🔥 NEW EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jared Huffman spoke with me about Trump’s Rededicate 250 — a 12-hour Christian nationalist event set to take place at the National Mall on May 17. Part of Trump's Freedom 250, the event is "rededicating our country as One Nation under God." www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

since everyone's sharing/dunking on the latest Helen Lewis Atlantic piece, I am contractually obligated to re-up the time Helen Lewis debated AI hallucinations of my work (I contacted @theatlantic.com about it but they never provided a correction): juliaserano.medium.com/why-do-helen...

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

TSA: working, not getting paid and expected to keep showing up ICE: notably overfunded, to the tune of ~$200k agent salaries. assignment is to stand around, menace, or kidnap. We've recreated the plantation at the airport. How very America. Happy 250!

Another thing about Trump putting ICE in airports is that he knows how unpopular he actually is. He knows the midterms will be ugly. That’s why this is all predicated on the SAVE Act—he’s planning to cheat to win, to rig the midterms as much as possible, because he knows he has to use force now.

I don't even say this purely as a criticism. A creature like Trump is *unusual* in politics. Unusual period! Look at how flummoxed people are by toxic narcissists in private life -- no reason it would be different in politics. It's just genuinely *difficult to believe* that he is what he is.

It is so insidious that AI chatbots like Grok will spit out something along the lines of “here’s a neutral summary of what happened,” even as we know that chatbots—and Grok specifically—are programmed to adhere to specific ideological biases

I can confirm that people who are already exhausted and scared of going through TSA and flying right now, people who have just been told to wait in a line for 4+ hours, are absolutely furious to see ICE agents—a stark reminder of who exactly is to blame for this situation

Given that they're not getting top talent in the bargain, I think the Ellisons are just standing up for the principle that shitty men shouldn't suffer these consequences of their actions.

I would argue that this was the endgame of SEO all along. Google has been telling every content creator on the internet to modify their work if they want to appear on Google, or else. Now they’re simply saying they’ll do it without consent anyway.

all my thoughts on adults braces/lindy west are up www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

personally I'd prefer an economic system where advertising complicity in and utility for sexual harassment didn't generate an increase in perceived value

"The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and X AI," the Paris prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde...on Friday." www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

I can imagine few things more humiliating than having your father, the richest man in the world, writing posts about how “based” your cheeseburger and milk diet is

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

I’ve been finishing Virginia Giuffre’s memoir little by little. Between that and the endless parade of stories about sexual violence and abuse on social media and in the news, where women seem to be the main people who get punished, I’m psychologically exhausted and could sleep for a year

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him) You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser

Last night, a group of 50+ New Yorkers gathered to talk about how to hold "Big AI" accountable. What they may not have known is that the organization behind the event, Humans First, has deep ties to MAGA, Steve Bannon, and even Jan. 6. My latest for @spitfirenews.com spitfirenews.com/p/humans-fir...

This platform has definitely been better around issues of power and gender and violence than others, but it’s been depressing to see how much anti-victim bias still flourishes here. There’s no truly safe or pro-survivor social media platform, which is exactly how it is offline, too.

Pretty much everyone is aware and has personal experience with men in positions of power being predatory, abusive, and violent—and getting away with it. What is rarer and invokes rage and backlash is when someone tries to hold those men to account. That is what people have a problem with.

So @bencollins.bsky.social inspired me. In the middle of @katmabu.bsky.social‘s campaign, I had a major life crisis where I was living in an unsafe position and very, very scared. Law enforcement was involved. It was awful. Kat is the busiest person I know. I am her boyfriend’s business partner.

I can’t make anyone be not mad that victims don’t come forward on perfect little timescales. All I can say is that the very imperfection in the timescale is what makes me believe them, and wish that they find power and strength.

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Elon Musk is acting like “talking about your feelings” is weak and unnecessary while he simultaneously uses his account with 230 million followers on the platform he owns to post about his feelings like a 14 year old emo kid on MySpace in 2009

Oftentimes the people urging survivors to come forward on their timeline are the same ones who won’t believe the survivor when they do come forward. Sometimes they do both in the same comment. Undermining a survivor like this is enabling abuse.

This piece from Megan is so powerful. Detailing her story like this is a public service, one she recognizes may negatively impact her life and yet chose to do anyways.

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

Hi, I just want to say a word in support of @meganwachspress.bsky.social. I heard from her this morning before she went public. I had not had a chance to respond yet because my father in law is in the hospital.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Survivors rarely, if ever, get justice. Per RAINN, 98% of perpetrators don’t get prison time. Trump’s been accused by 28 women of sexual misconduct and was found liable for SA and defaming the survivor, E. Jean Carroll. It’s his second term. MeToo didn’t “go too far” — it didn’t go far enough.

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most of them are awful people in other respects as well! why would you not cast that net to get a big catch of awful you can then get rid of? hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...

I think I will probably be explaining that MeToo didn't go "too far" for the rest of my life, but it's absolutely bonkers to see people worried about men getting unfairly cancelled in the age of Epstein/Trump

You are absolutely allowed to dislike a movie simply because it stars a well-known abuser. You are absolutely allowed to oppose giving well-known abusers awards, prestigious roles, and praise. That is not an unreasonable standard to have—it is a very reasonable one

I gotta say, I think turning everything into gambling is already ushering in more corruption and violence in ways that were entirely predictable but will make *everything* worse

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

I know it’s apparently only salient to most American media outlets to talk about oil, but for the few remaining people left with a soul, thousands of people live on this tiny island in only 8 sq miles. This reads like a serial killer prison interview.

First woman in HISTORY to win an Oscar for cinematography. #Oscars That is bonkers, but... Remarkable achievement. Kudos.

Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

A tie at the Oscars… exciting things can still happen

'Novak has joined (a) club no one wants to be in, those who have been smeared online as retaliation for reporting sexual harassment...Tech giants...have (are) instrumental tools for patriarchal institutions to maintain a status quo' New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social spitfirenews.com/p/rebecca-br...

NEW - Rep. Rashida Tlaib is endorsing Kat Abughazaleh in #IL09, two days from Election Day

Incredible feeling: reading a friend’s book in public and having someone ask me if it’s good and if they should get it. YES PLEASE BUY EIGHT COPIES!

When Republicans talk about and implement total partisan media takeover, their plans for “internet safety” also factor in. They want to concentrate online power into platforms they can control, but they’re disguising it as bipartisan efforts to keep kids safe online.

Never give up