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W. Kamau Bell asks, "Who's With Me?"

Come hang out with a pop-culture-obsessed, antiracist, lefty, OG Blerd who lives in Oakland, CA.

That's Marvelous!

By Josh Gondelman

A newsletter for pep talks and general enthusiasm.

the braid

By Rebecca Woolf

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.

LEFT SUBSTACK—FIND ME AT THEHANDBASKET.CO

By Marisa

The Handbasket is 100% independent journalism by writer and reporter Marisa Kabas. It can now be found at https://www.thehandbasket.co/

Law Dork

By Chris Geidner

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more.

Hmm That's Interesting

By Clara

Culture thoughts of/for/by the Chronically Online, from that girl you may have seen on Instagram or TikTok (alas). Essays, pop culture, interviews, and literature.

The Sword and the Sandwich

By Talia Lavin

Covering far-right extremism, sandwiches, and everything in between.

Read Max

By Max Read

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Kim in the West

By Kim Foster

Culture. Food. Family. Community. Equity. Poverty.

The White Pages

By Garrett

Writing about Whiteness. Writing about organizing and social change. Writing (occasionally) about the shirt Ronnie Van Zant wore on the Street Survivors album cover.

Garrett's work and writing is a lesson in thinking smarter and creating community more compassionately.

- lyz

sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Abortion, Every Day

By Jessica Valenti

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

Jessica Valenti is a force of nature. Her newsletter is a powerful corrective to the misogyny of America.

- lyz

The Recombobulation Area

By Dan Shafer

The Recombobulation Area is an award-winning weekly opinion column and online publication by longtime Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer, covering news and politics in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. We live in discombobulating times. Let's recombobulate.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)

I have never read a newsletter more powerful and enjoyable than "Burnt Toast." Virginia is so smart and thoughtful and cuts to the quick of everything that is wrong with diet culture in America. And in doing so, sets us free.

- lyz