2019 Elections and Caroline Calloway and Co.

Different Things Can Be Sad

And so this is 2019! We’re back and chatting about elections coming up around the world this year, as well as analysing our obsession with Caroline Calloway and Fyre Festival

Reading

• Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
• Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
• Talent by Juliet Lapidos

Watching

• The Favourite
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Netflix
• Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix
• La Casa de las Flores on Netflix

Listening

• Heard It In A Past Life by Maggie Rogers
• This American Life 665: Before Things Went to Hell https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/665-before-things-went-to-hell/id201671138?i=1000427589541&mt=2
• Broken Harts by Glamour https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/broken-harts/id1434603257?mt=2

Politics

• CBC’s list of elections: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-elections-2019-1.4968234
• Israel’s big questions: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Politics-The-big-questions-as-the-2019-election-campaigns-begin-575643
• Opposition in Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-2019-election-a-battle-of-two-benjamins/
• More political parties in Israel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2019/01/04/with-israeli-elections-coming-up-heres-what-you-should-know-about-the-party-system/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2adc9eacba44
• Kelly O’Dwyer’s resignation: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/19/kelly-odwyer-announces-shock-resignation-ahead-of-election
• Trudeau’s approval rating: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-trudeau-only-half-as-popular-as-he-used-to-be
• Split polling in Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-year-end-polls-1.4953867

Pop Culture

• Kayleigh Donaldson’s Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Ceilidhann/status/1075852265674719232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1075852265674719232&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.refinery29.com%2Fen-us%2F2019%2F01%2F221909%2Fcaroline-calloway-instagram-influencer-disaster-tour-explained
• Everything You Need To Know About Influencer Caroline Calloway & Her Disastrous $165 Mason Jar Meet-Up: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/01/221909/caroline-calloway-instagram-influencer-disaster-tour-explained
• Caroline Calloway’s creativity workshop review: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/caroline-calloway-creativity-workshop
• Kait Hurley’s advice: https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/avoid-instagram-scams/