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Jill Filipovic

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social
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Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats. jill.substack.com NYC/HK

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“As of Thursday evening, the TV pool remained suspended.” Also: “Chinese state television was on hand for the proceedings in Washington on Thursday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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White House Restores Access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico (Gift Article)
A judge ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on three media outlets, but it took several hours for them to get back in. The White House TV pool remains suspended.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch
President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
slate.com/news-and-pol... @jillfilipovic.bsky.social “It’s something like an anti-feminist reverse–Robin Hood: Take from poor single mothers to give to more stable ones.”
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The Trump Proposal to Pay Moms for Childcare May Sound Like a Good Thing. But There’s a Truly Disturbing Catch.
It’s a reverse–Robin Hood. Yikes.
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Maddie Oatman @moatmanjourno.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Department of Meatheads: The MAGA Bros who have coopted MAHA and made it all about protein, testosterone, and erectile dysfunction. @jillfilipovic.bsky.social digs in for our latest in a partner series with @fern.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Women built MAHA. MAGA bros have taken it over.
Forget regulating food—manly MAHA cares about meat, testosterone, and erectile disfunction.
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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great article in @motherjones.com from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social on how the women built the grassroots of MAHA, but the men have taken over the movement’s power levers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Women built MAHA. MAGA bros have taken it over.
Forget regulating food—manly MAHA cares about meat, testosterone, and erectile disfunction.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Foreign head of state goes to UN to slander an elected U.S. leader with transparently false claims. Which wouldn't be a big deal if he didn't claim to be an ally, & if we weren't pouring in money to prop his profoundly corrupt regime. The U.S. helped pay for this attack on a U.S. leader.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today on the show @jillfilipovic.bsky.social and I go deep on Max Miller in particular, and why it's a big deal that MAGA royalty like him is sticking things out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEh...
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Calls for Rep. Max Miller to Leave Congress Aren’t Working, Feat. Slate’s Jill Filipovic
YouTube video by Slate
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Ceiling Cat @ceilingcat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@jillfilipovic.bsky.social on aoc's latest "don't make it weird" challenge apple.news/A0I5RHJHJQmW...
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The Right-Wing Reaction to AOC’s Egg Freezing Is Very Revealing — Slate
Isn’t this what feminists have long wanted for women?
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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Jill Filipovic : The War on Women's Sports Sports make women "less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces" says a new conservative proposal to functionally dismantle Title IX. @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Jul 28 open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t... ∙
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The War on Women's Sports
Sports make women "less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces" says a new conservative proposal to functionally dismantle Title IX.
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Joseph Lyttleton @10cities10years.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Next step: child marriage as a federally protected "right." All the years of crying "protect the children" and the conservative movement has landed at, "Actually, teen pregnancy is good if it produces more (white) offspring." @jillfilipovic.bsky.social for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Thought Conservative Sex Education Couldn’t Get Worse. The Trump Administration Found a Way.
Abstinence-only education is a proven disaster. But the new plan is somehow even more dangerous.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A Pew study of Americans over age 50 who didn't have children found that a major reason was because they didn't find the right partner. "If we want more babies, we need more men women are willing to have babies with." @jillfilipovic.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
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There Are Many Things That Could Increase the Birth Rate. This Major One Is Usually Ignored.
Conservatives tend to blame women for declining fertility. They’re wrong.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"We can realize that friction is uncomfortable, but it’s also what generates creative sparks." Let's bring it back for the sake of all of us. The damn truth from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social.
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Don't Melt Your Brain into the Machine
People are reading less, writing less, scrolling more, and off-loading more cognition to AI. We're doing ourselves in.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I had to go to that page to see if this was real because it’s really giving off those early-aughts Puma hoax ad vibes but yep this is some real Copperhead Don and the Neoconfederates shit
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/07/2026
oh he on DRUGS drugs
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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The "Pro-Life" Movement Wants to Execute Women Who Have Abortions
They were always going to do this. But now some of the most powerful people in the movement want criminal penalties for women who terminate pregnancies.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What happened: people are fed up with an ideologically hollowed-out Democratic Party. The DSA gave young people a place for ideas and a place for power. www.throughline.news/p/rage-again...
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Rage Against the Machine
What the New York City primary results tell us about Democratic Party politics
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Read @jillfilipovic.bsky.social on how DOGE made the Ebola outbreak much worse. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Got Off the Plane and Walked Into a Scene From Another Era. You’ll Know Exactly What I’m Talking About, and It Should Scare You.
This Ebola outbreak is different.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Graham Platner’s candidacy is dividing Democrats. AOC’s headscarf fueled a right wing meltdown, but there’s more to the story. The UK banned Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur for their speech. What does liberalism look like in this moment? www.throughline.news/p/what-princ...
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What Principles Should Liberals Hold?
Scattered musings on Graham Platner's sexts, AOC's headscarf, Hasan Piker's UK ban, and the criminal fanatics at the Israel Day parade.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 24/05/2026
"Watching a family movie is not the same as setting your toddler loose in YouTube kids. Posting a photo to friends and family is not the same as using your kid for public branded content." #MsReads via @jillfilipovic.bsky.social
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The New Common Sense on Kids, Screens, and Social Media
Watching a family movie is not the same as setting your toddler loose in YouTube kids. Posting a photo to friends and family is not the same as using your kid for public branded content.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Instead of fighting back against Big Food and some of the worst befoulers of our food, water, and environment, the Trump administration has elevated them and done their bidding. (in other words, the winning continues 😡) @jillfilipovic.bsky.social's latest: open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/i...
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Is America Healthy Yet?
Taking stock of the Trump administration's record on healthy food, clean water, and breathable air.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"The resentment directed towards Cooper isn’t because she sold one version of womanhood while living another; it’s because she lived the kind of autonomous life feminists fought for, and it’s going great" Very much enjoyed this by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
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Call Her Daddy has it all
US conservatives can’t fathom that women don’t conform to a virgin-whore binary
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Along with @jillfilipovic.bsky.social, I was on the @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social this morning to help interpret US birth rates and discuss current efforts to raise them. wnyc.org/browse/shows...
The U.S. fertility rate dropped to another record low in 2025, according to provisional CDC data, marking a 23% drop since 2007. Jill Filipovic, attorney and author of several books, including  (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2020), and Karen Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center and a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explain what's behind the decline, the current Republican and far-right conservative policy plans to try and reverse those trends and what actually works to incentivize a growing population.
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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The most important piece I've read this year, up with similarly important works by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social, @pennyred.bsky.social, and Dale Beran analyzing different aspects of this same culture shift.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Women are not protected: not by living in liberal states, not by having the money to cross state lines, and, given the impact of abortion bans on women who are miscarrying, not even by not having elective abortions.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We were told that Roe fueled the culture wars and that returning the abortion question to the states would bring reasoned debate, a democratic process, and then stability. Instead the anti-abortion movement has created nothing but chaos and confusion. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Supreme Court Conservatives Promised That Ending Roe Would Solve a Major Problem. They’ve Made It Infinitely Worse.
Chaos is the new normal.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Better idea: No.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Friday’s federal appeals decision on the abortion pill mifepristone sends a clear message, Jill Filipovic writes in a guest essay: “No woman in America, no matter where she lives, has total control over whether to continue or end a pregnancy.”
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Opinion | It Just Got Harder to Get an Abortion for Every Woman in America
A ruling by a federal appeals court has blocked access to abortion pills via telemedicine.
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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Yes, @jillfilipovic.bsky.social appropriately sums up the current Fed Soc "conservative" Supreme Court. Note, they are just radical and extremist, what they are has nothing whatsoever to do with "conservatism".
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Opinion | This Could Be the Biggest Blow to Abortion Rights Since Roe Fell
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Marking our 250th year by having the British King visit to remind us about the development of the rule of law, while the president reads lines presumably written by Stephen Miller about the transcendent nobility of the mythic English blood.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Rusty Halberd @alexgarbuckle

Men are attracted to short women because they want a little Yoda riding on their back while they run around. But a lot of guys also want to be the Yoda. That's where tall women come in
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We hear a lot about loneliness epidemics, too much stress, too much time on screens, too little time with other people, too much work and not enough creation. One antidote: Travel to a magical place with a small group of people. Write. Move your body. Make lasting friendships.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Instead of getting highly effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so that they may decide if and when to have children, Title X under Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not." By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social GIFT article.
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Opinion | Does the Trump Administration Really Want More Teen Pregnancies?
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Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"The old anti-abortion movement strategy was to attack contraception as immoral, though few Americans share that view. The new tactic is more MAHA-coded, and with a #pronatalist twist:" 1/2
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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social @thepissedoldlady.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is a gift link! The same reason they push viagra like dealers.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I talked with the iconic Jessica Yellin about the authoritarian impulse to target women, from ICE enforcement to Russia to Trump's America to the just-toppled Hungarian regime: newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/the-patter...
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The Pattern Linking Iran, Hungary, and Washington isn't Coincidental — It's the Design
Jill Filipovic on the crackdown on women. Plus: Tariff refunds start today. Trump says yes to psychedelics. Kash Patel denies reporting on drunkenness. And two scientific breakthroughs in NTDS.
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Hune 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🩴 @hunesocial.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
worth reading⬇️
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Trump administration wants to take money that has long paid for modern contraception for low-income women and spend it on helping sperm swim better. This is not a joke. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
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Opinion | Does the Trump Administration Really Want More Teen Pregnancies?
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"The guy ran for president! And still, when presented with an attractive woman on social media, he seems to have thought the appropriate response was, “Here, look, this is my penis""
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Laura Tamman @lauratamman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“The impulse to send them seems to stem not from a desire to seduce but to subordinate-less mating dance than dominance ritual, a way to push a woman's boundaries and see what she'll tolerate.”
Women are not exactly famously enthralled by unsolicited photos of men's junk; men have to know that the typical response to getting such an image is not "wow thank you so sexy I love it" but "omg eeew." The impulse to send them seems to stem not from a desire to seduce
but to subordinate-less mating dance than dominance ritual, a way to push a woman's boundaries and see what she'll tolerate.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A huge amount of this is that there's still an unspoken but heavily enforced social norm that women are obliged to keep men's dirty secrets, whether you consented or not. The second a man assaults or harasses you, he invokes this unspoken contract. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This May Be the Most Baffling Part of the Eric Swalwell Scandal
If you really wanted to be governor of California, wouldn't you be a bit more cautious about sending unsolicited dick pics?
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
There's been a sharp uptick in religiosity among young men. I think I know why. www.throughline.news/p/the-purpos...
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The Purpose Problem
Young women are anxious and depressed. Young men are turning toward religion and right-wing politics. We've failed at creating spaces for adults to make meaning.
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How does a man who wants to be president of the United States think he's not gonna get in trouble for sending dick pics in a post-Weiner post-MeToo world? Arrogance? Misogyny? A humiliation fetish? I explore it all! slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This May Be the Most Baffling Part of the Eric Swalwell Scandal
If you really wanted to be governor of California, wouldn't you be a bit more cautious about sending unsolicited dick pics?
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The most conservative states in America are also the states with the highest rates of unmarried motherhood. They are the states with the highest rates of child poverty. They are among the states with the lowest levels of female educational attainment. By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social
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Want More Babies? Make More Girlbosses.
Contrary to conservative narratives, it's college-educated liberal women who are having babies in stable, thriving families.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Over and over again, organizations from average workplaces to the Holocaust Memorial Museum are editing themselves — complying in advance, as Timothy Snyder would put it. Critical read from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...
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Trump's War on Information
The administration is fighting everything from abortion pill websites to journalists doing their jobs.
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