A Big Piece

Hi, everyone!

Just a quick programming note. As part of my shift toward a saner schedule once the little one arrives, on days like today when I am already publishing a piece on The Big Picture (our team’s substack), I will not produce a second piece here. I am taking to heart your many kind admonitions to not try to do too much!

That said, this seems good time to plug The Big Picture. As the name suggests, it’s a great companion subscription to The Status Kuo. Here, I take deeper dives into the daily headlines and bring you what main stream outlets underreport. At The Big Picture, we zoom out and look at, well, the big picture. As part of that effort we interview some of the best minds out there on essential topics:

• David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change

• Dr. John Gartner on Trump’s increasingly dangerous mental decline

• Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the rise of modern authoritarianism

• Charlotte Clymer on what trans people would like you most to know; and recently

• Thomas Zimmer on Project 2025.

Of course, my team and I also write pieces that inform, analyze and question our current politics and society. And we have a Sunday Week in Wins edition as a thank you for our paid subscribers. It’s a celebration of all the things and accomplishments we actually can and should celebrate, in contrast to the doom and gloom the media foists upon us regularly.

My piece out later this morning is called Preparing for the Verdict. It’s about how Trump and his allies are seeking already to undermine an increasingly likely guilty verdict from the Manhattan jury, and what Judge Merchan probably will do around sentencing should it happen. Sign up for The Big Picture by clicking the box below, and my piece will hit your inbox around 11am Eastern:

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— Jay