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all my girlies are getting a personalized "heavy lock on a bandana" for the holidays

Hi!

Thanks for opening this email.

Quick PSA from one White woman to others: if you start making blue friendship bracelets I will hang myself with one at an Eras Tour stop (it would be great to see that show again, tbh). I don’t think I know everything, but I know enough to understand this is extremely stupid. We will not be able to shop or craft ourselves out of the shame spiral. If you are genuinely concerned someone will clock you as a White supremacist, I implore you to get curious about that fear. Allow the idea that someone’s perception of you might be inconsistent with your character and feel that unfairness wash over you. Use it to motivate yourself to be better, to unlearn the bad stuff and ask yourself some hard questions. Instead of looking like an ally, focus on acting like one. Thanks!

• A fascinating video essay on the insidious design of reality TV sets.

• Ottessa Moshfegh’s Substack is so good - smart, wry and never self-indulgent.

• At the risk of sounding like someone telling millennials to stop eating avocados, maybe Americans could buy eggs more easily if they weren’t losing $14 million a month to their sports betting addictions?

• Happy Veterans Day to all who served! Our president-elect is dedicated to honoring you by gutting the VA in favor of outsourcing to private insurers (now you too can face medical bankruptcy, just like civilians!) and creating a more stringent disability rating system, so that less vets qualify for benefits. And the roughly 17 vets who commit suicide every single day? There will be new faith-based programs to help them pray the PTSD away (the same technique Aaron Hernandez used!). Such a beautiful way to honor the men and women who sacrifice for our country.

Tunes to start the week with:

Angry women being fucking angry, man.

xx