Jill Filipovic

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Donald Trump can’t escape Jeffrey Epstein The President has sown the country with conspiracy – now he is reaping the paranoia he deserves.

Donald Trump can’t escape Jeffrey Epstein. The President has sown the country with conspiracy – now he is reaping the paranoia he deserves.

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Why is the Trump Administration Destroying Almost $10 Million of Contraceptives? They're also burning 500 tons of food aid meant for hungry children.

"The cruelty and recklessness of dismantling USAID remains difficult for me to fathom. Researchers project that 14 million people will die who would have otherwise lived, including 4.5 million children."

Truly tragic words from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

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Everything Epstein The Epstein Files aren't a test of MAGA morality. They're the big reveal.

The Epstein case is a way for MAGA adherents to prove they are decent people who care about sexual abuse and exploitation even though they have many times over proven themselves to not care about sexual abuse and exploitation @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

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Gaza is Starving Mothers are clutching skin-and-bone children. Fewer babies are surviving. This was preventable, and it can still be stopped.

“The more Israel behaves as an authoritarian power engaging in shocking war crimes…the harder it gets for anyone decent—including many liberal Jews—to stand in its defense.” Important piece by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

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Gaza is Starving Mothers are clutching skin-and-bone children. Fewer babies are surviving. This was preventable, and it can still be stopped.

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social wrote a solid post on the disaster of a crisis in the making in occupied Gaza, and Israel is to blame here, as they have starved Gazans due to their reckless decision to withhold food aid.

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Glad to see diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives thriving at the nation’s top universities.

Texas is Treating Abortion as Capital Murder They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs.

"They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs." #MsReads via @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

Make Knock-Offs Stigmatized Again Dupe Culture is destroying creativity and innovation.

The obsession with finding "dupes" of high-quality items - clothing, skincare, home goods - is bad, actually. Not because it saves a buck. But because it celebrates consumption patterns that mirror a TikTok algorithm: next thing, next thing, next thing.
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barbaric. theintercept.com/2025/07/08/i...

Everything Is Bad On Purpose When you set out to break the government, you wind up with a broken country.

There are just a handful of raging, angry men who want to tear down what they don’t like, even if they don’t really understand how any of it works... and an entire political party willing to sign onto their most destructive desires @jillfilipovic.bsky.social
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Everything Is Bad On Purpose When you set out to break the government, you wind up with a broken country.

Spot on from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

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it's amusing to me to see Trumpers banging on about Bondi orchestrating an Epstein coverup while refusing to devote an extra thought to who she would be trying to protect

trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states

Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show

The original second term power grab. Without protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke

Historian of Reconstruction here, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is emerging as the great dissenter in the tradition of John Marshall Harlan. Her opinions will be read long after Amy Coney Barrett is a mere footnote in history. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

so apparently Elon is putting together a team of crack homosexuals

Texas is Treating Abortion as Capital Murder They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs.

@jillfilipovic.bsky.social wrote a solid piece in her Substack that Texas treating abortion as equivalent to capital murder is the roadmap anti-abortion extremists seek to use.

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A Clear Formula Is Emerging to Rehabilitate Certain Men of #MeToo It is disappointing, if perhaps not surprising.

ICYMI, @smerconish.bsky.social: excellent article by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social starring your sleazy career rehab project, Mark Halperin: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Texas is Treating Abortion as Capital Murder They're laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs.

Texas is laying the groundwork to put women and doctors in jail -- or on death row -- at the same time as abortion bans are leaving miscarrying women bleeding out in ERs.

By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social

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Is Donald Trump your “daddy”? The Nato chief’s comment was not the first time that Maga followers and allies have gone full Freudian.

Is Donald Trump your “daddy”?

The Nato chief’s comment was not the first time that Maga followers and allies have gone full Freudian.

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A Clear Formula Is Emerging to Rehabilitate Certain Men of #MeToo It is disappointing, if perhaps not surprising.

Excellent piece from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social on the repulsive right-wing campaign to rehabilitate the worst #MeToo offenders, led in part by the odious Megyn Kelly, one of the victims who has seemingly recanted everything she once stood for in this regard slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Yes, That Big Anti-Trans Ruling Is Terrible. There’s Also a Bigger Problem. U.S. politics are failing trans youth. We're also failing them by not talking about this more.

Medical care for many trans young people in America isn't ideal... because healthcare for most people in America really, really sucks. Banning youth gender medicine only makes it harder to study and improve, while our terrible healthcare system persists.
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Juneteenth: How cities are scaling back celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks | CNN Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as organizers cite safety problems and mounting resistance to diversity, equity and...

The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

Tides Turn The #Resistance reemerges, and thank goodness.

"We’re obviously not out of danger yet. But Americans suddenly seem a whole lot less willing to go quietly."

Optimistic and hopeful read by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social.

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Tides Turn The #Resistance reemerges, and thank goodness.

The #Resistance is back, baby. This time around, embrace it, make a big tent, don't push people out because they don't use the right jargon, resist the urge to deride the Boomers and suburban white ladies who are actually doing good work:
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Turning Points Wondering if this is the moment we'll look back on and say: "That's when everything changed."

This is a moment when we prove who we are.

Who are we?

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I don't think either of these groups (centrists or leftists) have fully taken stock of why the broader left is in such shambles. Wrote a bit about these general themes:
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Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy broke the law, inquiry finds But a new policy announced Tuesday has thrown into doubt the Biden-era requirement that hospitals provide abortion care in medical emergencies.

Texas hospital repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy. She ultimately lost part of her reproductive system.
A fed investigation last year found hospital had violated the law. But not so under new Trump admin guidance