Elissa Yancey
@eyancey.bsky.social
Lead Narrative Change Agent at A Picture's Worth. Author, Grab Happy, a book about caregiving my Mama. Urban Appalachian in Cincinnati, Ohio. "Without community, there is no liberation." --Audre Lorde
apicturesworth.org / elissayancey.com
apicturesworth.org / elissayancey.com
Haven’t visited in a while and curious. How do you all think about (or avoid thinking about) grief? open.substack.com/pub/caregivi...
Revisiting Grief
Another family death opens old wounds and avenues for new healing.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Haven’t visited in a while and curious. How do you all think about (or avoid thinking about) grief? open.substack.com/pub/caregivi...
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truly shocked that a preening buffoon with enough self-regard to produce two memoirs before the age of 40 believes that being being fat or overweight is a moral failure and that one must engage in cleansing struggle to become healthy.
Ozempic’s primary function is to make it easier to eat healthy, and by extension to exercise. Have seen these drugs work miracles for friends. Feel quite certain there are people in this smug ignoramus’s life who have benefited as well.
November 24, 2024 at 3:34 PM
truly shocked that a preening buffoon with enough self-regard to produce two memoirs before the age of 40 believes that being being fat or overweight is a moral failure and that one must engage in cleansing struggle to become healthy.
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If you also did not know this, I highly recommend reading @oriion.bsky.social's incredible profile on Sarah McBride and Andy Cray. It is comprehensive, compassionate, and well worth your time: 19thnews.org/2024/10/sara...
November 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM
If you also did not know this, I highly recommend reading @oriion.bsky.social's incredible profile on Sarah McBride and Andy Cray. It is comprehensive, compassionate, and well worth your time: 19thnews.org/2024/10/sara...
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As of this morning, we’re close to 9000 people who’ve signed up to run for office since EDay.
As I told @rtraister.bsky.social in NYMag, I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. nymag.com/intelligence...
As I told @rtraister.bsky.social in NYMag, I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. nymag.com/intelligence...
The Resistance Is Dead. Long Live the Resistance?
The women who set out to bury Donald Trump are doing things differently now.
nymag.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
As of this morning, we’re close to 9000 people who’ve signed up to run for office since EDay.
As I told @rtraister.bsky.social in NYMag, I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. nymag.com/intelligence...
As I told @rtraister.bsky.social in NYMag, I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Eugenicist-- always. BW die of maternal complications at 3x the rate of WW, Indigenous, 2x.
The antiabortion movement has always been in part about white supremacy. It's all connected.
archive.is/202205052036...
IT IS ALL ONE FIGHT.
THERE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ONE FIGHT.
The antiabortion movement has always been in part about white supremacy. It's all connected.
archive.is/202205052036...
IT IS ALL ONE FIGHT.
THERE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ONE FIGHT.
I said it in today's nl and I'll say it again: the anti-abortion movement is a eugenicist project that aims to eliminate, by any means necessary, those wombs that cannot be controlled and forced into compliance. They have no use for women with cancer, because they don't consider those wombs useful.
“Pro life” www.propublica.org/article/abor...
February 27, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Eugenicist-- always. BW die of maternal complications at 3x the rate of WW, Indigenous, 2x.
The antiabortion movement has always been in part about white supremacy. It's all connected.
archive.is/202205052036...
IT IS ALL ONE FIGHT.
THERE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ONE FIGHT.
The antiabortion movement has always been in part about white supremacy. It's all connected.
archive.is/202205052036...
IT IS ALL ONE FIGHT.
THERE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ONE FIGHT.
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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
February 5, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
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Needs to be a country wide push to make public housing, banking, healthcare, transit, postal service, education, and the arts alongside it. A wholesale rebranding of the commons outside of them being a place for public branding.
Public funding of journalism is the only real solution. Every other solution will only fill a tiny part of a big hole. Best way to spend our time is figuring out how to make large scale public funding of news possible.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/public-fun...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/public-fun...
Public Funding of Journalism Is the Only Way
There is no other magic solution. I promise.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 6, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Needs to be a country wide push to make public housing, banking, healthcare, transit, postal service, education, and the arts alongside it. A wholesale rebranding of the commons outside of them being a place for public branding.
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This right here.
As experts like @katharinehayhoe.com and others have pointed out, the knowledge deficit model simply does not work.
COVID, climate change, Jan 6, it doesn't matter.
This should be a foundational piece of knowledge for any academic, advocacy, and journalistic work.
As experts like @katharinehayhoe.com and others have pointed out, the knowledge deficit model simply does not work.
COVID, climate change, Jan 6, it doesn't matter.
This should be a foundational piece of knowledge for any academic, advocacy, and journalistic work.
February 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM
This right here.
As experts like @katharinehayhoe.com and others have pointed out, the knowledge deficit model simply does not work.
COVID, climate change, Jan 6, it doesn't matter.
This should be a foundational piece of knowledge for any academic, advocacy, and journalistic work.
As experts like @katharinehayhoe.com and others have pointed out, the knowledge deficit model simply does not work.
COVID, climate change, Jan 6, it doesn't matter.
This should be a foundational piece of knowledge for any academic, advocacy, and journalistic work.
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In my latest newsletter, I lay out how I start the process of writing a book. There's also the usual bird photography, and reading recommendations buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...
The Ed's Up - How to Start a Book
Only when books are completed do we really talk about how they began. During book talks, I often get asked about where the idea came from. Once I had it,...
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February 3, 2024 at 2:48 AM
In my latest newsletter, I lay out how I start the process of writing a book. There's also the usual bird photography, and reading recommendations buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...
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a big thing for the very clever contrarian boys has long been what does *diversity* have to do with *science*?!?! anyway this is the 101-level answer
February 3, 2024 at 1:16 AM
a big thing for the very clever contrarian boys has long been what does *diversity* have to do with *science*?!?! anyway this is the 101-level answer
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The deafening silence of the US media establishment as Israel carries out the most sustained attack on journalism in modern history should be a source of lasting shame. I wrote about it for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The US Media Is Ignoring Israel’s Campaign to Kill Palestinian Journalists
Israel is trying to snuff out journalism in Gaza. This should be a sound-the-alarm, all-hands-on-deck moment for anyone who professes to support reporters and the work that they do.
www.thenation.com
January 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
The deafening silence of the US media establishment as Israel carries out the most sustained attack on journalism in modern history should be a source of lasting shame. I wrote about it for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The nurse at my mother’s dermatologist office told her she had to remove her mask before he’d see her for an examination of a spot on…her foot.
Almost nothing about our current pandemic moment is more baffling or enraging to me than healthcare professionals being hostile to masking within healthcare facilities
Was just at my doctor's office, none of the staff or doctors masking, and all of them telling me, incredulously, "You don't have to wear that mask!" as if doing me a favor. YEAH HI THIS IS WHERE ALL THE SICKNESS LIVES, SANDRA. Also I'm sick?? WTF???
January 24, 2024 at 11:28 PM
The nurse at my mother’s dermatologist office told her she had to remove her mask before he’d see her for an examination of a spot on…her foot.
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Huge news! The White House is delaying the approval of a massive LNG terminal and evaluating the others based on the latest climate science. This is a massive win for people and the planet. Great decision from President Biden!
White House Said to Delay Decision on Enormous Natural Gas Export Terminal
Before deciding whether to approve it, the Energy Department will analyze the climate impacts of CP2, one of 17 proposed LNG export terminals.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Huge news! The White House is delaying the approval of a massive LNG terminal and evaluating the others based on the latest climate science. This is a massive win for people and the planet. Great decision from President Biden!
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This is an amazing story. Houston criminalized feeding the homeless, Food not Bombs continued to do so, the city has ticketed them dozens of times and occasionally arrested members but hasn’t been able to get a single conviction. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless
Roughly 90 tickets have been issued since March to volunteers with the loosely organized Food Not Bombs, which serves meals to people in need.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
This is an amazing story. Houston criminalized feeding the homeless, Food not Bombs continued to do so, the city has ticketed them dozens of times and occasionally arrested members but hasn’t been able to get a single conviction. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Wild thing about that NYT piece is how it shows these guys taking some of the most racist Tucker Carlson segments from three years earlier and successfully making them mainstream GOP positions.
January 22, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Wild thing about that NYT piece is how it shows these guys taking some of the most racist Tucker Carlson segments from three years earlier and successfully making them mainstream GOP positions.
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Yes, it leaves out the next iteration in which the Times itself certainly played a role, but this is a pretty good story about old-fashioned white supremacist and patriarchal thinkers deliberately laundering their ideas into public life as anti “woke” and anti “DEI” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade
The backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — ...
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Yes, it leaves out the next iteration in which the Times itself certainly played a role, but this is a pretty good story about old-fashioned white supremacist and patriarchal thinkers deliberately laundering their ideas into public life as anti “woke” and anti “DEI” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The NYT did five dozen stories on the president of Harvard who was *not* a court-determined rapist so we should probably see a few more on this?
Or does it not count because Trump’s rape victim went to a state school? Is the story beneath them?
Or does it not count because Trump’s rape victim went to a state school? Is the story beneath them?
I know “found liable for rape in a court” isn’t as big a story as “rumored to have poor email security” but maybe the press can give this as much attention as they gave that?
This is a good question that all local reporters should be asking in their coverage — “did Trump have to register as a sex offender here?”
January 22, 2024 at 2:00 AM
The NYT did five dozen stories on the president of Harvard who was *not* a court-determined rapist so we should probably see a few more on this?
Or does it not count because Trump’s rape victim went to a state school? Is the story beneath them?
Or does it not count because Trump’s rape victim went to a state school? Is the story beneath them?
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As Gaza's internet blackout reached its record *eighth* day today, I wrote about how people there can often only communicate with the outside world by using donated eSIMs and catching a roaming signal from across the Israeli or Egyptian border:
Palestinians are using donated eSIM cards to stay in touch with the outside world
Palestinians have faced numerous internet and phone blackouts throughout the months-long war.
www.nbcnews.com
January 19, 2024 at 9:54 PM
As Gaza's internet blackout reached its record *eighth* day today, I wrote about how people there can often only communicate with the outside world by using donated eSIMs and catching a roaming signal from across the Israeli or Egyptian border:
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This from Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot always sticks with me. After a case ended gerrymandering in a particular community in the 80s, they got *paved roads* for the first time
January 19, 2024 at 1:21 AM
This from Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot always sticks with me. After a case ended gerrymandering in a particular community in the 80s, they got *paved roads* for the first time
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I’ve heard the phrase “colder than a witch’s tit” but this is ridiculous
January 17, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I’ve heard the phrase “colder than a witch’s tit” but this is ridiculous
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“Trump didn’t ask evangelicals to change their goal of a government controlled by white conservative Christians. He just tore away the pretense that they wanted to accomplish that by democratic means.” WHEW.
My piece on Trump's Iowa victory: he has made religious right leaders irrelevant
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | How Trump became Iowa evangelicals’ chosen one
In a Republican electorate dominated by white evangelicals, no rival can touch him.
www.msnbc.com
January 16, 2024 at 10:52 PM
“Trump didn’t ask evangelicals to change their goal of a government controlled by white conservative Christians. He just tore away the pretense that they wanted to accomplish that by democratic means.” WHEW.
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(taps mic) some personal news
Excited to announce the return of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social's This Modern World to the Prospect for the first time since the early 2000s! We'll bring you TMW every Tuesday.
This Modern World
Tom Tomorrow returns! His cartoon appears on TAP every Tuesday.
prospect.org
January 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM
(taps mic) some personal news
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Kids will die because of this. Kids, teachers, bus drivers, librarians. This will kill people. Just feels like it should be said. www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
Oakland schools allow COVID-positive students to attend class
(KRON) — Thousands of students in the Oakland Unified School District are returning to their classrooms after winter break with less COVID-19 rules imposed by the district. OUSD announced new…
www.kron4.com
January 16, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Kids will die because of this. Kids, teachers, bus drivers, librarians. This will kill people. Just feels like it should be said. www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
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entirely possible that i'm using the new nyt opinon blog to push back on stuff that annoys me in national media www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01...
Opinion | Trump Isn’t Close to Having a Majority
By any measure, Trump has been a unique electoral loser for the Republican Party.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM
entirely possible that i'm using the new nyt opinon blog to push back on stuff that annoys me in national media www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01...