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My name is Lyz. I’m a writer, blogger, and digital and social media strategist. In addition to this fine site, I also write regularly for the Huffington Post and Mom.me.

My writing has appeared in New York Times Motherlode, The Butter, The Rumpus, The Toast, Aeon, The Guardian, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Forbes, Real Weddings, AOL, Yahoo Shine and I’ve been syndicated on MSNBC and MSN Glo. My short stories have been published on Storyglossia and the Iowa Writes Project and one was just turned into …

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Amy Gertner’s video defending husband Graham Platner was all too familiar

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By Lyz Lenz Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Lyz Lenz Tue, June 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM UTC 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the story broke this past weekend that the Democratic frontrunner for U.S. senator in Maine, Graham Platner, had exchanged sexually explicit texts on the messaging app Kik with women outside his marriage, the first acknowledgement the public saw from Platner’s campaign came not from the Senate candidate, but via a lengthy video from his wife, Amy Gertner.
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Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning Original

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By Lyz Lenz Verified
| Rolling Stone Verified
I t was supposed to be a sweet moment between a basketball star and her young fan. And it was, it absolutely was — that is, until certain men on the internet saw it, and ruined everything. What happened next was a chain reaction: an internet cesspool of hateful comments, a Midwestern T-shirt store coming to the rescue, a $1,000 reward, a Boston-based reporter flying into town, a troll unmasked, and finally, a meeting between the little girl and her online bully. On Jan.
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Tucker Carlson’s apology for supporting Trump is just hot air

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| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
After decades of spreading false narratives about immigrants, depicting Black people as violent criminals and feminists as the root of all evil and helping to lay the ideological bedrock for this current administration, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson wants you to forgive him. On his podcast, Carlson and his brother, Buckley, a former speechwriter for Trump in 2015, criticized the war in Iran.
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