Along with @jillfilipovic.bsky.social, I was on the @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social this morning to help interpret US birth rates and discuss current efforts to raise them. wnyc.org/browse/shows...

The most important piece I've read this year, up with similarly important works by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social, @pennyred.bsky.social, and Dale Beran analyzing different aspects of this same culture shift.

Women are not protected: not by living in liberal states, not by having the money to cross state lines, and, given the impact of abortion bans on women who are miscarrying, not even by not having elective abortions.

We were told that Roe fueled the culture wars and that returning the abortion question to the states would bring reasoned debate, a democratic process, and then stability. Instead the anti-abortion movement has created nothing but chaos and confusion. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Better idea: No.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Friday’s federal appeals decision on the abortion pill mifepristone sends a clear message, Jill Filipovic writes in a guest essay: “No woman in America, no matter where she lives, has total control over whether to continue or end a pregnancy.”

Yes, @jillfilipovic.bsky.social appropriately sums up the current Fed Soc "conservative" Supreme Court. Note, they are just radical and extremist, what they are has nothing whatsoever to do with "conservatism".

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

Marking our 250th year by having the British King visit to remind us about the development of the rule of law, while the president reads lines presumably written by Stephen Miller about the transcendent nobility of the mythic English blood.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

We hear a lot about loneliness epidemics, too much stress, too much time on screens, too little time with other people, too much work and not enough creation. One antidote: Travel to a magical place with a small group of people. Write. Move your body. Make lasting friendships.

"Instead of getting highly effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so that they may decide if and when to have children, Title X under Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not." By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social GIFT article.

"The old anti-abortion movement strategy was to attack contraception as immoral, though few Americans share that view. The new tactic is more MAHA-coded, and with a #pronatalist twist:" 1/2

This is a gift link! The same reason they push viagra like dealers.

I talked with the iconic Jessica Yellin about the authoritarian impulse to target women, from ICE enforcement to Russia to Trump's America to the just-toppled Hungarian regime: newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/the-patter...

worth reading⬇️

The Trump administration wants to take money that has long paid for modern contraception for low-income women and spend it on helping sperm swim better. This is not a joke. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

"The guy ran for president! And still, when presented with an attractive woman on social media, he seems to have thought the appropriate response was, “Here, look, this is my penis""

“The impulse to send them seems to stem not from a desire to seduce but to subordinate-less mating dance than dominance ritual, a way to push a woman's boundaries and see what she'll tolerate.”

A huge amount of this is that there's still an unspoken but heavily enforced social norm that women are obliged to keep men's dirty secrets, whether you consented or not. The second a man assaults or harasses you, he invokes this unspoken contract. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There's been a sharp uptick in religiosity among young men. I think I know why. www.throughline.news/p/the-purpos...

How does a man who wants to be president of the United States think he's not gonna get in trouble for sending dick pics in a post-Weiner post-MeToo world? Arrogance? Misogyny? A humiliation fetish? I explore it all! slate.com/news-and-pol...

The most conservative states in America are also the states with the highest rates of unmarried motherhood. They are the states with the highest rates of child poverty. They are among the states with the lowest levels of female educational attainment. By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

Over and over again, organizations from average workplaces to the Holocaust Memorial Museum are editing themselves — complying in advance, as Timothy Snyder would put it. Critical read from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...

Excellent analysis @jillfilipovic.bsky.social @slate.com lhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/trump-pam-bondi-fired-kristi-noem-pete-hegseth.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=copy_link #feminism

"Conservatism is a trap for women. No matter how hard MAGA women try to please their masters, the ideology is set up to blame women for the problems faced by men, to demand female subservience & to scapegoat women when something goes wrong." @jillfilipovic.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

We hear a lot about the "boy crisis" but less about how predatory industries - especially sports betting, but also gaming and AI - are targeting young men, who they know are more likely than young women to be impulsive, overconfident, and isolated: www.throughline.news/p/no-country...

In defense of Millennial Feminism (Girl Bosses and snarky blogging and Lindy West and all): slate.com/news-and-pol...

My writing + yoga retreat in Vietnam (my current home) is already filling up. Sign up now if you want to join us... onthegroundretreats.com/retreat/viet...

Could be worse. We could have had a woman president.

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

In the wake of the Meta/YouTube lawsuit, I keep hearing that phrase, “personal responsibility.” The whole point, though, is that these companies designed their products to override one’s ability to exercise personal responsibility. www.throughline.news/p/social-med...

But what is significant here is that there are 1000s of cases just like this waiting in the wings. That means even if you multiply $3M across 1000 plaintiffs, up to $3B in damages.

It turns out it's not so easy to run an entire government, and electing a bunch of arrogant morons has consequences. This week it's the TSA lines: www.throughline.news/p/it-turns-o...

OK folks. I ran some initial numbers on political ideology and antisemitism from my latest survey ~3 weeks ago and...they don't look great I used the same 3 core antisemitism questions as the widely cited Hersh and Royden study: perceptions of Jewish power, dual loyalty, and collective Israel blame

I tried to push back on a follower of mine defending using "zio," got accused of being one, and then blocked. So to make it absolutely clear: stop fucking saying that shit. "Zio" was coined by David Duke. The way in which so many of you have so easily slipped into this kind of antisemitism is BAD.

Very preliminary data work now beginning to confirm what a lot of us have sensed: major spike in antisemitic ideology on the far left

Men like Chavez are able to rape and abuse women and girls not only because they’re monsters, but because they are confident that those around them will look the other way, will enable, will lie. @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.throughline.news/p/cesar-chav...

We've gotta stop lying to ourselves that women whose entire lives exist in support of men are secretly the powerful ones. No, your stay-at-home wife is not really the "boss" and the women who built UFW were not really in charge: www.throughline.news/p/cesar-chav...

A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail

"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...

This is realy good

This fall, I'm bringing a small group to Vietnam, my current home. We'll start in Hanoi then go up north to Sapa for a week of writing, (optional) yoga, trekking, and eating as much as humanly possible. Join me: onthegroundretreats.com/retreat/viet...

Do you want to write and move in extraordinary places? Does it sound pretty great to have someone plan your travel for you, and you just show up and are totally taken care of? Come with me on a writing retreat. Coming up in June: Writing + yoga in GREECE! onthegroundretreats.com/retreat/greece

"I once was lost, but now I’m found" is the story we tell. There’s something quite beautiful about this. The human capacity to change, and also to believe we’ve changed perhaps more profoundly than we have, is part of what makes us good, or at least interesting. www.throughline.news/p/the-emptin...