Women’s health care in America isn’t broken by accident. It was built inside systems that normalize women’s pain and politicize women’s bodies. Fixing it, in part, means centering women’s lived experiences. @laurenarankin.bsky.social with a very deep dive for our American Repair series

Paxton only returned the stolen pen after the courthouse security cameras showed he was the one who took it.

Stupid people doing stupidity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Indifference to the truth leads, slowly but surely, to a descent into totalitarianism." trib.al/acIKPAG

In the end, James Talarico and Democrats got the matchup they had been salivating over for months. Within two hours of Ken Paxton's GOP primary win, Talarico had hauled in $600,000 — the strongest two hours of his entire campaign. Recent internal polling shows he has a 7-point lead against Paxton.

The Talarico ads are pre-made The Republican Party has deleted their ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime: "Homicides highest in nearly 30 years under Ken Paxton." Paxton is now the GOP's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

The best way for John Cornyn to go down would have been losing to a Democrat, but his long career as a hardcore conservative in the Senate coming to an end because the Texas Primary Electorate decided they wanted an even nastier, overtly criminal freak does have a certain poetry to it

This is at YALE. This hasn’t happened to me (yet) at my Deep South employer, but it is why I have (free) subscriber-locked platform just in case. Between state senators getting my colleagues fired before they even move, & the whole GG shadow, I… do a lot of calculating risk that surprises folks.

Paxton is a criminal who betrayed his own staff but that’s just fine with many Texas “republicans” and the current POTUS: thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/k...

“Two-thirds of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States happen in the year after giving birth, and more than 80 percent are preventable. A mother and her newborn’s health are inextricably intertwined” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

This isn’t even about AI - this is just straight-up misogyny.

Here's a great image of Alice Paul and the suffrage flag. They added a star with each state that ratified. #HATM #Suffs #PBSGreatPerformances www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhib...

This is astonishingly evil and cruel. It targets the people who have come here lawfully, done everything right, and qualify for a path to citizenship. It means they must leave the families who live here and the jobs that are the very reason they can work here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt people in politics. Texans should be sending him to prison — not the Senate.

Legit good news: for the first time, a Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering what's called "advance provision" of abortion medication—meaning people in Hawaii and Washington state can get mifepristone and misoprostol to keep on hand for future use 💊

Absolutely terrifying-- dems need project 2029 in place to be up and running to make changes to save this country. Women, unite. I love men, but I don't want to be wholly dependent on anyone. Or to be paid less or unable to vote because I am a woman... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

With hindsight, it will be obvious that turning higher education over to the rich donors was a mistake.

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

The call is coming from inside the house. Also, the nuclear weapon analogy makes no sense. The whole idea of shooting fish in the barrel is that you will hit something no matter where you aim with a weapon that normally requires precision. A nuclear weapon would hit everything regardless of density.

* Law prof achievement unlocked *

On this day in 1917, New York prohibited women from waitressing at night. When women protested, the New York Federation of Labor told lawmakers that allowing waitresses to work at night “would throw 5,000 men waiters out of work.” The prohibition stayed in place. #WeTheMen

Trump's corrupt efforts to settle the IRS lawsuit with a slush fund that could pay off J6ers amounts to "using public money to reward the perpetrators of right-wing violence." @michaelmechanic.bsky.social explains deeper legal issues here (cites my reporting): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's Freedom 250 Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event today sponsored by companies including Mastercard and United Airlines. @ffrf.org has called for a boycott: ffrf.org/news/release...

Maternal health expert Cheyenne Scarlett on why racial disparities persist, and the push for better data. for racialized women, the experience of childbirth can be even more challenging, by Ann Hui www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes... via @theglobeandmail.com

College professors are not the elites ruining everything. The elites are the ones trying to stop college professors from telling you who is ruining everything

Convicted pedophile Adam Hoffman, a prominent Republican attorney and former roommate of Texas AG Ken Paxton, got a laughable 60-day sentence as a result of Paxton's intervention to protect him. This is the pedophile party. www.kwtx.com/2026/04/27/d...

He took a sightseeing snorkel to an underwater cemetery. And everyone who let it happen should be fired. They betrayed the solemn responsibility entrusted to them to protect and preserve the dignity of the site and the people in laid to rest there.

Yesterday, the Texas Tech Faculty Senate passed a resolution condemning Chancellor Brandon Creighton and his moves to censor teaching and research at the university. 🧵 of the full resolution. Professors are standing and fighting ✊

NYT on my recent Paul Pressler piece: "Political evangelicalism is a system that is deeply influenced by depraved men, and it has exactly the features that depraved men will demand of an institution they control."

So you’re telling me that buying your own home isn’t just security or an investment but a really effective way of identifying men (before the wedding) who you might otherwise not realize you don’t want to be married to until later?

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Over the past few months, we’ve been bombarded by stories of powerful men in politics committing violence against women. @queenmab.bsky.social wrote about how no matter how much progress we think we’ve made, women keep being sacrificed for men’s accomplishments:

#AfternoonCites Research using a national sample finds growing acceptance of polyamory. Attitudes toward monogamy and legal rights for polyamorous relationships are shaped by cohort, sexual orientation, and personal contact with polyamorous people. #AMS #SOGIData

Indigo Women

The male loneliness epidemic is such a mystery. www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a7...

And yet a non-zero number of Republican men who say they would lose a fight with Trump will go on to murder their wives or girlfriends.

The investigation seems to be based on a fundamental misreading of Title IX by the Department of Education.

It’s my birthday this weekend so I’m off today. But Ian said everything I could have said about this BULLSHIT decision out of Virginia.

Finger on the pulse of the nation.

"I can't afford gas to get to work, but at least there's new black granite in D.C."

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

The recent Supreme Court decision, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, represents the life’s work of John Roberts. The Roberts Court has now gutted the VRA on three different occasions, and Roberts wrote or joined all those opinions.

Seems like this would be a good time to have an FBI Director who isn’t a drunk.

I cannot stop laughing

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.