maybe the real tariffs were the friends we made along the way

cutting off my nose to spite China

Hi!

Thanks for opening this email / reading this post.

me, returning home from a vacation with my husband and sister where i didn’t make either of them cry

Sending out links is feeling much more hostile than I had originally intended:

• A beautiful, life-affirming moment from the spaceship for girls.

• This essay on having kids / being childfree and the perceived judgement on both sides is fascinating and the comment section is POPPING. I remain solidly on the side of, “we are not meant to know strangers’ opinions of us.”

• Two sides of the parasocial coin: my besties Chuck and Hailee cook dinner for me every Friday, while young men are ruining their lives by paying attractive women to DM them.

• How To Lose A Christofascist In 10 Days - or, a scary longread on dating Conservatives. This is the kind of magazine content that rom coms had promised me!

• I’m pretty sure we fell into a wormhole at some point, because between the measles outbreaks and gay husbands it’s starting to feel like 1912.

Tunes to start the week with:

There’s a new DJ Koze album out, which is always exciting. This one is less focused on clubby dance tracks; instead, it’s more gentle, a “global” pop vibe in the truest sense, jumping from German pop to Afrobeat and back to Koze’s typical Baelleric dreaminess.

xx