Sarah Archer
@sarcher.bsky.social
Pets, modernism, feminist rage, etc. Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
Think about what they were able to accomplish (building democratic societies, improving existing ones, housework with no electricity or mod cons, keeping up with what was New in Hats) without most of the technology we take for granted. Also no amoxicillin: sinus infections for eternity. And yet.
once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.
January 17, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Think about what they were able to accomplish (building democratic societies, improving existing ones, housework with no electricity or mod cons, keeping up with what was New in Hats) without most of the technology we take for granted. Also no amoxicillin: sinus infections for eternity. And yet.
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once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.
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That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.
It's really impossible to overstate how much *everyone* is watching the US threats towards Greenland, not just Europe. If you want to break not just NATO but Five Eyes and maybe our Asian defense alliances too, taking Greenland is how you do it.
Forcibly annexing Greenland would be a strategic catastrophe—for Europe, for Canada, and perhaps most especially for the United States itself.
My latest in @foreignpolicy.com on how we're all sleep-walking into a disaster: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/06/g...
My latest in @foreignpolicy.com on how we're all sleep-walking into a disaster: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/06/g...
January 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM
That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.
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terrible decision out of alberta imo. acknowledging that pets are living beings with feelings and inner lives isn’t the same as conflating them with children.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Parenthood and pet ownership aren't same, judge rules in Alberta cat custody spat | CBC News
An Alberta judge has divided up a group of cats between two feuding former spouses, saying neither gets to keep all of them because — in Alberta at least — pets aren't the same as kids and legally sho...
www.cbc.ca
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
terrible decision out of alberta imo. acknowledging that pets are living beings with feelings and inner lives isn’t the same as conflating them with children.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If a conservative anywhere has to hear, encounter, or be subject to judgement based on an opinion they disagree with that’s maoism but if conservatives use state power to prosecute, defund, or censor you that’s fine because they’re just entitled to do that for reasons
January 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
If a conservative anywhere has to hear, encounter, or be subject to judgement based on an opinion they disagree with that’s maoism but if conservatives use state power to prosecute, defund, or censor you that’s fine because they’re just entitled to do that for reasons
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2/ This is the NYT headline: "Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders"
This reality check is buried in the 10th paragraph:
Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
This reality check is buried in the 10th paragraph:
Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
January 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
2/ This is the NYT headline: "Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders"
This reality check is buried in the 10th paragraph:
Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
This reality check is buried in the 10th paragraph:
Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
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Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
📸: Pierre Lavie
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
📸: Pierre Lavie
January 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
📸: Pierre Lavie
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
📸: Pierre Lavie
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BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting
January 17, 2026 at 3:49 AM
BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting
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some incidental trek trivia: holly hunter grew up 30 minutes outside east atlanta. she has single-sided deafness due to a mumps infection when she was a young child (vaccines weren't available yet)
guys starfleet academy is really, truly, terrifically good so far
January 17, 2026 at 5:46 AM
some incidental trek trivia: holly hunter grew up 30 minutes outside east atlanta. she has single-sided deafness due to a mumps infection when she was a young child (vaccines weren't available yet)
Not the houndstooth sofa again, Mr. Cardamom.
“Mr. Cardamom” is an excellent cat name
January 17, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Not the houndstooth sofa again, Mr. Cardamom.
“That’s my water glass, Mr. Cardamom!”
“Mr. Cardamom” is an excellent cat name
January 17, 2026 at 5:17 AM
“That’s my water glass, Mr. Cardamom!”
“Mr. Cardamom” is an excellent cat name
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM
“Mr. Cardamom” is an excellent cat name
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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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I am VERY proud of the work of the immigration page team did to pull together this week's timeline update for Unbreaking. For scale, we try to keep the number of updates to a timeline under 20 items, to avoid overloading everyone. This update was 25 items, several of which came in late in the cycle.
This week, we have a briefing on Immigration and quick updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research Funding teams: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, January 16 — Unbreaking
This week, we have a briefing on Immigration and quick updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research Funding teams.
unbreaking.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I am VERY proud of the work of the immigration page team did to pull together this week's timeline update for Unbreaking. For scale, we try to keep the number of updates to a timeline under 20 items, to avoid overloading everyone. This update was 25 items, several of which came in late in the cycle.
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
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all levels of Dems when they come in should purge Republicans from office
The incoming Democratic governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, has asked at least five members of the board overseeing the University of Virginia who were appointed by her Republican predecessor to resign, according to people briefed on the matter.
Some U.Va. Board Members Asked to Resign as Gov. Abigail Spanberger Takes Power
After months of upheaval at the state’s flagship university, a new Democratic governor appeared ready to shake up the school’s leadership.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 10:49 PM
all levels of Dems when they come in should purge Republicans from office
Every day I’m grateful anew for @jamellebouie.net 🧡
big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro
Only 15 days in and we have a strong contender for most embarrassing headline of the year.
Ben. Shapiro. The guy who can't get his wife wet. The guy who needs an old person to open the pickle jar for him.
Ben. Shapiro. The guy who can't get his wife wet. The guy who needs an old person to open the pickle jar for him.
January 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Every day I’m grateful anew for @jamellebouie.net 🧡
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big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro
Only 15 days in and we have a strong contender for most embarrassing headline of the year.
Ben. Shapiro. The guy who can't get his wife wet. The guy who needs an old person to open the pickle jar for him.
Ben. Shapiro. The guy who can't get his wife wet. The guy who needs an old person to open the pickle jar for him.
January 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM
big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro
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Log off. Go eat some tacos and watch Twin Peaks.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Log off. Go eat some tacos and watch Twin Peaks.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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ICE can't even deal with irate middle-aged midwesterners. how does he occupy hundreds, if not thousands, of polling cites and precincts? trump v. illinois clarified that he has no legal authority to unilaterally commandeer national guards, how does he move forward from there?
January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
ICE can't even deal with irate middle-aged midwesterners. how does he occupy hundreds, if not thousands, of polling cites and precincts? trump v. illinois clarified that he has no legal authority to unilaterally commandeer national guards, how does he move forward from there?
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“…it’s striking how easily conservatives, stewing over insults to white people for five years, have singled out a group of white women as the enemy … In the right-wing imagination, these women are acting like harpies when they’re supposed to be helpmeets.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...
Opinion | The Right Wants ICE to Crush the Wine Mom Insurgency
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 PM
“…it’s striking how easily conservatives, stewing over insults to white people for five years, have singled out a group of white women as the enemy … In the right-wing imagination, these women are acting like harpies when they’re supposed to be helpmeets.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...