Emily Taylor

🚨💀IT’S BAAACK! Remember when we told you that the TN bill allowing the DEATH PENALTY for abortions was dropped? Welp, now the sponsors have decided to stay the course and keep it in play. Cuz apparently, the bill that would execute people for healthcare just needs a ‘lil workshopping! bit.ly/46sY4YZ

SC Upstate y'all can flip SC-4 and help save democracy. We all know Will Timmons will continue to follow orders from the WH.

@mcclainforsc.bsky.social needs your support to help SC make history! #scpol

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

Budget Provisos Are Some Bullshit Pickens County Library Cancels Youth Programs to Review Collections for "prurient interest" content (AKA LGBTQ book ban)

Somebody tell state senator Josh Kimbrell his budget proviso canceled Preschool Storytime. Also Pickens County Library Board needs some new members. #scpol open.substack.com/pub/hotfemin...

Someone tell Bari about the Streisand effect

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Badass Feminist Opens Greenville Wine Shop Get to Camino Wine Merchant posthaste!

Greenville, SC has a feminist wine shop and all y'all should go: open.substack.com/pub/hotfemin...

Puerto Rico stops for 13 minutes to applaud history and bask in Bad Bunny's glow This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year.

This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

South Carolina House Passes H. 4760 Criminalizing Abortion Medication Insecure legislators try to look the most pro-life by endangering girls and women

South Carolina wants to follow in Louisiana's footsteps and reclassify abortion medication as a controlled substance and it's some dumbass shit with no basis in science. But it does make it even more dangerous to have babies here! #scpol hotfeminism.substack.com/p/south-caro...

How it started How it’s going

Nancy Mace is a disingenuous nut edition

Stephen Miller is 10 times more dangerous than Kristi Noem who is also dangerous. Best case scenario is that they somehow ruin each other.

Federal Civil Rights Protections for Students Are Being Hollowed Out Trump dismantles the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, leaving students in K-12 schools and colleges without protection.

Federal civil rights protections for students are being gutted. Check out my piece today in @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/01/28/d...

Rejecting the Colonial Gender System Decolonial Feminism as a path to liberation

It's a good day to fight the [modern/colonial gender] system. hotfeminism.substack.com/p/rejecting-...

#scpol

Kicking Off the Legislative Session with an Abortion Abolitionist Press Conference Lee Bright and Rob Harris take the podium to threaten women and healthcare providers

SC Legislature is BACK, baby: Rep. Rob Harris and newly re-elected Sen. Lee Bright take to the podium to promise they'll do everything they can to punish women and healthcare providers. Special appearance by professional slut-shamer Abby Johnson 🤮🤮🤮
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We have the first county-by-county report on the status of girls and women in South Carolina and it paints a grim picture of economic insecurity, high maternal mortality, and scarce child care. But we can use the data to make change. Share widely.
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Really a yell-y family, that group.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Lee Bright teams up with Rob Harris--I'm sure this legislation will not kill more women at all (Harris wants the death penalty for people who have abortions). What a duo.

Election day SC! SC 98th, get out there and vote!

When You’re an Enemy of the State But Also a Mom Gratitude for My Community in the Wake

I promise this is not a step towards tradwifery! open.substack.com/pub/hotfemin...

Total monsters.

I hope everyone's resolutions includes really getting invested in state and local politics. This is the way. #scpol

Hicks: As long as voters make such 'Bright decisions,' nothing will change at Statehouse By continuing to elect culture warriors like Sen. Lee Bright, South Carolina voters ensure the culture wars live on ... at the expense of real work.

Hicks hits hard on this one. Kudos to the editorial team at @postandcourier.bsky.social. www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

If you're not subscribed to Ms. Magazine what are you even doing?!

Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.

Read their stories here:

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Men Respond to My Article about Violent Masculine Domination With TOTAL DOMINATION On Resigning My Professorship at Presbyterian College

After threats from South Carolina legislators following a piece I wrote about Kirk and violent masculinity, I’ve resigned my tenured professorship. On the bright side, I’ll have a lot more time to write this newsletter.
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Thank you, @aclusc.bsky.social for standing up for our rights, including our rights of free speech and academic freedom.