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Trump's brutal immigration agenda has no precedent. “It’s important to understand that we’ve never had a president who uses power, and instruments of power, in this way... No one has flaunted the traditions or authority like he has." From @mattshuham.bsky.social:

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A year ago, 14 people around Wisconsin were recruited to try to find common ground on repro health despite their deep divisions on abortion. Several of the participants who had severe disagreements have come back together to fight for their first consensus solution: extending postpartum Medicaid.

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New: Patriots Team Plane Makes Trip To Guantánamo Bay The plane’s charter company works with the U.S. government to “move military personnel,” a spokesperson for team owner Robert Kraft’s company told HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/patrio...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Tuesday that the American people are having an irrational yet understandable “emotional reaction” to President Donald Trump’s early moves in his second term. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

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Surprise, surprise: There may be a link between affordable housing and an increase in babies. “It is quite possible that increased access to home ownership, coming from a reduction in the price of houses in places that are building more houses, could meaningfully increase birth rates."

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THE HENCHMEN STRATEGY: My latest in-depth report for HuffPost looks at how the Trump administration has appointed numerous interim U.S. Attorneys — and it's all part of his quest to twist law enforcement agencies into his personal legal task force. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-he...

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100 days into office and Trump is still quietly dismantling abortion and reproductive health access... even if it hasn't made headlines. “The administration wants you to think that they are not paying attention to repro… but that is completely untrue."

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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

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The National Institutes of Health just cancelled its first and largest women-centered study. “This was really meant as a makeup project for women, because women have been excluded from research for so many years."

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Of course they are. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"In Texas, the largest state to ban abortion, the trend is most pronounced: In 2022, the first full year Texas had outlawed most abortions, pregnancy-related deaths went up by 56 percent" #txlege

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Women living in states that banned abortion are 2x more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. Black women in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as white mothers in those states. New report from Gender Equity Policy Institute:

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Why is "ICE" wearing a balaclava? dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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The Trump administration cut the funding for attorneys and legal services for migrant children. So now kids, in cartoon t-shirts and PJs, some as young as four, are facing immigration court alone. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

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Do read this from Nathalie Baptiste: The Supreme Court Is Getting Involved In The War On Books The high court will decide whether public schools requiring students to read books with LGBTQ+ themes is a violation of their religious freedom. www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus...

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SCOTUS oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor are in 5 minutes. What is Mahmoud v. Taylor? The Don't Say Gay case out of Maryland and the Fourth Circuit. Gather round. 🧵

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White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children One proposal "would reserve 30% of scholarships for the Fulbright program for applicants who are married or have children." Another would "bestow a 'National Medal of Motherhood' to mothers with 6 or more children."

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An Idaho judge partially expanded medical exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. But the court clarified that mental health is not included & a lethal fetal diagnosis is not enough to qualify for an abortion unless the mother’s health is also at risk.

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The Trump administration's cuts to HIV prevention will lead to new infections, medical costs and death, experts warn. From @kalish.bsky.social:

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on April 4, a federal judge paused enforcement of S.B. 4-C, the FL immigration law used to arrest Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez. Since then, at least 15 people have been arrested pursuant to the law, potentially exposing state/local officials to false imprisonment suits www.huffpost.com/entry/arrest...

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Happy Friday everyone. Thanks for reading NPR.org this week. Wanted to take a second to also remind you: I interviewed whistleblower Dan Berulis to accompany my lengthy written story on NLRB. Hear from him in his own words: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5355...

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I asked former Trump voters -- including some who voted for him in 2024 -- what made them walk away. For one woman, it was losing her job in DOGE cuts. Another said it was Trump's "grifting:" “What kind of president sells bibles, gold shoes and a $100,000 watch?” www.huffpost.com/entry/former...

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The Trump administration gutted a CDC division that monitors in vitro fertilization and tracks national maternal and infant health outcomes, despite Trump repeatedly insisting that he supports IVF and wants to protect women and children. @alannavagianos.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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Leading @huffpost.com today www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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…a very thoughtful piece on the importance of tariffs and how they can be used effectively for the working class and how they have been in the past. Then there are Trump’s impulsive tariffs that are missing the mark for working class people. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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A great explainer on why the Medina v. PPSAT SCOTUS abortion case is about more than "defunding" Planned Parenthood. A decision siding with SC "will open the door for states to exclude providers, like PP, because of politics and not because of their medical or clinical qualifications."

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The more experts I speak to, the more I believe state Republicans intro these bills (none of which are likely to pass) to normalize fetal personhood language. Slowly & quietly, they're moving the needle. 8 states weigh bills to treat abortion as homicide, from @shefali.bsky.social:

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BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

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I spoke to Monica, who sued Trump over his birthright citizenship attack: “I know there are millions of moms that are so scared, and that have the same fear that I do. It gives me strength to know that we as immigrants have these rights because the Constitution protects our babies—not us, but them”

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One woman dies every two minutes due to failures in maternal care around the world, according to new data from WHO. The data links U.S. funding cuts to growing risks after $770M+ in maternal & child health support was eliminated in 2025.

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I spoke with several CDC workers laid off from the highly-specialized Division of Reproductive Health that monitored IVF, tracked national maternal & infant health, and more. "Health will likely get worse, and you may not even know it. We won’t see the effects until it’s too late.”

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Trump has positioned himself as the leader of the "pro-family" party. But he's been attacking kids since his first day in office. A look at the Trump admin's war on kids from me, @kalish.bsky.social, @nhbaptiste.bsky.social & @mattshuham.bsky.social:

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Trump is copying the autocrats' playbook from Viktor Orban to end democracy in America. He's using autocratic legalism (or really autocratic illegalism) to turn the constitution and the law against themselves. Now's the time to stop this: www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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The “fertilization president” gutted the CDC division that studied IVF, birth control & maternal and child health. “We won’t see the effects until it’s too late,” one former CDC worker told me.

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An honest effort to study regret after transition would be asking why regret is so low and what that means about the profound barriers to transition.

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Expect to see much more of this in the coming weeks and months. Abortion providers have been teetering on the brink since Dobbs—and before tbh—so Trump winning and making them ineligible for programs like Title X and Medicaid will prove too much. www.mlive.com/news/jackson...

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ICYMI: You've probably heard about the vast array of agencies the HHS layoffs gutted, but somewhat less focused-on were the communications teams that were laid off. I talked to laid-off workers in the comms offices in 5 divisions of HHS, and all said their offices had been emptied or nearly so. 1/x

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