Sara Sterley

I like @grantsterley + can’t stop talking about books, politics, #livingseasonally, our planet, + food. she/her

newsletter:

[WOR$T BOY IN PITTSBURGH @365_corey]

@NYCkopp Leslie Knope crawled so Mamdani can walk

[New York City Kopp @NYCkopp]

💦 Mayor Mamdani kicked off NYC’s outdoor pool season today by jumping into the Thomas Jefferson Pool in East Harlem!

This year marks the 90th anniversary of New York City’s iconic WPA-era outdoor pools. Summer is officially here! ☀️🏊‍♂️🌊

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan https://t.co/W3UhBerdH0

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Donald Trump may be the dumbest man ever to be elected to high office in the West and I’m including Tommy Tuberville here, too.

[Sara Sterley @sx2]

Finally, reality.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

that is a lie lol

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

But this has also been the moneyed way to have kids throughout most of history.
Turns out there's a pretty wide variety of women who don't like being around kids. Katie Miller is probably one of them, which is why she isn't a stay at home mom.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

No one's ever thought the way Katie Miller has kids is oppressive. She has them, gives them to employees while she invests her time in her career -- which is the thing she actually cares about -- and gets them out when they're useful before handing them back to staff.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

What's remarkable about this incredibly inaccurate meme (created by Colin Wright, not Elon) is that it says that Stephen Miller, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson have the same politics today as Paul Ryan and John McCain did in 2008. It's an objectively ridiculous claim.

[Sara Sterley @sx2]

WHAT ARE WE DOING

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Next, there's the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot.

Mr. Miot got TPS in 2011 and has been living and working legally here for 15 years. He's a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate in California studying Alzheimer's disease

His life too is in limbo.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

The reason why Watergate would be a 12 hour news story today is that Trump is so corrupt that Nixon seems almost quaint by comparison. Heck, the Guilded Age guys are kicking themselves for being born in the wrong century. There's much more dirty money to be made now.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

Via WSJ

What Ellisons gave:
-$45M to a Trump-aligned '24 campaign group
-Millions to pro-Trump groups after elex
-Bought the Free Press and installed Bari Weiss
-$ to be corporate sponsor of Freedom 250

What Ellisons got:
-$500B Stargate Project
-TikTok
-Paramount merger

https://t.co/Li3d7Dvqxg

[Dion @2024dion]

There are more bookstores, restaurants, wine bars, and plant shops than ever before in the US, and our libraries on average have longer opening hours. We don't have a shortage of consumption-oriented third places.

What we are missing is third places that demand something of you: churches, social clubs, union halls, etc. Places you have to show up to regularly, where you're expected to contribute, where you build the bonds that create real community. All the things that Putnam describes as social-capital-creating in Bowling Alone.

But no one wants to talk about those.

[Sara Sterley @sx2]

What in the actual eff is happening to us

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @DickBlumenthal: Who won the 2020 election?

Trump Judge Nominee: It would be inappropriate for me to comment

Blumenthal: Who won the popular vote in the 2020 election? Simply a matter of fact.

Nominee: Commenting on a matter of political debate like that is inappropriate for a sitting judge.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"No one gives a shit about housing."

Only ballrooms.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

France sees its hottest day since records began as early summer heatwave grips western Europe https://t.co/0w02kTEOlM

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read.

Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures.

When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and