Meredith Conroy

The "Year of the Woman" keeps happening — just not for Republicans🧵 meredithconroy.substack.com/p/the-year-o...

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OF COURSE this is tech's response to gender inequality. Don’t redistribute the invisible labor women do, just automate it so the same person keeps carrying it, only faster, and stripped of whatever value it had.

Gender gaps in Brazil

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Recent staff departures during Trump's second term: — Katie Zacharia — Kimberly Guilfoyle — Kristi Noem — Pam Bondi — Tulsi Gabbard — Karoline Leavitt — Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Some people Vance has accused of ingratitude or similar: Abdul El-Sayed Kamala Harris Zohran Mamdani Ilhan Omar Joy Reid Volodymyr Zelensky I couldn't find any white Christians.

Gender studies the most vindicated discipline in history www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

Everything is gender, but especially in Texas.

Can't believe Jean Twenge, the woman who has dedicated her career to manipulating data about teen mental health, would manipulate data about teen sexuality.

Everyone knows that men are biologically hardwired for westerns, whereas women evolved to be shoppin

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

CAWP Director of Research @kdittmar.bsky.social speaks to @anniekarni.bsky.social at the @nytimes.com about women in the 2026 midterms: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

Absolutely horrifying. Fear of sexual violence prevents women candidates from running for office — a gendered burden that impacts representation overall. It is brave for Bernadette Greene-Placentia to share this. (NB Article contains graphic descriptions) www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

We live in a time when one political movement uses the role of government spokesperson as an audition to join the privatized ministry of propaganda.

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Incredible stuff.

"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

if texas goes the way it seems increasingly possible it might in november, we gotta talk about the political inbreeding that thirty years of single-party rule results in, and how that leaves that party with candidates who are utterly ill-equipped for a real general election

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In defense of the detour ... On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

lots of interesting stuff in the crosstabs here but let’s start by highlighting trump’s eighty (80) percent disapproval among voters under 30

A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.

Is your favorite fictional president "accidental"?? If she's a woman, the answer is probably yes. I had some fun putting this together (and watching TV!). What political dramas/comedies did I miss? substack.com/home/post/p-...

one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.

We're back! Thrilled to finally share the hate in my heart for Peter Duesberg, Thabo Mbeki and Dave Grohl

bleak but essential read

Fail. (Big piece on this tomorrow.) www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Anger leads to political participation. In POQ, Morell & Oceno explore the extent to which anger motivates political participation, the type of participation it drives, and how these differ between race and gender. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

It was a treat to talk with @maryharris.bsky.social about the pitfalls of JD Vance's new pet proposal for paying married moms to stay home with their kids. And about the purity-test politics and propaganda that underlie his efforts to present himself as "pro-family." slate.com/podcasts/wha...