“His death, for thousands—if not millions—of (young) people (on the left), wasn't a senseless tragedy that demanded unity. It was a predictable, if horrific, consequence of a system he spent his career building.” open.substack.com/pub/historyc...

“To say that I am angry with the liberal response to Kirk’s murder would be an understatement. Exemplified by Ezra Klein’s NYT op-ed, and prominent in my Facebook feed, the thought is that Charlie Kirk deeply disagreed with them, but was nonetheless a hero.” open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

“Even when it comes to ‘excess’ money, women and men differ in their approaches. When investing, women are more likely to align their choices with their values, prioritising sustainability and social good.” open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

“I mean, I guess we should be thankful Dick Cash decided to take out the death penalty for abortion seekers. In February, I wrote about how he literally proposed sending women to the firing squad for having an abortion.” open.substack.com/pub/emilytay...

“There are truly no bounds to the desperation of the planet’s most fortunate people. So hungry are they to experience one actual minor inconvenience so they can crow about being victimized that they’re forced to pull fake problems out of the ether.” open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/he...

“As Genovese and Trump demonstrate, the excuses and explanations and deflections that shielded white men from accountability during slavery are still in many ways in place. The vicious mechanics of rape culture under slavery remain hidden.” open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

“There are clear, evidence-based solutions to gun violence that have been proven to work, and relatively quickly. But those evidence-based arguments are overshadowed and stalled by non-evidence based arguments that are designed to keep us going in circles.” open.substack.com/pub/matriarc...

“I, a woman, struggled to invent the wheel of women reinventing the wheel only to learn that this wheel had in fact already been invented by women.” open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

“Every right throughout American history that was by default afforded to men, women had to fight for. The blueprint is the same as during America’s founding: strip women of autonomy, erase them from public life, and reduce them to property.” www.qasimrashid.com/p/maga-attac...

“That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s definitely not. In the U.S. it’s becoming more and more accepted to openly hate and openly hurt women.” open.substack.com/pub/designmo...

“If your job is to dig holes, and then you convert to an anti-hole religion, you don’t get to insist on being paid for not digging holes and then compare yourself to Jesus Christ himself.” open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/du...

“There are so many things I wish were obvious. I’d hope men everywhere would know they can’t assault girls just because they want to - that it isn’t okay, and a girl’s life is worth just as much as a boy’s.” open.substack.com/pub/allyhami...

The piecemeal stories--"here is this one bad man we need to do something about" – don't address the reality that the problem is systemic and the solution isn't police and prison. It's social change.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/epstein-is-o...

“I wish it weren’t possible for anyone grown and living in the US to maintain such a degree of naivety about what this country is willing to do to any person, at any time, anywhere on the planet, if it serves the twin Gods of enrichment and domination.” meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/my-fellow-...

“Just to be clear: The director of national intelligence for the United States of America is making allegations against a former U.S. presidential candidate based on material from Russia’s intelligence services.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Destroying the contraceptives, which will cost taxpayers $167,000, is part of DOGE’s plan to slash government “waste,” which includes slashing 83% of the Agency for International Development, or USAID.” www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...

“The story is also about a group of elite people who think they are better than the rest of us and have the right to dominate anyone that is not part of their group, particularly people of color, Black Americans, and women, no matter what the law says.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Patriarchy harms women. It also destroys art by women, which is effectively half the potential art that can be made on earth.” open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

“The police don’t actually keep anyone safe; they are not intended to keep anyone safe. So instead of giving them more money to make people less safe, we should fund institutions that actually make people’s lives better.” open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

“Men are not okay. No one is in America. But men are making it everyone’s problem. A recent study by Equimundo: Centers for Masculinities and Social Justice reported that 69 percent of young men agree that “no one cares if men are okay.”” open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/i-...

“Maybe it is time to stop telling boys that they get to cry, if they have the social permission already. Maybe it is time to start reminding them to be attentive to the tears of others, and, most importantly, not to cause them.” open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

“When you're not doing anything you can set impossible goals and then lounge about figuring out how those doing the work fall short.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...

“Rhetorical support for Israel, even unto brutal war crimes, has become a major way in which Democratic candidates signal that the party is moderate, reasonable, and willing to hate some of the same people (Palestinians, Muslims) who are also hated by the right.” open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

“The last six months of his term have been nothing short of a psy-op on the average thinking, feeling person. Be you unfortunate enough to have a shred of integrity, a half-baked sense of justice, and a working conscience, your mind is mush from all the horrors.” open.substack.com/pub/skyfishi...

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher

“As James Baldwin so perfectly put it, “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”” open.substack.com/pub/clementi...

“These work requirements failed to boost employment rates within the first year. Meanwhile, the authors found that thousands of Arkansans who did work or who qualified for exemptions — because, for example, they were disabled or elderly — were kicked off the program.” www.npr.org/sections/pla...

“The meteoric rise in CEO compensation has been aided and abetted by deregulation, financialisation, weakened labour protections, etc, which allowed large corporations and executives to get richer and richer at the direct expense of working people.” open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

“This is the Prime Minister of Israel—ultimately responsible for the devastation in Gaza, which has resulted in more deaths of women and children than any other conflict over the past two decades. He’s trying to free the women, even if he has to kill them first.” open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/wo...

What a fucking buffoon. “Trump’s victory lap seems designed to be the finale to a triumphant storyline that can convince his loyalists he has scored an enormous victory before reality sets in.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Every moment we throw away trying to be pretty is a moment we could have spent doing something that brings us joy, connection, money, purpose, or opportunities.” open.substack.com/pub/zawn/p/p...

“When I gave up desserts, my alcohol consumption went up. So did my social media usage. Actually my screen time really went up. I don’t even want to tell you by how much. And it did not feel good.” open.substack.com/pub/leathera...

“Trump had warned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu against striking Iran but changed his mind after seeing how Israel’s military action was “playing” on television.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Patriotism: Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first. Ambrose Bierce

“What we are witnessing now are more men’s wars, from which women and children suffer most.” open.substack.com/pub/amandamo...

“While most Americans were glued to split-screens of smoke plumes in Iran and Pentagon pressers, Wall Street’s war-betting class was already cashing in. Last night, defense stocks — RTX, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics — soared after the attack on Iran.” open.substack.com/pub/carlynbe...

“As women have been saying for quite some time now- equality is how you prevent war. As Virginia Woolf says, you cannot simply oppose war while leaving intact the structures that produce war.” open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

“It’s a familiar refrain by now: women’s trauma may be witnessed — their account might even be believed! — but no transformation comes. The wheels of patriarchal violence keep on turning.” www.thedriftmag.com/anti-anti-ra...

“As climate-related costs continue to rise, the Trump administration is attempting to mandate that state and local governments take on more of that burden. That’s the idea behind the White House’s plan to shut down FEMA after this hurricane season.” newrepublic.com/article/1969...

“This style is part of a broader conjuncture in right-wing aesthetics. Susan Sontag once wrote that “fascist art glorifies surrender, it exalts mindlessness, it glamorizes death.”” www.thedriftmag.com/agit-slop/

“When you’re told, repeatedly, that you’re hardwired to be better or worse at something simply because of your gender, it can shape your sense of self and what you believe you’re capable of.” open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

“Their brains are broken because of their religion, and thankfully, the secular courts were willing to do with these Christian parents would not: protect their kids.” open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

“Do we care how our heroes treat women? Do we even KNOW how they treat women? Why don’t we know? Should we care? Does the way they treated women detract from their impact on the world?” open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

“Not only is this a horrifying instance of reproductive coercion, the specific charge is also an escalation for fetal personhood, or the dangerous legal theory that embryos and fetuses have constitutional rights. www.jezebel.com/man-allegedl...

“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Our power lies, just as it always has, in sticking together. It takes collective action, shared responsibility, and everyday people showing up for one another, again and again.” open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

“She is a conservative zealot who sees everything as Christian persecution and who can’t conceive of a country where other religions are treated with the same respect as her own. That’s who will lead the group meant to protect religious freedom around the world.” open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

“As Andrew M. Lindner, a sociologist who studies football participation, put it to the Post, “There seems to be a very disturbing possibility that who your dad voted for could influence your risk for very serious [football-related] ailment or injury.”” open.substack.com/pub/annehele...

“”Oh, Mister Miller, sir! I put on 40 pounds of tactical gear and tackled a 55-year-old partially disabled day laborer! I prevented him from doing some drywall work and feeding his family, for you, sir! I yearn for your approval!”” open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

“When Schiff and Bass rush to a microphone to warn protestors to be nonviolent, they are displacing and effectively lying about the actual instigators of the violence. They are also validating the fascist narrative about who is responsible for violence.” open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...