Mamdani won 65% of the vote of young men between the ages of 18 and 29. (circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...) It's grimly fascinating (and revealing, and unsurprising) how his own party doesn't use him as more of an example of how to reach young male voters.

The Declaration of Independence "is most powerful when the people it was never meant to represent grab hold of its language and toss it back like an undetonated grenade, whether those hands belong to Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam."

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

I saw someone on here yesterday confidently assert that none of the women in the Senate are rapists. And, like... I have no idea why you would think that.

If you do a story on prison/detention commissary, include a comparison of minwage alongside incarcerated wage. If you're paid $1 day, it will take you 21 days of labor to afford 40 tampons. This math matters even more than markups.

Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge.

I am of the *strong* opinion that a history of hateful beliefs and violent actions should be disqualifying from a certain threshold of power for a lifetime. There are a lot of reasons I think that. A big one is perpetrators still seeking power are consistently the ones who refused to change.

When people say "innocent until proven guilty," I hope they know that the vast vast vast majority of rapists and abusers are never "proven guilty." The status quo is that there is no due process for victims. If you require a conviction to believe victims, you're siding with perpetrators.

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

One potentially helpful thread for general interrogation (not directing this just to @anamariecox.com at all) is why this particular performance of white guy truck ad style masculinity is always the go-to, even among folks with progressive gender politics. Why this same type of "fighter" every time?

Forced detransition is unethical medical experimentation on trans people. It plainly violates the 8th amendment but they want to use trans people to roll back the barest protections incarcerated people have. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/gop-...

Washington voters have one of the hardest and most important ballots due to this.

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

As with everything I’m not saying this for any other reason than that I need people to pay more attention & be more serious. He did the exact harm to the party that many of you claimed his critics were doing except by far greater orders of magnitude.

Many cities and counties are quitting Flock’s AI surveillance cameras (including this domino effect in Wisconsin: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-fl...). But the board of Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley, voted to contract with Flock a few days ago. oaklandside.org/2026/07/01/2...

“We should take credible sexual assault allegations seriously” is such a massive backslide from “believe women.”

A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.

"Republican lawmakers created the center last year to push back against what they considered liberal indoctrination on Iowa college campuses." Their solution: make students take courses like this (from Iowa).

Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

there's (rightfully) been a lot of attention paid to la, chicago, minneapolis, and dc, but the the joint federal-local task force in memphis is uniquely horrifying in ways not seen in other cities. this is at least the fourth person shot during the task force's monthslong occupation.

hope this isn't too political but i think men should face consequences for their actions

i don't want infinite music. i want finite music. i want a collection i can comprehend and fall in love with. i want a range of choices, not every record every recorded. i get serious choice paralysis. just let me curate my own collection. i hate the future.

The world is laughing at us and I am too

Just a reminder that ICE has killed more US citizens in the country than Islamic terrorists so far this year, so maybe just think carefully about who actually constitutes a real national security threat.

the last round of allegations against platner were also credible, btw.

This seems like a good time to share my response to an April fundraising text from Graham Platner's campaign. I stand by it 🤷

I love that the Telemundo announcers are saying "Ream" like "rim" because I get a little chuckle every time saying "Tim Rim hehe" aloud to myself

a victim's statement is evidence.

What kills me about this guy is that it was such an easy call right at the outset, and yet here we fucking are

If we want more victims to come forward we have to make it so that coming forward is worth it. For far too many victims, it’s not worth it. For far too many victims, it’s like feeding yourself into a meat grinder.

It's working!

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

Sorry to be ungracious but I am just not going to tolerate any "who could possibly have seen this coming?" revisionism on this

Wow this Graham Platner story is adding so many assholes to my block list. Thank you for so clearly identifying yourselves as rape apologists 🙏

I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

The reason the allegations get worse as the election draws closer isn’t political opportunism. Survivors often hesitate to reopen their traumas—especially to national scrutiny. But realizing how many other victims there are and how much power their perpetrator could hold can make people very brave.

After a knock-down drag-out fight where the Tactile CEO ordered all references to Regina being gay removed from the game after one (1) negative App Store review from Russia, he told me we could only have gay characters if we weren’t “explicit about it”. He clarified “like they did with Dumbledore”

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

Olakitan Banjoko is is currently being held at the Northwest Detention Center. He is one of our many Free Them All campaigns

once again reminding folks that police commit violence against women at a higher rate than the general population.

people *really* don't want to hear this but trans people, especially trans women, have been sounding every single klaxon and alarm for years with hard data and evidence but the reason the anti-trans movement is prevailing is because cis/het left/liberals don't listen to us at all

Hey MAMDANI, what do you think of THIS (Vid of me spraying my hose into my microwave, unclear what grievance I'm responding to)

Three egg producers will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits to settle a price-fixing lawsuit with the DOJ. None of the producers have to admit any wrongdoing. Is this really justice? Or just the cost of doing business?

The second person that ICE "warned" about their protected speech has filed a First Amendment lawsuit. The complaint, linked in this story, does a nice job making ICE look both menacing and incompetent www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

Think of the amazing things we could be doing to help make everyone’s lives materially better if we weren’t spending hundreds of billions of dollars to cage human beings in the US and murder them abroad. www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...

If you are one of the many valuable workers callously laid off for corporate interests today, please consider applying to our hardship fund.

Oh fascinating! SZA says she got a formal autism diagnosis. This is a huge deal because Black and female #ActuallyAutistic people frequently get overlooked or go undiagnosed. Hopefully this leads to less stigma around who can be autistic. www.complex.com/music/a/alex...