The anti-abortion movement weaponizes ‘parental rights’ to target youth abortion access/abortion broadly—only for state agents to then go after parents who help their children access abortion as 'unfit' or even abusive. @ifwhenhow.bsky.social's work on this issue is indispensable:

"The measure could result in a parent going to jail for helping a daughter end a pregnancy." Multiple moms have already been criminalized for doing just that and this law could make things even worse.

In one state, CPS took a teenager from her home to prevent her from having an abortion—threatening her mother with murder charges if she helped her daughter get out-of-state care. Another mother was investigated by CPS and police for helping her teen get an abortion *in a pro-choice state*

If/When/How's Helpline receives ~300 callers/month: parents targeted by CPS for helping their kids access abortion; terrified young people; domestic violence victims; family members of those who have been arrested for miscarriage. Here's @ifwhenhow.bsky.social on the cases you aren't reading about:

Resharing this explainer in light of the Wall Street Journal amplifying anti-abortion propaganda equating telemedicine medication abortion w/ ‘coercion.' On this strategy to frame abortion bans as ‘feminist’, how we got here, & how domestic violence victims are impacted by abortion bans:

NEW: A Republican U.S. Senate candidate said he's recruiting off-duty police officers to serve as poll watchers in Detroit for the 2026 midterms — and suggested they could flash their badges at voters. Intimidating voters is illegal. Interfering with someone's right to vote is a federal crime.

etsy spell i bought at 9:52 pm to save the sixers' season with like 3 minutes left in the game

NEW: Trump diverted >9,100 FBI personnel to work on immigration during the first 9 months of this term, per public records I obtained. He multiplied them by a factor of 23 - from 279 before he took office to >6500 by September. theintercept.com/2026/05/01/f...

This is crazy. Akela found out that the admin has diverted a *quarter of the entire FBI* away from their jobs to instead help Trump and Vance's immigration agents, whose most notable work includes kidnapping pro-Palestine students and murdering two Americans in broad daylight.

“Blue Sky”

In her 398-word announcement that she's dropping out, Janet Mills does not say one word about Graham Platner or uniting to beat Susan Collins. In his 283-word statement, Platner's first 2 sentences express gratitude for Mills. The next 3 discuss working together to beat Collins.

Republicans have to cheat in order to win. Missourians will vote on an amendment that would once again ban abortion and the governor might move it to August

Not to be annoying but I wrote about shoplifting moral panics and the urgency with which people rush to defend a system that literally wants us all dead <3333

Hiiii I wrote about Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth, adolescence, sexual trauma, and my childhood for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy <33

How Vigdis Hjorth’s Repetition reveals the hidden disenfranchisement of children: “It’s impressive, terrifying really, the kinds of things we can make ourselves believe.”

Moral panic about people with zero societal power shoplifting at Whole Foods while billionaires and corporations raze human civilization into the ground and amid U.S. funded genocide... I can't wrap my head around it

The really uncomfortable truth is that David Scott couldn't do the job long before he died. He could barely talk, verbally berated a photographer who took a photo of him in a wheelchair. He didn't vote in 2024 and had the gall to run for re-election last month. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Marked up ad in a Brooklyn subway station

Sixers fans today

“Portrayals of sex work in mainstream media such as Euphoria rely on reductive and harmful stereotypes, which often shape public perception of sex workers in ways that justify harmful policy."

This is so sad. “Nights are the hardest. “I can’t sleep because of our own situation,” Ms. Uccello, 49, said over coffee on a recent afternoon. “I can’t sleep because of what I know what’s happening around the world. I can’t sleep because my former colleagues and friends are also suffering.”

Kind of late but I wrote about Eric Swalwell and how despite narratives that MeToo/allegations sweepingly “ruin men’s lives,” many vaguely famous men actually gain a new fan base/receive vocal support for the first time in their careers—solely *from* facing allegations:

this is why all those senators like murphy and warren endorsed platner. it's a proxy fight for leader.

I wrote about how the playbook of astroturfed, online smear campaigns against celebrity women is inspiring attacks on birth control:

just woke up from a nightmare where deni avdija scored 41 and pushed Devin Booker out of playoff contention.. thank god it was all just a horrible dream

btw does anyone in the brooklyn area have a warehouse i can borrow on friday may 15

The NBR playoff mega-preview is out now, starring @seankuhn.bsky.social @highkin.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social @ichotiner.bsky.social @eamonwhalen.bsky.social @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social @islemcelroy.bsky.social @maitreyiaa.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

among our predictions for trends re: attacks on repro rights in 2026: right-wingers pushing for more teen pregnancy open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Many Swalwell defenders who claim to be anti-Trump are actually invoking "the very excuses that Trump uses to avoid accountability, feeding into the same anti-victim biases that have aided Trump in his rise to power"—such an essential explainer by @kattenbarge.bsky.social:

This is why these forms of sexual harassment and abuse at scale work to reinforce men’s dominance. If the woman’s “best” option is to quit, then this pattern of behavior can and IS used to keep women out of certain industries and positions of power and spheres of influence.

I trust journalists way more than cops and courts to investigate sexual violence allegations. When a thoroughly reported journalistic investigation comes out, like the ones about Eric Swalwell, I’ve seen enough. If you haven’t done this work you may be unaware of how much goes into it.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

Unfortunately, when you argue with people about sexual violence enough, you realize there are way too many people who believe that the reason it happens so much is because victims aren’t good enough at stopping it.

I wrote abt the bad faith smear campaign to equate support for Palestine with rape apologia—a strategy that's actually emboldened Israelis to escalate sexual violence against Palestinians (pulling from my forthcoming book on connections btwn state violence & DARVO): substack.com/home/post/p-...

haven't done my taxes yet... at this rate the best i can hope for is that i get killed before wednesday #optimist

Did you know the laws being used to punish people for pregnancy loss and abortion today have roots in the 1600s? “The instruments to punish women with shame and humiliation may have changed, but the instinct to punish has not,” writes @pregnancyjust.bsky.social’s Kulsoom Ijaz in an op-ed:

🚨 EXCLU w/ @carolleonnig.bsky.social: The DOJ is prepping to release a report that seeks to justify Trump’s pardons of two dozen anti-abortion protesters by arguing they were targeted by Biden's DOJ for their religious beliefs It’s the latest example of the DOJ acting in Trump's interest ⤵️

ICYMI a SCOOP from @carolleonnig.bsky.social + me for @ms.now: The DOJ plans to release a report seeing to justify Trump’s pardons of 2 dozen anti-abortion protesters convicted of blockading abortion clinics & threatening patients/staff We reviewed it exclusively — & found several oversights⤵️

what Janet Mills' campaign team is doing for her is genuinely just sad to watch

I've warned for years that Republicans planned to reroute federal family planning dollars to crisis pregnancy centers—groups that won't even talk about birth control. I re-upped that prediction just last week. A day later, this Politico piece dropped. jessica.substack.com/p/the-white-...

nothing funny about climate apocalypse but for some reason the concept of telling an AI program "make no mistakes" cracks me the FUCK up like ajsdlghlasjhdg

happy easter

Two guys talking about fertility rates on a podcast together? Oh yeah of course. Oh and they determined the problem is that women have too much access to education and professional opportunities? Wow who could have seen that coming

I wrote about how Lindy West discourse turned into a war over “millennial feminism” versus “Gen Z feminism,” which all started from a bad faith, anti-feminist place. Also, I sent a typo in the email subject so I’ll be cowering in shame for the rest of the evening spitfirenews.com/p/in-defense...

I know people have strong feelings about him and everything, but I'm not actually sure what everyone's problem with Jake Tapper's Biden book was. I read it. I thought it provided some decent insight into everything that happened during the summer of 2024 re: Biden dropping out.

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

hi i wrote about Hasan Derangement Syndrome & the centrists who think being rude is worse than genocide. By comparing Hasan to Nick Fuentes, they want you to believe being mean to them or to Israel is the same thing as being a Nazi. They're normalizing actual bigots as a result: