I have no idea why the Atlantic chose this godawful headline for this article. It's actually pretty good, and about precisely what Claire is describing. Basically university administration and Trump efforts to suppress campus protest have worked. It's very very bleak.

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

It’s always bothered me how readily people seem to see “Believe Women” as the start of some terrifying, socially disastrous ~slippery slope~ ending with us wreaking havoc on innocent bystanders. Is this threat so compelling, so viscerally realistic, that disbelieving us is the only viable default?

“But this is the Millennial mantra—I am the captain of my ship, the author of my life, the protagonist of reality.” idk about protagonist of reality but other than that… yes? if i am not the captain of my ship and the author of my life, then who is? why would i give those roles to someone else?

Abigail Shrier is one of the most dangerous hacks of our time. What a truly abhorrent grifter.

Feminists have rightly pointed out that women are not believed by doctors when they say something is a problem for decades and yet these "feminists" who are reactionary anti-trans campaigners want to pretend like they're the real champions of women.

Helen Lewis, I think, still considers herself a feminist. It's a very bad idea for feminists to claim that what can't be seen doesn't count. Trauma from abuse or sexual assault can't be measured in a lab. Feminism has been built on the idea that taking women's experiences seriously is important.

I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...

Meritocracy is back baby

are there any more things like this

The recipes from Victoria Principal’s diet book, “The Diet Principal,” are frankly upsetting

Exactly why moving to the center doesn’t work. If people want right-wing shit they’ll vote for right wing parties, not Right Lite

I’m at ICE HQ

The halls of power have become far more socially conservative that the rest of the country, on a wide variety of issues. But I don't think people see the extent as clearly as they could. The anti-trans push of the Biden years was never aimed at the public. It was for the pundits.

This is the video and it's fine? www.tiktok.com/@nyc_dsa/vid...

ok they're 12

this is really fascinating. reactionary politics i suppose are at their core suspicious and frightened. people who are different from you are simply not to be trusted.

I don’t get the point of mentioning Tara Reade here? Her story didn’t hold up, nobody talks about her anymore and…Joe Biden became the president of the United States?? The best these articles ever manage is “Some people were wrong about something temporarily.”

Would that people understood the nuance behind the phrase. Granted, there was a whole misinformation machine mischaracterizing the movement on one side, but a parallel reactionary culture developed around it, often failing to catch when exploiters used it to shield themselves from accountability

Got tagged in some discourse on the hellsite and let me tell you: 2010s Jezebel, when Lindy worked there, was the preeminent place for beating the shit out of Republicans passing abortion restrictions and for warning that Roe was at risk. They did it alongside everything else

To claim that LINDY WEST of all people was a banner-carrier for "girl boss" feminism is just laughable.

Ah yes, Abigail Shrier

Literally the entire field of psychiatry rests on believing patients

By the same logic, everyone is lying on their eye tests because glasses are trendy.

ICE agents are standing around in airports doing god knows what because some lady called into a show and suggested it. Hell of a way to run a country.

Sharing is for suckers. Empathy is for losers. The only correct worldview is contrarianism.

What is this even supposed to mean www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

AHDH isn’t really “self-diagnosis” either! A doctor typically compares your necessarily self-described symptoms to a set of known factors and makes a determination. This is just spinning “I find millennial women annoying” into a National Crisis

"Just look at Tara Reade" fucking Christ

Reactionaries without any real sense of medicine or diagnosis make pronouncements about what is and isn't "scientific" or "proven" or "empirical" It's the core of anti-vax, anti-trans, and I guess now anti-psych. Recreating religious restrictions from allegedly secular first principles

turns out attacking self-id in trans people has trickle down effects that cis transphobes use to attack us, abuse victims, and people with mental health conditions

There are too many people trying to make a living by finding things to say on the internet

lmao come on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

People would be better informed if, instead of reading this piece, they just Google image searched "paris before after hidalgo"

In the comments Helen is blaming Lindy West for the decision to overturn Roe vs Wade

Over 40k people die a year due to cars in the US and that isn't even factoring in environmental damages. Instead of acknowledging the harm that cars cause to the populace cyclists continue to get demonized by people who can't even conceive of an infrastructure not centered around cars.

This article is darkly fascinating as an example of how transphobia infects your entire ideology. The core argument is that we should not believe people when they say they are trans, were sexully abused or have a mental disorder.

NEW ORLEANS: "[ICE agents] literally just walking around in groups of three and four, seemingly without any true purpose...They’re wearing tan vests that say either 'ICE' or 'federal agent.' They are carrying sidearms. But they’re just casually walking around carrying bottles of water and Gatorade."

the secret police have seized control of air travel while the mad king fiddles

so you're saying bullets are safe, michael? you're saying it would be ok if somebody shot me with a bullet? you're really saying that?

I mean I think the through line of this guy’s politics and worldview is that he’s deeply ashamed of being an academic nerd rather than a manly man and projects that onto everyone around him.

It's fun to realize that this exact conversation is happening in multiple national capitals and intelligence ministries right now too.

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

The new goal of the war is to undo the fuckup we caused by starting the war, American century of humiliation in full effect

Gonna use this one a lot

lmao