Nellie Bowles
@NellieBowles
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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.
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I'm always proud to be married to Bar (and often just can't believe I got her! this treasure!). But lately that pride overflows:
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
.
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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
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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.
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When will my captors let me sleep
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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:
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Date night with Bar ❤️
#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
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I’ve never been prouder to be part of building The FP than I have been these past few days. Small but mighty is a cliche but it’s the truth:
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The editor-in-chief of the NYT comes out as a Free Press reader: "I think they do valuable reporting." We accept and welcome all to our pirate ship.
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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:
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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!
We have graduated from our kitchen table….!
@TheFP
gets its first real office in LA. NY coming soon.
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"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
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This book took me so long to finish that… I managed to turn it into not one but TWO free maternity photo shoots
“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:
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The NYT, following
@FrancescaABlock
’s amazing reporting, found the most nefarious way possible to describe us and I’m loving it:
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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
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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
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So thrilled to be in The Atlantic this morning with an excerpt of my new book, coming May 14th:
"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?"
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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
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.
@alexchitty
joining the team to bring the FP into video has been a revelation:
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…
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Oh my god just seeing this. ❤️
@billmaher
❤️
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."
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The fact that we get to publish new David Sedaris writing is still so wild to me. This week, it's on small talk:
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Another normal relaxing day
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?
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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!
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THERE WILL BE BOOK PROMOTION. There will be zooms. I will go on radio shows. Welcome to my new social feed.
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:
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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
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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
.
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A great debut on the Free Press from Francesca Block:
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:
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If you're looking at the protests and wondering how things got to this point, there's a funny new book you might like, coming May 14:
"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?"
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Met a hero of mine
@waitbutwhy
and immediately made him take me and
@bariweiss
to the Rogan comedy club for portraits like it’s the Eiffel Tower
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I cannot believe the derangement that just dropped in The Free Press store
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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
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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
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It's always helpful for understanding policy choices when people say the quiet part out loud:
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?
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David Sedaris x Free Press collab is a true dream
So excited to offer a new David Sedaris story (!!) on
@thehonestlypod
to everyone schlepping, driving and flying today.
PUNCHING DOWN BY DAVID SEDARIS:
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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.
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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.
THE WITCH TRIALS OF J.K. ROWLING
*****LISTEN NOW*****
Chapter One: Plotted in Darkness
Chapter Two: Burn the Witch
APPLE:
SPOTIFY:
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Sure we just landed at JFK last night (hi NYC!) but this seems a little much to wake up to?? Play it cool guys!
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HELL YEAH
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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:
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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
!
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Come for a cocktail, stay for a fight!
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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.
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@jonnyrpr
@bariweiss
@ShellenbergerMD
@mtaibbi
Funny because I would pay huge amounts of money to never have to appear before congress
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My job will be to flounce in around 3:45 and ask if it's martini o'clock yet
Strongly agree. One of the many reasons
@TheFP
is opening offices in NY and LA in the coming weeks.
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Yes going to a non-public figure's home on shabbat to terrorize them. So brave, such protest.
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!
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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!
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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?
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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.
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@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.
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Welcome to The Free Press,
@freyaMsanders
! For freelance writers, get to know Freya and send her ideas here: freya
@thefp
.com
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I'm old. I'm enormously pregnant and have melasma across my entire face and just failed my diabetes test. But I did finally finish a book.
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@ManKitLam4
@windnewspaper
@sfchronicle
@eBARnews
Kit, I'm so happy for you that you finally got this apology.
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@SnoozyWeiss
Suzy you have to save your best jokes for me, to be deployed under my byline. Thnx. N
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Still makes me laugh that this is the first real movie made from one of my stories. God bless
@lanceopp
. God bless America.
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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
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People in New York are having a dinner party? Without ME? Horrific, offensive, a violation
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)
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@nickgillespie
I'm a fed there in the background saying: Ok everyone mask up like we talked about! Now straight to camera say HOUTHI
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Vote for me!!
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@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
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Considering that
@uncertainpod
has already interviewed all my friends, I was thrilled to finally get a platform for MY rants, the finest rants.
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
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@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 :)
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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:
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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…
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@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.
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@VaActiveAngels
@bariweiss
That’s frustrating! Will get tech support on this (ie: me but in the morning)
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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):
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