Abby Monteil

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Sign up for The Agenda — Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Even when Donald Trump’s administration is overseeing a constitutional crisis, he still has time to attack transgender people. During an April 14 meeting between Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele that was ostensibly about the two leaders’ controversial deportation and detention pact, Trump abruptly brought up his favorite political scapegoat: trans women in sports.

1 week ago | them.us | Abby Monteil

Sign up for The Agenda — Them's news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. A new Supreme Court case threatens to escalate LGBTQ+ book bans and, according to a new report in Vox, could potentially implement policies similar to Florida’s draconian “Don’t Say Gay” law in public schools across the United States. On April 22, the Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments for Mahmoud v. Taylor.

1 week ago | them.us | Abby Monteil

This article contains spoilers for the season two premiere of The Last of Us.One of The Last of Us: Part II’s most iconic scenes comes nearly 30 hours into the behemoth video game’s runtime. Toward the end of the bleak, gory postapocalyptic tale, players are suddenly flung back to what seems like an impossibly simple time: a winter dance held the night before Part II’s story begins.

1 week ago | them.us | Abby Monteil

Sign up for The Agenda — Them's news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. It’s no secret that the second Trump administration has spent its first several months targeting the rights of transgender Americans. This relentless campaign has put Trump and his administration at odds with U.S. states that have laws protecting trans residents from discrimination and preserving their access to gender-affirming care.

1 week ago | them.us | Abby Monteil

This article contains spoilers for Yellowjackets season 3. Yellowjackets has finally caught up with itself. The show’s pilot was interspersed with chilling flashes of its central characters ritualistically hunting and eating one of their own soccer teammates, presumably well into their 19-month stint in the Canadian wilderness. In those stirring early images, one faceless girl oversees the group’s feast, bedecked in an antler crown and several locks of the dead girl’s hair.