Sophie Hurwitz

“We already won the battle for abortion here in Missouri, and that is why they added gender-affirming care.”

i think it's closing for a litany of well discussed reasons but man every newspaper in the world sending a reporter to gawk at the covid conscious lesbian bar for a story really did leave an awful taste in my mouth

i wrote a little guide on physical fitness for trans people. i made it free because of how important this stuff is. if you like it, you can become a merritt+ member for only $5 a month, which is a huge help to me www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...

The GOP's latest plot to take away women's reproductive rights? Transphobia.

“You could see how scared people were to just consider being pregnant in the state of Missouri,” she said. “I had husbands feel the need to tell me that I should save their wives if something should happen in the pregnancy. And that’s a pretty terrifying place to be.”

Missouri voters overturned an abortion ban in 2024. Republicans are trying again—by adding in a trans care ban for kids.

Rich people love a designer dog!

Rich people love a designer dog!

gaaahhhhhhh

Elon Musk’s xAI has claimed Memphis as its “home.” The people who have made their lives there have spent the past year suing his company.

“We demand representation that chooses us, the people, over the profits of a billionaire’s experiment.”

“These are not people who failed to qualify—they are eligible Americans who will be stripped of coverage because they could not navigate a system designed to pile on paperwork.”

"Sexual abuse is a free speech issue. A campus where students are pressured to stay silent on abuse, where students are doxxed, threatened & swatted for filing complaints, where victims are forced to share class & living spaces w/ their abusers, is not a campus that respects safety or free speech."

An ICE charter flight is headed to Equatorial Guinea, according to documents obtained by @gillianbrockell.com. One immigrant imprisoned there, Ahmed Soliman, was ordered returned to the US two weeks ago. Will ICE pick him up, or just drop off more deportees? Here's our report.

“We demand representation that chooses us, the people, over the profits of a billionaire’s experiment.”

~300k in Massachusetts alone

“These are not people who failed to qualify—they are eligible Americans who will be stripped of coverage because they could not navigate a system designed to pile on paperwork.”

Private contractors are set to cash in as millions of Americans lose health care

NEW: America Next—the PAC paying plants to heckle Abdul El-Sayed at events—gave $1 million to support a Missouri ballot measure that would reimpose an abortion ban and prohibit youth gender-affirming care. Vote Yes on Amendment 3 is new group by former FBI/MO AG Andrew Bailey w/ ties to Josh Hawley

Implementing Trump’s “big, beautiful” Medicaid cuts will be a windfall for firms like Deloitte.

Update: they won, and the ban was overturned. The city council meeting is in a few hours.

this is tomorrow, RSVP and come through! (if you live in Brooklyn and have been posting about the Cornell 7, I better see you!!!!)

got kicked out of Ken Paxton's campaign event in Rockwall and escorted to my car by the police. not approved press, unfortunately.

Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson—running to flip a key midterm seat—will be locked out of a meeting that could pause new xAI data centers in Memphis.

“Every story of human movement now is a climate story, whether we like it or not. Pretty much every case of forced or ‘voluntary’ migration has a climate element built into it.” @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...

While colleges pause fraternity activities in the wake of hazing deaths, sexual assaults, or other forms of frat-sanctioned violence, they rarely force them to close their doors permanently.

Most data centers are being built in red, rural areas. A new survey suggests they’re pushing voters to the left.

At least a dozen fraternity and sorority pledges have died in hazing incidents since 2020—that year, given the pandemic’s social distancing requirements, only one young woman died in a hazing ritual. That was the lowest number of hazing deaths in decades.

At least a dozen fraternity and sorority pledges have died in hazing incidents since 2020—that year, given the pandemic’s social distancing requirements, only one young woman died in a hazing ritual. That was the lowest number of hazing deaths in decades.

The college is suspending Greek events after a sexual assault lawsuit. Other schools banned fraternities long ago.

Oh Wow.

“We cannot call ourselves a sanctuary city when the NYPD clears the path for ICE but goes after protesters.”

"The firing squad is very physical and visceral in the damage that it does to the person being executed. That’s why they like it. They like it because it’s the same kind of video game brutality that they like in every other context of this administration’s barbarism."

In their interview, Jack Posobiec asked Hegseth whether Nidal Hasan had any final requests. “Don’t care,” Hegseth said. “See him on December 3.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The last time the US military executed a man by firing squad was in 1945—it was called “musketry” at the time. “Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in World War II, which was win,” Hegseth said. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff film

The Trump administration is pushing forward with sanctions against the ICC. A coalition of domestic political opposition and concerned foreign firms governments supporting the ICC is vital for future accountability against human rights abusers, including the Trump administration

In their interview, Jack Posobiec asked Hegseth whether Nidal Hasan had any final requests. “Don’t care,” Hegseth said. “See him on December 3.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The last time the US military executed a man by firing squad was in 1945—it was called “musketry” at the time. “Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in World War II, which was win,” Hegseth said. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Politicians of all stripes suddenly seem to think that they need to get Flock out of here.

When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.