Lauren Tousignant

3 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

Since January, Donald Trump’s crusade to get rid of anything he considers DEI—which appears to be literally everything that doesn’t specifically cater to white men—has resulted in devastating funding cuts to critical education, science, and research initiatives, including programs and grants for family planning and reproductive health.

3 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

On Wednesday, Bryan Freedman—who, for what it’s worth, argued Baldoni’s side on The Megyn Kelly Show, of all fucking places—wrote a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman, claiming that a “source who is highly likely to have reliable information” told him that Lively’s lawyer made “extortionate threats” to Swift’s lawyers. This made me laugh because that’s also what I say when I’m trying to gossip, but my informant is a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lauren Tousignant

We’re still 10 months out from Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni‘s March 2026 trial, and I sincerely don’t know if we’re going to make it. I fear the tabloid drama is just going to get bigger and spicier, sucking everything into its orbit until it collapses under its own weight, swallowing us all into a dark, eternal void.

3 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

On Inauguration Day, Donald Trump performatively signed a bunch of executive orders, most of which have since been challenged by courts across the country. Among them was his pledge to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

3 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Lauren Tousignant

So on Wednesday, Hawley used his time to ensure that Kennedy would uphold his “pledge” to restrict mifepristone. “Since the last time you and I spoke, there’s been a major study by the Ethics & Public Policy Center of 865,727 prescribed cases of mifepristone, abortions—chemical abortions—between 2017 and 2023,” Hawley said. “Have you seen this study? Are you familiar with this?” Kennedy said he was familiar, but let’s first break down Hawley’s question.