Behind every abortion is a village who made it possible: from providers and policymakers to the clinic escort who walks you to your car and the donor who keeps the lights on. Most of that work goes unseen. That's why we're highlighting a different activist every week in our new series, The Helpers.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Today, the right-wing Supreme Court supermajority finished what it started over a decade ago – in Justice Kagan’s words, “a judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u... This is nuts. If the EEOC really wanted to find out about anti-Semitism on campus, it could put out a notice inviting people with complaints to call a 1 800 number. What it wants is to identify Jews who DON'T want to cooperate with the administration.

Meet Frankie. Her ears are lab, her haunches are pit, and her tongue is pastrami.

I'm in Paris where the restrooms seem to be predominantly all-gender and everyone appears to be surviving it.

J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.

The FDA is going after the company TomboyX, which makes underwear, swim suits, etc. for trans, nonbinary, etc. folks claiming that compression bras are medical devices. Laughing and crying.

Thank you so much to the @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social for posting my book! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ahme... 🙏🏽

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

I have friends everywhere.

So that was a lie. Fenway health in Boston just eliminated access for trans youth. Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

apnews.com/article/bost... If Kraft is this far behind after spending tons of his own born rich money on ads that offer nothing positive to Bostonians, maybe he should get the hint. Boston likes its mayor and doesn't need another entitled gazillionaire who thinks he knows better. #Boston #WuTrain

In one of the debates in New York mayor's race, Mamdani (and Lander) both praised Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. She has been one of the most passionate voices defending cities and urban life as Trump trashes them. And she's stayed popular in way Brandon Johnson has not. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

When I'm in a Francophone jurisdiction I don't know what restroom to use because I'm not a dude, but also not a "femme."🤨

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

Senate Democrats could have united behind Mangi and called out the GOP smear against him as religious bigotry. Instead, ~3 Dems decided to buy into that smear (and Schumer declined to fight), and now Bove has a 3d Circuit seat. There's an obvious lesson here...

Climate deniers have made summer suck.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

If the Trump administration wants more than another temporary cease-fire, "it needs to stop feeding the Israeli right’s dream of conquest," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues. "It must make clear that neither nation is going anywhere":

"Palestinians face a Hobson’s choice between starvation and the real possibility of being shot down for no intelligible reason." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to massively reduce the size of the Department of Education Amy Howe has the context:

Bostonians! Help Kraft to learn what Cuomo learned the hard way. Mayorship cannot be bought. @wutrain.bsky.social Josh Kraft Hopes Billionaires’ Help Can Unseat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu - Bloomberg share.google/60KsMOORBMKl...

Here's @carolejoffe.bsky.social and me in @msmagazine.com talking about what we know three years post-Dobbs.

Bingo

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

If you read the NYT coverage of Skrmetti, you should really read this, too.

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people. Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

Great explanation from @chasestrangio.bsky.social on the legal arguments that remain to challenge anti-transgender policies after Skrmetti. Do not obey in advance!

Thank you David. Please everyone--do not overread Skrmetti, and do not obey in advance!

😂 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

This will go directly into the briefs.

Holy cannoli

Fighting antisemitism by increasing it, because this was never about antisemitism

Professor Rachel Rosenbloom has submitted a co-authored amicus brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a case challenging the legality of President Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship. hrp.law.harvard.edu/amicus-brief...

People who never read books now in charge of books.

The editorial completely omits the fact that the Trump has nuked nearly $400 million in LGBTQ related research and has explicitly banned any and all funding for transgender health. But they ignore all that while they call for "better research" that is now banned and defunded.

Hed could also be: “Trump plans to accept a bribe from a foreign state in violation of the explicit text of the Constitution” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Super excited for this forthcoming book (Sept) by @azizaahmed.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...