Men are our protectors, they said.

Opposing white supremacy is a crime in Trump’s America.

This feels a lot like southern states persecuting the NAACP during Jim Crow.

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

Really proud of us at @wired.com for this. The work we did on DOGE is some of the work I am personally proudest of, and it's amazing to see that work and impact recognized.

www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

Judge rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment in fight against ICE-tracking ICE Sightings - Chicago Land Facebook Group and Eyes Up developer won a preliminary injunction against the government.

So many of these strong First Amendment cases -- challenging the Trump admin's censorial campaign to chill dissent -- are winning. Here's another win for free speech against surveillance & ICE tracking: www.theverge.com/policy/91461...

the pointless, militarized occupation of Washington DC continues with these armed, camo'd figures constantly patrolling the safest, calmest areas of the city. Glad my corner grocery store and the steps leading in to Kalorama Park are so heavily guarded

Part of my annoyance with the Niemoller poem being such a touchstone without most anyone recognizing they’d already done the “said nothing” part regarding disfavored groups.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Sexual violence or harassment in any form is a type of gender discrimination.

We remove perpetrators from positions of power because their violence indicates a prejudice against women and a high likelihood of future discrimination.

These are not the men we can trust to shape our country’s laws.

These statements don’t always align with an organization’s actual willingness to remove a perpetrator from a position of power.

But after a public debate about whether sexual harassment is “bad enough” for someone to leave Congress, let this be a reminder that the policy is clear: yes, it is.

“As journalist Jane Coaston argued on the Hysteria podcast, birth rate panic is rarely sincere. In reality, it’s a cover story people use to dress up views — like advocating teen pregnancy — they can’t argue for directly in public.”

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

NYT headline that says “Mamdani Endorses Lindsey Boylan, Who Accused Cuomo of Sexual Harassment.” The lede says “the endorsement, in a special election for a city council seat on Manhattan’s West Side, comes as the mayor seeks to build influence within the Council"

First & foremost, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is more than deserving of this endorsement.

Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.

The cruelest people are good at seizing power and getting non-cruel people to do terrible things.

Since it's 2026 and Godwin's Law has been defenestrated it's worth noting that the Nazis didn't start with the gas chambers. They started with mass shootings, but it fucked up the gunmen.

It’s a good thing that Swalwell is leaving Congress—and hopefully politics altogether.

A history of violence should be disqualifying from holding public office and there is no shortage of great candidates to replace the perpetrators.

There’s a study that found that participants would rather hire a man with a history of perpetration allegations than a woman who had been a whistleblower.

The myth that survivors come forward to reap a bunch of social rewards is one that should have died a long time ago. It’s literally just misinformation.

Most of the anti-survivor/pro-perpetrator rhetoric is. Survivors are telling the truth, so the primary weapon left to attack them is lying.

Attorneys like Dabaie know how to use their client’s upper hand, as do press secretaries like Leavitt. They know that people are often swayed by the narrative that a victim was not acting like a victim in the immediate wake of an alleged assault. They know that people like to imagine survivors are actually fabulists who invent their allegations later on to try and collect a payday or sway an election. The perception that survivors stand to benefit from coming forward persists despite years of Me Too backlash showing just how much survivors are punished for doing so. A negligible number of survivors profit from speaking out, while the costs of being victimized—both literal and metaphorical—outweigh any payout.

I wrote about how Eric Swalwell supporters tried to reframe the sexual violence allegations against him as a MAGA hoax, how some folks fell for it, and how this kind of rhetoric actually mirrors Trump's line of defense against his own accusers. For @spitfirenews.com

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Title IX isn’t that different in colleges and K-12. There is a lot of overlap—with the one big missing piece of parents punishing their daughters for victimization.

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

“According to a recent study… only 2% of college students — and only 3% of college students who identify as Republicans — said their political views have made them feel out of place on their campus. Thus, the right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction.”

I wrote a book on reporting (and the institutional betrayals that follow) called On the Wrong Side. Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! is a must read.

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Three National Guardsmen in Chinatown outside the metro.

Periodic reminder: D.C. remains patrolled all over the city by armed members of the National Guard deployed to do so by President Trump.

That’s the thing, right? No one ever brings up the Weinstein Effect in good faith.

Often, the details in the victims’ accounts are just as harrowing!

No one is indispensable.

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him

how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

When people say the Swalwell allegations are a distraction from Trump/Epstein (they are all part of the same bigger picture), I have to wonder why these people even supposedly care about Trump and Epstein. Do you care about sexual violence or don’t you? Why do you only care about some of it?

"If Swalwell was guilty, his accusers would file charges" is a thing I keep seeing. But here's the thing: it's absolutely NOT how the system works.

ONLY PROSECUTORS CAN FILE CRIMINAL CHARGES IN THE US LEGAL SYSTEM.

All I'm saying is we should be able to find people who aren't rapists or sex pests or don't have Nazi tattoos to represent us in Congress I do not think I'm asking for the world here

And I’m not just talking about our electeds. This post is about the voters too.

The only way we see accountability for the Epstein files is if we embrace the idea that sexual violence perpetration makes someone unfit for office. We can’t exempt Democrats.