This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice. #KavanaughStop

I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

All eyes on Missouri where Republicans are taking every opportunity to ignore voters

The great @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and I took a look at the many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement today... including the claims that menopause causes divorce + death, & that the FDA is leading the charge against the "male-dominated medical profession" 🫠 For @motherjones.com:

Feels good to be proud of my alma mater

Even as the Social Security Administration falsely claims that phone wait times are down to single-digit minutes, callers are recording dance routines to the hold music as they wait over two hours . . . equal parts adorable and horrifying! parade.com/news/80s-sta...

Bad employee-speech decision out of the 8th Circuit, holding that Home Depot could fire an employee who wrote BLM on their apron in the context of a workplace dispute about discrimination. (This is reversing a Biden-era NLRB decision) law.justia.com/cases/federa...

“If you tilt some of the most commonly cited data points this way or that, you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all.”

Reminder of how expensive a shutdown is for taxpayers nationalpartnership.org/six-things-w...

With community in NC raising money for the local food pantry to combat hunger from Trump’s shutdown

They actually use Me Too as an example of how women are ruining workplaces

It is extremely hard and brave to be a woman who wants to take away other people’s rights, including women’s, and for that I am feminist

Nobody wants to work anymore

Thinking of James Watson on Rosalind Franklin, whose work he stole, after yesterday’s NYT “debate” on women not belonging in the workplace "[c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. … The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab."

Must-read for NGO folks. “The current moment requires extraordinary vigilance from American civil society. The FTO system represents one of the most powerful tools in the federal government’s legal arsenal, deliberately designed to dismantle targeted organizations quickly and comprehensively.”

If Lindsay Lohan couldn’t get the country to convert, I doubt the mayor of NYC will 🤣

lol when they say DEI benefits White women particularly, they're not lying. Like at all. TLDR: A 2024 study reports that in tech, white women are seen as having more "diversity value" because Black representation is costly for the PERCEPTION of organizations. #blacksky #tech

It’s the same in DC. They make arrests so quickly before word can spread and crowds can gather so I really do not think almost anyone here realizes the scale. But at least 14 people that I know of were taken from my part of town yesterday alone.

It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...

A weird shutdown dynamic: Hard Econ data has been pretty meh this year, but soft data has been awful We used to joke it was all vibes, but it’s literally all vibes now, and the vibes are bad

Trans hatred is an exciting message for (a) die-hard GOP voters and (b) a handful of wealthy pundits & consultants who wrongly call themselves "liberal." But it doesn't move normies and never will. In 2022, GOP went all-in anti-trans in MI & PA and similarly got clocked by Whitmer & Shapiro.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

He’s made immigrant parent expectations even more impossible to meet 🤣

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

One of us has been rejected multiple times by the NYT Opinion pages

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

My dad grew up in the Bronx in the 1930s-1950s and told me about how my grandparents subscribed to two magazines, a socialist Jewish magazine and a communist Jewish magazine. Thinking about my dad and grandparents today and how fortunate I am to see their wildest dreams for their city coming true.

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Across the country, voters chose inclusion, empathy, and competence over cruelty and division.

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

What do the election results mean for the people of VA? The leg can finally pass & have signed into law (instead of vetoed 2x) paid family & medical leave. They can also move constitutional amendments to: 🔹protect abortion 🔹protect marriage equality 🔹restore voting rights to returned citizens LFG!

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Democrats are on track to win 64 of Virginia's 100 House seats. That'd be THIRTEEN flips; the chamber is 51/49 right now.

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

As a Muslim woman, I never thought I’d see this happen 😭

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

LFG! paid leave for all Virginians! #PaidLeave4All

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Reupping this from @attackerman.bsky.social today for no reason www.thedailybeast.com/donald-rumsf...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

You could even argue it’s their embrace of white supremacists like Nick Fuentes that made them the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement

I keep thinking that the Trump administration's ultimate goal is a network of paramilitaries.