Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
Thought Crimes for All Occasions. No Charge.
To the four year old girl who saw me walking down the street and called down from her apartment “Hello, Beautiful!”— Everything I have is yours
More and more, our era resembles the 1930's, when wild rumors, fabrications, snake handling, tent revivals filled the gaps in security, continuity, national trust left by the Depression.
WATCH: Candace Owens just DOUBLED DOWN on Brigitte Macron being a man in response to getting sued. "You were born a man and you will die a man... That's the point I'm making." "I think you're sick. I think you're disgusting. And I am fully prepared to take on this battle on…
10 Stars, as ever, to @helenlewis I couldn’t figure out my response to these interviews - she explains it theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
A crime wave has hit the sports-world…and Frank Drebin Jr. is on the case @ESPN! Get tickets now for The Naked Gun, only in theatres August 1.
I watched many Hunter Biden clips last night - and found them weirdly galvanizing, often comic, often sad, sometimes delusional. One thing that never goes well with sobriety is self-righteous anger. I hope he stays well. No more tragedy in that family.
And this. I think the Oscar’s hairdo set her very worthy cause back.
“My mom was coming with me to appointments and sometimes she’d be in the room, and they know how to handle her as a parent, which is a skill." nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/…
Listen, if I’m going to get an evil chess set I’m going all the way.
Oh my god. A Mid-Evil chess set
The most alpha thing a man can do is marry and be faithful to a good woman for the entirety of his life and to be willing to storm the gates of hell to stay married to her.
Marriage isn’t “natural.” It’s supernatural.
Pamela Anderson, 58, at the premiere of "The Naked Gun"
The Fisherman and the Siren, Frederic Leighton
“I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor
A lot of women have no idea how to close a deal, and a lot of men know how to chew their leg out of a trap. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…
Nine dead kids: millions of pools recalled. Now do guns. cbsnews.com/news/pools-rec…
The past 10 years have been tumultuous for higher education, Tyler Austin Harper argues. He recommends eight books that look with clear eyes at the goals, accomplishments, and failures of American universities. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
Revenge of the kayaking center left.
Mainers kayaked to the island summer home of Chief Justice Roberts this morning to protest the extremist agenda & demand resistance to tyranny. By land and by sea Mainers get it done! #MEpolitics