Euphoric Recall

Brad Neaton

The news in quotes and numbers, twice a week, every week, along with commentary, reading recommendations, and archived longform favorites from yours truly.

Created 28 Mar 2021

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“It should have been called the Clinton dossier.”
08 Nov 2021 • 7 min read
New York City Fire Department union members, municipal workers, and others demonstrate during a protest against the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Manhattan's Upper East Side. (Reuters/Mike Segar)...
“A fundamental public health principle is that health is multidimensional; the control of a single infectious disease is not synonymous with health.”
04 Nov 2021 • 8 min read • 1 0
Elected on Tuesday night, Winsome Sears is the first African American woman (and first woman, period) to ever hold the office of Lt. Governor in Virginia. She was born in Jamaica, emigrated to the U.S...
“The current eruption of anti-Biden signs and chants, however, is on another level, far more vulgar and widespread.”
01 Nov 2021 • 10 min read
I'm no Nostradamus, but my gut tells me that upcoming elections may not be kind to Democrats. If you’re a subscriber to Euphoric Recall, you now have the option of subventing this newsletter! In other...
“That day, my body inhaled molecules of white supremacy as they seeped out of my computer from that proctored Zoom room.”
28 Oct 2021 • 9 min read
Two large container ships are seen moored at Maersk APM Terminals Pacific at the Port of Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an order on October 20 that aims to ease bottlenecks at th...
“We may need to update our definition of 'fully vaccinated.'”
25 Oct 2021 • 8 min read • 1 0
Boji, a street dog, rides a subway train in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 21, 2021. Boji is a regular Istanbul commuter, using the city's public-transport systems to get around, sometimes traveling as ...
“Trans people are in the middle of a holocaust.”
21 Oct 2021 • 4 min read
US President Joe Biden walks from Marine One to the White House. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Subscribe now “The unwillingness of Western citizens to live with any level of risk — economic, h...
“For children without a serious medical condition, the danger of severe Covid is so low as to be difficult to quantify.”
18 Oct 2021 • 11 min read
Parents hold signs and chant during a meeting of the North Allegheny School District school board regarding the district’s mask policy in McCandless, Pa. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via ...
The Trump Toupee Melee
14 Oct 2021 • 3 min read
I wrote this a long time ago and submitted it to some left-leaning publications to see if they’d publish it (no go). I figured I might as well post it here. Subscribe now WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a stunn...
“Too often in The Closer, it just sounds like Chapelle is using white privilege to excuse his own homophobia and transphobia.”
14 Oct 2021 • 9 min read
Dave Chapelle in “The Closer” I made a couple of formatting changes to the newsletter in the hope that it’s easier to read. Specifically, I separated my editorializing so you’re not confronted with se...
“At best, objectivity curbs how impactful research can be, and, at worst, it irrevocably harms a community.”
11 Oct 2021 • 5 min read
Subscribe now “If I faced him, I’d beat him like I would everyone else.” — Former President Donald Trump, commenting on the possibility that if he ran for another term for president in 2024 that he wo...
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