Haley Nahman

You may think I complain a lot but the pro/con list my ex made about me in 2008 said I complain a lot AND I'm fun.

The Atlantic has long perfected the art of laundering elite consensus, and Annie Lowrey’s “New York Is Not a Democracy” brings the stench of that putrifying rot. Her essay on @ZohranKMamdani isn’t analysis or reportage. It’s narrative sabotage—slick, smug, and anchored to a worldview where only particular kinds of “assholes” are anointed to rule. open.substack.com/pub/suchitra/p…

This is my niece Rima. She was born in the war. Today she is one year old, she spent her whole life in the war. She doesn't even know the taste of fruit.

My claim to fame

@grex Thank you greg!!

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One of the best snippets I read all year. It rings in my head regularly. Define the it-pronoun as needed. "I find it distracting. It drains me and drudges up worries that I don’t have space for creatively nor a desire to indulge. I don’t find it helpful from a professional perspective either—trying to gain insight from it feels like trying to take a deep breath from inside of a paper bag. I’d much rather go outside." —@halemur

@raynefq The ability to tell the difference between the two is a formidable skill. A lot of people think they could be writers because they have lots of tweet ideas

@raynefq Was about to say this. We had a shorthand for this during pitch meetings when I worked for a website. Essay or tweet?

I love drafting a tweet and then realizing i should save it for an essay . I think you really can burn up ideas into nothing on here by expressing them in their least realized form .. easy for them to become suspended that way for good

@raynefq The pocket app. Everything I read goes in there

on this note do people have like strategies for remembering/cataloguing/referencing all the stuff you’ve read? i’ve only been “reading essays” for like 4 years and i already have moments like this all the time that drive me crazy & I can’t imagine what it’ll be like in a decade

Deranged behavior

Years ago someone told me they were invited to a women's lunch in New York hosted by Jill Biden and ahead of the event they were all told in an email that Jill Biden requested no awkward silences

@veryharryhill Here to surprise and delight

@halemur See u on twitter is like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs

The backbone of the internet

@isabelunraveled Thank you!!

.@halemur’s essay on motherhood this morning gave me chills, tears, excitement, fear and a sense of humility about just how much of the process will be a completely on the fly mess when/if i (hopefully) enter it. a level of vulnerability i hadn’t heard before. thank you haley :’)

@cat_marnell It sucked you made the right choice

With all due respect I found myself physically incapable of engaging with the Barbie movie

When God sings with his creations, will an overweight rat not be part of the choir?

@ElskanTriumph Lol exactly

@jenvermet Thank you!!

Link to whole piece: haleynahman.substack.com/p/153-rethinki…

It’s so empowering to have minimal social plans as a choice for this weekend. I feel like I used to always expect myself to make it jampacked to prove I was having fun but now I find so much joy in the gaps between social outings with myself.

@gaiaggiorgi ❤️

@halemur 💌

@legalnomads @brettmartin @annehelen @TacoTrail @edyong209 Great roundup, thanks for including me!

@gabydvj You’re correct!!!

@halemur that's what i said!! my roommate disagrees

please settle an argument that is causing discord in my happy home: does nicole kidman have period piece face