Elizabeth Barrow

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My latest features five biblical women, Audre Lorde & Gerda Lerner, asking: To what extent might institutional change be possible? Can the master's tools can dismantle the master's house-- and if not, what do we need in order to build something new together? Full essay: Read and share: ❤️🌱

Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Toolswww.lifeisasacredtext.com Can we make true institutional change?

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Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life" open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The Strongman Fantasyopen.substack.com And Dictatorship in Real Life

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I don’t even mean because it hurt Trump. That’s nice too. But Jean stood up for sexual assault victims everywhere by facing down one of the most powerful men in the world. And she won. This is a watershed day for survivors.

E JEAN CARROLL THANK YOU. 😭😭😭

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There are changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive in the Houston area earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunday night into Monday morning. But things are still up in the air - so to speak.

Arctic air is coming to Texas, possibly as early as Sunday morningspacecityweather.com Good morning. There are some changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunda…

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“What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike” by Mosab Abu Toha:

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The reason swatting is effective as a domestic terrorism tactic is because it assumes — correctly — that the police who respond to an anonymous call are likely to immediately resort to extreme violence if something goes wrong or wires get crossed or whatever.

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It's the final December Comfort Watch, and we finish with what is probably the ultimate in comfort watches: The Princess Bride. Would you like to know why I think this film, originally only a modest box-office success, became a generational classic? As you wish: whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/31/t...

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here is some very good advice from Spinoza. I think of this often, especially in dark times:

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I wrote about Substack founder Hamish McKenzie's nonsense answer to an open letter about Nazis on his platform, and asked him some follow-up questions. Why The Reframe is probably moving homes in 2024, and how subscribers can help creators who are there. armoxon.substack.com/p/questions-...

Questions for Substackarmoxon.substack.com Follow-up questions about Nazi "ideas" for Substack's founders, and contemplating the future of The Reframe.

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“When you're infected with #measles, your #immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses, every #vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent.” If you are #antivax, you are courting death.

The race to understand 'immune amnesia'www.bbc.com Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.

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Gift link for same: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/o...

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Excellent. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/o...

Opinion | Defending Free Speech Is Not ‘Moral Relativism’www.nytimes.com The destruction of a satanic statue in Iowa offers a crucial lesson in pluralism.

So good

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Joined the 538 crew to discuss the implications of a potential second Trump term and contemplate how to discuss the "stakes, not the odds" (h/t @jayrosen.bsky.social) abcnews.go.com/538/trump-te...

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I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist. This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalistwww.nytimes.com Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.

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"This is a damning indictment of my profession, my prepandemic self included. I am far from the only journalist covering this topic but clearly there aren’t enough of us. How could so many people feel so thoroughly unrepresented by an industry that purports to give voice to the voiceless?"

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I wound up darker on George Santos than I expected in writing this about him months ago; for all the aspirational posturing and outré graft he's also a seriously lousy person who rode a very ugly wave. But as ominous symptoms go, he made for a very colorful rash. defector.com/the-man-who-...

The Man Who Invented Himself | Defectordefector.com George Santos stands out as a liar and a crook even by the standards of a broken political moment. And yet he seems to be right where he belongs.

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Rare crosspost but my personal thoughts on Nixon, Kissinger and how I can play one but not the other: www.patreon.com/posts/939111...

Henry Kissinger | @dick_nixonwww.patreon.com Get more from @dick_nixon on Patreon

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