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There's Probably a DSA Member on Your City Council. Here's What You Weren't Told.

Two hundred and fifty DSA members hold elected office. Ninety percent were elected after 2019. Voters are unaware about the arrangement they signed up…

Apr 30 • Meseidy

On Bad Bunny, Belonging, and Why I’m Just Annoyed

On watching your culture become a think piece instead of an invitation

Feb 9 • Meseidy

Trump Wants to Expand Like It's 1799? Not Exactly

Trump's Venezuela and Greenland moves aren't colonial conquest—they're responses to China and Russia

Jan 15 • Meseidy

The Great Gaslighting

The media’s gaslighting made violence against conservatives seem heroic.

Sep 22, 2025 • Meseidy

The Woman She Needs to Exist

On Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke, and the "tradwife" who was never fooled

May 23 • Meseidy

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Demotivations With Anne

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The Read

The Press Called It "Zero New Facts." Herridge Read the Facts.

Plus: the networks skipped the speech, Trump grabbed for their licenses, and Maine lost its Senate nominee.

Jul 17 • Meseidy

Lindsey Graham Is Dies at 71.

Plus: the feds subpoenaed four Times reporters over Trump's Qatari jet, and no, press freedom isn't dying. And the glossies spent the weekend sanding…

Jul 13 • Meseidy

The “Total Patsy” Theory Died This Week. His Boyfriend Killed It on the Stand.

Plus: McConnell's been hospitalized a month and nobody will say why. And Trump fired the election commission a day after his DOJ threatened to jail…

Jul 10 • Meseidy

Newsletters

A brief news newsletter M/W/F

Cooking stuff

I talk books

Sunday Newsletter

Kitchen Sense

Reader Q&A: 6 Things You're Asking About Searing

Kitchen Sense | Lesson 2 — Reader Q&A

14 hrs ago • Meseidy

Skill in Action: Why My Tuesday Salmon Failed (I Fixed It)

Kitchen Sense — Skill in Action

Jul 14 • Meseidy

Heat & the Pan: Why Most Home Cooking Fails at the Stove

Kitchen Sense, Lesson 2

Jun 23 • Meseidy

Sanctity of Life

The Read | Two Justices Just Pointed at a Law That Could End Mail-Order Abortion

Plus: Texas Children's pays $10 million to reverse what it did to kids, and the Washington Post wants ICE blamed for a toddler's murder.

May 18 • Meseidy

The Read | The NYT’s Opinion Shield Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To Do

Plus: Vance pulls $1.3 billion from California Medicaid, Florida’s AG calls surrogacy modern-day slavery, and Rand Paul’s son makes a drunkenly public…

May 15 • Meseidy

Rent a Womb, Buy a Child: The Money of Surrogacy

$22 billion a year in the belief that biological parenthood is a right — and that someone else's body is a barrier to remove.

Apr 23 • Meseidy

The Billionaire Baby Factories and the Law Trying to Stop Them

Xu Bo has over 100 U.S.-born children via American surrogates. He's not the problem. He's the product.

Apr 13 • Meseidy

So Much for "My Body, My Choice"

A Prestigious Philosophy Journal Just Argued for Forced Abortion on Minors. The Media Said Nothing.

Apr 6 • Meseidy

2026 Reading List

📖 East of Eden

Currently Reading

✔️Never Let Me Go

✔️The Secret History

🛑 Perelandra

📚 Full 2026 List

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The Bookie

The Bookie | Spare Parts

Notes on Never Let Me Go

May 19 • Meseidy

The Bookie | The Secret History Is Just Pretty in Pink with a Body Count

559 pages of pretentious rich kids in bathrobes. I don't get the hype.

May 7 • Meseidy

Political Violence

Desk Notes | The Permission Structure Is Working Exactly As Designed

Jay Jones fantasizes about assassination. Spanberger refuses to condemn him five times. The media gives it 63 seconds. This is how Democrats normalize…

Oct 11, 2025 • Meseidy

The Democrats' Jay Jones Problem and Permission for Violence

The violence comes from the few. The permission structure is built by the many.

Oct 7, 2025 • Meseidy

The Great Gaslighting

The media’s gaslighting made violence against conservatives seem heroic.

Sep 22, 2025 • Meseidy

How Celebrating Kirk's Assassination Proves You Would Have Justified King's Death

The unchanging script America uses to excuse political murder

Sep 15, 2025 • Meseidy

DOJ Investigating E. Jean Carroll for Perjury After Denying Hoffman Funded Her Lawyers

Plus: Paxton gets the nomination and the pedophile plea deal, Talarico gets the “God is non-binary” ad, and Erika Kirk gets bomb threats nine months…

May 29 • Meseidy

Sunday Desk

Sunday Desk | They Had Only Faith

Five writers from the Civil War who had only faith to go on — and a prayer for a country divided

May 24 • Meseidy

Sunday Desk | Forty Years on Lookout Mountain

A bakery on St. Elmo, a Supreme Court ruling, and what came after.

May 17 • Meseidy

Sunday Desk | The Prayer of Pancreatic Cancer

Ben Sasse isn't performing peace. That's what makes it so hard to look away.

Apr 12 • Meseidy

He Is Risen — Even Here

Three Stories of Easter Against All Odds

Apr 5 • Meseidy

It's Meseidy

I slow down viral news, expose what’s framed or buried, and equip readers with the facts and language to push back before the narrative sticks.

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