Moira Donegan

Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.

101,750 Followers 1,253 Following 8,543 Posts Joined May 2023
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Agree that it would be weird if accurate. But also, it is … untrue.

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7 hours ago

@getvillarreal.bsky.social bro 😂

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Breaking barriers again and again

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(I am not transgender and I’m only arguably a journalist.)

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Transgender journalist Moira Donegan has accused President Donald Trump of starting a war against Iran as a distraction from his weakness domestically, especially as his polls show his growing unpopularity as voters sour on his sagging economy, high prices, high unemployment rates, and the “pointless cruelty and terror” of his ethnic cleansing policy of “mass deportations.”

“The Trump administration launched a war on Iran with no organized attempt to persuade the American public of the justice of their course of action, no effort to get the constitutionally required approval from Congress, and no attempt to put forward an even minimally coherent post-hoc rationalization for their decision,” Donegan wrote in a recent column in The Guardian.

Love to be a transgender journalist. 🫡

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20 hours ago

I had never heard of her until this cameo in Stanton’s life and she’s incredible!

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22 hours ago

Not really; if you read the piece you’ll see that Stanton’s peers in the movement rejected her for these statements.

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1 day ago

Lmaoooooo

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The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gVv5-C

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1 day ago

It’s so good.

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Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital
By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax
March 12, 2026 at 9:54 pm EDT
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https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/georgia-woman-charged-with-murder-after-taking-abortion-pills-giving-birth-hospital/6GA7IHO7YNBCLC24BXHHBAV6XI/

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her.

@pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

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1 day ago

I wrote about her, even!

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1 day ago

I actually kind of like how performative rude and aggressive she was about that kind of thing. Uh, less so about others.

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Always read @moiradonegan.bsky.social

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Trump is the weakest he’s ever been. That makes him so dangerous on Iran | Moira Donegan Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak? Precisely because he is weak

"Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak?" asks @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

"Trump cannot consolidate his authoritarian regime because he is simply not popular enough to do so."

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Trump is the weakest he’s ever been. That makes him so dangerous on Iran | Moira Donegan Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak? Precisely because he is weak

I wrote about the domestic politics fueling Trump’s war on Iran. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

I write about Elizabeth Cady Stanton for The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

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Trump is the weakest he’s ever been. That makes him so dangerous on Iran | Moira Donegan Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak? Precisely because he is weak

Trump is the weakest he’s ever been. That makes him so dangerous on Iran | Moira Donegan

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Israeli military drops charges against soldiers charged with abusing Palestinian prisoner The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.

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Episode 64: Whither the Preachers? With Kristin Kobes Du Mez Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · March 18, 2025 · 51m

Also if you liked parts about @kkdumez.bsky.social’s Jesus and John Wayne and want a great, accessible conversation about it, I recommend this episode of In Bed With The Right ( @moiradonegan.bsky.social @adriandaub.bsky.social)

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2 days ago

The notion that Arabs and Muslims are more bound to the strictest dictates of Islam than white people are to those of Christianity or Judaism reflects a belief in these people as primitive and superstitious, which is … wait for it… racist.

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2 days ago

These Adrians! They must be stopped!!!!

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2 days ago

I think a woman can wear what she wants in her own home no matter what a racist robot has to say about it

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2 days ago

Liberation theologists were right!!!!

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3 days ago

what in the world

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3 days ago

More evidence for my theory that they've just reinvented the hysteria diagnosis again ...

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3 days ago

"Trauma" being used to smear feminists as epistemically unreliable and their critiques as easily dismissed part one million.

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‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff Clinics are pleading with Congress and HHS for answers amid “radio silence” about the imminent expiration of Title X funding.

NEW: Title X clinics around the country that provide contraception, cancer screening etc. to more than 2mil low income people could see their federal funding cut off in a few weeks. HHS was supposed to give clinics guidance months ago about reapplying for funding, but it's been "radio silence."

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3 days ago

A perfect story for our historical moment in that it’s like the set up for one of those jokes where the punchline is “The Aristocrats!”

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