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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
For the first time since the end of Roe v Wade, a federal court has ruled that *there are still protections for abortion rights under the US Constitution.*
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A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion
The ruling protects abortion for physical and mental health in Idaho—with the potential for broader impact
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 10/08/2026
After landslide losses for Amendments 4 and 5, the governor is backing a high-stakes abortion measure this fall. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri voters crushed two Mike Kehoe priorities. November brings another test • Missouri Independent
Gov. Mike Kehoe wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday. Two of his biggest priorities were, and voters handed them a historic defeat.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 03/08/2026
About 3,220 Missourians obtained medication abortions through telehealth from out-of-state clinicians in 2025 — up from roughly 880 two years earlier. #moleg #mogov
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Missourians getting abortion pills by mail from out-of-state providers quadrupled since 2023 • Missouri Independent
Missouri follows a national trend of growing access to abortion pills through out-of-state telehealth providers.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
And just last month, Alabama's attorney general sent cease-and-desist letters to multiple websites—including Plan C, the site Hawley is going after now. In his letters, AG Steve Marshall threatens prosecution and accuses the groups of "exploit[ing] Alabamians for profit."
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They're Coming for Pro-Choice Websites
6.12.26
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is part of a much broader attack on pro-choice speech, framed as "protecting women" from abortion pills. Earlier this year, Senate Republicans asked the FDA to shut down websites and work to *seize their domains* jessica.substack.com/p/the-gops-p...
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The GOP's Plan to Shut Down Abortion Pill Websites
3.25.26
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley wants the DOJ to launch a criminal investigation into a pro-choice website, calling it a "dark money operation"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/07/2026
From an anonymous source: “As a VA nurse who interacts with MST Veterans, I can't believe this behavior is acceptable.”
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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
From Jess Facebook "You may wonder why I’m so angry about another forever war…wonder no more. I hate Trump. I hate war. I hate that the demented idiot in chief is putting our country and children at risk for absolutely no reason" @piperformissouri.bsky.social
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The look in his eyes as he ends this “joke” is legitimately chilling
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's pick for Attorney General all but promised to prosecute abortion providers who ship pills across state lines, agreeing to “ensure the faithful enforcement of the Comstock Act and other federal pro-life acts." That said, I’m not convinced the Trump administration wants that kind of heat
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's pick to lead the CDC says "abortion surveillance is critical" and that she wants to make sure hospitals in certain states aren't "hiding" abortions. Full story at Abortion, Every Day jessica.substack.com/p/trumps-cdc...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Abortion is too popular for the Trump administration to pick any big public fights over. That's why they're targeting what they believe is a far easier target: birth control.
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Why Trump Is Coming for Birth Control Instead of Abortion
Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about abortion.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That brings us to this week: WaPo reported on the story after getting ahold of administration emails. They're making it seem like calling birth control 'abortion' was just the result of idiotic men who don't know anything about women's health But don't get it twisted—this was a *deliberate move*
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Emails detail confusion in State Department over Trump plan to destroy contraceptives
“There is no one here that knows definitively what is in the warehouse,” one official wrote of a USAID storage facility in Belgium as its contents were left to expire.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've warned about this for years: there won't be a big sweeping law banning contraception (at least not yet) Instead, they're chipping away at access bit by bit & conflating birth control with abortion. In a moment when health disinformation is already rampant! jessica.substack.com/p/the-gops-p...
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The GOP’s Plan to Ban Birth Control (Part I)
Redefining Contraception as 'Abortion'
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've been tracking this story ever since. tl;dr: the administration planned to burn a multi-million dollar stockpile of contraception for women abroad, claiming it was really 'abortion' They even cited the Global Gag Rule (which prevents U.S. funding for abortion) for why they planned to destroy it
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
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The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions
9.12.25
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Abuse of women has long been the canary in the coal mine—a bright red waving flag, warning of broader offenses yet to come. Ignoring it has always come with a cost open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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The Platner Pattern
Are we really doing this again?
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grievingnotdead.bsky.social @grievingnotdead.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A proposed rule fueled by Trump’s conspiracy theories would require the USPS to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—and give them the power to hold those ballots hostage. Urge them to say NO and help protect voting by mail: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
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Don’t Let Trump Sabotage Vote by Mail!
In a new proposed rule, the USPS would be required to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—as well as the power to stop those ballots from being delivered. Urge them to ...
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💙💙~Patty~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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💙💙~Patty~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! 🌈🌈
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 21/04/2026
The data included student names, parents' email addresses, scholarship funding amounts and schools they attend. The Independent discovered the data, which has been online for nearly a year, last week. The treasurer’s office quickly removed the records from its website. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri treasurer’s office posted MOScholars student data on its website for nearly a year • Missouri Independent
While denying requests for a directory of school voucher recipients, the Missouri State Treasurer's Office inadvertently published the data.
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grievingnotdead.bsky.social @grievingnotdead.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ICE and Border Patrol are deploying facial recognition technology to target members of our communities and violate our rights. Ask Congress to pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act to ban ICE from buying, accessing, or deploying facial recognition technologies against our communities.
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Tell Congress: Get ICE Out of Our Faces
ICE and Border Patrol are deploying faulty facial recognition technology to target members of our communities and violate our rights. Tell Congress: Pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act.
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grievingnotdead.bsky.social @grievingnotdead.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ICE and Border Patrol are deploying facial recognition technology to target members of our communities and violate our rights. Ask Congress to pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act to ban ICE from buying, accessing, or deploying facial recognition technologies against our communities.
action.aclu.org
Tell Congress: Get ICE Out of Our Faces
ICE and Border Patrol are deploying faulty facial recognition technology to target members of our communities and violate our rights. Tell Congress: Pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high. The Art of the Deal.
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Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs
Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...
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The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients
Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/04/2026
Are you worried about falling behind on student loan payments? We want to hear from you for an upcoming story: bit.ly/4tEf6wv
PBS News graphic with the question: "Are you worried about falling behind on student loan payments?" It invites viewers to fill out a form for possible outreach.
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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: "The newlywed wife of a U.S. soldier who was detained last week at her husband’s Army base was released on Tuesday, after spending five days at a detention center with hundreds of other women facing deportation as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown."
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Newlywed Wife of U.S. Soldier Released From Immigration Detention
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One man put us in this deadly quagmire. One man is wrecking our economy. One man’s immigration agents have terrorized our communities. One man has ridden roughshod over our system of government. We said "No Kings" 250 years ago. Congress must say "No Kings" today. If not, they must be replaced.
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Lisandra Vazquez @lisandravcomedy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
April 7 Press Briefing with #karolineleavitt
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Pilounette ✨ @pilounettes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Glad to know the US Congress is out on a vacation and is resting from the strong effort they demonstrated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I've warned for years that Republicans planned to reroute federal family planning dollars to crisis pregnancy centers—groups that won't even talk about birth control. I re-upped that prediction just last week. A day later, this Politico piece dropped. jessica.substack.com/p/the-white-...
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 06/04/2026
A push to strengthen Missouri’s anti-SLAPP law is moving again, with supporters arguing the change could make weak defamation suits far riskier to file. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri Senate passes bill aimed at meritless lawsuits targeting free speech • Missouri Independent
The Missouri Senate unanimously passed a bill last week aimed at curbing meritless lawsuits filed to chill speech through the threat of a long and expensive legal fight.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 06/04/2026
A tax question on local ballots around the state on Tuesday could also shape the future of county disability boards, which help fund services many families rely on. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri property tax votes could curb services for people with disabilities • Missouri Independent
Missourians in 97 out of 114 counties will decide on measures that would freeze or cap property taxes, which fund a variety of local services.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/04/2026
Olympic sex testing was born in fascism. Has anything changed? For queer historian and writer Michael Waters, the IOC’s announcement, requiring genetic eligibility testing for women's sports, elicited a feeling of déjà vu. Check out our Q&A with Winters: bit.ly/4c5j1v4
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Lisandra Vazquez @lisandravcomedy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Actual footage of #pambondi after getting fired
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doubled in 2025. But under Russ Vought's tenure heading the CFPB, the agency has been gutted. It's now easier than ever for shady banks, lenders, and credit card companies to pick your pocket. And it's all because of the Trump regime.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
They’re not hiding it. The goal is to flip the midterms before a single vote is cast.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 31/03/2026
People are dying in ICE custody. 14 people died this year. 30+ died last year. ICE needs serious reforms.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
For 13 weeks, Marine recruits aren’t allowed to see their families. Not once. Graduation day is the first reunion. It’s supposed to be a celebration. At Parris Island in South Carolina this week, ICE agents will be stationed at the gate checking the immigration status of anyone who shows up to watch
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court just gutted conversion therapy bans across America 8 to 1. The court just gave the green light to a practice the United Nations calls torture.
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