Joy Press
@joypress.bsky.social
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Joy Press
@joypress.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Fell off social media for a while so let me reintroduce myself. I write about TV & culture & feminism for Vanity Fair. Wrote a book about women television creators called Stealing the Show. Former book editor/critic at Village Voice & LA Times. Forever trying to keep the doomscrolling at bay.
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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this has been a VERY hard year for trans people
so let me just say
to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election
thank you for protecting us
PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and there’s still a long way to go
but
THANK. YOU. 😭🩷
so let me just say
to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election
thank you for protecting us
PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and there’s still a long way to go
but
THANK. YOU. 😭🩷
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
this has been a VERY hard year for trans people
so let me just say
to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election
thank you for protecting us
PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and there’s still a long way to go
but
THANK. YOU. 😭🩷
so let me just say
to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election
thank you for protecting us
PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and there’s still a long way to go
but
THANK. YOU. 😭🩷
Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and you’re welcome
Bonus: Laugh Till You Cringe
When did we start calling it cringe comedy? Featuring the great tv critic Joy Press (@joypress.bsky.social)!
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#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #cringecomedy
When did we start calling it cringe comedy? Featuring the great tv critic Joy Press (@joypress.bsky.social)!
🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic...
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #cringecomedy
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and you’re welcome
This incredible speech feels like the speech of a future president.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This incredible speech feels like the speech of a future president.
Congratulations, NY! If anyone’s fleeing the city, I know plenty of people who’d love to take your place
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Congratulations, NY! If anyone’s fleeing the city, I know plenty of people who’d love to take your place
I spend my whole life ignoring sports yet live close enough to Dodger stadium that I can hear the endless fireworks all night. Happy for all the happy people!
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I spend my whole life ignoring sports yet live close enough to Dodger stadium that I can hear the endless fireworks all night. Happy for all the happy people!
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oh
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
oh
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Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions
July 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions
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This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...
July 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...
When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings
July 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings
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Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer
Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum
A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.
firstfloor.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer
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Margaret Atwood’s version of this, in The Handmaid’s Tale, is “Nolita te bastardes carbarendurum” carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
July 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Margaret Atwood’s version of this, in The Handmaid’s Tale, is “Nolita te bastardes carbarendurum” carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
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The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
July 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
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I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
www.vanityfair.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days.
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Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away."
Other reporters say they have been targeted too.
My story below:
Other reporters say they have been targeted too.
My story below:
The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles more than three dozen times. https://n.pr/3Zw0tPg
June 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days.
/more
/more
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
www.vanityfair.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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From 2020 but evergreen
“‘People should know there are steps they can take to uphold democracy’ said Erica Chenoweth. This is a core tenet of civil-resistance theory, also known as people power—that citizens, working in concert, have more agency than they are led to believe.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How to Stop a Power Grab
As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance.
www.newyorker.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
From 2020 but evergreen
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This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:
www.nokings.org#map
www.nokings.org#map
June 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:
www.nokings.org#map
www.nokings.org#map
Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer
June 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer
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“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump, the @latimes.com reports
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles will stop offering services related to transgender care, according to a message reviewed by The Times.
www.latimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."
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LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history.
I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
Remapping LA
Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong.
www.guernicamag.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history.
I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
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Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
June 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”