1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

NEW: Trump's FDA recently approved Nexplanon for five years of use, but it quietly added extra regulations that leave some providers worried about access. The agency imposed a REMS program that only exists for 73 other drugs—including medication abortion. @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co:

More and more hospitals and health systems are ending gender-affirming care for trans kids. Important reporting from @theresagaff.bsky.social! www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...

applying for an journalism job is a lost cause because 500 people all equally or more so talented than you are your direct competitors. every journalism job application may as well be playing the lottery.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop

did I miss the story that laid out which Democrats worked for this behind closed doors?

Immigrants are avoiding treatment due to fears of being picked up by ICE www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...

The kicker on the NYT coverage of the new IACC is embarrassingly bad. “The chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than ASAN or Autism Society” is just brain worms. How is that the last word on a panel filled with kooks and quacks?

After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being." https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

The lawsuit that never ends: States are suing the federal govt to try and end the integration mandate in Section 504, which ensures ppl with disabilities receive care in their homes and communities. www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/s...

Please reshare! Here's the first in a series of science writing resources I'm posting to my website: A list of science writing/communication internships & fellowships. brittanytrang.com/science-jour... #sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journojobs #sciencewriting #sciwri #stem

The main thing that these 21 (not 19, sorry typo) new members have in common? Most of them have publicly expressed or belong to groups that have publicly expressed a belief in the debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism. www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/k...

HHS just added 19 members to the committee that advises Kennedy on autism. As I reported last week, it's heavy on MAHA allies. (Link to new members below.) www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

An explainer by @alexhogan.bsky.social of why there’s a wide array of gray market products alongside motor oil and snacks www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/h...

Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad: Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

@mmolteni.bsky.social with a moving tribute of Alex Pretti, the VA nurse killed by ICE agents on Saturday www.statnews.com/2026/01/26/a...

You may not know what the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee is, but it's the central advisory panel for autism in the federal government. @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports that RFK Jr. is loading it up with autism conspiracy theory cranks. www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

"everyone is talking about machine learning but no one is talking about machine yearning" used to be a joke, but now they are playing it straight

Hey! My beat is changing. I'm still covering LGBTQ+ news, but now I'm focused on how LGBTQ+ people are navigating the American health care system. I'm sure it's going great, right? If you're struggling with insurance, care costs or access, then I want to hear about it. Text me on Signal @orionr.80

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

News: HHS is stacking a key federal committee on autism with members who align with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism. The group met Thursday, despite no prior public notice about the gathering. www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

I know a few of these

about a decade ago i started taking propranolol to deal with hand tremors (a side-effect from another med). i went off prop about a week ago for a variety of reasons and damn i forgot how hard typing is with a tremor!

HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

Really liked this story from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and @pambelluck.bsky.social about the challenges of codifying postpartum psychosis, but found this graf...interesting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/h...

I love being a scientist journalist, I love staring at the same inscrutable paragraph in a scientific paper for hours, hoping for it to make sense, before giving up and calling an expert who will find an even more jargon-y way to express the sentiment.

Just fyi: the administration undid these cuts late last night. www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...

✨Asunder is out in the UK today!✨ Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.* *She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.

News: The Trump administration slashed almost $2 billion from SAMHSA last night, ending funding for organizations providing critical support for things like opioid treatment and homelessness. More from @levfacher.bsky.social and I below. www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...

I'm a reporter hoping to connect with LGBTQ+ people who are struggling with their healthcare costs right now; like folks enrolled in ACA plans whose premiums have sharply increased. Also glad to talk with uninsured folks.  please hmu! Signal is @orionr.80 or DM me

On my way to SCOTUS, where we have today’s big arguments over trans sports bans in Idaho and West Virginia, with their implications for transgender people’s equal protection rights more broadly. I’ll have a full report at Law Dork after the arguments. www.lawdork.com

slate.com/news-and-pol... @laurajedeed.bsky.social went undercover at an ICE hiring event

BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

how am i just finding out that walt whitman and oscar wilde fucked oh my god

Nearly half of Trump-appointed experts involved in shaping the new dietary guidelines have financial ties to meat and dairy industries. Exclusive with @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @elizabethcooney.bsky.social --> www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...

Experts warn that RFK Jr's new vaccine schedule will worsen health outcomes for children. Great story from @isabellacueto.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/w...

BREAKING: Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations The move will create chaos in pediatricians’ offices and discourage parents from using demonstrably safe vaccines to protect their children against dangerous diseases. www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c...

hey, I'm a reporter looking to talk with other LGBTQ+ folks about their relationship to smoking (cigarettes). are you trying to quit? did you pick it back up again recently? do all your friends smoke? let's talk! DM me or Signal me @orionr.80

Elon Musk's soaring but confusing rhetoric re: Neuralink could hinder a surging brain-computer interface field still figuring out how to get devices approved by regulators and into the hands of ppl w/ disabilities who need them (folks with ALS, paralysis, etc.). www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/n...

The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...