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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote a whole book about the complexity of the motives behind the overturn of Roe and how misogyny wasn’t the only factor but moments like this make clear IT SURE WAS A BIG ONE

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026

hey virginians did you know you get to vote to remove a BAN on same-sex marriage from the state constitution and protect people if the 6 robed freaks overturn obergefell? www.vpm.org/news/2026-08...

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Voters will decide whether to enshrine marriage equality in Virginia
VPM | By Jahd Khalil and Adrienne Hoar McGibbon
Published August 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 6h

darkly funny that Alliance Defending Freedom says things like this when it's responsible for forcing people to fund religious schools in violation of the First Amendment

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The Hyde Amendment Turns 50: No One Should Be Forced to Fund Abortion

Since 1976, Congress has renewed one simple principle every year: Americans shouldn't be forced to pay for abortions.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h

I'm Susan Rinkunas and I approve this message

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 8h

New and shocking development in the fight for a democratically governed Brooklyn Democratic Party:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

robert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I get down about what has become of journalism, of speaking the truth, I think of Jamal. I lost my Washington Post job. Jamal lost his life. Both of us — all we wanted to do was write and help people.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICE is scouting men driving to work early in the morning, but DoorDashers are most at risk while they drive all day for work. Read more from the ICE Watch newsletter: lataco.com/ice-watch-dr... By @eltragon.bsky.social

A masked ICE agent looks down at his phone.

Headline reads "ICE Watch: Driving To Work or For DoorDash? They’re Hunting You"

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Big news in the Senate battle. After pouring $30 million in NC, John Thune's GOP SuperPAC stops spending there, effectively conceding Cooper is likely to win. And they're dumping their first 7-figures in Kansas. (Note: a Dem internal found Hamilton up today.) www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New from @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: Noted plagiarist turned far-right podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation by protesters he described as violent criminals and terrorists in a series of videos he made while accompanying Kristi Noem & Greg Bovino www.ms.now/news/benny-j...

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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’

Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My latest @ms.now, on why it‘s not (legally) cruel and unusual for Tennessee to try to execute Christa Pike again, even w all the risks that remain, but also on why Gov. Bill Lee has far more political room to use his clemency than our conventional political narrative suggests.

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Opinion | Tennessee botched its attempted execution of Christa Pike. It shouldn’t try again.

John Pfaff: Gov. Bill Lee can do what the Supreme Court will not — and prevent a punishment that already feels morally cruel and unusual.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2026

"An unstated but underlying cause of [Walker's] death was the conservative legal movement’s creation of an environment in which doctors are reluctant to provide even life-saving abortion care, lest they be prosecuted for doing so."

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.

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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana

ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

News that @susanrinkunas.com @garnethenderson.com have been writing about for weeks and months at @autonomynews.co: The Trump regime is holding fire against abortion rights (pills) until the elections are over. They are coming (again get to know #Comstock)

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 02/10/2026

As we reported this week at @autonomynews.co: www.autonomynews.co/what-was-thi...

Does Trump actually want criminal investigations of abortion-pill providers? That’s not clear, though plenty of Republicans—including Hawley—do. Other anti-abortion hardliners have been moving into influential positions in the administration, including pro-fetal personhood lawyer Josh Craddock at the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel and Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump’s new pick to lead the FDA. No one expects any big moves from the administration before the midterms. Then all bets are off.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2026

ICYMI: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to block abortion protections in blue states @autonomynews.co www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL1TT5va/ www.instagram.com/reel/Dd7gtkG...

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2026

This photo actually makes James Carville look much more vibrant than he appeared when spotted walking in a Cambridge, MA, hotel today

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Urgent action is needed to pass legislation to ensure production of film and television series remains in the U.S. Please join us in urging Congress to pass a federal film and television production incentive program before November! Take action: wgaea.st/federalfilm

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t know whether the court will purport to find a loaded gun in the constitution that allows it to judicially declare fugitive slave act 2.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026

The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Leah Torres, MD @leahntorres.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Making abortion illegal = killing people. That’s it. It’s not more complicated than that. Making health care inaccessible means people die. States that fought the Civil War for the right to own people are now suing so they can own MORE. PEOPLE. It’s state-sanctioned murder and they are FOR it.

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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEWS: Florida’s First District Court of Appeal reversed Rhonda Jewell’s third-degree felony murder conviction, as well as her underlying conviction of leaving a child unattended in a vehicle, finding that both charges required a finding of intent flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/down...

flcourts-media.flcourts.gov

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 30/09/2026

Plus, Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the racist, classist Hyde Amendment. It’s a budget rider that, for many, rendered the protections of Roe v. Wade as just words on a page: www.autonomynews.co/tennessee-ag...

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Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the racist, classist Hyde Amendment, which banned federal funds from being used to cover abortion care in the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income people. Medicaid enrollees are disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and Latina. Hyde has never been codified into a standalone law; it's a rider that has been attached to federal spending bills since 1976, including in years when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House. Just months after Hyde first went into effect, a 27-year-old single mother named Rosie Jimenez died. She had previously been able to use her Medicaid benefits to obtain safe abortion care, but was forced to seek care from an unsafe provider because of Hyde. Over time, the policy has been expanded to apply to every federally funded health program, including the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Indian Health Service, Tricare-the health insurance program for active duty military members-and health coverage programs for federal employees.

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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, the deadly ban on federal funding of abortion that has shaped the lives of over a million low-income women. For @motherjones.com, this excerpt of my book explains why the death of Roe started w/ Hyde: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights

The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 30/09/2026

it's here and it's stunning

Andrea's newest house flag reads "KEN PAXTON SUCKS" In big black block letters on a blie background with thumbs down wingdings. Fizzy looks on sneakily

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We need MeToo, Part 2: Actual Fucking Consequences

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