I am begging politicians to stop selling memoirs and start doing ANYTHING ELSE.

What happened to a HUGE Title IX Resolution Agreement that Minneapolis Public Schools entered into last year with the Dept of Ed after all these Trump personnel cuts to the very agency that oversees Title IX cases? I got to dig into that question for @defector.com defector.com/minnesota-so...

this is great (i love bryce harper) AND can you imagine if a woman athlete did this??????????????? she'd be vilified forever.

Thanks to @markarms.bsky.social for the shout out about the fun event @brendanomeara.bsky.social and I did at Elliott Bay Books last week. I wholeheartedly agree that reading books and connecting in real life is an antidote to this awful awful time.

I interviewed the authors of FEMINISM IN THE WILD about animals, feminism, biology, and how some scientists are pushing back against the insistence on everything fitting a sex binary/hierarchy. Read it if you're hungry for complex, nuanced discussion... maggiemertens.substack.com/p/what-femin...

If you're feeling bad about... everything ... might I suggest going to sign up for / check out your library's summer reading program? My kid just got a whole box of sasquatch themed fun and is sitting on the coach reading AND KCLS has an ADULT SUMMER READING BINGO SHEET. kcls.org/book-bingo/

Is Rusty's brain, actually, my brain, too? Is Rusty's brain... all of our brains?

Restricting public information... always a good sign.

Please recall that the WORLD CUP is supposedly happening next year in this country... and the OLYMPICS are coming in 2028.

“Ugh it’s just theatre” yeah that’s like half to two thirds of what politics is, and the Democratic mainstream’s refusal to admit that and feeling that they’re above it has hamstrung them

Thank you so much for coming, @substockman.bsky.social. It was so buoying to be in conversation with these writers I so admire! @manjula.bsky.social, @rahawahaile.bsky.social, @latriagraham.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social

“You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant,” he added. Lander is then led into an elevator with his hands behind his back as an aide can be heard asking, “Where are you taking the Comptroller of the city of New York?” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Boston! If you're interested in women's sports books, dang have I got the event for you this Wednesday @portersqbooks.bsky.social Come see me @doclb2.bsky.social @christineyu.bsky.social and Katie Steele talk about our books. Moderated by the brilliant @thefrankiedlc.news

Anyone going to the #FemaleAthleteConference this week? So looking forward to this panel with @laurenfleshman.bsky.social @doclb2.bsky.social @christineyu.bsky.social @katiesteele.bsky.social & @drlesko.bsky.social We'll be panel-ing and selling books Friday morning.

Just overthinking about women's sports again: maggiemertens.substack.com/p/raising-my...

www.femaleathleteconference.com So looking forward to attending this upcoming conference this week in Boston! @maggiemertens.bsky.social @katiesteele.bsky.social @christineyu.bsky.social See you soon!

Officially beginning my writing about Title IX under the Trump 2.0 administration with this piece for @cascadepbs digging into the federal title IX investigation into Washington state www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/05...

This is @maggiemertens.bsky.social's first story with us and I couldn't be happier to have her sharp sports brain tackling the Trump administration's Title IX investigation into WA schools www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/05...

More of this.

This year’s print edition of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit is on newsstands now, and features not only these 10 badass next gen women athletes, but a real print article by me. So now you can really say you read it for the articles 😜 #siswim25 swimsuit.si.com/swimnews/wom...

This was mega fun. I may have slandered one of my brothers, but also @zanopticon.bsky.social and @sarahenni.bsky.social were super fun to talk to, so, I don't regret it.

A couple weeks ago I wrote about why "woke pope" is nice and all and yes, pls keep standing up to the you know whos of the world, but as a lapsed catholic.... another one isn't going to fix the too little too late problem the church has found itself in: maggiemertens.substack.com/p/pope-franc...

lol say the men who believe in diet pills, ketamine, steroids and ivermectin over vaccines.

Wild how DEI was both keeping planes in the sky, and secure on the ground

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

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I wrote a weird little essay about the Pope dying and my lapsed catholicism and feminism and being a parent in this moment and the weirdness of secular Easter: maggiemertens.substack.com/p/pope-franc...

"Reprogram yourself and see us as humans"

I think we've lost the plot.

Friends don’t let friends buy their books from Amazon’s sale this week. Friends take friends to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day on April 26th instead at their local shops. (Take your enemies, too.)

Seattle writers: Last chance to sign up for the class I'm teaching on how to bring research into your creative writing. We start talking about how to come up with a research plan and seek sources this Wednesday evening! hugohouse.org/product/from...

Part of the grinding daily terribleness is how everything RFK Jr. does is exactly what it was clear RFK Jr. would do if anyone were cynical enough to put him in charge of health, Pam Bondi is doing exactly what anyone knew Trump would require his A.G. to do—brutally obvious and obviously brutal

Heard @naomiaklein.bsky.social speak last night and she touched on this idea, which I can't shake: "To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The important thing here is that some brave people said NO and they WALKED AWAY

A thing I learned today is: the allergist charges $30 out of pocket to fill out a state-mandated form for childcare if your kid has a life-threatening allergy (or I guess any allergy but god) and that the daycare establishment requires this form to be filled out every year or your kid can't go!

Be ready to see this phrase come up more and more. During Tested several folks who I interviewed insisted on this language (and rejected the phrase “assigned female at birth”) and I think we are going to see it pushed a lot.

Got up early to do an interview this AM about my book w/ a journo who ended up asking (haranguing) me about the new proposed World Athletics rules and how women's sports must be protected from "misdiagnosed men" like Caster Semenya at all costs.

The takeaway here is that they'd rather let your kids go hungry than let trans kids be themselves

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Really more and more bummed that Azzi Fudd didn’t declare for the draft…

Lotta UConn but a surprisingly SC-heavy crowd here!

Who you got today? Mom or Dad???

Thanks, I hate it.

Just gotta say the WNBA draft class in 2-3 years is gonna be insaaaaane

Everything is just so dumb.

I don't know what to say anymore.

Looking for writers, editors, and librarians who would like to be interviewed for an article about book bans. You can be anonymous. Has your book been banned or are you concerned it might be? Librarians, do you feel able to fight back against bans at the present moment?

I saw this article and its absolutely devastating and I just... I don't like the framing of it. Like it's somehow an inspirational story that a trans teen who has clearly been transitioned for a while, who is throwing half as far as the boys and on par with the girls, is forced to compete with them.

It's not nothing. But every single Senator should be doing the same if they truly represent the American people.