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“The infrastructure of care, prevention and research that has developed over the 40-plus years of this epidemic is virtually being eliminated or drastically reduced to the point that the progress that we have made." 19thnews.org/2025/04/hiv-...

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The bill would require an individual to present in person a passport, birth certificate or other citizenship document when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. 19thnews.org/2025/04/save...

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While research from the federal government has found immigrants commit less crime than U.S.-born people, Trump and his allies have often drawn attention to the tragic cases of American women and girls killed by undocumented immigrants. 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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This marathon effort, where the 55-year-old Democrat held his speaking time by refusing to sit, eat, or use the bathroom, served as a way to spotlight the voices of Americans who are fearful for their futures under a second Trump presidency. 19thnews.org/2025/04/cory...

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@19thnews.org asked 10 trans icons, from Elliot Page to Peppermint, to reflect on the movies that move them and that and affirm the dignity of trans people. 19thnews.org/2025/03/tran...

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“I’m here talking to voters in beautiful Portage County, Wisconsin. Guess who Brad Schimel is talking to right now? Elon Musk,” Crawford said to boos + murmurs from the assembled crowd.Schimel, Crawford charged, “is willing to sell our state off to the highest bidder.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/elon...

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What to think about if you — a reporter — are added to a classified group chat. Such a wild real life scenario, but alas. www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

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Celebrate Women isn’t the only recent example of how the assault on DEI across public life has led to a seeming prohibition on celebrating the accomplishments of women, with many actions taken during March, the month specifically earmarked to remember such events. 19thnews.org/2025/03/wome...

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“What’s different this time around, unlike the first Trump administration and [any other] since [former President Lyndon B.] Johnson’s admin, they have sought to eliminate the underlying executive actions and infrastructure that is critical to doing robust enforcement.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/equa...

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Trump has vowed repeatedly to shut down the federal agency, fulfilling a longtime goal of many conservatives, but to do so lawfully, he needs congressional approval. 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

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"But for Inspire Investing, companies who scored “an above-average employer rating” on the HRC’s Index are dinged and receive a bad score for their so-called LGBT activism." 19thnews.org/2025/03/bibl...

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The Trump administration’s new policy to discontinue “X” gender markers on passports has many transgender Americans wondering if it’s safe to fly. @19thnews.org asked experts to weigh in. 19thnews.org/2025/03/safe...

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“The Military Ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext,” the judge wrote. 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

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finding joy and community is so important — grateful to be able to do this as my job!! come with me to throw an International Women’s Day party during South by Southwest for @19thnews.org!

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"The thing about the work we do is that the stakes are so high for our clients. If we aren’t there when somebody needs us, it could literally result in them being badly injured or killed." 19thnews.org/2025/03/safe...

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A Houston-area midwife has been arrested on allegations she performed illegal abortions, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. 19thnews.org/2025/03/texa...

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These are the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. 19thnews.org/2025/03/texa...

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“I’m afraid I’ll be beaten. I’m afraid I’ll be arrested. But if you don’t do something even though you’re afraid, they win." 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

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If Republicans can fund the government thru Sept. 30, 2025, the end of the federal fiscal year, they'll free up time for Congress to try to enact Trump’s top priority: a tax-and-spending plan extending his 2017 tax cuts, which largely benefited corporations+the wealthy. 19thnews.org/2025/03/cong...

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By double-digit margins, more U.S. adults say there’s too little emphasis on encouraging boys to talk about their feelings and to do well in school compared with girls— but significant differences emerge when this is broken down by party affiliation. 19thnews.org/2025/03/boys...

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“Even after a guilty verdict, I still feel like there’s people who still choose to not believe the truth, that the police can do no wrong.I hope they never know what it feels like to have your child killed by the people who are supposed to protect them+people not care.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/breo...

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Millions of American women have a different last name than what’s on their birth certificates, and House Republicans have prioritized a bill that voting rights groups say could make it harder for them to vote. 19thnews.org/2025/03/save...

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“The idea of getting rid of all of that institutional knowledge of history, honestly, it terrifies me,” said Arne Duncan, education secretary from 2009 to 2015. 19thnews.org/2025/03/depa...

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“We have hospitals that are really being threatened with loss of funding, with even retaliatory attacks by the administration. We’re not only talking about gender-affirming care, we’re talking about medical care for LGBTQ folks." 19thnews.org/2025/03/tran...

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Professional women’s tennis will now offer its athletes robust family planning benefits — including up to 12 months of parental leave — the Women’s Tennis Association announced Wednesday. www.instagram.com/p/DG3zlkatbRW/

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“The bill — which lacks a clear enforcement mechanism — could subject women and girls to physical inspection by an adult if someone from an opposing team accused them of being transgender,” IL Sen. Dick Durbin said in a statement. 19thnews.org/2025/03/demo...

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“The way that the administration talks about transgender members of the country as though they don’t or shouldn’t exist — just dehumanizing. We’ve really struggled to keep our heads above the noise and not just succumb to the rhetoric." 19thnews.org/2025/03/six-...

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“We’ve lived all over … you move for work or family and say, ‘OK, this will be a new adventure,’” Chevaleau said. “This was the first time we felt like we had to move. If we don’t move, our kids will not grow up to be confident and secure people.” 19thnews.org/2025/03/lgbt...

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In a more than 17-minute long video posted on Saturday to launch his New York mayoral campaign, Cuomo pitched himself as the common-sense leader needed to address crime and urban disorder. 19thnews.org/2025/03/andr...

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“We should understand that Bloody Sunday was a culmination of a lot of different grassroots efforts to change that nearly 100-year history." 19thnews.org/2025/03/bloo...

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@19thnews.org's daily newsletter has a new design! There are so many folks on staff who work behind the scenes every day to make sure our journalism —including how its designed — is centered around our audience's needs. This refresh is just one example of this. Grateful for our product + tech teams!

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Here is your one-month status update on where some of the orders that affect LGBTQ+ people and women stand. @candicenorwood.bsky.social's latest. 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

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"On February 22, 1911, Harper — the “mother of African American journalism” — died at 85. Her legacy continues to point the way forward for the fellows whose work bears her name." 19thnews.org/2025/02/fran...

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In the past few weeks, four judges — a Reagan appointee, a Clinton appointee and two judges appointed by former President Joe Biden — have temporarily paused enforcement of anti-trans policies proposed by the Trump White House. 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

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"This is not permanent. This state of the world is not permanent." 19thnews.org/2025/02/shau...

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Following the removal of references to transgender and queer people and history from the Stonewall National Monument website, the family of Marsha P. Johnson is fighting back

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@bcrodriguez.bsky.social breaks down Medicaid, the popular public health care program for low-income Americans that covers nearly half of all births in America—and a program Republicans are reportedly weighing cuts to. 19thnews.org/2025/02/medi...

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It’s also not clear how any new Trump-backed policy would define who would receive benefits for IVF, which is often used by queer families + single people. The exec order issued Tues calls for policies that would help "loving + longing mothers + fathers have children." 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

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“Birth looks different every time, even if this is the mama’s third, fourth, fifth, sixth baby. Every time it looks different, it feels different. They themselves, then, are different on the other side of that.” 19thnews.org/2025/02/chil...

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"When we’re understood and when we’re known, we can’t be so easily villainized with rhetoric that is simply untrue and manipulative." @oriion.bsky.social's latest. 19thnews.org/2025/02/tran...

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“We won’t be safe if we’re silent, or if we speak out. So I’m going to keep speaking out.” 19thnews.org/2025/02/tran...

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As the Trump administration demands that all references to “gender ideology” and diversity, equity, and inclusion be removed across federal agencies, Black and transgender Americans are having their histories erased and their livelihoods put at risk. Check out my column for @19thnews.org here

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At Trump's one-month mark in office, @errinhaines.bsky.social wanted to know how women voters thought about his pledge to protect women and if they feel his actions since returning to office reflect his words from the campaign trail. Here's what she learned. 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

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Activists aren’t the only people fighting back against Trump’s directive to use FGM/C laws to prevent gender-affirming care. Fourteen Democratic attorneys general issued a statement February 5 saying there is no connection between the two. 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

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“In the 10 days since, Bondi has quickly demonstrated her intention to make good on that pledge — and has become one of the most vocal enforcers of Trump’s political agenda.” @candicenorwood.bsky.social reports. 19thnews.org/2025/02/atto...

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Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, will be able to shape federal abortion policy and has expressed openness to national restrictions. 19thnews.org/2025/02/robe...

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"Patients in states with abortion bans seeking basic information about their pregnancies have increasingly relied on anti-abortion centers, which, even before Roe’s overturn, vastly outnumbered abortion clinics." 19thnews.org/2025/02/sad-...

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"None of these women knew that the company (Hinge) had known about his violent behavior for years. He was first reported on September 28, 2020. By then, Match Group’s safety policy was already in place." 19thnews.org/2025/02/dati...

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"The preschooler’s appearance in the Oval Office nods to the double standard faced by women in politics and reinforces the gender roles inherent in Musk’s beliefs about family." 19thnews.org/2025/02/elon...

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