Jill Filipovic

Hong Kong, New York

Writer at Freelance

Writer, author, columnist, recovering lawyer, and yogi. I write about women's rights, US politics, and foreign affairs

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Articles

The American right and the thrill of political violence

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Jill Filipovic

As the President of the United States prepared to throw himself a little birthday military parade and aimed the armed forces at Americans protesting him in Los Angeles, somebody was aiming a firearm at Democratic lawmakers in their state. Dressed as a police officer, they assassinated representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and critically wounded senator John A Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.
Tides Turn

1 week ago | jill.substack.com | Jill Filipovic

What does it take for an authoritarian to fall? There’s no single answer, but according to one researcher, there is a 3.5% rule: If 3.5% of the population engages in nonviolent protest, that is just as effective at bringing down a regime as armed resistance. The US is a country of roughly 340 million, and an estimated 5 million turned out for the No Kings protests on Sunday. Have we hit the 3.5% mark yet? No. But we’re millions closer than we were on Friday.
Monday Reads

1 week ago | jill.substack.com | Tamar Eisen |Jill Filipovic

Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos on UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome to Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Turning Points

2 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Jill Filipovic

Sometimes, authoritarians rise to power slowly, encroaching on one right and then the next, steadily acclimating a population to levels of control they had once believed they would never accept. In other instances, the authoritarian seizes power quickly, and total control is asserted immediately. With Donald Trump, it’s…
Monday Reads

2 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Tamar Eisen |Jill Filipovic

Photo by Alisa Anton on UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome to Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
The Fool’s Gold in Trump’s White House Is Already Looking Tarnished

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Jill Filipovic

Donald Trump is back in the White House, and this time around, he’s done some major renovations. A home, any decent designer will tell you, should in its aesthetic reflect its inhabitants: Their lifestyles and their values. And Trump has certainly remade the White House in his image. It’s tacky, showy, and narcissistic—but luckily his changes don’t seem built to last. The Trump White House also appears to have more gold in it than the Federal Reserve.
Lessons in Disaster

3 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Jill Filipovic

To the internet’s great amusement, the Democratic Party is spending a bunch of money to figure out where it went wrong with men. And yes, there are many reasons to lol at spending millions just to conclude that economic anxiety was actually real and men prefer to have jobs and no one likes to be mocked or derided.
Trump’s crypto empire is a brazen hustle

3 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Jill Filipovic

That Donald Trump has turned his second presidency into a personal enrichment scheme is not exactly surprising. What has been unexpected, however, is one of the avenues he is using for that brazen accumulation: cryptocurrency and meme coins. The president is engaging in what many financial experts say is a scam industry, more akin to a pyramid scheme than a real currency. The Trump family’s net worth has increased by an estimated $3bn thanks to various crypto schemes and investments.
Monday Reads

3 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Tamar Eisen |Jill Filipovic

Photo by Hümâ H. Yardım on UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome to Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
An Argument for Screen-Lite Parenthood

4 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Jill Filipovic

Today I saw an unusual and very sad thing. Or at least, it was unusual for me. I walked away saddened and troubled and realized it’s not that unusual at all. This isn’t a dramatic story or a dramatic scene. It was a gaggle of babies, maybe seven or so in total. They were playing with various toy, and ostensibly with each other, as much as babies really ever play with each other.