support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

I really love this piece by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social & it’s a worthwhile read for everyone on entitlement, impunity, & ego, raising an important question: “What do we owe each other as a country?” #trump #whitehouse #nokings open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/w...

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social wrote a very well-stated piece on her Substack that the courts are the final bulwark against a full-on authoritarian takeover in the USA. jill.substack.com/p/the-courts...

“This is a moment when we need judges and courts not to “resist” for the sake of resistance, but to rule impartially and fairly — to follow the law, to put the constitution first, and refuse to obey in advance.” Truth telling from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social:

"The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud. They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate." Yes indeed. MAGA doesn't care, even when they learn the truth. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Today is a sad, dark anniversary of a murderous attack that triggered two years of brutal war. You won’t see it on outrage-algorithm social media, but we can hold both at once: the particular horrors of Oct. 7 and the protracted horrors of this war. jill.substack.com/p/two-long-y...

Today is a sad, dark anniversary of a murderous attack that triggered two years of brutal war. You won’t see it on outrage-algorithm social media, but we can hold both at once: the particular horrors of Oct. 7 and the protracted horrors of this war. jill.substack.com/p/two-long-y...

This March, I’m hosting a writing retreat in Kenya, a place I was once lucky to call home. It also includes photo classes from a National Geographic photographer & daily yoga. We travel from Nairobi to safari to the seaside on an absolutely epic journey. onthegroundretreats.com/retreat/kenya

I truly loved and admired Jane Goodall, and am eternally grateful for all she gave me.

The Supreme Court has ruled again that the Trump administration can end Venezuelans’ Temporary Protected Status. In January, Gisela Salim-Peyer wrote about the Trump administration’s attack on TPS:

"The American military is supposed to defend the United States of America. It is not supposed to be used against US citizens. And yet that is precisely what the president is promising." Truth from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/a...

Endless, unprecedented corruption large and small

“The Trump administration and its MAGA allies have abandoned all pretense of supporting free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, using the murder to justify an accelerating drive to criminalize criticism of the president,” Thomas Edsall writes.

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.