Lisa Schmeiser

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Editor in Chief, No Jitter & WorkSpace Connect; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of an intermittent Substack (lschmeiser.substack.com); parent/partner/Girl Scout Leader/community volunteer.

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Ooh, an excellent look at how retail and mainstream clothing has become victim to the same homogenizing, serial-installation, always-online forces of engagement that have challenged other industries (gift link): wapo.st/3xLSH9j

It will be wholly unsurprising when Democrats do not hang this around his neck, but in another timeline, some Dem strategist somewhere is planning a full four-month blitz reminding every woman in America this is what they're in for.

From the JD Vance (Senate) campaign website. JD Vance would ban every single woman (or girl) from receiving an abortion, no matter the circumstances by which she was impregnated or the danger to her health. Maybe (just maybe) if she risks imminent death.

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I’m gonna go ahead and recommend this podcast about hillbilly elegy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

If you have not read Sarah Jones' excellent piece, "Hillbilly Shapeshifter Re-reading J.D. Vance’s memoir," now is a great time to remedy that. nymag.com/intelligence...

One of the components of the Girl Scout Law, which we go over with the scouts starting when they're Daisies, is to "respect authority." I have had a lot of talks with the kids about how authority rests on the consent of the governed & it's always respectful to question authority & its legitimacy.

Do not obey in advance.

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Do not obey in advance.

This country had a president who wanted to shoot protestors and is calling for televised tribunals against his enemies; literally nobody who lives here maintains the delusion of security, especially when it comes to political actions. www.bbc.com/news/article...

American politics enters dark new chapter after Trump shootingwww.bbc.com The illusion of security and safety in American politics – built over decades - has been dramatically shattered.

Darth Gyoza. Which honestly sounds real on-brand for that particular universe.

Darth Ripple

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The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

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Three big political stories that the media is overlooking right now: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/three-myst...

Three Mysterious Mainstream Media Non-Storiesdanieldrezner.substack.com Why aren't these events -- or non-events -- getting more media coverage?

No-having-A/C folks, I found the GREATEST sleep hack for a warmish house. The flat gel ice packs that often come with CSA deliveries? Wrap them in a cloth napkin (to trap condensation), slip them between two pillows, and you'll have a cool pillow all night. And when you flip the pillow? It's COLD.

The NYT went with this hed -- "Following Trump’s Lead, Republicans Adopt Platform That Softens Stance on Abortion" -- then failed to include any quotes that demonstrated the platform's before/after changes on abortion or explain how it was softened.

For reasons I do not understand, most of the mainstream press reported that Trump “softened” the gop position on abortion based on a platform that declares abortion should be illegal in all 50 states www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Stop Soft-Pedaling the GOP’s Extreme Positionswww.theatlantic.com The party’s platform on abortion and LGBTQ rights is just as radical as ever.

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Three Subtle Ways #Climate Change Degrades Your #MentalHealth www.webmd.com/mental-healt...

Three Subtle Ways Climate Change Degrades Your Mental Healthwww.webmd.com As the weather heats up, learn how heatwaves, air pollution, and rising CO2 levels can chip away at your mental well-being – and how to fight back.

ooh, I am here for this dissection of the Cool Mom, the maternal successor to the Cool Girl: halliehaglund.substack.com/p/its-cool-t...

It's COOL To Be YOURSELFhalliehaglund.substack.com Cool vegetarians, cool girls, cool moms, and why they all hurt my feelings.

This moment calls for a cartoon of Zaslav standing on a road as an anvil labeled "shareholder value" is dropped on his head. Meep-meep!

WBD's stock price has tanked ~78% since David Zaslav was announced as CEO— $32.68 on 05/19/21 to $7.32, today— to say nothing of the brand loyalty, goodwill, & creative talent he's destroyed. It is amazing & genuinely horrifying that anyone could fail this badly, & remain in a position of authority

Reskeet if you're still mad at Nader voters from 2000.

Just saw someone post that they want Biden to lose by a landslide in order to force the Democratic Party to change What year is it? Because I've seen this same argument against Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000 A huge loss WOULD change the party, but probably not in good ways

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I'm old enough to remember when news outlets weren't required to turn as much profit as entertainment, & so could pay beat reporters with actual expertise to spend a long time working on informative pieces. Hot takes are so much cheaper.

Re-reading Renata Adler's takedown of Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's book on the Supreme Court, "The Brethren" and her passage below stopped me short: www.nytimes.com/1979/12/16/a...

Handy reminder: "softening language" is not the same thing as "softening intent" or "softening outcome."

Rebecca Solnit: "It’s a dogpile and a panic, and there is no one more unable to understand their own emotional life, biases and motives than people who are utterly convinced of their own ironclad rationality and objectivity, AKA most of these pundits." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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if it's not from the champagne region of france then it’s just called sparkling fascist tears

oh no thank you www.vulture.com/article/how-...

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

Interesting story on how Louisa county, Virginia, boosted teacher recruitment & retention by offering childcare as an employee perk: www.hrdive.com/news/school-...

How a district boosted recruitment, retention with affordable child carewww.hrdive.com Louisa County Public Schools launched its Little Lions Learning Lab in 2019, charging educators and staff just $400 per child per month.

Organizing to pass school funding bond measures and making a hell of a white wine sangria are two surprisingly complementary skillsets.

cringe wine moms have been the single most effective political organizers in the country since Trump was elected and I will die on this hill they are Good, Actually

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I don't know that this chart proves what it implies about the uniformly negative coverage of Biden, but I'm tempted to just post it under every NY Times and Washington Post skeet.

UGGGGGH the forecast just adjusted itself for another hateful day of heat and I am not built for this.

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As a lawyer who worked in mass tort cases resulting from unsafe products, I would agree. Remember asbestos industry was unregulated, yet knowingly churned out unsafe. Old movies like Civil Action, The Insider, Erin Brockovich.. provide good examples why regulations and oversight needed.

A Brief History of Self Regulation

Too many journalists read Hedrick Smith's "The Power Game" when they were impressionable adolescents and it shows.

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the supreme court just declared the president a king and obliterated the last vestiges of regulatory corporate oversight but the press is positively obsessed with the fact biden is an old man