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Jan 22 8 tweets 3 min read
i didn't do a proper new year roundup, but so far here are my favorite posts from theswordandthesandwich.substack.com where i now write thrice weekly (subscribe below!!) 1/
this post, on the history of apocalypse predictions and the way the mark of the beast plays into antivaxx ideology: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/apocalypse-n…
this post, which offers an elaborate and dare i say eloquent history of the baked bean and the choking of culture in new england: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sand…
this heavily researched, painful and i hope important 3 parter on child abuse in evangelical christian households, and its longterm and intergenerational effects: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/ministry-of-…
this slightly unhinged ode to bagels, with excessive quotations of poetry: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sand…
this rant on the obsessive and ravenous appropriation of holocaust imagery by antivaxxers, in stark contrast to the little known story of the heroes who inoculated jews against typhus amid the slaughter of the camps: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/antivaxx-hol…
and finally this elaborate imaginary menu, a paean to the collective celebrations lost to the pandemic: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/the-lost-sup…
you may find more topic-heavy substacks, ones that confirm your priors more satisfyingly, ones that stick to a theme more rigorously, but i aim to deliver a wild riot of words on food and pain and love and longing and joy. please subscribe! theswordandthesandwich.substack.com

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I wrote about the abject failure of federal Covid policy, about the passive eugenics of the Biden administration, and how fiercely worthwhile disabled lives are: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/eugenics-wit…
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Dec 19, 2021
i'm going by Tal now btw
thanks for being supportive 💖💞im having a bit of a Gender Journey these days
it rhymes with uhhh Lesley Stahl
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Dec 10, 2021
I'm sorry for all the relentless promo lately. But it's hard & daunting to launch a new publication. I've been working really hard, and I *like* today's column - it's funny, and fun, and researched - and I hope you'll consider subscribing. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sand…
Every Monday, I engage with a serious subject on the US right - such as this recent column about the antivaxx movement's misuse of Holocaust imagery. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/antivaxx-hol…
And every Friday, I chronicle a new installment in @Wikipedia's List of Notable Sandwiches - like this exhaustive history of the baked bean sandwich: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/notable-sand…
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