Lindsay Ballant
@lballant.bsky.social
⬛️⬜️🟥 Here we go again. Art director & designer for hire. Former: The Baffler, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Forum, etc. Rooting for a proletariat revolution or an O's world series win, whichever comes first. lindsayballant.com
I made these circa 2005, just out of art school. Been waiting 20 years to post…
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I made these circa 2005, just out of art school. Been waiting 20 years to post…
Glad everyone is discovering how great Becca Rothfeld, the writer of that scathing book review is—she used to write for @thebaffler.com! Back in 2018 she wrote about the toxicity of positivity/self-help/liberal feminism—one of my fave pieces ever to art direct.
Support indie publications, folks
Support indie publications, folks
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Glad everyone is discovering how great Becca Rothfeld, the writer of that scathing book review is—she used to write for @thebaffler.com! Back in 2018 she wrote about the toxicity of positivity/self-help/liberal feminism—one of my fave pieces ever to art direct.
Support indie publications, folks
Support indie publications, folks
You are creating a fantasy bait and switch that hasn’t happened, and getting mad at it. Because, once again, you’re stereotyping them as The Same Guy.
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
You are creating a fantasy bait and switch that hasn’t happened, and getting mad at it. Because, once again, you’re stereotyping them as The Same Guy.
No, the issue here is you’re lumping him in with Fetterman, which makes no sense unless you’re seeing this on purely superficial terms, which is about what I’d expect from party comms/strategy people.
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
No, the issue here is you’re lumping him in with Fetterman, which makes no sense unless you’re seeing this on purely superficial terms, which is about what I’d expect from party comms/strategy people.
Every night I sleep in a big bed with my boyfriend, and it’s not connected to the internet
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Every night I sleep in a big bed with my boyfriend, and it’s not connected to the internet
You should not be able to automatically subscribe me to a substack I’ve never heard of written by a person I never heard of and had to look up to realize that I’ve had them blocked them on Twitter. Where do these people get their email lists from and why is mine on there
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You should not be able to automatically subscribe me to a substack I’ve never heard of written by a person I never heard of and had to look up to realize that I’ve had them blocked them on Twitter. Where do these people get their email lists from and why is mine on there
presented without comment
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
presented without comment
Right wing grifters grifting each other down an infinite spiral of grift will never not be funny
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Right wing grifters grifting each other down an infinite spiral of grift will never not be funny
how shallow do you have to be to treat the cause of Palestinian liberation like an indie band you saw at Northsix in 2003.
Why would you gatekeep this? If you actually cared about the cause, you'd of course want as many high-profile people speaking out as unrelenting as Ms. Rachel has done.
Why would you gatekeep this? If you actually cared about the cause, you'd of course want as many high-profile people speaking out as unrelenting as Ms. Rachel has done.
October 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
how shallow do you have to be to treat the cause of Palestinian liberation like an indie band you saw at Northsix in 2003.
Why would you gatekeep this? If you actually cared about the cause, you'd of course want as many high-profile people speaking out as unrelenting as Ms. Rachel has done.
Why would you gatekeep this? If you actually cared about the cause, you'd of course want as many high-profile people speaking out as unrelenting as Ms. Rachel has done.
Is this not clear enough for you? Last month she went on Fox News to praise Hegseth and Trump’s illegal bombing of those citizens… to troll him?
October 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Is this not clear enough for you? Last month she went on Fox News to praise Hegseth and Trump’s illegal bombing of those citizens… to troll him?
They are fine with a Trump ally who literally thanks Trump in their acceptance message, as long as it isn’t Trump himself.
Democratic Party comms are full of these operatives and the Dem primary voter stans eat it up—no consistent ideology, only care about aesthetics.
The resistance!
Democratic Party comms are full of these operatives and the Dem primary voter stans eat it up—no consistent ideology, only care about aesthetics.
The resistance!
October 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
They are fine with a Trump ally who literally thanks Trump in their acceptance message, as long as it isn’t Trump himself.
Democratic Party comms are full of these operatives and the Dem primary voter stans eat it up—no consistent ideology, only care about aesthetics.
The resistance!
Democratic Party comms are full of these operatives and the Dem primary voter stans eat it up—no consistent ideology, only care about aesthetics.
The resistance!
Blocked 4 Truth. Many such cases!
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Blocked 4 Truth. Many such cases!
The educated intellectual class’s resistance to Trump is fine with Trump’s policy as long as a POC woman is carrying it out instead.
Either that or they have to admit they were wrong and didn’t bother to learn anything about her, which they’ll never admit to bsky.app/profile/josh...
Either that or they have to admit they were wrong and didn’t bother to learn anything about her, which they’ll never admit to bsky.app/profile/josh...
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The educated intellectual class’s resistance to Trump is fine with Trump’s policy as long as a POC woman is carrying it out instead.
Either that or they have to admit they were wrong and didn’t bother to learn anything about her, which they’ll never admit to bsky.app/profile/josh...
Either that or they have to admit they were wrong and didn’t bother to learn anything about her, which they’ll never admit to bsky.app/profile/josh...
Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month
October 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month
Shoutout to everyone who was correct at the time and was proved even more correct in retrospect, once again.
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Shoutout to everyone who was correct at the time and was proved even more correct in retrospect, once again.
They’re calling him the most electable Democratic Party presidential primary candidate in half a decade, maybe more
October 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
They’re calling him the most electable Democratic Party presidential primary candidate in half a decade, maybe more
“I want them to know it was me”
October 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“I want them to know it was me”
Took me a decade to figure it out. Giancarlo Stanton has resting detective-figuring-it-out face
October 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Took me a decade to figure it out. Giancarlo Stanton has resting detective-figuring-it-out face
It was a great razor’s edge pitchers duel throughout most of the game but the 9th seemed pretty embarrassing to me!
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It was a great razor’s edge pitchers duel throughout most of the game but the 9th seemed pretty embarrassing to me!
This one’s trying to break containment
October 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This one’s trying to break containment