Author: Aaron Weber

Today’s newsletter is about macroeconomics, alleged vigilantes and their fanboys on the right, and Sri Lanka, with a bonus of tiny animals wearing hats, and people wearing tiny animals as hats.

Today’s newsletter is about gestural evolution, regulatory arbitrage, and homecoming dances. And a very smol cat.

Featuring Galaxie 500, facetuning in the Paris Review, Wallace Shawn on fascism, anteaters and corgis. Bonus: Three music recs.

Today’s newsletter is about the entrenched interests of the status quo, the fear of change, and kittens.

Today’s newsletter is about genocide, with a bonus set of links to important articles about economic crisis, climate crisis, and voter suppression. There’s also some nonhorrible stuff in it, like funny Tweets and some very cute dogs, but mostly it’s very upsetting and you shouldn’t read it.

Today’s newsletter is about re-examining the subtext of school lessons, the intractable screwed-up-ness of the carceral state, and a goddamn hilarious story about someone’s Desi uncle who ordered too much rice from the grocery.

Today’s newsletter is about how 1992’s “Killing in the Name” is still relevant.

Today’s newsletter has a lengthy metaphor about the Gabriel García Márquez’s novel of that title.

Today’s newsletter begins with Ecuadorean mask squads and ends with doom, with a kitten chaser.