A confession from a woman who learned to love what was forced on her.

An essay honoring the Taíno people on Indigenous People’s Day

While I still have my First Amendment rights.

The State of the Force speech, revised by a pissed off Blue Star Mother from the Iron Range.

How one flight, one supreme court decision and a lifetime of injustice changed what I could no longer let others fix for me.

The Oldest Lie: Why Sex Work Isn’t a Career and Why That Isn’t an Attack on the Women in It

A story about power, enemies, and the disease we refuse to see.

When popular progressive podcasters host bigots.

The ownership of women became the operating system for everything else.

How do societies that have lost their way under shitty leaders get back to “good.”

A peek into the world of the anonymous tracker documenting federal enforcement in real time.

The Trump family fortune was built off of illegal immigration, gold-diggers and sex with miners.

Digging Myself Out From Under Everyone Else's Expectations: A Memoir of Surviving, Shrinking, and Finally Being Seen

The only wealthy nation where mothers die more — and who. @Walter Rhein & I are going live on Substack with @Dr. Yamicia Connor (@laboracollectivepublic) this afternoon for Part One: Maternal Mortali...

A real plan to fight back, built on the movements that already won.

On generational trauma, hard truths, and why accountability isn't the same as blame. To Boomers, with Love.

Social Media Algorithms Are Keeping Us Stuck

Substack Is An App That Punishes Incredibly Intelligent and Talented Writers, While Simultaneously Protects Nazis, Rapists and Hate Groups.

How a Generation Trained to Spot Patterns Got Deregulation, Algorithms, and an Encore Nobody Asked For

Democracy didn't fall. It was bought, one legal loophole at a time.

The Democratic Party is at war with itself, and most people voting for it don’t even know the fight is happening, or are denying it’s happening.

If it's one thing I can't stand is a white woman protecting her proximity to bad white men, instead of integrity.

I have nothing to say about Lindsay Graham, other than he was a terrible human being and I’m glad he will not be making headlines anymore after this. But, I do have something to say to the voters of...

I won't and here's why. Independent doesn't mean honest. Pro-democracy doesn't mean principled. Read the receipts before you hand over your trust.

For all the people who don't belong to any of the 100 billionaire families. A field guide to the hierarchy of greed, from the families who own everything to the rest of us paying for it.

They told us not to catastrophize. Now American soldiers have killed a 20-year-old American father on an American street, and another American child will grow up without a Dad.

The country was born from a refusal to celebrate. I'm keeping the tradition.

A DOJ lawyer admitted her own legal theory was wrong. She sent the memo anyway — and private equity is already counting the beds.

A Kentucky church staged a mock firing squad for elementary schoolers for Vacation Bible School and this is everything that's wrong with America.

Meet the Editor Who Ran the Largest Secret in Journalism History — and Got None of the Credit.

Because Fuck That.

He didn't find his conscience. He found out where the clicks went. Thirty five years a Republican, five minutes a martyr, right on schedule with the ratings.

He didn't evolve. He noticed the audience moved and followed the money.

A response to Christabel Mintah-Galloway's “White People Need Ancestral Excavation”

The drone that killed three US soldiers was claimed by a group that doesn't exist on paper. Six that do are standing behind it.

Fifty years of gutted schools and a frozen wage, then a phone engineered to wreck our attention span — and somehow we're the ones who "let it back in."

She built a career, a company, a platform, and a paycheck — then took the stage to tell your daughter not to.

Seven Hundred Years of a Word That Refused to Behave. The Most Resplendent Act of Resistance in the English Language.

On bad candidates, missing creators, and the progressive media ecosystem that serves itself.

The Lessons and Life of George Carlin.

The human in the loop isn't there because humans aim better. He's there because the machine is sometimes spectacularly wrong, and he's the part being removed.

The technology to build a secure digital voting system already exists. What’s missing isn’t capability — it’s political will.