Lacy Warner

A lot of visual artists don’t make their own work: Paul McCarthy, Damien Hirst etc…

So what’s the answer?!

Loved working on this piece—feels like I’ve been writing it in my head in bits and pieces for the last two decades

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Make this make sense:we want the immigrants gone bc they don’t pay taxes and are a drain, but we are going to find these “illegals” by going through the IRS and rounding up the immigrants who pay taxes?!!!?

TRUMP: "Now, don't tell China all our military secrets about how we are going to fight them in a war in exchange for them letting you sell these cars of yours in their huge market, Elon."

MUSK: [laughter]

A Personal History of Breastfeeding After my daughter was born, I struggled to produce milk. Why did I feel like I had to keep trying?

"How much of the breastfeeding debate is really about the health of the child, and how much is about the control of women’s bodies and, moreover, about the performance of successful womanhood?" @lacywarner.bsky.social shares her experience and the complicated narratives around breastfeeding.

DoD officials have said the military spent $52 million between 2014 and 2025 on gender dysphoria treatments for troops — so an average of $5.2 million a year. According to Judge Reyes, the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra treatments.

I think the plan is to use the million people they just fired

I will not be watching the State of the Soyuz tonight. I saw it in Leningrad in 1978.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Between the student loan fiasco, firing almost 800,000 people and the tariffs—I feel like I’m just in this horrible limbo waiting to find out how broke I’ll be.

Fired in Trump's chaotic purge, an Anchorage Army vet says he's never felt more betrayed Mike Macans is one of an unknown number of Small Business Administration employees who were fired, unfired and fired again.

Every American deserves the dignity of being employed. Now we have hundred of thousands of folks left without a job and often without health insurance. Is this the country you want to live in?

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

The American people are disempowered and disenfranchised—so stand up and do something Senator Warren! Prove that the dems aren’t just a party of impotence

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat

driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

Hey corporate media,

Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime These high-powered weapons are only meant for police. How are they ending up in criminals' hands?

America hates children. It’s our police force who are selling guns to school shooters: www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pol...

The decision by the Democratic Party to just roll over and die after this election is inexcusable

Amazing! Congrats!

Give me a break—this man created the system. And would you write that cheering on Osama Bin Laden’s death was wrong? Wonder why not

Thank you so much for reading!

Suzanne Takes You Down to Her Place Near the River Wrestling with debt, ambition, and the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen’s famous song.

looking for a tonic after the horrible Cormac McCarthy muse debacle—I wrote about the complicated muse “Suzanne Verdal” who inspired Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne.” The real tragedy is that both muses have disappeared under the weight of the art they’ve inspired. www.guernicamag.com/suzanne-take...