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Terri Rupar

@terri.bsky.social
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Editorial director at The 19th, formerly at The Washington Post. Tar Heel. Posting about gender and politics and also dogs.

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Melissa Deckman @melissadeckman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@terri.bsky.social at the @19thnews.org did a great job on this piece about Gen Z women being the most pessimistic group in America, using analysis @prri.org provided from our recent survey on American identity and patriotism. Check it out! 19thnews.org/2026/07/gen-...
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Gen Z women are the most pessimistic about the American dream
A new analysis of polling data from PRRI also shows they’re the only group in which fewer than half agree there’s no place they’d rather live than the United States.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Right now, donations to @19thnews.org are being *matched* — can you give to support our independent, nonprofit newsroom as we prepare to cover midterm elections and the policies that impact women & LGBTQ+ people? Jovie the pup says it's a great idea! 19thnews.org/membership/?...
A black dog with white chest and white stripe on her nose looks up at the camera. She's standing outside on the sidewalk with snow on the ground and dusting her face.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 25/11/2025
The 19th helps you navigate complex times, and we want to do it even better! Tell us what you need in 2026 by taking our survey. bit.ly/4ai6DZ8
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/10/2025
My friend Terri is fostering Merle in DC but he needs a permanent home. Maybe yours? toolkit.rescuegroups.org/javascript/v...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100 percent but we are." 19thnews.org/2025/09/trum...
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Trump downplays domestic violence in speech about religious freedom
In a speech about religious freedom, Trump talks about domestic violence and crime stats in Washington, D.C.,
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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In case you missed this on Friday... 19thnews.org/2025/07/trum...
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Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority
As Republicans reel from the fallout surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, advocates working on human trafficking issues say the administration has abandoned promises to prioritize the issue.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Rubio and Bondi have both worked to combat human trafficking over the course of their political careers. But now, the administration is pulling back on work it had been doing 19thnews.org/2025/07/trum...
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Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority
As Republicans reel from the fallout surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, advocates working on human trafficking issues say the administration has abandoned promises to prioritize the issue.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Puerto Rico doesn't get SNAP; instead, people rely on a block grant, which provides less money in a place where food is much pricier and people can't buy much in bulk to stock a freezer because of the blackouts that hit at a moment's notice 19thnews.org/2025/07/puer...
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High prices, blackouts and half the money: Inside Puerto Rico’s stagnant food aid system
Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The administration wants to deport a lot of people — so it needs to look beyond the criminals it's said it is focused on. Yessenia Ruano hoped the fact that her visa application for victims of human trafficking was processing would help her stay. ICE told her to leave. 19thnews.org/2025/07/upro...
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‘Adiós, Milwaukee’: A family uprooted, a hole left behind
Yessenia Ruano's long fight against deportation, fueled by her Milwaukee community, ended last month under orders from ICE.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The MLM-ification of our politics 19thnews.org/2025/06/mlm-...
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What Trump’s politics and your ex-classmate selling skincare have in common
There are MLMs everywhere — including in American politics, Bridget Read writes in her new book.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The deadly shootings in Minnesota have left abortion providers shaken in an already hostile political climate. Story from @shefali.bsky.social and me: 19thnews.org/2025/06/minn...
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Deadly shootings in Minnesota have shaken abortion providers
The suspected shooter had a list of targets that included abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood affiliates and employees.
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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A 16-month investigation into the Hague Abduction Convention by @19thnews.org and ‪@typeinvestigations.org‬. Meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart. 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
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Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The National Women’s Law Center sued the Trump administration, arguing that restrictions on domestic violence and sexual assault grants are illegal and conflict with requirements laid out in the Violence Against Women Act 19thnews.org/2025/06/dome...
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Domestic violence nonprofits sue over Trump administration’s anti-DEI funding rules
Domestic violence grant restrictions conflict with requirements in the Violence Against Women Act, the lawsuit argues.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In Albany, New York legislators are ending their session without passing two measures that would provide new protections for survivors of sexual misconduct within and outside of the workplace. 19thnews.org/2025/06/cuom...
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As Cuomo attempts a political comeback, reforms for harassment victims stall
Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 after a report found he harassed 11 women, is one of two leading candidates in the New York mayor contest.
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Errin Haines @errinhaines.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In this week's episode of Trump’s reality show presidency, strength and power are defined from Los Angeles to Washington by a public and excessive show of force, where pageantry is a means of reinforcing control. My latest column for The Amendment: 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...
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On two coasts, a show of force — and a test of ours
Analysis | In Trump’s reality show presidency, strength and power are defined by a public and excessive show of force and pageantry is a means of reinforcing control.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Decision Desk HQ calls the NJ Dem gov primary for Rep. Mikie Sherrill 19thnews.org/2025/06/miki...
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Rep. Mikie Sherrill is New Jersey Democrats' pick for governor
Rep. Mikie Sherrill's win means women candidates will lead 2025’s two biggest statewide elections.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The administration wants to change how gun rights are restored but hasn't laid out what the process will be, raising concerns that domestic abuse offenders will get guns back — and women will die 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...
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Domestic abusers could have easier path to getting gun rights back under Trump proposal
Democratic lawmakers and gun violence prevention groups say that jettisoning the current process may be dangerous for women.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Among the cuts in the first months of the Trump admin: the only team at the federal level working specifically on domestic and intimate partner violence prevention. 19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...
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The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims
Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The federal government has long been critical to efforts to address domestic and intimate partner violence. It's taken just 130 days for the Trump administration to destabilize a safety net that took four decades to build. 19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Tory Lanez's bid to have his conviction overturned got support this week from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna 19thnews.org/2025/05/anna...
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Why a GOP congresswoman has joined the call to free Tory Lanez
Pop culture and politics are often combining in online spaces full of misinformation — including in the case of the rapper convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 20/05/2025
The Democratic former mayor of Atlanta says she will focus on the economic anxieties plaguing Georgians amid Trump’s second term.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms enters Georgia governor’s race, pledging to fight 'the chaos of Trump 2.0'
The Democratic former mayor of Atlanta says she will focus on the economic anxieties plaguing Georgians amid Trump’s second term.
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The USDA program changes are coming at what Vince Hall, the head of government relations for Feeding America, the nationwide foodbank network, called an already “very precarious moment for food banks because there’s no resiliency left in the system.” 19thnews.org/2025/05/usda... via @19thnews.org
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Their small farms helped stock food pantries. That program is going away.
The Trump administration is ending a USDA assistance initiative as the country’s food pantries are “stretched to the breaking point" and a hunger crisis looms.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
While we wait for the signing ceremony for the Take It Down Act, it's worth thinking about the words we use around this — and why "revenge porn" is neither revenge nor porn 19thnews.org/2024/07/reve...
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They’re crimes — so why do we keep calling them ‘porn’?
When we use outdated terms like 'revenge porn,' we blur the line between consensual entertainment and abuse.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Trump is set to sign the Take It Down Act today; @jazzmyth.bsky.social breaks down what it means for people impacted by the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images 19thnews.org/2025/05/take...
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Here’s how you can use the Take It Down Act after it’s signed today
The 19th explains how the new law on nonconsensual intimate imagery will be implemented — and how you can request the takedown of explicit images created or shared without permission.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The 19th's Spring Member Drive is wrapping up! I wanted to share some of the work from my team — work that the support of our members has helped us do the19th.donorsupport.co/page/smd2025...
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It's the final day of The 19th's Spring Member Drive! Our newsroom has reported on some of our country’s most pivotal moments since 2020. Now, as we cover President Donald Trump’s second term — and as...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Yessenia Ruano has been in the U.S. for 14 years. She's had twins, become an integral part of the school where she works and her church, bought a home, and checked in with ICE 17 times. Now she has a one-way ticket to El Salvador that she's still hoping not to use. 19thnews.org/2025/05/upro...
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Fourteen years in America. A one-way ticket to El Salvador.
Yessenia Ruano worked to build a life in Milwaukee with her family, a teaching career and church community. Now she’s fighting to stop it from being uprooted.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
There's a pipeline that goes from birth control skepticism --> MAHA --> MAGA 19thnews.org/2025/05/birt...
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A new generation of birth control skeptics leans right
More young women are embracing fertility tracking methods long popular among Catholics, looking to influencers, questioning doctors — and finding a home in MAGA.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The founder of Build-a-Bear Workshop is matching all new gifts to @19thnews.org now. Help us continue to build on the work we've done covering gender and politics — and make that gift go twice as far! 19thne.ws/springdrive
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The 19th's Spring Member Drive is happening now through May 16. Our newsroom has reported on some of our country’s most pivotal moments since 2020. Now, as we cover President Donald Trump’s second ter...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In February, the DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women removed all of its notices of funding opportunities and told grantees not to work on any applications that were in progress. Last week, they put up new ones — here's what's different, via @jazzmyth.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/05/revi...
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Federal grants to assist domestic violence survivors are back — with more strings attached
Revised funding opportunities for victim services organizations ban any activities characterizing domestic violence as a social justice issue.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
*Right now,* donations are being matched in @19thnews.org's Spring Member Drive. It's a great time to give as we continue to dig in and do reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy the19th.donorsupport.co/page/SMD2025
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The 19th's Spring Member Drive is happening now through May 16. Our newsroom has reported on some of our country’s most pivotal moments since 2020. Now, as we cover President Donald Trump’s second ter...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
What happens after red state voters pass an abortion rights initiative 19thnews.org/2025/05/miss...
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Missouri's voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.
Clinics are rebuilding services, patients are returning and Republicans in the state are moving quickly to take protections away — again.
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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Efforts to address the missing and murdered Indigenous people epidemic — specifically with a focus on Native American women, girls and two-spirit folks — have historically been bipartisan. Both Biden and Trump signed executive orders aimed as addressing the crisis #MMIWG 19thnews.org/2025/05/indi...
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Key reports addressing violence against Indigenous women are gone from federal sites
The removals came ahead of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day of Awareness.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Speaker Johnson keeps talking about Medicaid cuts in terms of able-bodied young men 19thnews.org/2025/05/medi...
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With Medicaid cuts, Republicans target men in the name of protecting women
But cuts purporting to address "able-bodied men" using Medicaid would be detrimental to women, children and caregivers, experts say.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“The one power that must not fail is the voice of the people,” Kamala Harris said in a speech last night where she warned of a constitutional crisis 19thnews.org/2025/05/kama...
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‘Let’s lock in’: Harris calls for collective action in response to second Trump administration
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Trump is stoking fear and warned of "a constitutional crisis"
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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“It is estimated parents spend over $20,000 in the first year of a baby’s life,” the letter said. “A $5,000 baby bonus could help families—but mothers deserve support to care for their families, not pressure to grow them.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...
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Democratic women don’t want the White House talking about raising birth rates
Some programs aimed at supporting women have taken a hit from the Trump administration and could face more as Congress considers and tax and spending bill.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District is one of the few districts that voted for a Democrat for the House and also Trump — here's what the impact of Trump's first 100 days looks like there 19thnews.org/2025/04/new-...
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How have Trump’s first 100 days impacted the country? Look to New Mexico.
In New Mexico communities along the border, empty freezers, fired workers and fear tell a story of Trump’s return to power.
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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
According to the latest @19thnews.org/@surveymonkey.com poll: - 49% of Americans think politicians should not focus on trans issues at all - 29% think they should focus on protecting trans rights - 17% think they should focus on restricting trans rights 19thnews.org/2025/04/amer...
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Nearly half of Americans don’t want politicians focusing on trans issues
A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows a disconnect between Trump’s aggressive anti-trans policies and what Americans want from their politicians.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
With @surveymonkey.com, we re-ran our questions on trans rights from our annual poll. One change from the fall: More people want politicians to not focus on trans issues. 19thnews.org/2025/04/amer...
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Nearly half of Americans don’t want politicians focusing on trans issues
A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows a disconnect between Trump’s aggressive anti-trans policies and what Americans want from their politicians.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The White House has “weaponized” an accusation of domestic violence against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Alliance for Immigrant Survivors says 19thnews.org/2025/04/whit...
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Advocates for immigrant victims of domestic violence condemn White House ‘political theater’
The way the White House aired an accusation of domestic violence in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case has sent his wife and her children into hiding, and could discourage victims from seeking help, they s...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As the Latinx voting population has grown, so has the number of Latinas in statehouses 19thnews.org/2025/04/lati...
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Latinas hold more state legislature seats than ever before
In 2025, women's representation in state government increased overall, except for White women, according to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP).
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
RFK Jr's former nonprofit is churning out content that questions the efficacy of vaccines even as he (kinda) supports vaccinations against measles 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. says he wants to curb measles. His former nonprofit keeps undermining his message.
The Children’s Health Defense has inserted itself into the outbreak with a media operation that repeatedly disputes the MMR vaccine.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Take It Down Act, which seems on track to pass the House, is supposed to empower the FTC to get nonconsensual intimate imagery removed from the internet. But the FTC is down two commissioners + staff 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...
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Trump backed a bill on nonconsensual intimate images — but he fired its enforcers
The Take It Down Act, championed by the first lady, would hand regulation to the FTC. The new administration has ousted two commissioners and at least a dozen staff members.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Three offices in DHS that helped survivors of gender-based violence and discrimination have been gutted 19thnews.org/2025/04/immi...
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DHS shuts ‘open door’ for women and queer immigrants to report abuse, advocates say
Offices that helped survivors of violence and discrimination from inside the immigration system have been gutted by the Trump administration.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We're watching what's next for the child tax credit, as more Republicans are outspoken about wanting to expand it 19thnews.org/2025/04/chil...
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Expanding the child tax credit has some Republican support. Now what?
Many lawmakers want to expand the $2,000-per-child credit, a longtime Democratic priority — but aren’t sure about how to get there.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Supreme Court ruled that the government must “facilitate and effectuate the return” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
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She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
How much is this primary gonna cost? www.texastribune.org/2025/04/08/k...
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Texas AG Ken Paxton officially joins U.S. Senate race challenging John Cornyn
The attorney general positions himself as a disruptor against the Republican establishment embodied in the longtime Senate fixture.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Mixed messaging on measles 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...
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Parents are receiving mixed messages about measles from RFK Jr.
Medical experts say that while Kennedy is showing more direct support for the measles vaccine, he’s also sharing information about debunked remedies.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely is over — for now 19thnews.org/2025/04/prox...
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The fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely is over — for now
The fight over proxy voting pitted two mothers in Congress — one Republican, one Democrat — against GOP leadership.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Bills that would treat abortion as homicide aren't passing in states — but they're getting more support than ever 19thnews.org/2025/04/stat...
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State lawmakers are weighing bills that would treat abortion as homicide
None of the bills are likely to become law. But they illustrate a growing divide in the anti-abortion movement and could punish pregnant people.
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