NEW on Substack: A light, medium, and very heavy reading and listening list. babblery.substack.com/p/more-voice...

NEW in Digital Hygiene: Is your digital life stressing you out? Clean up your window into the Internet! open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

NEW Minibabble: LaDoris Cordell, Denise Miranda, and Cindy Cohn are three very different women who have had three very different careers. But all three have drawn their inspiration from using their legal training to make a difference in the world. babblery.com/2026/05/mini... @eff.org

What's 'Drapetomania'? Check out this interview with Wayne Harris, whose one-man show will play in Santa Cruz on June 6. The performance will benefit the Movement Voter Project. ksqd.org/drapetomania... @MovementVoterProject @ksqdfm.bsky.social

EFF's Cindy Cohn on how Internet privacy protects all of us. Listen! babblery.com/2026/05/figh... @eff.org @ksqdfm.bsky.social

Read or listen: People say that anonymity breeds meanness, but what if it’s just that we’re all having an out-of-body experience? Text: open.substack.com/pub/babblery... Listen: babblery.com/2026/05/the-...

Denise Miranda is the New York State Commissioner for Human Rights, and she's also a volunteer. In this video clip Denise talks about volunteering as a public servant with the "boss babes" of New York nonprofit Women Creating Change. @ksqdfm.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaN...

Stressed by your devices? Anxious about your workload? This series is aimed at helping you use your digital tools to be calm and efficient. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

NEW on Substack: Think supervolunteers are always selfless do-gooders with hearts of gold? There are many reasons why people pitch in... open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Monday 6 pm PT on The Babblery: New York State's Commissioner for Human Rights, Denise Miranda, holds the line on civil rights for everyone. ksqd.org/babblery/ @babblery.substack.com

Cindy Cohn on the difficulty of regulating online information related to women's bodies: babblery.com/2026/05/figh... @eff.org @ksqdfm.bsky.social

Cindy's book is a fascinating exploration of three foundational cases that argued privacy and freedom of speech on the Internet. I especially loved how she wove what was happening in her life into the story of the book.

We’re being used by media designed to tweak our emotions rather than inform us. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

NOW STREAMING: Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on women's privacy and freedom of speech on the Internet babblery.com/2026/05/figh... @eff.org

Now streaming on The Babblery: babblery.com/2026/05/root... I loved this thoughtful interview with Denise about civil rights for everyone!

Has your digital life gotten out of control? Devices driving you nuts? Let's start by talking about Search. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

A new series on Substack: Stressed out and overwhelmed? Having a chaotic digital life only makes it worse. Starting tomorrow: seven weeks of practical advice for cleaning up your digital self. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Is your digital life stressing you out? Starting Saturday, a special series on The Babblery Substack offers ideas for achieving calm in our turbulent online seas. babblery.substack.com/s/digital-hy...

NOW STREAMING: Denise Miranda on civil rights: babblery.com/2026/05/root...

NEW on Substack: What is a man to do if he’s comfortable in his own flow, but he sees a woman struggling in the rapids? I have ideas. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Californians: This is an excellent conversation about housing and homelessness including all the current dems. Unlike a debate, Ezra asks them the tough questions and makes them answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

Now streaming on the Babblery: babblery.com/2026/05/root...

NEW on Substack: What’s happening to a candidate in California is happening to all of us. We can’t be successful as a nation when we hold women to high standards and men to next to none at all. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Learn more about this month's Babblery guest, Denise Miranda, and her work with an amazing group of "boss babes" (her words!) at Women Creating Change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaN...

When it comes to civil rights, the more pie we offer, the more pie we get to eat. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Denise Miranda on civil rights: "It doesn't happen accidentally—there's a responsibility to ensure that we maintain those progressive values because if we don't, they will not exist." babblery.com/2026/05/root...

Now streaming on the Babblery: babblery.com/2026/05/root...

NEW on The Babblery: Rooted in Service with Human Rights Commissioner Denise Miranda babblery.com/2026/05/root... As New York State's Human Rights Commissioner, Denise Miranda is holding the line for civil rights against one of her city’s own native sons.

NEW on Substack: While professional journalists wrestle with someone else deciding to put AI under their byline, independent writers have to wrestle with the question of what kind of AI use is ethical. I decided I needed to write up a policy... open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Judge LaDoris Cordell on due process and #MeToo: babblery.com/2026/05/mini...

NEW Minibabble: When I asked retired judge LaDoris Cordell about feminism, she said she'd always been a feminist. But the #MeToo movement's demands for immediate action went against our legal system's firm foundation in due process. babblery.com/2026/05/mini...

3 women. 3 lawyers. 3 areas of the law. 1 month on the Babblery! SPECIAL RELEASE: The Babblery features three lawyers speaking about their lives, their work, and how we can repair our fractured legal and political world.

Mini-episode AND Substack post—sound for listeners, text for readers! open.substack.com/pub/babblery... Reflecting on my conversation with LaDoris Cordell about DEI and opportunity: When We Open the Door for Others

Now streaming on The Babblery: babblery.com/2026/04/step... @ksqdfm.bsky.social

Now streaming on The Babblery: babblery.com/2026/04/step...

NOW STREAMING on The Babblery: babblery.com/2026/04/step... " My parents raised me to always be prepared: when the door opens, step through it."

NEW on The Babblery Podcast: Stepping Through the Door with LaDoris Cordell babblery.com/2026/04/step...

NEW on The Babblery: Stepping Through the Door with LaDoris Cordell babblery.com/2026/04/step... Judge LaDoris Cordell spent her career breaking barriers and pushing boundaries. This month on the Babblery we explore the relentless energy of one woman’s ever-curious mind. @ksqdfm.bsky.social

What do you do when a notorious misogynist tops the charts at Substack? In my case, I stand firm on my bit of dry ground. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

What can men do to support women? I don't know, but what's being done right now is not enough. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

I interviewed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's ED Cindy Cohn about women's privacy on the Internet. Listen to how the Internet can serve women while also maintaining privacy. The full interview coming soon on The Babblery! www.radio4all.net/program/122133 @eff.org @wingsradio.bsky.social

NEW on Substack: The vastness that our technology allows us is also its primary flaw. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

Someday I hope we'll have a memorial holiday for them: msmagazine.com/2026/04/04/w... @msmagazine.com

NEW on Substack: How far can a liar go till you know you’re being had? It depends on the temperature of the water. open.substack.com/pub/babblery...

On the little original sin of the Internet and the daily terrors it introduces: open.substack.com/pub/babblery... @eff.org

Excellent piece: "We ride at dawn." msmagazine.com/2026/03/27/w... I'm saddled up and ready to go. @msmagazine.com @wingsradio.bsky.social

When you're doing an interview for your lil' homegrown podcast and your guest says: "Just so you know, I have a hard stop at 1:30 because I'm going to be on the Daily Show!" Watch for Cindy Cohn interview on women's privacy wherever you get your podcasts or on BABBLERY.com and WINGS.org.

At our local No Kings Rally I asked sign holders to do dramatic readings. Check out some fun, inspiring, short audio! babblery.com/2026/03/mini...

When rely on natural processes, human behavior comes to some sort of balance. But moving everything—including gambling—to our phones is throwing everything out of whack. babblery.substack.com/p/regression...

NOW STREAMING on The Babblery: MINIBABBLE EPISODE- She Called to Apologize: A story of exclusion and grace babblery.com/2026/03/mini... Listen to transgender theorist Sandy Stone and musician Nancy Vogl speak about trauma, exclusion, acceptance, and moving forward together. @sandystone.bsky.social