I am sick and heartbroken hearing about the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic. Gun violence is a policy choice. Everyone, especially our kids, deserves to go to school, to worship, to the grocery or the movies, without fear of senseless & preventable violence.

ICYMI: @kdittmar.bsky.social joined @redwineblueusa.bsky.social‬'s national webinar “Women Are Winning (Really!): The Story the Media is Missing.” The conversation featured insights from Dittmar alongside Ghida Dagher + Dr. Shana Hardin of @newamericanld.bsky.social. Watch: youtu.be/sKoc5UmB_AU?...

Wisconsin is a perennial swing state with close statewide elections where voters split their tickets between Democrats and Republicans.

Remember when scholars of authoritarianism told us he would go after his political opponents, unions, academia, and the media and people were like, “But Tim Walz got the date wrong from when he was in Tiananmen Square?”

In the Critical Perspectives collection’s introduction, “Whither Politics & Gender Research? Reflections on US Election 2024,” CAWP scholars Kira Sanbonmatsu, @kdittmar.bsky.social, and ‪@pshah.bsky.social spotlight four featured essays. Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she feels “cheated” after she won a concession in the tax and spending bill to protect wind and solar projects, only to see the Trump administration issue orders that she said seem designed to quash such projects.

Read @kdittmar.bsky.social's newest @forbes.com article: www.forbes.com/sites/kellyd...

Here's a short piece I wrote for ForbesWomen that gives a bit more context to this week's special primary election in AZ-7. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyd...

Did you know? CAWP scholars Kira Sanbonmatsu, @kdittmar.bsky.social, and @pshah.bsky.social introduced a new Critical Perspectives collection in the journal @politicsgenderj.bsky.social, exploring the gender and racial dynamics of the 2024 US election cycle.

Women could pick up two gubernatorial seats in 2025, but 6 of 12 current women governors can’t or won’t run for re-election in 2026. I wrote about it for @forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyd...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 @cawp-ru.bsky.social‬ scholars Kira Sanbonmatsu, @kdittmar.bsky.social‬, @pshah.bsky.social introduce our new Critical Perspectives collection on the gender and racial dynamics of the 2024 US election cycle. polisky gendersky buff.ly/lUrvJNB

Check out our full analysis of how women fared in yesterday's NJ contests on our Election Analysis page: cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/results... Complete context about women in the 2025 elections can be found on CAWP's Election Watch: cawp.rutgers.edu/election-watch

U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill has won the Democratic nomination for New Jersey Governor. Should she win in November, she will be the second woman and first Democratic woman to serve as governor of the Garden State. Learn more about women in NJ politics here: cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/new-je...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mikie Sherrill wins Democratic nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Result: Gina Ortiz Jones will be the next mayor of San Antonio. The Democrat, and former Biden admin official, just defeated Republican Rolando Pablos in the country’s seventh most populous city. (She’s going to replace a retiring Dem.)

Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

“It hurts when you love what you do, you love your country, and someone comes in and can take it all away because they don’t like what you are,” Sgt. First Class Julia Becraft said.

Take a look, for example, at the data from the 2025 Ipsos International Women's Day Poll. The data show that Gen Z and Millennial men are actually more likely than older men to believe that men are expected to do too much to support gender equality.

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

So much this. Insulting men by calling them women/feminine is upholding the sexism that privileges men in positions of political (and other types of) leadership. Please stop.

“The girls are fighting” to describe Trump vs Elon is an insult to girls.

My statement on the charges filed against me:

This was SB99 from 2023. I spoke against this bill on 3 different occasions on the house floor, including the "blood on your hands" speech. I am glad this bill has been permanently defeated. And that Montana's constitution continues to protect trans people from government overreach and animus.

NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll out this AM. We find cuts to Medicaid deeply unpopular (58% oppose to 14%), Trump underwater on most issues (-16 net approval), Democrats ahead on the generic ballot by 6 points, and Harris leading a 2024 rematch Full results in this thread

This is the moment I was invited into Delaney Hall. Nobody was kicking or shoving like the coverage suggests. We were invited in.

New AP poll on Trump/higher education: Maintain fed'l funding for scientific/medical research? 62% approve Remove colleges' tax-exempt status? 30% approve Withhold fed'l funds unless they comply w/ Trump's demands? 27% approve Overall on Trump/colleges? 56%👎, 42%👍 apnorc.org/projects/few...

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction on behalf of our clients, six Rutgers international students who had their student status effectively terminated by ICE. This means our clients’ records must be fully restored. Read more: www.aclu-nj.org/en/press-rel...

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's tendency to rebuff professional relationships is coming back to bite him.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

BREAKING: Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin concedes the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, ending his six-month legal battle to overturn the election. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

NO L👀K 🫣

Let's talk Alcatraz economics. It's not just a potential prison, it's also a tourist trap generating $60m per year. It has an "opportunity cost" other sites don't have. 👉 Housing 300 prisoners there comes with an additional opportunity cost of $200k per person per year

Progress Toward Gender Parity Stalled in Election 2024. But There’s More to the Story. womenrun.rutgers.edu...

When this statement from university prez came out ten days ago, it has ~ 180 signatures. Today it is nearing 600. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... A hard choice for many of these institutions. Especially earliest signers, who had no idea how much company they'd have. But people keep standing up.

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

Woah, casting a glance beyond Harvard. What do you know? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, judge rules reut.rs/3YXJyEC

JUST IN: A federal judge in Texas, appointed by Donald Trump, will allow those targeted by the Alien Enemies Act in South Texas to proceed with a class action against the government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My latest report for @cawp-ru.bsky.social breaks down how women fared in #Election2024, analyzing women's candidacies & outcomes in congressional, statewide, & state legislative contests overall & by party and race/ethnicity. TL/DR: Progress is not inevitable. womenrun.rutgers.edu/2024-report/

Quite something.

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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The Trump administration justifies a lot of their racism and transphobia through “protecting women from violence.” But this is just another reminder that they’re pro-rape. And using rape victims as a shield is just another form of objectification.

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world. This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.

Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina. They have been laying the groundwork for five months, and unless the federal courts intervene, they just might succeed. If they do, it could usher in a new era of election subversion in future contests across the country.