True and concrete
Was reflecting after last night’s post whether it is useful for me to describe RFK Jr. as a “menace”. But by Wiktionary’s definition the language is not an...
A little less worse
The national news media appears to be re-running the playbook of pretending that words posted on Twitter (or Truth Social) on TFP’s account are a) official...
Those close by
I’ve still not yet mustered the courage to process the daily national news. Mere glimpses of what’s been happening have felt like facepunches, when my ears...
Words of appreciation
A nonprofit newsroom near you Embedded into the decision to start an online publication (rather than a private journal) is my desire to help shorten the...
The next test
The most difficult day of a new habit continues to be all of them. But then you get up the next morning, finish washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen from...
One act of service
We work from our homes most days. Unlike most days, 120 of us sat together this morning at my local office. This collection of humans had become a single...
Free-to-paid
Upon sharing the link to this project, a friend asked me “Why Buttondown and not Substack?” It can’t merely be the Nazi problem and the anti-trans problem,...
How else we voted
With the national headline swallowing up all of my brain’s oxygen, I missed finding out about nearly everything else I had voted for (or against) in the...
My last tweet
I turned back into a lurker on July 23, 2023, the day that Memlon Fuchs* announced that Twitter would now be rebranded as “X”. My last tweet, posted that...
The most difficult day
The biggest trouble with starting a daily practice is always the next morning. And also that there’s another morning after that. A reason to keep going today...
One @#$%ing thing
How is it possible to begin something new? How is it possible to turn that something new into a practice? I was reflecting on the words of Anand Giridharadas...