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Your Best Midwestern Girl

By Isabella Rosario

Musings on culture, media, and middle America from Isabella Rosario

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.

Law Dork

By Chris Geidner

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more.

Emily in Your Phone

By Emily Amick

Former Senate Counsel bringing you fact-based, action-oriented analysis and insight into politics and the culture that shapes it.

Mad Woman

By Amanda Montei

Feminist takes on literature and culture.

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 Great Perhaps

By Kim Foster

Essays from the last third of life.

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.

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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.

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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

An anti-diet, fat positive community about body liberation. And good snacks.

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.

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bitches gotta eat!

By samantha irby

judge mathis recaps + milf-on-milf romance

Sam is the best. Everything Sam writes is a delight. Get off your ass and subscribe.

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Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Listen, Anne Helen Petersen is the GOAT. This newsletter, like the journalist behind it is smart, curious, and so very relevant.

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The Present Age

By Parker Molloy

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter.

This newsletter is a mixture of intelligent analysis and passionate observation. Parker is one of my favorite writers of all time.

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Men Yell at Me

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