Christine Grimaldi (she/her)

Hey friends! I’m going to wind down this account. Can you please move over with me to @yourombudsmom.bsky.social? That’s where I’ll be skeeting and media critiquing + you’ll find the latest @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social episodes and my first @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social essay dropping Tuesday! 😘👌🏼

Thanks, Helmi! 💛 I can’t tell you how many times a week I share your Abortion Donation Fairy Links. I’m likely merging this account with my Media Don alter ego, @yourombudsmom.bsky.social—follow me there, please.

It's also worth noting that anyone working in social media and audience engagement editing worth their salt has known for years that engagement and traffic Twitter is low to negligible volume. The ROI has been in downward decline for a long time.

I have done *counts on fingers* 65+ interviews about Twitter and doomscrolling. Anyone who still says "Twitter is where the action is" probably isn't referring to the overwhelmingly negative actions of harassment, rage-baiting, Nazi-boosting, dog-piling, bigotry amplifying, and sea-lioning.

And abortion should be part of regular healthcare. Your regular physician should prescribe mife/miso, not a stranger at an exiled clinic. If you need or want a surgical, it should be at the same day surgery center where you get a colonoscopy or a biopsy or egg retrieval, with the same anesthesia.

We became aware yesterday of an issue with the audio cutting out intermittently in this week's episode and we are happy to say that we have fixed it and re-uploaded fresh audio!

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The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm

We're currently 69% funded 😉. Think you can push us to 75% (or beyond) before the end of the weekend?

Absolutely in love with this @snarkyspice.bsky.social kicker: "Right now, the standard ways that we expect a media property to grow are closed off...We are planting ourselves in hostile soil."

The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm

🙋🏼‍♀️ If only our core group of ten journalists, editors, artists, and media-makers with 120+ years of combined experience receive enough funding to launch our fearless feminist newsroom by Election Day… www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

Wild Faith The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals a...

You can preorder the book here (and please do--preorders count as first week sales & the stronger they are the more the sales team is inclined to sell!) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

Breaking a Child’s Will The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.

Today, NY Mag published an excerpt of my book, in which I talk about the past 50 years of the abusive evangelical "biblical parenting" movement, how "parental rights" entered the political lexicon, and why you shouldn't hit your kids: www.thecut.com/article/the-...

@transscribe.bsky.social and I talked about this on our recent @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social (a @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social production) Russian disinfo episode! It’s really hard for us to see journalists who cowered for their lives that day, in a place we know so well, return to coverage as normal.

The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm

🙋🏼‍♀️ If only our core group of ten journalists, editors, artists, and media-makers with 120+ years of combined experience receive enough funding to launch our fearless feminist newsroom by Election Day… www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

Keep Us Open Til the End of the Year! We need $100,000 to make it to 2025

We love you, but we can’t take ALL your money. 😉 Because some of mine, for instance, goes back into my recurring monthly donation to WAWC Healthcare, providing people in West Alabama with essential prenatal and gender-affirming health care! Join me?!? givebutter.com/wawc2024end

Dear lord TAKE ALL MY MONEY ALL OF IT!!!

Can’t wait to see you there!!

The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm

Some super-fun @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social Kickstarter tiers to consider, starting with Bloodies in the Bog! Enjoy some bloody mary mixology and history with Andrea! Get two so you can bring a friend!

YouTube video by BonJoviVEVO Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer

WE JUST HIT THE HALFWAY MARK IN OUR CAMPAIGN. IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. Allow me to embrace my inner New Jersey for a moment.

The Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist Blog Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm

I am running on 3 hours of sleep and have an incredibly long real-work day tomorrow but i remain SO FULL OF ADRENALINE because @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social made over half of our Kickstarter pledge goal in literally 12 hours today!! I am going to C R A S H now!!!

I've wanted to get our episodes up on Youtube for awhile now and I've finally done it..

"We'll just use the Comstock Act to hold that abortion is *already* illegal nationwide, as is described in Project 2025, or we'll use the 14th Amendment to do so, as is described in the 2024 Republican platform. We've already told you, twice, that we don't think we *need* new legislation."

Her state bans gender-affirming care for teenagers. So she travels 450 miles for it An estimated 110,000 trans teenagers live in states that ban gender-affirming care for minors. Some travel huge distances every few months to keep getting their treatment out-of-state.

This is a fantastic feature on a trans teen who has to travel out of state for care, and in the process, it also highlights how dire this situation is for trans youth without supportive families and resources.

There's a lot of dialogue about Bluesky being a progressive echo chamber or whatever. But to me, a reporter who's neither racist nor insane, it's currently the best Twitter replacement because Twitter serves me nonstop racist and insane stuff and Threads won't do breaking news. Truly that simple.

Screenshot of my post that X.com auto-flagged as hate speech: Society—people—cis men—(white) cis women caping for cis men may make a great deal about misogyny and gender inequality, but if they’re neither living those values every day nor taking those every day concerns seriously, I’ll knock them off their intellectual high horse any day.

Cool cool cool, none of the threats I’ve ever received on Twitter OR “X” counted as hate speech but the algorithm flagged the word “cis” as a slur?! Jack AND Elon can fuck off into the sea, sun, etc. while I get settled into @bsky.app. It’s nice to be here!

I’m crying with you. OMG, T. Congrats!!

Graphic for my award-nominated podcast series, The Franchise: Jews, Sports, and America,” with the Signal Awards “2023 Finalist — Vote for Us!” bug

EARNEST ALERT: hello bluesky. I need your help to get support for my podcast in the Signal Awards listener’s choice competition. My show, The Franchise, is nominated for best documentary sports series. Voting is open until Oct. 5! I’d be honored to get your vote. vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

The Return of the Marriage Plot Why everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.

I published this column on Friday. There are a couple of things that I didn't have space to include in the piece that I'd like to add. In no particular order: