​In March, Dave Rubin, a reactionary podcaster who is also openly gay made an announcement that shocked his mostly MAGA audience. Rubin and his husband were expecting two babies via surrogates. The response from his audience and other MAGA influencers was interesting to watch. While some congratulated Rubin, most were…

I knew the end of Roe was coming. The Alito draft still came as a shock. Seeing it written as a legal opinion by a Supreme Court Justice was visceral. I don’t have much in the way of good news. We’re losing, and that’s been true for a while now…

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter. Or maybe he just wants to drive up the price of Twitter shares. Or it’s all one big troll. Maybe all three. …

All politics is #PizzaGate. As Right-Wing Media and prominent Republicans have taken to calling anyone who disagrees with them a groomer and a pedophile, all I can think about is #pizzagate and how hard it’s been for years to convince folks on the left that this is what the Right…

Despite the fact that Joe Biden won the Presidency a year and a half ago, the Right remains obsessed with his son Hunter. Trump’s attempts to get oppo on Hunter got Trump impeached, and Rudy Giuliani’s own efforts made him a laughingstock, but the obsession remains. This week added more…

“If people actually believe that it’s all political, how will we survive? How will this court survive?” This quote from Justice Sotomayor has been living in my head rent-free all week. Sotomayor said it in December of last year, during oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson, the case that could…

Whenever I write about pop culture, I tell myself it’s a nice break from my usual content, but that’s a delusion. Because almost always, my newsletters about pop culture involve women being harassed online in some form. From Simone Biles to Meghan Markle, Leslie Jones to Brie Larson. Even Britney…

Some thoughts on the GOP’s attempts to distance itself from Putin and some January 6 updates you might have missed this week. Doomscrolling is back. For the first time since Trump left office, I find myself checking the news constantly to see if the world is ending. Russia’s invasion into…

🇺🇦 I stand in solidarity with Ukraine. If you’re looking for ways to help people on the ground here’s a site that disinfo reporter Jane Lytvynenko, who is Ukrainian, has promoted on her Twitter account. RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS/WAR: INFO AND WAYS TO HELP I’m always cautious in passing along links like…