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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026

SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:

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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties

Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“[These stories] hopefully give them the confidence to be able to say ‘This is what I want. And it’s okay that I want it.’” My latest, about the people who love to read about sex but are not having any IRL: www.thecut.com/article/read...

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The Pleasure of Reading About Sex When You Aren’t Having Any

Spicy romance gives some readers the joy and safety they aren’t finding off the page.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026

When the documentary NAZA premiered this month, it sent shockwaves across the globe. Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, NAZA is a haunting exposé of the tools that the Israeli military uses to carry out the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a new bombshell has entered the villa!!!

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a reader I urge news organizations to take this opportunity to reconsider their practice of running months and months of headlines like “ISRAELI BOMBS KILL 37 AS CEASEFIRE APPEARS FRAGILE.” Words mean things.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/08/2026

Meet Nomark, the man on a mission to destroy every Flock camera in the United States. On the latest episode of our podcast, @cartersherman.bsky.social speaks with Nomark and journalist Sanya Mansoor about law enforcement’s use of the cameras – and the vigilante movement to take them down.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 03/08/2026

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

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Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them, through shame, intimidation, threats, discrediting, the obscene legal instrument known as a nondisclosure agreement and a system too often run by men for men at the expense of women and children. That is to say, rapists count on getting away with it because of a system that hands them power and steals it from their victims. They count on a silencing system. On profound inequality.

Which is what makes rape such a peculiar crime: it is the ritual enactment of the perpetrator’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, buttressed by the circumstances that puts and keeps each of them in those roles. It’s driven by the desire to use sexuality to cause physical and psychic injury, to dominate, to celebrate the rapist’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, to treat another human being as a person without rights, including the right to set boundaries, to say no and to speak up afterward. A society that perpetuates and protects this desire and arrangement is rape culture, and it’s been our culture throughout most of its existence.

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

ICYMI: Texas Children’s will create ‘detransition clinic’ to settle DOJ and state investigation Advocates and doctors who treat trans youth are concerned about the precedent this sets as the DOJ continues investigating hospitals nationwide. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Texas Children’s will create ‘detransition clinic’ to settle DOJ and state investigation

The agreement ends a three-year battle over transgender healthcare at the country’s largest children’s hospital. Advocates for trans rights raised concerns about politics shaping medicine.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/05/2026

Unless and until we hear otherwise, Justice Alito just let a nationwide telemedicine ban on mifepristone take effect via the shadow docket. follow @autonomynews.co to stay up to date

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Rachel Leingang @rachelleingang.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Stateside, the new podcast at @us.theguardian.com, with hosts @cartersherman.bsky.social and Kai Wright, focuses on big, in-depth conversations about our country right now. It's so well done on every level. The first episode dives into the gutting of voting rights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6iG...

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Stacey Abrams on why the gutting of the Voting Rights Act is 'evil'

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My brilliant colleagues @cartersherman.bsky.social and Kai Wright have a new podcast and it’s so good! It’s basically the opposite of that terrible sad WaPo screenshot everyone’s been sharing so watch and share this instead. First interview with Stacy Abrams!

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Stacey Abrams on why the gutting of the Voting Rights Act is 'evil'

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Help: I'm looking for a source who can speak to how the difficulty of qualitative abortion research has or has not changed since the Dobbs decision. I've tried reaching out to ANSIRH twice, Guttmacher mostly does quantitative research, and I'm striking out.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I take no pleasure in saying that I and my @propublicaguild.org colleagues are on strike. It shouldn't have come to this and i can only hope that seeing the overwhelming majority of staff walk out today opens management's eyes and convinces them we're serious about our demands.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/04/2026

Source Callout: for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text). reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

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for a story at The Guardian, I'm looking to speak to 1-2 people who have had their community/ political organizing work impacted by being expected or forced to organize with someone who assaulted or harassed them, and that staying silent was "for the good of the movement"
I know this is an extremely common story, but also one people can't always share with their name or face: anonymity or pseudonyms will be provided.
I am trained in trauma-informed strategies in working with survivors, am a survivor myself, and take digital hygiene and sources' security extremely seriously.
Please reach out over signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68 . I'll take this down when I have enough folks. Thank you.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 20/03/2026

What's going on with ACIP? After a series of bold tweets from the former co-chair, I caught up with a former member. Upshot: ACIP still exists; the 13 members who weren't appointed properly are gone; and officials are looking new members, this source said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Confusion abounds over future of US vaccine advisory committee

Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisions

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I'm taking this opportunity to make an extremely niche recommendation: the book "Parallel Lives" by Phyllis Rose, which follows John Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill's marriage. It proves that, yes, Harriet Taylor Mill co-authored On Liberty (and that John Mill was a major wife guy) (complimentary)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

*vibrating* part of the problem with discussing eat disorders and the wreckage they induce is that our society operates on the wisdom that the endpoint logic of them is correct.

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Interesting that the men behind these anti-abortion cases keep on getting accused of abuse...

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

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Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation

Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Some of the exchanges that were most interesting to me in the Epstein files reflect the sexual predator's alignment with Brett Kavanaugh, and his views about Kavanaugh's accuser, a woman who was a teenager at the time of the alleged assault www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show

Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Ed Dept under Trump has essentially stopped enforcing Title IX in K-12 schools when it comes to sexual harassment and assault cases. Instead, it put all its focus on using Title IX for policies related to transgender students www.k12dive.com/news/trumps-...

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Trump’s OCR resolved no K-12 sexual harassment, assault complaints in 2025, data shows

The Education Department contends "it has restored commonsense safeguards against sexual violence by returning sex-based separation in intimate facilities."

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

(1) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video game, computer software game, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body, that depicts nudity, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sado-masochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors; or
(2) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter, however reproduced, or sound recording, which contains any matter enumerated in subdivision (a)(1), or that contains explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors.

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Laying off 30% of a newsroom is awful on so many levels, but at bottom it's just inhumane. My last newsroom once cut 10% of its staff in a day and I felt like I was trapped in an hours-long, massive panic attack with hundreds of other people. I can't imagine what a layoff of this scale feels like.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Also, newsletters work if you are established, either with a following or with years of experience, but usually you need both. If you’re a journalist who didn’t buy into making yourself an influencer and just wanted to do the work, it’s not viable.

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