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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 17 days ago • 1311 comments

🚨 BIG UPDATE: Due to overwhelming demand for abortion care & increased financial strain, TEA Fund is reinstating caps on our out-of-state abortion funding program. We didn’t want to do this. But the need is too great, and we need your help. Donate: teafund.org/donate

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Updates to my and @angusrohan.bsky.social's story! - A federal judge has halted cuts to NIH research payments in 22 states -Another lawsuit was filed this afternoon seeking to halt the research payment cuts nationwide See our @statnews.com for details www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Happy holiday to all who celebrate

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 24 days ago • 82 comments

Just a thought, because I’m not going to be able to sleep without sharing it: We are still only in the 15th day of the new Trump administration. This is a LOT. Much more needs to be done, and quickly, but I do think we need to remember how little time has actually passed.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

Hi! I had this piece come out over the weekend, another coming tomorrow, and possibly two more coming later this week. The inly reason I can keep up this pace and do it full time is because of your support for my Patreon. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: several federal datasets and health surveys came offline on Friday We @kff.org explain what these data are & how they’re used in interventions to address our nation’s biggest health challenges @jenkatesdc.bsky.social @mattrae.bsky.social @lindseydawson.bsky.social www.kff.org/policy-watch...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

From inside HHS, a court order sent around this morning telling agencies they can’t pause spending:

submitted 29 days ago • 41 comments

Wrote about a Supreme Court case that could start a nationwide rollback on birth control rights. Braidwood v. Becerra is nominally about insurance coverage, but as we witnessed with abortion, making reproductive healthcare less accessible is a stepping stone to bans. My first in @democracydocket.com

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.

submitted 35 days ago • 577 comments

This freak is going to be slapping tariffs on every country on earth because he’s mad at them by next month.

submitted 36 days ago • 46 comments

One of the four clinics closing is in Englewood, on Chicago’s south side, where women — disproportionately Black women — are already in a maternity care desert. This has led to higher mortality rates for women and infants.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The Chicago Abortion Fund is available to help: "Our Helpline Team is on standby to ensure that everyone, including people in communities facing clinic closures, can access abortion care on the timeline and at the location that works best for them.” www.chicagoabortionfund.org

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

My @kff.org colleagues & I took a deep dive into what to expect from Trump 2.0 on abortion, contraception and pregnancy-related care. These actions will take more time than an Executive Order, involving Congress & new regs, but I’m expecting they'll emerge soon. ICYMI: bit.ly/3WvmYSV

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Meta has rolled out a new program to lure creators to FB and Instagram. It promises “up to $5000” in bonuses for posting dozens of videos over 90 days. It asks creators to link their TikTok accounts, allowing Meta to acquire data. It’s giving Scam 101 vibes. www.engadget.com/social-media...

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk's salute is a standard-issue far-right trolling tactic. I call it fascist peekaboo, and explain how it works here. But it's not working so well this time. I explain how progressives and the press are getting smarter on how to respond. www.salon.com/2025/01/22/e...

submitted 40 days ago • 44 comments

Jonah Peretti will soon gut another newsroom, this time HuffPost. The cuts we heard about this week would devastate our news-gathering operation, just as Trump prepares to take office. It's a tough business and I'm not naive about cuts - but is he also another exec bowing to MAGA?

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

I wrote about the LA wildfires, the GoFundMes of rich people, and the long history of disaster relief reproducing inequality.

submitted 45 days ago • 29 comments

In a widely expected outcome, federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled today that Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri can continue the legal challenge to the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs usually used in medication abortion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 46 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: Media outlets are rushing to prepare for govt subpoenas and investigations under the Trump admin. Protective steps include: • Switching to encrypted communications • Conducting internal audits • Increasing libel insurance By me & @katierobertson.bsky.social 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

submitted 49 days ago • 57 comments

Because certain people would like you to believe they broke this story, here's local news coverage of Brittany Watts' lawsuit against Mercy Health published nearly 7 hours ago www.wfmj.com/story/521706...

submitted 48 days ago • 21 comments

"To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices."

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

We want to hear from mothers and pregnant people who bear the brunt of caring for children and are navigating the impacts of these wildfires. How are you dealing with displacement and evacuations? How are you explaining to your kids what has happened? airtable.com/apphPce8I38a...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

~129,000 people have moved out of abortion-banned states since Dobbs. Researchers say this "highlights that reproductive healthcare access has a measurable effect on residential decisions," which... seems entirely reasonable seeing as these laws are life-threatening. @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Farmworkers have avoided bird flu testing bc they don't have paid sick days. Rather than offering to cover that loss, health departments have modified guidelines so that they can work while sick. From the CA dept of public health:

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 54 days ago • 194 comments

In addition to the people that Judd mentions, there's Dustin Carmack, Project 2025 contributor and regional director of public policy at Meta.

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Arizona does not vet new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school “provider” has already failed, or was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning. propub.li/3PovCyh

submitted 62 days ago • 87 comments

"In states with abortion bans, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and died with what medical examiners recorded as 'products of conception' still in their bodies. "These are the kinds of cases maternal mortality review committees are supposed to delve into...

submitted 67 days ago • 848 comments

Donating to an abortion fund is an act of solidarity to prevent or erase medical debt, as Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor told Jezebel. The economic justice organization recently gave $50,000 to abortion funds. www.jezebel.com/abortion-deb...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I have no idea how bluesky is for spreading the word about hiring, but: @19thnews.bsky.social has an opening for a contract economy reporter starting in January! $50/hour, 25 hours/week, for six months Details and application here! 19thnews.org/contract-eco...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

really interesting new research on IVF and pollution, via @jkutzie.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2024/12/air-...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Talked to abortion-rights advocates in states where ballot measures failed about what happened and what's next. Folks in Arkansas and South Dakota said they need money and interest from national orgs. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/abor...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result. This story arc is way too common in modern society. deadline.com/2024/12/max-...

submitted 78 days ago • 48 comments

i do not understand the country in which i live.

submitted 78 days ago • 31 comments

so far this local fox affiliate has the only mainstream coverage of the refiled south carolina bill that would make abortion punishable by death and i am 👀www.foxcarolina.com/2024/12/11/s...

submitted 81 days ago • 37 comments

NEW: The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance refused to pay for it.

submitted 80 days ago • 19 comments

Indiana Supreme Court allows a preliminary injunction to remain for a religious exemption to the state’s abortion ban. This case goes back to the lower court for further proceedings. This is a setback for the state and a temporary win for the individual plaintiffs and Hoosiers Jews for Choice.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

“Arizona law is clear: no company has the right to endanger an entire community’s health and safety for its own gain." The farm uses billions of gallons of groundwater in La Paz County each year to irrigate the desert to grow hay, which it then ships back to the Middle East to feed dairy cows.

submitted 82 days ago • 30 comments

I cannot even articulate how absolutely catastrophic it will be if the Trump admin rescinds ICE's sensitive locations policy. The only undocumented immigrants I know who were ordered deported by the Trump admin & successfully fought their cases were people who had the ability to enter sanctuary.

submitted 82 days ago • 14 comments

New, from @giannella.bsky.social & I: It is very likely that the Trump administration will add administrative burdens to safety net programs. What can state and local govts do? We talk about one simple innovation to increase SNAP take-up. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

Hey @labcorp.bsky.social! What’s the deal with your PHX locations? I have a baby with a congenital health issue that requires routine blood work & none of your PHX locations have supplies to do a blood draw on an infant. They also told me that they can’t order supplies to do it! WTF

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Really excited to see this happen. Discrimination is in our zoning code. This is one step to fix it. boulderreportinglab.org/2024/12/05/c...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Attacks on abortion and trans rights are disturbingly similar—and the Skrmetti arguments at the Supreme Court were a prime example. The playbook: Claiming bans aren’t bans Making flawed global comparisons Weaponizing consent and regret Invoking eugenics *Leaving human rights to the states

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

OHHHHH MY GOD apnews.com/article/wisc...

submitted 91 days ago • 33 comments