The Trump regime is squashing speech and using the full force of government to enforce its ideology. jill.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

The American right’s hypocrisy over Charlie Kirk is frightening 🖊️ @JillFilipovic.bsky.social: The Maga crackdown on free speech

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a horrific act that has left two children fatherless. You don't have to like his politics to understand that political violence is a race to the bottom, that it makes life worse for all of us, that it is what undoes democracies and societies.

"Defending democracy even when it’s hard and inconvenient and especially when doing so gets in the way of what you want is the only way to protect a pluralistic system. It’s ultimately the only way to protect yourself." Latest from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/d...

One reason Trumpism is so successful is that democracy is hard and authoritarianism is easy. jill.substack.com/p/democracy-...

The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter

You want a tradwife, fine, build me a house. Fill it with solid wood furniture you made with your own two hands. Help the mare deliver her foal in the springtime. Catch tuberculosis and make me a widow at 32

It’s morally much better to be a feminist than a tradwife, because one of these requires cultivating self-respect, and the other means abandoning the responsibilities of citizenship in favor of a retreat to private-sphere dependence. One is a return to childhood; the other is the province of adults.

Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!

In absolute earnest, I think terror of “elitism” has put a powerful vocabulary for describing what’s going on here out of play. These people are vulgar, thuggish, unsophisticated, crass, unschooled, unreflective. They are low in a sense that has nothing to do with income, & it’s fine to say so.

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

Would very much recommend treating yourself to an epic adventure in Kenya. Come on retreat with me. We'll write, we'll explore, we'll safari, we'll yoga, we'll take photos with a Nat Geo photographer, it's truly an amazing trip: onthegroundretreats.com/retreat/kenya

American kids die at almost twice the rate of children in similar nations. They are 15 times as likely to die by firearm. American babies die at 1.78 times the rate of babies in similar countries. The Trump administration is waging a war on children. jill.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

Donald Trump is creating a personal paramilitary force. Ice, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has become a form of armed police. 🌎 @JillFilipovic.bsky.social

The term “anti-establishment” was redefined the same way as “working class.” Both now mean “person of any income, education level, or type of work who holds right-wing culture war views.” By contrast, “elites” means “holds broadly left-wing views on cultural issues.”

Donald Trump is creating a personal paramilitary force. Ice, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has become a form of armed police. 🌎 @JillFilipovic.bsky.social

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social has a solid piece calling out Israel’s indiscriminate killing of journalists covering the Gaza Genocide. jill.substack.com/p/propaganda...

"It’s a failure all around. And indicative of all the ways in which this president has repeatedly hidden the truth, intimidated journalists, gutted public trust, and created a culture of impunity in the Republican Party." Truth from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/w...

I see @jillfilipovic.bsky.social made a similar argument to mine: If the right really wants marriage rates to go up, they'd encourage men to be more like Travis Kelce. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A roundup of links for the month from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social @slate.com @svershbow.bsky.social @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social @kristenklopez.bsky.social @jawnita.bsky.social @themeteor.bsky.social @stephwrestling.bsky.social @theatlantic.com @msnbc.com scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/the-month-...

Conservative commentators are missing something here. slate.trib.al/A1dQ9Zw

If conservatives want to increase marriage rates, they don’t need to tell women to get themselves to the altar like Taylor. They need to find a way to encourage men to be more like Travis. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Israel's killings of journalists in Gaza has turned into its own kind of propaganda war. But If a journalist is picking up a camera and not a gun, they are not a legitimate target. jill.substack.com/p/propaganda...

Black babies in Mississippi are particularly vulnerable, with more than 15 deaths for every 1,000 live births in 2024 – a 24% jump in one year over already higher-than-average rates.

Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.

In this morning's newsletter, I wrote about an under-appreciated problem for liberalism — its total failure to cultivate young talent www.vox.com/on-the-right...

There is nothing remarkable about this opinion. “I’m a conservative, and I only favor programs that benefit me“ is the oldest story in history.

Are we melting down about the terrible fascist injustice of kids not being allowed phones at school over here too? Or is there some other objectively insane Discourse happening on this site?

I... think this is the most plausible explanation? wow.

Someone posted jokingly that Greco thought she was giving the money to somebody from "the City" and got confused about which The City the recipient was from, but legit I think that's what happened.

"This is the promise of the authoritarian, and it’s why authoritarian regimes often enjoy significant support, at least in the beginning: They promise to protect you from them — from those bad guys over there, from those people who don’t share your political views." open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...

The government continues to use as its primary social media platform the one most responsible for introducing children to porn, not to mention fascism and all that

And studies show that women who are denied an abortion overwhelmingly do not choose adoption or see it as an equal alternative

The anti-abortion movement constantly tells us that women can "just choose adoption" if they don't want to have a baby. And to a lot of people that sounds reasonable. Except... adoption is often wrenching for birth mothers, and women are often coerced into it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

That the most physically vulnerable get sick and die first is not exactly surprising or evidence of some grand conspiracy.

Cutting off USAID is a terrible evil. The future will judge us harshly.

“What is your basis for saying she puts roast beef in her pockets and in her pants?” I don’t even know where to begin. You just have to read these two pages.

Conservative affirmative action is wild. They just let anyone do any job no matter their qualifications, so long as they’re loyal.

"And when they overturned Roe, anyone paying even a tiny bit of attention should have known that the right would come for Obergefell next — and that they won’t stop with that, either." By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/y...

Coincidently, I just started listening to the podcast mentioned in this article by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social. It's about Liberty University's "Godparent House," where pregnant teens are sent and coerced to give their babies for adoption, w/ promises of redemption and a full ride to Liberty U.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Donald Trump can’t escape Jeffrey Epstein. The President has sown the country with conspiracy – now he is reaping the paranoia he deserves. 🖊️ @JillFilipovic.bsky.social

"The cruelty and recklessness of dismantling USAID remains difficult for me to fathom. Researchers project that 14 million people will die who would have otherwise lived, including 4.5 million children." Truly tragic words from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/w...

“The more Israel behaves as an authoritarian power engaging in shocking war crimes…the harder it gets for anyone decent—including many liberal Jews—to stand in its defense.” Important piece by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social jill.substack.com/p/gaza-is-st...

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social wrote a solid post on the disaster of a crisis in the making in occupied Gaza, and Israel is to blame here, as they have starved Gazans due to their reckless decision to withhold food aid. jill.substack.com/p/gaza-is-st...

Glad to see diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives thriving at the nation’s top universities.

"They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs." #MsReads via @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

The obsession with finding "dupes" of high-quality items - clothing, skincare, home goods - is bad, actually. Not because it saves a buck. But because it celebrates consumption patterns that mirror a TikTok algorithm: next thing, next thing, next thing. jill.substack.com/p/make-knock...