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Katie Herchenroeder

@katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
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Journo on politics and gendered violence. Past: Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, TNR, VICE, + | Alum: Newmark J-School, City College of New York.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Amazing list of stuff America could buy with the additional $200 billion Trump and Hegseth want for war on Iran. Starting with salaries for 2.8 million public school teachers... www.motherjones.com/politics/202... from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social @inaeoh.bsky.social @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
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Trump wants $200 billion for bombs. Here's what that could buy instead.
7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/03/2026
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation. Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
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Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records. Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Potential Trump EO compelling banks to collect citizenship info could endanger domestic abuse victims, @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social reports:
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Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
The White House is reportedly eyeing rules that advocates say “will make getting a bank account nearly impossible" for many survivors, citizens or not.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/02/2026
The administration could require proof of legal status to bank—which many survivors, documented or not, won't have.
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Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
The White House is reportedly eyeing rules that advocates say “will make getting a bank account nearly impossible" for many survivors, citizens or not.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/02/2026
Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
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Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
The White House is reportedly eyeing rules that advocates say “will make getting a bank account nearly impossible" for many survivors, citizens or not.
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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Trump’s SCOTUS case challenging the E. Jean Carroll judgment misrepresents a Law & Order SVU ep that some on the right - including Trump’s legal team - have claimed, in a bid to discredit her, contains a plot similar to Carroll’s allegations against Trump, @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social reports
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The president’s lawyers submitted false information about a “Law and Order” plot
The episode is cited in Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation claim.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
NEW: Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court about a Law & Order: SVU episode in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll, according to filings I reviewed. My latest in @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The president’s lawyers submitted false information about a “Law and Order” plot
The episode is cited in Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation claim.
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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sam @samveep.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A disgusting development in the story of the aftermath of Renee Good’s death. From @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social: Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Good in a bikini—the woman who was killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis.
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Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/01/2026
Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent.
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Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hours after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Elon Musk’s chatbot took off her clothes and put her in a bikini www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Reporting by @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
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Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled an X user’s request to put a bikini onto the body of ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good. The chatbot, launched by Elon Musk, has been making deepfakes of a lot of other women, too. My latest in @motherjones.com: 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
People organized on the fly and in many places in the freezing cold to turn out to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good, @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social writes: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“ICE KILLED GOOD”: Protesters decry Minneapolis shooting
Images from across the country show how people are honoring a 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/12/2025
If you want to learn more about how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse, check out @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social's feature on the subject:
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She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/12/2025
NEW: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt.
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New York is the latest state to provide relief for victims of coerced debt
“Domestic violence is rarely limited to physical abuse,” said Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, who sponsored the new law.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/12/2025
RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare
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RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn't get his way.
The health department’s proposed regulations on gender affirming care for minors are not legally binding and are set to be challenged in court.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“The Trump administration’s attempt to carve out gender dysphoria from disability nondiscrimination protection is harmful, baseless, and cruel,” @nwlc.org senior counsel Ma’ayan Anafi told @motherjones.com about the regulation trying to remove gender dysphoria from disability civil law.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Right now, there’s a bill on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk to provide a remedy for victims of coerced debt. Hochul has until December 19 to sign the bill. My latest on the fight to get the bill over the finish line for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Inside the last minute fight on legislation for victims of coerced debt in New York
The legislature passed a comprehensive bill to help people who have been victims of financial abuse. Activists worry industry is trying to water it down.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/12/2025
Right now, there’s a bill on New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk to provide a remedy for victims of coerced debt. Activists worry industry is trying to water it down.
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Inside the last minute fight on legislation for victims of coerced debt in New York
The legislature passed a comprehensive bill to help people who have been victims of financial abuse. Activists worry industry is trying to water it down.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“This has a great potential to cause harm, and I simply hope that the committee will accept its responsibility when this harm is caused,” ACIP member Joseph Hibbeln said after voting against changing the guidance. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr.'s handpicked panel votes to end hepatitis B guidance for newborns
The committee now endorses "individual-based decision-making" for pregnant people who test negative for the virus.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
My latest in @vanityfair.com: The court's LGBTQ books ruling opens the door for parents to challenge other books they disagree with + serves as tacit acceptance to groups that hope to use "parental rights" as a Trojan Horse for anti-trans/anti-gay/anti-abortion cases in the future.
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Parents Who Oppose LGBTQ Books
Ahead of Pride parades across the US this weekend, the nation's highest court overturned a Maryland public school district's refusal to allow parents to opt their kids out of sexuality and gender educ...
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“For the first time, it became clear that young women today will have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” @kamalaharris.com tells @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social on Dobbs anniversary. “But even in the face of that loss, we keep fighting.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/k...
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Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting”
The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW from me: Former VP Kamala Harris made a surprise Zoom visit to a conference of abortion storytellers ahead of the Dobbs anniversary. Their “voices,” she tells @vanityfair.com, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/k...
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Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting”
The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Jacinda Ardern Is No Longer Campaigning for Office—Now It’s for Humanity @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social speaks to the former New Zealand PM www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...
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Jacinda Ardern Is No Longer Campaigning for Office—Now It’s for Humanity
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the former New Zealand prime minister discusses stepping back into the public eye with a new memoir and documentary, what it was like to lead with empathy in the face...
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 31/05/2025
Trump administration cuts $258M program crucial for HIV vaccine fight. Public health experts say the lack of funding is expected set back decades' worth of progress against HIV.
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Trump Administration Cuts $258M Program Crucial To Discovering HIV Vaccines
The lack of funding is expected to set back decades' worth of progress against HIV, according to public health experts.
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 24/05/2025
Detained Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was finally allowed to hold his newborn son—despite the Trump administration's best efforts to stop him.
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Mahmoud Khalil Was Finally Allowed To Hold His Newborn Son—Despite The Trump Administration Trying To Stop Him
The detained Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student has been in a Louisiana jail since March 8.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/05/2025
“I have never done more suicide assessments than when I’ve run credit reports with clients and found coerced debt or identity theft.” @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social digs into a widespread and rarely talked about form of debt: coerced debt.
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She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
NEW: Women across the country are victims of what’s called coerced debt—and it is ridiculously hard to crack down on. For @motherjones.com, I spent a year+ looking at what happens when an abuser buries someone in debt as a form of domestic violence. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/05/2025
Sarah Ortiz has spent years trying to prove that her ex used her personal information to rack up $45,926 of debt in her name without her knowledge. Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new. Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.
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She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"The first time many victims of domestic violence learn that their abuser took out a credit card in their name is when they get called by a debt collector to pay it all back." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Sophie Hayssen @shayssen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So excited to share that the package @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social and I fact checked for @motherjones.com is listed a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 😆
Reads: "Finalist: Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of the Center for Public Integrity; Nadia Hamdan of Reveal; and Roy Hurst, contributor, Mother Jones"
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—& it's ridiculously hard to crack down on. @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social reports for @motherjones.com on what happens when an abuser buries someone in debt as a form of domestic violence: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As a new Trump era begins, I’m thinking about what it'll mean for violence against women and how a swell of virtual misogyny spreads into schools, offices, and bedrooms. Writers and editors for @vanityfair.com share what's on our minds as we enter 4 more years: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Donald Trump’s Inauguration: Reckoning With the Reality of Four More Years
Given the chaos of Trump’s first term, and his radical plans for the second, Vanity Fair writers and editors take stock on day one of what’s sure to be a tumultuous time in America.
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nerdpsyche.bsky.social @nerdpsyche.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
9/11. @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social / @motherjones.com, A Running List of Politicians Talking About Making Divorce Harder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A running list of politicians talking about making divorce harder
On the right, there is a renewed push to enshrine family values by pushing against no-fault divorce laws.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23/12/2024
Trump figured out that taking away people’s abortion rights is DEEPLY unpopular, so he said a whole bunch of things to walk back his stances, including on Comstock. Do I trust him? No. Am I going to do everything I can to hold him + Republicans accountable? Absolutely.
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Tina Smith Sounds Off on Trump’s Antiabortion Double-Talk: “I Care About What He Does”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Minnesota senator warns of the dangers of “zombie laws,” and explains why the president-elect “dialed back” an unpopular antiabortion crusade: “He’ll say whatever...
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Katie Herchenroeder @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Senator Tina Smith is more interested in focusing on what antiabortion politicians are doing—not just what they’re saying. I spoke with @smith.senate.gov for @vanityfair.com in the lead up to Trump’s imminent return to office: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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Tina Smith Sounds Off on Trump’s Antiabortion Double-Talk: “I Care About What He Does”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Minnesota senator warns of the dangers of “zombie laws,” and explains why the president-elect “dialed back” an unpopular antiabortion crusade: “He’ll say whatever...
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Why is the ABC News settlement with Trump more complicated than it may appear? Because it's based on New York state’s narrow definition of “rape," which has since been changed. Read about the context for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Why the ABC News settlement with Trump is complicated
The defamation lawsuit centered on comments anchor George Stephanopoulos made about the outcome of a civil lawsuit against Trump brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
As @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social reported, the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case went to great lengths to clarify that while Trump's alleged actions didn't meet the state's definition of "rape," they were what people broadly understand as "rape." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A federal judge has gone to great lengths to make clear Trump really did rape E. Jean Carroll
Why state-level legal minutiae impacts what words are used to describe the former president's criminal conduct.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
And as @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social also wrote, NY wound up passing a law that expanded the definition of "rape." When she signed the bill into law, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) recognized Carroll “for her courageous efforts to make sure justice was done.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New York state passes law that could have counted Trump’s actions as rape
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law broadening the definition of rape beyond penile penetration.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Can’t get an abortion. Can’t give birth. What century, what country, what are we doing? More research out of the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health (@umnsph.bsky.social) from Professor @katybkoz.bsky.social
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Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds (Gift Article)
Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Go-to defensive frame for powerful person accused of abuse is that they are the one in fact being abused; the language of witch hunts & mob justice built around this conceit....
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