Be nice to the OB/GYNs in your lives cuz they’re gonna have a helluva week

Pregnant women: please do not inject disinfectant

It’s looking more and more like this will be the term that the SCOTUS effectively coronates Trump.

This week in my @globeopinion.bsky.social Supreme Court newsletter The Gavel, I will be answering reader questions about the upcoming term. Have a question? Post it in reply to this post! I'll answer as many as space allows.

Check the lunar calendar: it’s time to shake up the picture, the lizard mixture, with your dance on the eventide open.spotify.com/track/35JVOj...

The president, who spent the weekend publicly pressuring the attorney general to criminally prosecute his perceived enemies, said: “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m perimenopausal. Hormone therapy has been game changer for me. But when I learned that peri- and menopause symptoms hit Black women harder and last longer, and yet we’re 5X less likely to get hormone care than white women, I had to write about it. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/o...

Y'all, the way things are going by the time we get to the 21st of this month I will not have a bah, a dee, or a yah to bahdeeyah.

The man I thought of as Bob Woodward before I actually met Bob Woodward. Rest peacefully www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Feels like 1) a diversion from the admin’s whitewashing of educational and historical institutions and/or 2) a wily segregation plot. HBCU’s are American treasures and need support. But don’t get so blinded by the carrot that you miss the stick that’s coming right at you apnews.com/article/hist...

🗣️🎶 Beware of the blob, it creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor, right through the door and all around the wall… 🎵 www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

I came across an old playlist of songs from my college days so today’s stress relief dance break will be wiggida wiggida wiggida wack 💃🏾 open.spotify.com/track/3NE4Wv...

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

I’ll take racist media framing for $200 “The only group that receives the ‘he was such a nice, quiet, smart boy’ treatment after committing a horrendous crime.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

A week like this warrants a supersized podcast episode from the #SistersInLaw. Give a listen: www.politicon.com/podcasts/we-...

Today in music my parents put me on: According to my Mom the only thing that would make little baby me stop crying was this album 🗣️🎶 Yoooooouuu’d never dooo that tooo meeeeeeeee, wouldja baybayyyyy🎵 open.spotify.com/album/58eMx3...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

My goodness what a week I just wanna curl up and watch Mona and Russer reels

Perfect job for the National Guard troops stationed here

Friday

We are at a terrifying moment as a nation. Heaven save us.

Maybe it’s the guns

Canine camo 🍂

About to join @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social to talk about what a long weird day it’s been. I dropped a slice of pizza on my suit pants just before I left home so I’m a touch more casual than usual 🤷🏾‍♀️👖

Fun fact: One reason Speaker Johnson feels so free to talk reckless nonsense is because Louisiana’s congressional map is politically gerrymandered to protect his seat.

He’s not very artistic

When I was a kid, my bedroom was directly above my brother's. The albums I would hear coming up through my floor helped shape my musical worldview. Breakfast in America was one of those seminal works. Rest peacefully. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/08/w...

Monday

Like a fashion show with no fashion

Only the #SistersInLaw can make me belly laugh in these dark times. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Every time I hear someone say 'what the helly?' my brain goes

Trump’s entire agenda is about retribution and attacking perceived enemies, not serving and protecting the American people. He’s literally telling y’all that out loud. Believe him

Just a girl and her monkey

“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman.” - Malcolm X

No he did not just say “Dr. Oz” when asked who he’s listening to instead of the host of doctors, scientists and professional medical associations who say vaccines are safe and effective. Lawdhammercy

I was just thinking the other day about how remarkable it was that we still had Armani and Valentino as living fashion design legends. RIP, Giorgio. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Live shot of the #SistersInLaw trying to digest all the legal news that happened this week

Speaking of all the Trump losses in court this week

I guess y’all have questions! lol @globeopinion.bsky.social

Me writing a column AND a newsletter about all the ways the Trump admin lost in the courts in the last few days

Where my Gen X girlies at? Sing with me 🗣️🎶 I want to feel you by myyyy siiiiiide, dooooon’t you know I neeeeeeed yoooou bayyyybayyyyyyyy🎵 open.spotify.com/track/4b2qn7...

Thanks to @pbsnews.org for having me on NewsHour, and to @jonathancapehart.bsky.social for letting me fill your seat this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3VW...

We'll see what Scotus thinks, but this story from May is aging pretty well so far, I'd say. Federal Circuit leans into "major questions doctrine" in declaring Trump's global tariffs illegal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

I know why he thinks people should call him "Sir." Because he's Peppermint Petty. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/29/n...

Wishing everyone, but especially Lisa Cook, a lovely day www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

This is a 5-alarm fire. Get your vaccines now while you still can www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Good afternoon to everyone but especially Gov. JB Pritzker

I'm excited to hear that C-Span will be covering the talk!