When you decide to turn rage bait into television programming…

Anthony Scaramucci just called Trey Parker (age 56) “that kid” “who created South Park.” (On the @thedailybeast.bsky.social podcast) Congrats Trey. You are now an honorary woman (A Guardian reporter the other day just referred to Mikie Sherrill (53) and Abigail Spanberger (46) as “young”)

I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.

I feel like he should have a go at one of those period pain simulator thingies.

Wired is doing amazing work these days, and Katie Drummond has been a phenomenal leader. Please don’t cancel your subs there. And if you weren’t subscribing, please consider to do so.

The NYT showed us this morning that even the most respected institutions think it’s OK to perpetuate the subjugation of one demographic group only: women Imagine if this headline had been written about any other group. Heads would’ve rolled. www.linkedin.com/posts/ebboyd...

Would it Be Better if Women Were Chattel Again? I’m quietly confident about my pitch to the NYT op-ed page

Mexico's president filed police charges against a man who groped her, while she was speaking to supporters on a street in the capital. "If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?" Damn straight www.bbc.com/news/article...

I just heard a mainstream news reporter refer to Abigail Spanberger (46) and Mikie Sherril (53) as “quite young.” Ffs This is the kind of oblivious sexism that has a direct impact on how the media reports on women politicians. @theguardian.com: Train your reporters better

Everything we know abt "Frankenstein" is wrong. Say what? No movie has told the real story from the 1818 novel. They've all just been forms of fan fiction, repurposing the orig into monster movies, vs the gorgeous story it actually was. I explain why: www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...

Man asks Claude to check his article about the demolition of the East Wing. Claude insists this is fictional, bc if such an event had happened, it would be major international news, and as of yet, Claude is not aware of it 😮

Woo! Sonia Raman becomes the first woman of Indian American origin to become head coach of a WNBA team (the Seattle Storm)! (She comes to the Storm from the NY Liberty, where she was the first Indian American woman to become an assistant coach) frontofficesports.com/storm-sonia-...

In all the (justified) uproar about the East Wing demolition @lizaboyd.bsky.social noted that the East Wing was the home of the Office of the First Lady and that by tearing it down, it's another of the administration's efforts to reduce the visibility of women across the board.

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

The UK will ban NDAs that prevent employees from speaking out about abuse & harassment #hugeprogress www.reuters.com/business/wor...

First hospital closure after the MAGA murder bill passes? Who's building the 🚑 HOSPITAL CLOSURES TRACKER 🚑?

It is 2025(I think) and new restaurants still aren’t putting purse hooks under thr bar.

Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

It’s insane that Dems are repeating the name he gave it & calling it the “Big Beautiful Bill.” They’re playing into his hands by making it sound nice They need to rebrand it, to make it clear what it actually is: “The Big Beautiful ‘Steal Everything from You’ Bill” Any other suggestions?

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Highly recommend RIP Brian Wilson

This feels like AI’s “Theranos”, so question: Will the founders be prosecuted for securities fraud? Or is that just reserved for female founders?

once again I must tap my own sign

Sign of the times

Not letting me steal jewelry from Tiffany's is really going to kill my Etsy fine wearables business, and I think we need to take that into account

When male lawmakers pass these bathroom laws, they’re thinking of what they would do if they had access to the women’s bathroom, not what trans women do in the women’s bathroom…

The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).

Journos need to come up w a different word than "deport." "Deport" means to remove a non-citizen from a country. What's a word that more clearly defines what's happening? "Trump admin expels 2 citizens from the U.S." Does that work?

The most alarming thing abt this clip is that he thinks 11 yo girls play w dolls.

In case you missed it... WIRED talked to *actual* federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

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If you want to understand the backstory & psychology of the man who's behind a lot of what Trump's doing, I highly recommend this Bloomberg profile of Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, who's now head of the Office of Management & Budget Gift article: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A total branding fail is when: Isaac Mizrahi is talking about the women’s space flight on the Daily Beast podcast and he says he doesn’t know who sponsored it And Joanna Cole’s says: “Blue Origin” And Isaac says, “I don’t know who that is”

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If you've never known what it feels like to have an erratic, abusive parent Well, now you do Don't sink into the relief The next bout is right around the corner

I want an AI tool so that when the New Yorker releases a 2,500-word story titled "Why is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?" I can just drop that story into AI, and it will give me the answer in a sentence or two.

I guess his supporters really did get tired of all that winning

The approaches of: Cory Booker vs. Gavin Newsom Discuss

“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker

When people gain power, and then do illegal things while in office A light bulb goes off: They realize that, to stay out of jail, they're going to need to stay in office Which gives them incentive to make sure elections turn out the way they want Just something to think about

As a gender historian, I note that Trump's current treatment of Canada is textbook sexual harassment: "How could you not want to be my 51st state?" "I want you so I should have you." "Let me invade your personal space." Meanwhile, Canada keeps emphatically mentioning her girlfriend in Canada.

Wow: Are men in red states aware of this? A GA woman in this WSJ piece says she's not dating bc her state has a 6-week abortion ban & she doesn't have time to go to Virginia if she got preg. Get it? Red state women aren't dating bc they don't have time to deal w preg! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Such an important point For folks in the private sector, this is like having a warehouse manager suddenly appointed CEO of a 2.5 million person company No matter how good, you wouldn't trust the warehouse manager to understand the complexity of the co & be able to make good decisions in real time

Rule of thumb: When a company accuses a former employee of "being disgruntled," "wanting attention," "doing it for the money" *without* refuting the truthfulness of their claims It might be bc ad hominem is the only tool they have at their disposal

Hotel prices (in the US) appear to be plummeting. Can't imagine why. (I just re-checked some bookings I'd looked at a month ago. All prices meaningfully down.)

This is what the GOP's SAVE Act would do at the federal level. Adding layers of complexity to voter ID requirements that would strategically disenfranchise women and others who've changed their names.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

I haven't really been worried about things like suspending voting, but if they can decrease the turnout of women by 5-10%, Republicans will have a huge advantage. That's what I think the GOP is banking on.

There's a lot of work to do. We're hiring another Legal Fellow to start ASAP. Please send the best people our way. @knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...