Too bad for Hegseth and his anti-Amazon stance in the military. Good lawyers need to be prepared to challenge him if he makes estrogen a problem in the ranks.
Great piece of work from President Biden. One hopes that Mr. Tribe and a substantial number of his fellow Constitutional lawyers are prepared to spend a lot of time arguing the validity of the ratification because the MAGA misogynists will certainly be chomping at the bit, probably including some women.
I agree Tom, it is long past time that all of realize there is no substantial difference in the genders and those differences there are should mutually benefit all. The NASA training proved that beyond the shadow of doubt.
TC, thank you for reposting Professor Tribe on the ERA. I am still Active ABA & the American Bar Association's 'House Delegates" made the relevant legal conclusion of the enactment of Equal Rights back in 2024. Regardless, Biden's move is on point & opens equal access wider.
Let me begin with saying I begin my Substack crawl everyday looking for what TCinLA has posted on Substack. His takes are refreshing, they have honest to God feelings, and he shares other people's work. Ok. so ,/ (check) I've been sincerely respectful of Tom.
ahem
A Note About Everyone Explaining Everything
So here we are again. Another email in my inbox announcing yet another Substack newsletter, promising to explain what's really happening in the world. Because apparently, what we desperately need right now – more than peace, more than a solution to climate change, more than a decent bagel outside of New York – is another person explaining what The New York Times just explained about what's threatening to end civilization as we know it today.
Don't get me wrong. I read the news. You read the news. We all read the news. It's practically become a full-time job, alongside doomscrolling and anxiety management. But somewhere between my morning coffee and my evening existential crisis, I've discovered that everyone with a Substack subscription and a passing acquaintance with political science has become not just a reader, but an Expert™.
These Experts™ (and yes, the trademark is necessary, they've practically branded themselves) are everywhere now, each one breathlessly racing to explain the same article you just read in The Times, The Post, or The Economist. They're like an army of very earnest tour guides, all pointing at the same painting in slightly different voices, convinced that their particular interpretation of this brushstroke or that shadow will finally make everything clear.
Here's the thing: I'm not against political commentary. I'm not even against people making money from their analysis. But there's something almost comedically circular about this whole ecosystem – writers regurgitating news about news that was already news, each one promising that their take is the essential take, the one that will finally help you understand why everything is terrible in a slightly more nuanced way.
(God knows! I admit I write poetry based on the news. How yellow journalism, is that? What is wrong with that picture?!?)
And the marketing! Every new newsletter arrives with the urgency of a breaking news alert. "NEW!" they proclaim, as if nobody has ever thought to explain this particular catastrophe before. "ESSENTIAL READING!" they insist, though their essentials seem mainly to involve telling you what you just read elsewhere, just with more exclamation points and a sprinkling of Blue SKy screenshots.
Perhaps I'm being unfair. Perhaps somewhere in this endless game of journalistic telephone round robin, there's genuine insight being created. But right now, it feels less like enlightenment and more like an echo chamber where the currency is hot takes and the product is... more hot takes about hot takes.
Maybe what we really need isn't another newsletter explaining what we just read. Maybe what we need is to step back, take a breath, and acknowledge that sometimes news is just news, and not everything needs seventeen different interpretations before breakfast. You know, actual perspective. Real insight. The kind that comes from thinking rather than just reacting.
But what do I know? I'm just here, writing about writers writing about writers writing about the news. And yes, I see the irony. I'm choosing to believe it's part of my charm.
You make some good points (as always) Gloria. My answer is, I repost stuff (with my take on it) from the news I doomscroll through, pointing up what I think is more important than the rest of the bullshit.
You do, in fact, choose interesting, fresh takes on the news which is regurgitated god knows how many times. It is a lovely surprise and pleasure to read the articles you repost.
Yeah, this is why I am canceling my sub to WaPo.....besides the complete caving to disaster that is Bezos, I simply can't devote the time to reading everybody's opinions/new revelations - ain't enough hours in the day (and I have the wasted time to prove it)..... I decided to keep the Times only because I like scrolling through all the articles to get the odd stuff that used to be down on page 17 of Section A.....news about dinosaurs, culture and technology and all the other non-political things I love to see. But then I am strange.....
Gloria Horton-Young, on opening email data sources, it is not about "explainers" or what expert's say. Brilliant writing as TC commonly delivers coupled with real time, real world data can literally mean life or death decisions.
Check out Tom's on-the-scene urgent reports only one block from his house that's 1 block from Mandeville Canyon. Tom was reporting the raging firestorm was headed ON SHORE toward the San Fernando Valley specifically aimed at ENCINO California. Then Tom with his yes ... his EXPERT's knowledge of the operational characteristic of airplanes confirmed the drop of the necessary pink-stuff fire-retardant to STOP the fire along with a spectacular photo confirmation!
As Tom reported in real time -- winds were DEAD CALM calm 3 mornings in a row rising to 2-3 mph when MSM was misreporting facts on the ground. I sent Tom's work to two 4th generation Angelinos who also needed the data to save lives. Needles to say Tom does not stir the storm.
World Class work Tom just 1 question ... were you talking directly to the navigator in the cockpit saving everyone's ass & your home?
You clearly did not read any of my responses to Tom about evacuating over 30 times while living in California but thanks for mansplaining Tom’s posts for me. I appreciate your thoughtlessness.
Perhaps edit your substack list, realize many can’t afford to breech paywalls, and accompany your cynicism with a little of that cookie dough and a slug of whiskey.
That movie started me not only on musicals, but on WWII films. Midway, Tora etc, Bridge… I really enjoy Tom’s history series. On a chilly rainy night Mitzi Gaynor lifted my spirits right up!
I can’t afford more than the six I take. I like them and don’t have time or money for more. I miss the days of Walter, before Rupert decided that entertainment would enhance (propagandize) our take on the state of the world.
I know, I know - another day, another scroll through the endless churn of news that makes me want to mainline cookie dough. But here's the thing: at least this is a fresh perspective on our collective doom-scrolling misery. And please, darling, stop whining about lost time. It's like wearing white shoes after Labor Day - simply not done. Especially not with that adorable face of yours, which, by the way, is currently sporting the most charming combination of orange and green. You look like a particularly optimistic citrus fruit basking in the midday sun. A kumquat having its moment, if you will.
This sun basking though not highly optimistic quat-of-kum is again pointing out the redundancy. But don’t let that interfere w the need to let it all out. You want the attention, you got it.
I hate being a naysayer but the ambiguity is overwhelming which is to say Trump and his White Christian Project 2025 male asslickers will piss on this claim. It surely will be litigated to the Radical Supremes who will have the last word. At that point it will be interesting to see the result: We know Alito, Thomas Gorsuch and Kavanaugh believe woman should be docile and subservient to their male “needs.” But will Roberts agree? And where will this leave Coney-Barrett who, by the very seat in which she sits, is their equal.🤔
I won't be surprised if the incoming president adds that to his Day One agenda, which is actually only 12 hours before it becomes Day Two (unless he decides to count days noon to noon).
Sorry, but the 28th will certainly be challenged in the courts, and I cannot see the Extreme Court holding that it has been enacted validly. The reactionaries may well re-write the Constitution to reach the conclusion they want (what we lawyers call, "result-oriented jurisprudence," but they will find a way.
My husband, Mark, and his mother, Evonne, both went on the streets of San Diego in 1984 to interview people about what they thought about the ERA: https://vimeo.com/671383156?share=copy
"So too with the ERA. Congress knew by the date of its submission to the States, March 22, 1972, precisely how to include a shelf date in the text of the amendment , but instead included a time limit only in the advisory resolution."
This is is going to be the crux of any litigation on this, which will start when a judge rules based on the Amendment. Lord knows what the Extremes will do with it. Let's hope it isn't an abortion or trans rights case.
Though it should be interesting to see the the folks who says gender is the same as sex twist about the concept of no rights denied " on account of sex."
Too bad for Hegseth and his anti-Amazon stance in the military. Good lawyers need to be prepared to challenge him if he makes estrogen a problem in the ranks.
Great piece of work from President Biden. One hopes that Mr. Tribe and a substantial number of his fellow Constitutional lawyers are prepared to spend a lot of time arguing the validity of the ratification because the MAGA misogynists will certainly be chomping at the bit, probably including some women.
I agree Tom, it is long past time that all of realize there is no substantial difference in the genders and those differences there are should mutually benefit all. The NASA training proved that beyond the shadow of doubt.
ABA also stated the ERA was valid.
Correct. Last year at the 2024 at the annual "House of Delegates".
How will it matter without even the pretense that rule of law is present.
TC, thank you for reposting Professor Tribe on the ERA. I am still Active ABA & the American Bar Association's 'House Delegates" made the relevant legal conclusion of the enactment of Equal Rights back in 2024. Regardless, Biden's move is on point & opens equal access wider.
Let me begin with saying I begin my Substack crawl everyday looking for what TCinLA has posted on Substack. His takes are refreshing, they have honest to God feelings, and he shares other people's work. Ok. so ,/ (check) I've been sincerely respectful of Tom.
ahem
A Note About Everyone Explaining Everything
So here we are again. Another email in my inbox announcing yet another Substack newsletter, promising to explain what's really happening in the world. Because apparently, what we desperately need right now – more than peace, more than a solution to climate change, more than a decent bagel outside of New York – is another person explaining what The New York Times just explained about what's threatening to end civilization as we know it today.
Don't get me wrong. I read the news. You read the news. We all read the news. It's practically become a full-time job, alongside doomscrolling and anxiety management. But somewhere between my morning coffee and my evening existential crisis, I've discovered that everyone with a Substack subscription and a passing acquaintance with political science has become not just a reader, but an Expert™.
These Experts™ (and yes, the trademark is necessary, they've practically branded themselves) are everywhere now, each one breathlessly racing to explain the same article you just read in The Times, The Post, or The Economist. They're like an army of very earnest tour guides, all pointing at the same painting in slightly different voices, convinced that their particular interpretation of this brushstroke or that shadow will finally make everything clear.
Here's the thing: I'm not against political commentary. I'm not even against people making money from their analysis. But there's something almost comedically circular about this whole ecosystem – writers regurgitating news about news that was already news, each one promising that their take is the essential take, the one that will finally help you understand why everything is terrible in a slightly more nuanced way.
(God knows! I admit I write poetry based on the news. How yellow journalism, is that? What is wrong with that picture?!?)
And the marketing! Every new newsletter arrives with the urgency of a breaking news alert. "NEW!" they proclaim, as if nobody has ever thought to explain this particular catastrophe before. "ESSENTIAL READING!" they insist, though their essentials seem mainly to involve telling you what you just read elsewhere, just with more exclamation points and a sprinkling of Blue SKy screenshots.
Perhaps I'm being unfair. Perhaps somewhere in this endless game of journalistic telephone round robin, there's genuine insight being created. But right now, it feels less like enlightenment and more like an echo chamber where the currency is hot takes and the product is... more hot takes about hot takes.
Maybe what we really need isn't another newsletter explaining what we just read. Maybe what we need is to step back, take a breath, and acknowledge that sometimes news is just news, and not everything needs seventeen different interpretations before breakfast. You know, actual perspective. Real insight. The kind that comes from thinking rather than just reacting.
But what do I know? I'm just here, writing about writers writing about writers writing about the news. And yes, I see the irony. I'm choosing to believe it's part of my charm.
You make some good points (as always) Gloria. My answer is, I repost stuff (with my take on it) from the news I doomscroll through, pointing up what I think is more important than the rest of the bullshit.
And I need a sane take on our insane situation. Keep it up, please
You do, in fact, choose interesting, fresh takes on the news which is regurgitated god knows how many times. It is a lovely surprise and pleasure to read the articles you repost.
Yeah, this is why I am canceling my sub to WaPo.....besides the complete caving to disaster that is Bezos, I simply can't devote the time to reading everybody's opinions/new revelations - ain't enough hours in the day (and I have the wasted time to prove it)..... I decided to keep the Times only because I like scrolling through all the articles to get the odd stuff that used to be down on page 17 of Section A.....news about dinosaurs, culture and technology and all the other non-political things I love to see. But then I am strange.....
Gloria Horton-Young, on opening email data sources, it is not about "explainers" or what expert's say. Brilliant writing as TC commonly delivers coupled with real time, real world data can literally mean life or death decisions.
Check out Tom's on-the-scene urgent reports only one block from his house that's 1 block from Mandeville Canyon. Tom was reporting the raging firestorm was headed ON SHORE toward the San Fernando Valley specifically aimed at ENCINO California. Then Tom with his yes ... his EXPERT's knowledge of the operational characteristic of airplanes confirmed the drop of the necessary pink-stuff fire-retardant to STOP the fire along with a spectacular photo confirmation!
As Tom reported in real time -- winds were DEAD CALM calm 3 mornings in a row rising to 2-3 mph when MSM was misreporting facts on the ground. I sent Tom's work to two 4th generation Angelinos who also needed the data to save lives. Needles to say Tom does not stir the storm.
World Class work Tom just 1 question ... were you talking directly to the navigator in the cockpit saving everyone's ass & your home?
That was video from the Air National Guard. A minor correction: I was further away than that; had I been that close, I wouldn't have been there. :-)
You clearly did not read any of my responses to Tom about evacuating over 30 times while living in California but thanks for mansplaining Tom’s posts for me. I appreciate your thoughtlessness.
Perhaps edit your substack list, realize many can’t afford to breech paywalls, and accompany your cynicism with a little of that cookie dough and a slug of whiskey.
“Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps”
Doris Day 1964
Mitzi Gaynor 1964 : 🎶I'm going towash that Man right out of my Hair & send him on his Way🎶 -- And, Mitzi was not a cockeyed optimist.
That movie started me not only on musicals, but on WWII films. Midway, Tora etc, Bridge… I really enjoy Tom’s history series. On a chilly rainy night Mitzi Gaynor lifted my spirits right up!
My mom always aspired to a Doris Day ‘do. Thanks for the memory. 😘
We all aspired and dreamed of having that 'do'
Before that the weekly beehive. I think I got one too, once. It went well with buck teeth. (Ahem, extreme overbite) 😂
LOL!
I can’t afford more than the six I take. I like them and don’t have time or money for more. I miss the days of Walter, before Rupert decided that entertainment would enhance (propagandize) our take on the state of the world.
Amen!!
I know you mean well and you’re ranting about the ranting-but how do I get the time back I spent reading your missive?
You.Don't. Stop whining.
I know, I know - another day, another scroll through the endless churn of news that makes me want to mainline cookie dough. But here's the thing: at least this is a fresh perspective on our collective doom-scrolling misery. And please, darling, stop whining about lost time. It's like wearing white shoes after Labor Day - simply not done. Especially not with that adorable face of yours, which, by the way, is currently sporting the most charming combination of orange and green. You look like a particularly optimistic citrus fruit basking in the midday sun. A kumquat having its moment, if you will.
This sun basking though not highly optimistic quat-of-kum is again pointing out the redundancy. But don’t let that interfere w the need to let it all out. You want the attention, you got it.
Lol.
I was 19 years old. I'd given up any expectation that the ERA would ever be part of the Constitution. It finally, finally happened. Brava!
I hate being a naysayer but the ambiguity is overwhelming which is to say Trump and his White Christian Project 2025 male asslickers will piss on this claim. It surely will be litigated to the Radical Supremes who will have the last word. At that point it will be interesting to see the result: We know Alito, Thomas Gorsuch and Kavanaugh believe woman should be docile and subservient to their male “needs.” But will Roberts agree? And where will this leave Coney-Barrett who, by the very seat in which she sits, is their equal.🤔
Declare it is valid and now is the 28th Amendment, and make the sumbitches take away women's rights AGAIN.....make them own it.
Thank you very much Tom.
ERA a long time coming. 👍
Let's see how soon the Supremes try to overturn this.
I won't be surprised if the incoming president adds that to his Day One agenda, which is actually only 12 hours before it becomes Day Two (unless he decides to count days noon to noon).
I give it two weeks.
Sorry, but the 28th will certainly be challenged in the courts, and I cannot see the Extreme Court holding that it has been enacted validly. The reactionaries may well re-write the Constitution to reach the conclusion they want (what we lawyers call, "result-oriented jurisprudence," but they will find a way.
Also my prediction, but it will be interesting to see the arguments.
Yes! That could be Joe Biden's best legacy.
Definitely not too little, and never too late.
My husband, Mark, and his mother, Evonne, both went on the streets of San Diego in 1984 to interview people about what they thought about the ERA: https://vimeo.com/671383156?share=copy
TC, & Everyone: In the last 6 hours 1/20/25, 6 AM Eastern of President Biden has granted preemptive pardons to the following:
Dr. Fauci
J6 Select Committee Members
General Milley who was threatened with death
Others
"So too with the ERA. Congress knew by the date of its submission to the States, March 22, 1972, precisely how to include a shelf date in the text of the amendment , but instead included a time limit only in the advisory resolution."
This is is going to be the crux of any litigation on this, which will start when a judge rules based on the Amendment. Lord knows what the Extremes will do with it. Let's hope it isn't an abortion or trans rights case.
Though it should be interesting to see the the folks who says gender is the same as sex twist about the concept of no rights denied " on account of sex."