Investigating the right-wing extremists running for office
THE BIG STORY
He belongs to a right-wing extremist group — and is running to represent ultraliberal Park Slope, Brooklyn Brett Wynkoop lives in a brownstone in Brooklyn, belongs to the Park Slope Food Coop, and most recently, started a campaign to represent that famously left-leaning neighborhood on New York's City Council. He's also a longtime member of the Oath Keepers, the right-wing extremist group now closely identified with the Jan. 6 assault on the nation's Capitol.
While the group is not a political party and doesn't publicly disclose which of its members have run for or won elected office, leaked Oath Keeper data has shown many members campaigning for — and sometimes winning — elected offices around the country, including for county sheriff, state legislature, and even US Congress.
Wynkoop doesn't appear to campaign on his Oath Keepers affiliation. He hung up on a reporter who called to ask about it and did not respond to subsequent emails or a knock on his door. STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
The House has subpoenaed two Stop the Steal organizers linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection  (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) The House select committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking documents and other information from right-wing activists Ali Alexander and Nathan Martin, and demanding that both of them sit for depositions later this month. The committee also subpoenaed Stop the Steal, as part of its ongoing inquiry into the Capitol riots.
The subpoenas highlight the permit application by a group supposedly identified as One Nation Under God, which BuzzFeed News exclusively obtained a copy of last month. A Capitol Police intelligence assessment documented concerns that the group and four others that sought permission to demonstrate were proxies for Stop the Steal, and were concealing their affiliation in a secret effort to coordinate their protests.
Despite those concerns, the Capitol Police force's intelligence assessment said there was "no adverse intelligence related to the upcoming event." It assessed "the Level of Probability of acts of civil disobedience/arrests to occur" during the demonstration "as Highly Improbable." SNAPSHOTS
A Texas healthcare provider confirmed they had resumed performing abortions past week six of pregnancy, after a judge temporarily halted the law that barred such abortions. Since SB 8 took effect, Whole Woman's Health clinics continued to perform abortions that complied with the six-week ban, but had turned away hundreds of patients.
As of Oct. 7, 56.2% of Americans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the CDC reports. Over 6 million people have also had a booster shot.
Adele responded to accusations of cultural appropriation and explained why she didn't delete a controversial picture of her celebrating Notting Hill Carnival. The singer told British Vogue that she'd been trying to "celebrate the Jamaican culture" but hadn't "read the fucking room."
AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR
Don't scroll away from these photos capturing the war in Afghanistan The chaotic end of the war in Afghanistan captured the American public's attention — for the first time in a very long time. As the war in Afghanistan dragged on for almost two decades, many Americans grew uninterested in following the details of a faraway military quagmire.
It's an attitude that frustrates Mike Kamber, a former photojournalist and curator of Urgency! Afghanistan. His exhibition aims to educate visitors about the history of the war, with photos updating in real time with contributions from photographers who are still working in Afghanistan.
 A heavily armed Mujahideen warrior manning a checkpoint in downtown Kabul questions a young teenager during the conflict in Afghanistan. (Joao Silva/PictureNET Africa)
 An Afghan girl listens to the speech of President Hamid Karzai on television during the presidential candidates' live debate in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16, 2009. (Farzana Wahidy/AP)
 Wazir Nazary, 40, sits on a rooftop in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 10, 2021. In early July, Taliban attackers broke into her home and shot her in the face, taking both of her eyes. (Victor J. Blue for the Wall Street Journal) This photo series is part of JPG, our weekly photo newsletter. Follow JPG for more inside looks at photojournalism and art projects here. 🦑 🦑 🦑
Did you catch these 11 Squid Game details while you were watching the show?  (Netflix) This article has Squid Game spoilers. Don't click on it unless you've finished the show or like to live a life of complete recklessness.
No pages before Player 2. Lee Byung-hun's reveal. The deaths that were foreshadowed all along. Allow yourself to fall into Squid Game the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. WEEKEND FEELINGS
Longreads about letting go
Marie Calloway was the poster girl for alt-lit. Then she disappeared.
Today, Calloway's influence is present in the personal essay genre, in memoirs, in fiction about troubled young women. Her sparse prose and unflinching unpleasantness is no longer unusual; Melissa Broder's Milk Fed, Halle Butler's The New Me, or Darcie Wilder's Literally Show Me a Healthy Person all belong to her lineage. Even literary megastar Sally Rooney's work betrays flashes of Calloway in the hornier passages of her novels. But after helping create the current moment of sex positivity in literature, Calloway vanished.
The refreshing lack of diet culture in Emily Mariko's TikToks
Emily Mariko may be the latest evolution of a trope that will be familiar to those who turned to the internet in search of "healthy living blogs" during the 2010s, Stephanie McNeal says.
According to blogs like Healthy Tipping Point and Kath Eats Real Food, healthy eating "required certain rules": "Some ingredients were acceptable, and others weren't," McNeal writes. "The bloggers were telling me it was all right to have treats every once in a while, but when they seemed to only eat chickpea brownies and cauliflower pizza slices, it was hard to believe them." Choose joy today, Alexa 📝 This letter was edited and brought to you by Alexa Lee and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here.
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