BREAKING... and Thank God... 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...

My quarterly bill is due for accessing federal court documents. These docs *should* be free but aren’t—though I do share my uploads via the great @free.law project. Support @autonomynews.co with a paid membership or tip jar offering to cover these costs www.autonomynews.co/support/

ICYMI, @susanrinkunas.com got the lowdown on the @plancpills.bsky.social site redesign for @autonomynews.co. One update I appreciate: A feature that tells people when they can get their abortion covered by Medicaid in their state, so hopefully fewer people will pay for pills they could get free.

RIP, Diane. 😩

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states

If you are able to, get out and join with others.

Happy #dafday! Did you know that our Division of Women’s Health on Emergency Medicine—the only one in the US!— is 100% reliant on your tax-deductible donations to further our mission to end gender-based care disparities in the ER? From miscarriage management to cardiac emergencies, we need you.

NEW: Planned Parenthood's Manhattan clinic will stop seeing patients as of November 1 as affiliate prepares to sell the building amid budget shortfalls. Sale announced in March Patients told to schedule at Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens (LIC) clinics or virtual www.plannedparenthood.org/health-cente...

it's the five year anniversary of this publication in @nejm.org that demonstrated protection against cancer by the HPV vaccine - #OncSky + #MedSky.

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"In the 17-year period, the proportion of vaccinated women who tested positive for #HPV types covered by the later 4-valent vaccine..dropped 94.2%, and fell 75.7% for types covered by the current 9-valent vaccine" #OncSky + #MedSky via @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Cried reading this news. It feels like we are at an inflection point for gene therapy & previously incurable diseases. I do worry about disparities in access, but that's a solvable problem if we make it one.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease. All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn. This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3 #medsky #pedsky🛟😷

It’s all the same playbook.

This is a horrifying new trend.

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

I confess myself pleasantly surprised.

It needs to be understood that every incremental step that RFK Jr. and ACIP take to create barriers against vaccination means that fewer and fewer people have access to lifesaving vaccines…until no one can access them at all. This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.

I just learned about the new US Measles Tracker from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social. #medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷

The decimation of public media in the U.S. begins here, in central Pennsylvania, with the closing of WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate. web.archive.org/web/20250917...

State & local officials are pulling back on fluoridation in MI, FL & elsewhere, even though it is the most cost effective method to prevent tooth decay, especially for vast numbers of people in the US without insurance or access to a dentist. / by @annaleighclark.bsky.social

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates. The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

There's SO MUCH going on that I'm sure this news will get lost, but: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that lets private citizens to sue abortion providers who ship pills into the state. Providers basically told me: Bring it on. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Bridging the gap between the outpatient, indie abortion clinic ecosystem & the hospital ecosystem in this moment is so crucial. If you’re speaking from inside an institution, please, I am begging you, bring in folks from abortion funds, indie clinics, and community care networks to speak & connect.

Dr. Emily Ager (UCSF) at #PWIMS2025 cites this key JAMA paper from 2023: pts who present to the ED for early pregnancy loss vs outpatient setting are less likely to receive active management, even controlling for patient preference. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

@darakass.com at #PWIMS2025: “If you watch #ThePitt, you know America thinks you can get an abortion in the ED. The truth is you most often can’t.” We wrote about that disconnect here: www.autonomynews.co/the-pitt-sho...

𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑 After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

I don't understand what it means to say you're 'giving up' if you weren't doing anything in the first place.

I don't think fact-checking is going to get American liberalism out of its current crisis

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

If any OBGYNS recently received a survey from an, uh, interesting sender and want to chat, @garnethenderson.com and I are all ears for @autonomynews.co: Signal: garnethenderson.12 susanrinkunas.73 Email: garnet.henderson @gmail susanrinkunaswrites @gmail

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

NEW: The FDA found that Sun Pharma, which produces generic drugs for U.S. consumers, failed to investigate the source of bacteria found in test vials or promptly deal with damaged equipment that had caused drugs to be contaminated with metal particles.

"Mycoplasma genitalium (Mgen) is an old STI that we can now diagnose and treat since the first FDA test was approved in 2019, but it isn’t yet tracked by our public health surveillance systems." 1/2 www.milbank.org/2025/07/hard...

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Happy Bastille day 🇫🇷

Shonda gets it right sometimes!

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Proud of this one! I wrote about medication abortion in the ED and HBO’s The Pitt.

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat. For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

Among the waste uncovered by ProPublica and @cbsnews.com: Texas reimbursed anti-abortion groups $14 each time they handed out donated goods or materials, regardless of cost. Thus, handing out one pamphlet reaped the same payment as a pack of diapers. (Published July 2024)

Buried in the middle of this essay, which on its surface is a personal and moving story about disability and family, is a family that brought a second child into the world *specifically to donate bone marrow to the first.* www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/s...

The budget bill that passed the Senate Tuesday is a chilling reminder that abortion could be rendered inaccessible across vast swaths of the country where it’s still legal—not because Congress passed a prohibition, but because too many clinics shuttered.

This is the impact of the Supreme Court gutting nationwide injunctions. I wrote about the danger of handing such power to an openly eugenic administration here: www.autonomynews.co/the-soft-eug...

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory. The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.