Esther Wang
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Police Unions’ Latest Grievance: Vaccine Mandates
We’ve heard this story before, when police said criminal justice reform would lead to mass resignations. → Read More
Congratulations to Liz Cheney's PR Team
Let's not forget Cheney's role in creating today's Republican Party → Read More
One Small Thing: How to Clean Your Face If You've Given Up
One-step skincare for people in their 30s who strive for good enough → Read More
Evil Villain Mitch McConnell Solemnly Promises He Will Never Ever Change
The Senate Minority Leader shared in an interview that he would love the opportunity to block any and all of Joe Biden's future SCOTUS nominees → Read More
Connecticut Has Found a Novel Method to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Baby bonds are good news for quite a lot of kids and their families and bad news for me, as I cannot insult the state as I normally would. → Read More
Firing of Boston Police Commissioner Is a Reminder That Cops Still Don't Care About Domestic Violence
“I will not turn a blind eye to domestic violence against Black women, or any woman, for that matter,” acting Mayor Kim Janey said → Read More
Joe Manchin Sucks But He's Not the Only Democratic Senator Who Sucks
It would be nice to live in a functioning democracy where the majority party elected by the will of the people actually passed legislation that is not only hugely popular, but whose goals the elected officials themselves claim to support. → Read More
The Backlash Against a Texas Bakery Selling Rainbow Cookies Is Another Symbolic Pride Month Morality Drama
Last week, a Lufkin, Texas, bakery called Confections posted a photo of a rainbow-colored heart-shaped cookie it had made in honor of Pride month. “More LOVE. Less hate,” the bakery, owned by two sisters, wrote on its Facebook page. “Happy Pride to all our LGBTQ friends! All lovers of cookies and happiness are welcome here.” → Read More
The Mini-Drama That Almost Took Down the Abortion Subreddit
When the Reddit user AbortionDoula became a moderator for the subreddit r/abortion a few years ago, they had already had years of experience working with abortion funds and abortion hotlines. A trained abortion doula and a member of the Online Abortion Resource Squad, AbortionDoula understood the value of online support and aid groups like r/abortion, especially for people in states where… → Read More
Revenge Porn Law Was Not Designed to Deal With a Case Like Ex-Congresswoman Katie Hill
In April, a judge dismissed former House Representative Katie Hill’s lawsuit charging the Daily Mail, the conservative news outlet Red State, as well as Red State’s Jennifer Van Laar with distributing non-consensual porn and violating California’s so-called “revenge porn” law when they published nude photos of her in 2019. Now, Hill has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 in legal fees,… → Read More
Petition to Get Bravo to Make Jennifer Weisselberg a Real Housewife
I don’t know much about the Real Housewives franchise, but I know enough to say with confidence that Jennifer Weisselberg, the ex-wife of a former Trump Organization employee and former daughter-in-law of the Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, would be an incredible addition to the franchise. She’s blonde, she’s messy, and she clearly loves drama and revenge, which has become… → Read More
And Now Rand Paul and Richard Marx Are Fighting
All of us at Jezebel love a good low-stakes, high-drama Twitter dude fight—especially when one of the combatants is Senator Rand Paul and the other is Grammy Award-winning recording artist and soft rock star Richard Marx. → Read More
Turns Out Some Men Who Are Reluctant to Get Vaxxed Will Happily Do So at a Strip Club
Due to widespread vaccine hesitancy, some states are being forced to come up with increasingly desperate methods to encourage their residents to get vaccinated against covid-19—a fact that has, at times, made me feel like we’re living in the absurd world conjured up by some science fiction dystopia. While dangling the lure of a million dollars to people who sign up to get one of the several… → Read More
Texas Just Passed Its Terrifying, Extreme Anti-Abortion Bill
On Wednesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a terrifying anti-abortion bill that not only seeks to ban almost all abortions, but also includes a provision that would allow someone who, in the words of the bill, “aided and abetted” an abortion seeker to be sued. By empowering private citizens to enforce cruel abortion bans that the state cannot, Texas Republicans have not only found… → Read More
New York Attorney General Letitia James Announces It's (Still) Crime Time For Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James is coming for Donald Trump and the Trump Organization—on Tuesday, her office revealed that not only is it continuing to pursue a civil investigation into the Trump Organization, it has broadened its inquiry into a criminal probe. The net is tightening! It’s crime time, baby! → Read More
Get Ready Because Amy Coney Barrett Now Has the Green Light to Try and Gut Roe
On Monday, the Supreme Court finally announced it would hear a case on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, a rule that directly challenges Roe v. Wade’s mandate that states cannot ban abortion before a fetus is viable. If Mississippi’s 2018 ban is upheld by the now-staunchly conservative court, it would not only further restrict access to abortions in a state where access is already severely… → Read More
The Squad's Moving, Powerful Speeches Represent a Turning Point on Palestine and Israel
On Thursday night, the members of the Squad spoke movingly about the rights of Palestinians and the toll that violence takes on all people, in speeches that sharply criticized the U.S.’s role in funding and supporting the Israeli government’s program of apartheid, forced expulsions, and asymmetrical violence. In what the Intercept called a “historic moment on the House floor,” Rashida Tlaib,… → Read More
Marjorie Taylor Greene Targeting AOC Isn't Just Harassment, It's Dangerous
Now that she’s been kicked off of all of her House committees, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has plenty of time on her hands to do what she seems to consider her most important and perhaps only job in Congress—being a nasty, violent little troll. It’s the skill, after all, that led to her ascension into Congress, and that has helped her haul in millions of dollars in donations. Why would… → Read More
Republicans Now Debating Whether Liz Cheney Is a Victim of Cancel Culture
In yet another sign that cancel culture isn’t real, even Republicans can’t agree on what constitutes “cancel culture.” This episode of intra-party confusion comes courtesy of Republican leaders’ push to oust Representative Liz Cheney from her leadership post in the House. On Monday, Senator Joni Ernst waded in, arguing that Cheney was being silenced and a victim of cancel culture within her own… → Read More
Joe Biden Wouldn't Take Your Crappy Low-Paying Service Jobs Either
How many stories have you read lately about restaurant owners bemoaning the fact that they can’t find employees for their shitty, often part-time jobs that often come with no benefits? These restauranteurs, whose woe-is-me stories have been lifted up by Republican leaders eager to cast a modest level of government support as the evils of socialism, tend to blame the same culprit. Their trouble… → Read More