The current millionaire mayor ran an attack ad against her that said she got help from her parents with childcare, and that somehow was supposed to make us like her less?

You had me for one glorious second.

it's time to organize, not panic.

I hope the kid was able to get a much-needed cartoctomy.

I wasn't ready. Imagine getting to write that magnificent combination of words every time you sign your name.

lots of similarities to cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f... in this piece

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When I saw this headline I involuntarily shouted "oh my god, Beth" before even seeing who wrote the article.

If someone who doesn't live in your head said that, would you block them?

The people who were affected by those actions did nothing wrong and were politicized because they were an inconvenience to Musk. Is supporting a man like that an apolitical act that deserves to be free of consequence and discomfort?

The money that you paid (and continue to pay if you have any subscriptions) to Tesla pays the salary of a man who is directly responsible for ending the lives of tens of thousands of people by unilaterally and unconstitutionally gutting USAID and terminating countless grants for disease research.

We're living through a scary period and it's helpful, if not comforting, to build an understanding of what it has historically taken to create large-scale change.

Thanks for making this and please make more when you can! The long-form insight into how a student of history thinks about history both abstractly and specifically is something I've been wanting to get more of.