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Recommended by lyz

A newsletter for pep talks and general enthusiasm.

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.

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.

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.

Kim Foster

I write about the things that bring us together and drive us apart: our communities, poverty, equity, disability, addiction, food, foster care, family and family separation.

The White Pages

By Garrett

What if we could build something better?

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

Dan Shafer's award-winning political opinion column and online publication on the discombobulating politics of Milwaukee and Wisconsin. The Recombobulation Area is part of the Civic Media network.

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