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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The biggest and most ambitious project I'm tackling on Substack - alongside chronicling American extremism - is going through @Wikipedia's mammoth, evolving List of Notable Sandwiches. Today's lunchtime read is the very first on the list: American Hero. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/the-real-ame…
I also love that I got @DavidSwansonNYC, my heroic editor, to wax poetic on his very own American Hero, the Proustian madeleine of his Catskills childhood! theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/the-real-ame…
My newsletter is really pretty perfectly tailored to you, the reader very interested in both sandwiches and extremism. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/subscribe?utm_…
(please say you exist. there have got to be people out there who share my dual obsession.)

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8 Oct
ngl it would be very cool to hit 2,000 people on the email list today - a jolt of energy to keep writing my ample ass off!! theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/subscribe?utm_…
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The Sword and the Sandwich is at almost 2,000 subscribers at the end of the first week!!! This week has been a mix of funny and dark and sad and strange. I am proud of this deep-dive into Christian apocalyptic belief and the anti vaxx movement: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/apocalypse-n…
And this essay on how gaming can be a lifeline when you're too sad to do anything else: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/memoirs-of-a…
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7 Oct
Today's post is one where I ask a CRUCIALLY important question: what is your favorite sandwich??? I'd love your answer. And I let you know what mine is, too. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/whats-your-f…
I also introduce what may become my life motto - "Die by the sword, live by the sandwich." theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/whats-your-f…
Figured this was the perfect post for (East Coast) lunchtime or West Coast breakfast sandwich hour. (Or really worldwide any hour of the day you are sandwiching.) theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/whats-your-f…
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5 Oct
For a year or more, I've been fascinated by that subset of American Christians who consider the covid vaccine the fabled Biblical "mark of the beast." On Substack, I just published a deep dive into the theology - and century of history - behind that idea: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/apocalypse-n…
I worked really hard on this piece (and read A LOT, dove into right-wing forums, watched anti-vaxx Christian TikToks, learned about "Persecution Games" played at church camps, and learned the life story of John the Revelator). I hope you'll give it a look! theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/apocalypse-n…
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-Microchips
-And ... the covid-19 vaccine - the deadly apotheosis of an era of fear.
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