BetsyGleick

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Publisher & Editorial Director, Algonquin Books
New Yorker. Reader. Baker. Eater. Homebody.
Opinions my own but I hold them strongly.
The New York Times must do better. This is disheartening and enraging. https://niemanreports.org/articles/new-york-times-trans-open-letter/
Correcting The New York Times on Trans Issues | Nieman Reports

More than 1,000 Times contributors sent an open letter on the paper's biases reporting on trans issues. The paper's response is part of the problem

Nieman Reports
If you're just a teeny bit filled with rage today about how the world is going, maybe show the wannabe book banners you defy them: #LawnBoy--outrageously on many of the "most banned" lists (which are inherently outrageous) in the U.S.--is a #kindle deal.
https://t.co/kW2WzufeCK
@petergleick I have been! Here’s something gorgeous—David Crosby and Joan Baez. https://youtu.be/v8FfpsLXRP4
Joan Baez and David Crosby Sing Blackbird at The Beacon - 1/27/2016

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This essay by @LauraMLippman in @saribotton’s Oldster is one of the best things I’ve ever read. I think I read its first iteration; her coda here is significant, and point taken. It’s a journey, man. https://oldster.substack.com/p/whole-60?publication_id=469928&utm_medium=email&action=share&isFreemail=true
Whole 60

The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.

Oldster Magazine
@petergleick exactly. I’m kind of obsessed. And they’re small and shy!
This is a clouded leopard, for those wondering. #dallaszoo
With the House in chaos, C-SPAN shows footage Americans don’t usually see

With no House speaker, the C-SPAN livestream can catch interactions normally left out of view for the American public. Here are some remarkable clips.

The Washington Post
@NYSloth Was he not? I have no clue who he was, but the detail that someone heard him LOADING THR WEAPONS IN THE MEN’S ROOM (and yes, this makes me feel a little shouty) right after a mass shooting at a different grocery store suggests that arrests were in order. To me, anyway.
A Heavily Armed Man Caused Panic at a Supermarket. But Did He Break the Law?

In states with permissive gun laws, police and prosecutors have limited tools at their disposal when a heavily armed individual sows fear or panic in public.

Wait, what? 47 states allow open carry? Am I alone in not knowing this?