“You can call this state “pro-business” all day long, but no serious company is going to move top talent into a place where their employees and their families are put at risk like this.” frogmorestew.substack.com/p/south-caro...

“AIPAC and the NRA are both ugly orgs lobbying for ugly things. But their power has been in the fact that voters like those ugly things and even see those ugly things as an important part of their partisan identity.” www.everythingishorrible.net/p/aipac-does...

Content warning: child sexual abuse, rape, misogyny katemanne.substack.com/p/the-story-...

Nice job, Post and Courier! jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/it-takes-a...

“They also document his funding of Israeli groups, including Friends of the Israeli Defence Forces, and the settler organisation the Jewish National Fund, as well as his ties to members of Israel’s overseas intelligence services.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

“The hard fact is that socialized to view their own standpoints as “neutral” and “rational,” men contemplating what theEpstein case represents are more likely to ignore the ways they benefit from the system that Epstein leveraged so effectively.” sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/22-epstein...

“The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Reclassification will allow these zealots to use the mechanisms of the DEA and other law enforcement agencies to track, monitor, imprison and punish people.” hotfeminism.substack.com/p/south-caro...

“The world wants women to have more kids. Apparently, it’s our fault that birth rates are dropping and we’re in danger of letting men die without passing on their DNA – shock, horror, what will we do about this injustice?” www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/fall...

Late February 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had gotten advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”-11 years after Epstein pled guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“In one message, Chopra asked Epstein, “Did you find me a cute Israeli?”—a line that has drawn widespread condemnation online.” www.timesnownews.com/india/epstei...

“I get that money and power are appealing, but the sheer number of people who seem to have a connection with Jeffrey Epstein tells me that a lot of people have a high tolerance for ignoring the abuse and degradation of women.” open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

“In an email dated June 24, 2015, Attia wrote: “You know the biggest problem with becoming friends with you? The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul…” The subject line of the exchange reads: “Got a fresh shipment.”” www.medboundtimes.com/daily-pulse/...

“That we might start seeing more of these kinds of assaults is merely the logical progression of a society that has encourages everyone - but especially men - to confuse virality with virility.” open.substack.com/pub/clementi...

“While neither major political party is popular with the majority of Americans, Democrats’ unfavourability rating is twice as high as Republicans.” www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...

“Instead of fixating on a grossly misdiagnosed male loneliness crisis, the media might want to ponder the relationship between men’s baseline and growing anti-feminism and women’s desire to spend time with people who think they are equals and treat them as such.” open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

““These lawmakers wanted to throw people in prison and force extreme harms onto people in emergency pregnancy situations rather than let them have abortions,” Nimra Chowdhry, Senior State Legislative Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.” www.jezebel.com/south-caroli...

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

“A woman’s accomplishments go unrecorded and unnoticed, or she is reduced to her relationship to a man and child. Wife, mother, blank. Her contributions are man-washed.” open.substack.com/pub/dinahono...

“I’ve been criticizing liberal democracy my whole life for subtending capitalism, racism, sexism, and the rest of it. The question for the left is: How do we consolidate into a force that can actually do things? That’s what the right has figured out.” www.thedriftmag.com/theyre-using...

“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...