Remember Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law?  The unconstitutionally vague law imposed such unclear restrictions on teachers who speak about sexual orientation or gender identity that many feared they could be fired merely for mentioning their spouses. Eventually, Florida agreed to a settlement which affirmed its right to do things like excluding Harvey Milk from the […]

Welcome to The Logoff: Today I’m focusing on a showdown between the administration and the courts over a wrongful deportation, a critical test of the judicial branch’s ability to check Donald Trump’s power. What’s the latest? Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge on Sunday that they were not required to bring back a man who was […]

“Tariffs or this?” mused an X user on April 5, the day after President Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs sent the Dow Jones spinning into its biggest drop since the height of the pandemic.  The “this” in question was a TikTok video from last summer in which the all-women executive team of an Australian skin […]

In a podcast landscape dominated by the manosphere, one of the biggest podcasts targeted to women sounds like it could be a children’s television show.  Giggly Squad is hosted by two best friends, fashion influencer Paige DeSorbo and comedian Hannah Berner, who first rose to fame via the Bravo reality show Summer House. In 2020, […]

Mikaela Shafer values spending time with her friends, and if that means booking a flea market day three months in advance, she considers it a small price to pay. For a while, Shafer, 38, and her friends found themselves in the throes of schedule coordination hell. One person would attempt to make plans on a […]