbors and want good things to happen and everywhere else Dems have to run sex pests, grumpy weirdos and McKinsey consultants! That’s just common sense!
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Obviously, the clear lesson from tonight is that NYC is the only place in the country where people care about their neighbors and want good things to happen and everywhere else Dems have to run sex pests, grumpy weirdos and McKinsey consultants! That’s just common sense!
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Great thought piece & I'm looking forward to hearing more about the '48ers.
The thing about strongmen is that they're too dumb and short-sighted to know when they've planted the seeds for their own collapse (we're the seeds)
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If Trump and his cronies want to rule the world forever, they made one fatal mistake
They gave us something to do
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November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Great thought piece & I'm looking forward to hearing more about the '48ers.
The thing about strongmen is that they're too dumb and short-sighted to know when they've planted the seeds for their own collapse (we're the seeds)
thewhitepages.net/p/if-trump-a...
thewhitepages.net/p/if-trump-a...
If Trump and his cronies want to rule the world forever, they made one fatal mistake
They gave us something to do
thewhitepages.net
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The thing about strongmen is that they're too dumb and short-sighted to know when they've planted the seeds for their own collapse (we're the seeds)
thewhitepages.net/p/if-trump-a...
thewhitepages.net/p/if-trump-a...
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Joining a local ICE watch group > posting your 10th Luigi meme in a stranger's mentions
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Joining a local ICE watch group > posting your 10th Luigi meme in a stranger's mentions
You all, nobody's talking about this particular public health risk, but this week we have reached absolute nuclear levels of Dad Discourse (meaning, "stuff that dads have opinions about") Here's a partial list...
October 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You all, nobody's talking about this particular public health risk, but this week we have reached absolute nuclear levels of Dad Discourse (meaning, "stuff that dads have opinions about") Here's a partial list...
Reposted by Garrett Bucks
"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out."
Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have.
open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...
Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have.
open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...
Here is a very specific thing you can do right now that will meet the moment quite nicely
Maybe do it five or six times, actually
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out."
Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have.
open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...
Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have.
open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...
I know that everybody is searching for any source of hope right now, but it's wild how many people convinced themselves that Maine is a real place with residents and Senate seats and everything.
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I know that everybody is searching for any source of hope right now, but it's wild how many people convinced themselves that Maine is a real place with residents and Senate seats and everything.
"The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads, Marxists, the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party- they all adore the protests. They think it's a righteous time."
Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads, Marxists, the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party- they all adore the protests. They think it's a righteous time."
If you feel that big marches where people take pictures of their punny signs and do other things you consider cringe aren't effective, that's fine! Do something that you feel helps more! I am truly grateful for the big protests! And I would love to be grateful for you theoretical contribution too!
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you feel that big marches where people take pictures of their punny signs and do other things you consider cringe aren't effective, that's fine! Do something that you feel helps more! I am truly grateful for the big protests! And I would love to be grateful for you theoretical contribution too!
I published this a few hours before the Politico story about the Young GOP text chain but oh my God if it doesn’t reinforce the thesis— the choice right now is not just ideological, but between irony-pilled nihilism and an actual belief in and love for people
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October 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I published this a few hours before the Politico story about the Young GOP text chain but oh my God if it doesn’t reinforce the thesis— the choice right now is not just ideological, but between irony-pilled nihilism and an actual belief in and love for people
thewhitepages.net/p/who-are-yo...
thewhitepages.net/p/who-are-yo...
"And once again, I could be tremendously wrong. But I’d rather be wrong and in love than right and alone. I’d rather be a loser with an outstretched hand than the coolest person in the world with a closed heart. I’d rather build with you than despair alone."
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Who are you going to believe?
The cynical refrain that nothing matters, or your own big, dumb, beautiful heart
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October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"And once again, I could be tremendously wrong. But I’d rather be wrong and in love than right and alone. I’d rather be a loser with an outstretched hand than the coolest person in the world with a closed heart. I’d rather build with you than despair alone."
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SAL FRELICK
SAL FRELICK
October 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
SAL FRELICK
If you are wondering "is Woody Allen's tribute to Diane Keaton in The Free Press as cursed an artifact as I'd expect?... it's, um, worse? [TW: extremely insensitive discussion of eating disorders]
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If you are wondering "is Woody Allen's tribute to Diane Keaton in The Free Press as cursed an artifact as I'd expect?... it's, um, worse? [TW: extremely insensitive discussion of eating disorders]
Clergy protesting at the Broadview Detention Center
Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"
This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.
This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.
October 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Clergy protesting at the Broadview Detention Center
Reposted by Garrett Bucks
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif