Media bias this week is gross and glaring — These are four rail workers. Here are seven more…

NEVER FORGET the moment the phone rang, You answered with so much to lose, Never forget the confusion, the “huh?” The yelling to “Turn on the news.” Never forget the staring right at it, That image that made zero sense, Never forget the shocked disbelief, How your body was suddenly tense…

We all need more of this, please — Thursday night, the president stood in Philadelphia, flanked by Marines (see Twitter for a whole bunch of bullshit about that), to defend democracy against the MAGA Republicans. Just for clarity here, it’s important to know, if you didn’t see it, that Joe drew a very clear line between “mainstream Republicans”…

Three words are 3x the trigger — This week, that embarrassment of a House Representative Lauren Boebert accused President Biden of robbing Americans in order to fund degrees in “lesbian dance theory.” Where does one begin to break down the idiocy of such a statement? It’s an attack on the humanities. A dig at Biden. The only…

Watching the biggest temper tantrum in American history — I played “Spoons” this weekend with my niece and nephews. We needed a family card game that my five-year-old nephew could understand. Here’s how it works: you put spoons (silver or plastic) in the center of the table — one fewer than the number of players — then every player…

Medium Readers and Medium Staff, Just a quick note from my laptop to yours to say thank you. As the platform celebrates its ten-year anniversary, it remains a special place. Thank you to the Medium team for the shoutout in your “It Happened on Medium” email and post. When “Prepare…

Reflections on a painful discovery — At some point, you will have to admit you were wrong. It is the hardest thing on Earth to do. After all of these years of talking about how flat the Earth is — first casually entertaining the idea that it simply ends at the edge, then standing with the…

Once again, it takes a media star to pass legislation — In case you missed the drama in the Senate this week — or across social media — here is a play-by-play. It all relates to burn pits. We heard about burn pits in President Biden’s first official State of the Union in March. They were sandwiched somewhere between his call…

The unexpected joys of staying put — As the heat of summer hit this year, as inflation wreaked havoc on our day-to-day cashflow, as the nation seemed trapped in a nasty political spiral, and I seemed locked to my laptop writing my first book, my boyfriend and I decided it was not the summer to “get back…