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Consumer confidence
The other night, I was doing my weekly grocery shopping when I beheld an incredible scene. (I shop at a remote suburban store, as I told my therapist,...
buttondown.com
okay here ya go, i wrote about male crisis discourse, kind of buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do you have a favorite Steely Dan album and if so what is it?
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do you have a favorite Steely Dan album and if so what is it?
Badly burned the mayocobas 😓 but salvaged enough of them to make killer refritos anyway
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Badly burned the mayocobas 😓 but salvaged enough of them to make killer refritos anyway
Vinay Prasad compared the vax mandates to the Holocaust in 2021 or 2022 and all his UCSF colleagues who were like “buhhh he seems fine to me!” are still teaching America’s future public health leaders 🤡
In the Holocaust, Nazis captured my grandpa’s sister Sheinale (Yiddish for "beautiful") & her family & executed them in a forest in Lithuania. Their bodies are in an unmarked forest grave.
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Vinay Prasad compared the vax mandates to the Holocaust in 2021 or 2022 and all his UCSF colleagues who were like “buhhh he seems fine to me!” are still teaching America’s future public health leaders 🤡
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...that floated the credit line for the producerist patriarchy. so you've got men resenting that buying stuff made them cucked or whatever turning to try to find the official supports for their authority and mostly only getting empty grievance politics etc. in place of their 'privileged' wage labor
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
...that floated the credit line for the producerist patriarchy. so you've got men resenting that buying stuff made them cucked or whatever turning to try to find the official supports for their authority and mostly only getting empty grievance politics etc. in place of their 'privileged' wage labor
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this is great. only thing i would add is we're in a worst of both worlds type deal, since we're not just seeing the end of a moment where there was a capacity to actualize consumer citizenship but all the late capitalist work that made consumerism the dominant mode cut out all the infrastructure...
okay here ya go, i wrote about male crisis discourse, kind of buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
Consumer confidence
The other night, I was doing my weekly grocery shopping when I beheld an incredible scene. (I shop at a remote suburban store, as I told my therapist,...
buttondown.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
this is great. only thing i would add is we're in a worst of both worlds type deal, since we're not just seeing the end of a moment where there was a capacity to actualize consumer citizenship but all the late capitalist work that made consumerism the dominant mode cut out all the infrastructure...
okay here ya go, i wrote about male crisis discourse, kind of buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
Consumer confidence
The other night, I was doing my weekly grocery shopping when I beheld an incredible scene. (I shop at a remote suburban store, as I told my therapist,...
buttondown.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
okay here ya go, i wrote about male crisis discourse, kind of buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
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Philip Clark on Steely Dan’s quest for studio perfection
The Dude Ranch Above the Sea | Philip Clark
As a teenager, growing up in New Jersey during the 1960s, the pianist Donald Fagen routinely took a bus into Manhattan to hear his jazz heroes in the
www.nybooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Philip Clark on Steely Dan’s quest for studio perfection
It must be so weird being a neolib free markets guy in Denmark, a country with a comprehensive social safety net and broad income equality. We're living your dream over here, and (Jay Sherman voice) it stinks!!
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It must be so weird being a neolib free markets guy in Denmark, a country with a comprehensive social safety net and broad income equality. We're living your dream over here, and (Jay Sherman voice) it stinks!!
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If your marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than your marginal cost of forgoing domestic work, it's because you have more power than the person who ends up doing the domestic work that you've forgone.
Sociologists are trained to see everything through the lens of power imbalances. But what if it's simply that the marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than the marginal cost of the foregone domestic work?
We have to talk about how this glorification of overwork is driving care downstream.
To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...
To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If your marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than your marginal cost of forgoing domestic work, it's because you have more power than the person who ends up doing the domestic work that you've forgone.
AIDS patients, activists, and researchers are my public health heroes #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
AIDS patients, activists, and researchers are my public health heroes #WorldAIDSDay
getting hyperfocused on something just as the kosmische starts to get really claustrophobic and weird is A Whole Vibe
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
getting hyperfocused on something just as the kosmische starts to get really claustrophobic and weird is A Whole Vibe
two things: 1) turning on the ceiling fan to circulate warm air down has made my frigid office habitable again; 2) i am writing a quick unplanned newsletter post about the new yorker male loneliness thing
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
two things: 1) turning on the ceiling fan to circulate warm air down has made my frigid office habitable again; 2) i am writing a quick unplanned newsletter post about the new yorker male loneliness thing
it’s Hildegard von Bingen hours, who up being consumed by the flame of divine inspiration
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
it’s Hildegard von Bingen hours, who up being consumed by the flame of divine inspiration
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I say this as someone with first-hand experience: every dollar that microbiologists, epidemiologists, and ecologists have taken from DARPA, DTRA, DHS, and DOD - and every appeal we've made to border security as bipartisan - has legitimized this narrative and ensured it would be used in this moment.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino tries to blame the rise of measles cases in the U.S. on “illegal aliens,” an extremely common strategy among fascists historically.
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I say this as someone with first-hand experience: every dollar that microbiologists, epidemiologists, and ecologists have taken from DARPA, DTRA, DHS, and DOD - and every appeal we've made to border security as bipartisan - has legitimized this narrative and ensured it would be used in this moment.
It’s windy and cold and there’s a Steelers home game. Conditions precision engineered to make me have a psychotic break
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It’s windy and cold and there’s a Steelers home game. Conditions precision engineered to make me have a psychotic break
I’ve decided I will die if I can’t get myself a mutton fat jade porcelain gaiwan and set of cups this very minute
November 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I’ve decided I will die if I can’t get myself a mutton fat jade porcelain gaiwan and set of cups this very minute
at 75 pages (less than 10%) in, the most dated thing about War and Peace is the degree to which the characters have cogent perspectives on world events
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
at 75 pages (less than 10%) in, the most dated thing about War and Peace is the degree to which the characters have cogent perspectives on world events
spell is broken on a podcast I was sort
of enjoying, my golden rule that is never wrong: there is nobody meaner, more ornery, and more defensive than a man who thinks he’s really smart
of enjoying, my golden rule that is never wrong: there is nobody meaner, more ornery, and more defensive than a man who thinks he’s really smart
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
spell is broken on a podcast I was sort
of enjoying, my golden rule that is never wrong: there is nobody meaner, more ornery, and more defensive than a man who thinks he’s really smart
of enjoying, my golden rule that is never wrong: there is nobody meaner, more ornery, and more defensive than a man who thinks he’s really smart
The Boston rag — tremendous, wasn’t it? We’re bringing it back, we’re gonna bring back this wonderful rag
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Boston rag — tremendous, wasn’t it? We’re bringing it back, we’re gonna bring back this wonderful rag
We need a deep investigation into vinay prasad’s brand deals, affiliate relationships, and stock portfolio
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We need a deep investigation into vinay prasad’s brand deals, affiliate relationships, and stock portfolio
Ok I must log off. It’s not accidental that the discourse on here is deeply psychologically disturbing and I encourage one and all to protect your peace and your brains
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ok I must log off. It’s not accidental that the discourse on here is deeply psychologically disturbing and I encourage one and all to protect your peace and your brains
Go to your state and local government. I am so serious. The federalism stuff is not a sure shot (no pun intended) but I’m begging people with actual institutional positions and relationships to actually leverage those. Nobody fucking cares about your op ed I s2g
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Go to your state and local government. I am so serious. The federalism stuff is not a sure shot (no pun intended) but I’m begging people with actual institutional positions and relationships to actually leverage those. Nobody fucking cares about your op ed I s2g
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The state shift of the last year is that *Americans* are not suddenly vaccine hesitant, but the *government* is suddenly flooding the zone with *vaccine disinformation.* If you see the latter as an inevitable consequence of the former, I guess it’s easy to feel like there’s no point in fighting back
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The state shift of the last year is that *Americans* are not suddenly vaccine hesitant, but the *government* is suddenly flooding the zone with *vaccine disinformation.* If you see the latter as an inevitable consequence of the former, I guess it’s easy to feel like there’s no point in fighting back
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I’m completely serious: someone should get Rachael Bedard on a podcast and ask her what she thinks about this
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m completely serious: someone should get Rachael Bedard on a podcast and ask her what she thinks about this