Cult member of The Free Press (
@TheFP
) where I write the very important TGIF column. Author of a new book, Morning After The Revolution. Trad wife, mother.
Antisemitism is never about the Jews; it’s a warning system. It’s a sign that the society itself is breaking down, that it is dying. It is a symptom of a much deeper crisis.
Watch our founder
@bariweiss
’s speech at
@FedSoc
.
The first whistleblower from inside an American pediatric gender clinic came forward today: . We're proud to publish Jamie. If you're someone hoping to reform an institution gone haywire, write to us: tips
@thefp
.com
A good tip for book promotion is to marry someone with a big social media following for this exact purpose. I played a long game here. But I played it well.
In the past two years my wife
@NellieBowles
gave birth to our daughter, built
@TheFP
, solidified her place as TGIF dictator, launched Free Press Health, pregnant again…oh and she wrote a book.
THE MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION. OUT MAY 14.
I have no chill and am so proud.
I've got a book and another baby coming basically at the same time. So what I'm thinking is the book tour will be my prolonged maternity shoot. The plan is to go into labor live on Maher.
My wife
@NellieBowles
is the lovechild of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and her book is brilliant and hilarious and it is coming out May 14.
PRE-ORDER THE MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION:
#NYC
NOW: I’m at 92NY where the cultural center is hosting Bari Weiss as a speaker. Due to an autonomous protest set to happen protesting her appearance, Cops have blocked the entire block in front of the building
The ACLU just emailed me trying to smear
@MattBruenig
. These people have lost the plot -- going after journalists, whistleblowers, and political activists is a sad new low. Anyway, TGIF salutes Matt:
Our washer/dryer's in the kitchen, so one chair is usually taken by a pile of laundry also known as "our colleague." All to say: I'M SO EXCITED FOR AN OFFICE!
"When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall." Gorgeous by
@lizweil
“I’ve been told that the book doesn’t make me look great—and this part certainly doesn’t. I’m okay with that.”
@NellieBowles
: “The Day I Stopped Canceling People,” a revealing excerpt from her new book “Morning After the Revolution,” in The Free Press:
I love our political moment: One side fights to preserve a *very special historic* valet parking lot. One side fights to build lots of housing there, since the lot is near great public transit. You'll never guess which side calls itself the left!
The worthless SF bureaucrats are hard to beat. "Historic Nordstrom parking lot" is preserved, instead of building 495 new units of housing in a transit corridor (23% affordable) ...
Corrupt nonprofit TODCO, Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston and their NIMBY agenda won this time
Very excited about this part: "The company recently signed a two-year deal with Netflix that lets the streamer create nonfiction content using Free Press intellectual property."
@TheFP
"What if fighting for justice could just be a years-long confessional process and didn’t require doing anything tangible at all?"
@NellieBowles
writes. "What if I could defeat white supremacy from my lovely living room, over tea, with other white people?"
Proud that
@TheFP
can be an example of media having *swagger* …. Which may be the first time two middle aged women in clogs have been accused of such a thing
@jackshafer
Amit and Nir shared a kiss as they hid from terrorists who slaughtered their friends at the Nova music festival on Saturday. They took a photo, knowing it might be the last image anyone ever saw of them. The picture went viral.
This is their story, reported by Free Press’s
Let's check out Bill Maher's reading list, courtesy of
@aidnmclaughlin
:
"Just read Andrew Sullivan. My friends Bari [Weiss] and Nellie [Bowles] who run the Free Press... I love my Tom Friedman and Bret Stephens, Pamela Paul I’ve come to like a lot."
Hey
@ucdavis
, do you think it’s appropriate that one of your faculty advisors,
@jemmaisOKeh
, is publicly threatening to murder Jews at their homes and their children at their schools?
Now that everyone annoying has left to pursue their dreams (yelling at each other on niche social networks) and corporate accounts have started going dark, Twitter seems weird and fun?! Like, freakier and technically worse and you get no traction without blue but...I like it!
My wife
@NellieBowles
is the lovechild of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and her book is brilliant and hilarious and it is coming out May 14.
PRE-ORDER THE MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION:
I've started a new column on HEALTH, which will hopefully feature a lot of smart new voices. Wise people in this world--bloggers and podders, scientists and doctors and patients too--write to us: health
@thefp
.com
Our current business leader (an old ouija board) is retiring. New on the scene: Lars Kahl! And we're looking for smart media minds to join him. Write to lars
@thefp
.com
I am *thrilled* to announce that
@larskahl
is joining The Free Press as COO. He joins us most recently from
@politico
, where he was VP of strategy and operations. Before that, he was at
@axelspringer
.
For the past few months, I’ve been working on this story for
@TheFP
about the growth of Stanford’s administrative state, and the potential consequences of its disciplinary system. I hope you’ll give it a read:
"What if fighting for justice could just be a years-long confessional process and didn’t require doing anything tangible at all?"
@NellieBowles
writes. "What if I could defeat white supremacy from my lovely living room, over tea, with other white people?"
The Free Press is now the number one Substack in all the land. The biggest. We have taken the crown from Heather Cox Richardson in a peaceful transfer of power. We have conquered the world. Join the fun at
The Free Press is hiring across the board for a bunch of positions (audio, video, research, all of it). If you are great or know someone great, we love a cold email: tips
@thefp
.com
Interesting. Would getting your car window broken and some stuff stolen leave you “scarred forever”?
Is this what the suburbs do to you? Shelter you from basic city life experiences so that when they happen you are broken to the core?
So excited to offer a new David Sedaris story (!!) on
@thehonestlypod
to everyone schlepping, driving and flying today.
PUNCHING DOWN BY DAVID SEDARIS:
Today we posted a job listing for probably the most important unfilled role at the Free Press: Chief Operating Officer. Come help steer this ship! Guide this horsecar. Conduct this...subway system. Be our COO.
This is the first special project from the Free Press, and I could not be prouder. This crew wrestled a big, thorny, complicated story and made something beautiful.
It’s official:
@EliLake
is joining our team as a reporter.
Known for his reporting on national security, foreign policy, and his podcast The Reeducation, expect even more revelations in our pages.
Welcome, eli
@thefp
.com!
The Free Press is hiring! We're looking for talented and curious editors, investigative reporters, a TGIF helper, a head of subscriptions to become obsessed with our readers -- and more. Come join us. The job postings are here:
I'm obsessed with the art for
@lanceopp
's beautiful documentary and continue to be so proud to be a producer. For my rabid maternal drive to have inspired such a thing, well, that's what we call journalism. Ten days til showtime on
@hulu
/
@FXNetworks
!
California must spend 5-10 years testing the parking lot to be sure there aren't endangered salamanders there. After that, the aphid habitat testing can begin. Then, in 2075, we can talk about this idea of "housing," as you neoliberals call it.
Yesterday we received a tip that Chuck Schumer would be having Shabbat dinner with his daughter at her apartment that night…
…So we picketed outside of her building to let Chuck know: Ceasefire now! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Not a moment of peace for genocide supporters!
I'm very, very proud of
@lanceopp
's new documentary SPERMWORLD, inspired by my reporting, and streaming soon on FX and HULU. Lance is a brilliant filmmaker and friend. The movie is going to be strange and fabulous. TUNE IN MARCH 29!
As for paying for Blue: My tweets aren't good enough, never been. It feels wrong to pay for them now to be at the top of someone's feed. Why should they suffer?
For the first time since our girl was born, I went on a reporting trip for a night (HORRIBLE IDEA -- I MISSED EVERYONE TOO MUCH). Anyway along with diapers, I left Bar with TGIF:
TGIF! This week
@NellieBowles
is out, so
@bariweiss
takes the helm.
The dish on Fox. The dirt on baby diapers. Swim classes wade into the culture wars. Plus: Ron DeSantis, Zooey Zephyr, Randi Weingarten, and RFK Jr.
@kane
In all honesty this is my favorite modern conspiracy theory. Like, I want more charts about why Walgreens puts cages around deodorant because they're just jerks, no other causes.
We'll be pulling together the finest links every day -- with a focus on our fellow independent journalists. If you're one of those and want your piece featured, ping us here or at TGIF
@thefp
.com
A while ago, someone mentioned to me, offhandedly, that a friend of theirs had become akin to "the mother hen of the cancelled." Naturally, I was like, "I need to know everything about this."
That's how I met the Thought Criminals. (1/x)
@CaitlinPacific
Everyone thinks I'm just hanging out while Bar works and makes all the money. And while I am usually hanging out and she does make all the money, I HAVE MANY ACTIVITIES
We had a blast w/
@NellieBowles
talking about SF, debating about YIMBYs, ranking tech scammers (crypto vs. VR), etc. We kept it mostly uncertain, but Nellie was dead certain on one thing: parenthood. Full ep on substack or wherever you listen to
#podcasts
@wonderbread57
I'll probably do it at some point but honestly a personal Twitter feed never brings much real traffic to a site (at least mine never has). I use it for reading and wasting time, which I can still do for free :)
We're a startup, but we've been around a few years now. And our business model at its core is simple: sustainable subscription growth. It's working. So we're growing. Expanding into more pods, events, even docs. It's a great adventure:
I love this critique of our new health roundup from
@readmaxread
: "This is very classic Free Press third-way positioning--hostile to the 'mainstream,' but also wary of the fringes." And: "Part of the fusionist, respectable, Free Press flavor of the column is that Bowles is
@bethanyshondark
I'm sorry but "pee-pee feels good" activity between men and women is not authorized at any point. For manliness reasons. Very important.
It is respectable....flavored. It tastes vaguely respectable but we know IT IS NOT. That is a grapefruit illusion in the soda. Anyway, no notes. I love it. Please read my column (which is in fact sweat-flavored):