“I remain hopeful, partially as defiance.They would like us to feel hopeless, to surrender.” A heartening listen on a Saturday morning.

Evangelical Christians aren't the only people whose faith-based views of abortion matter, ruled an Indiana judge who just blocked the state's abortion ban citing Jewish religious freedom. Someone had to say it! RNG has tracked this case as it moved through the courts. Our updated story here.

Carpenter; track coach. And what about our grandmothers? Mine were a math teacher and secretary.

The modest first U.S. experiment in something other countries have been doing successfully for decades in various ways on various continents and it’s no big deal can stay

Lander calls for stacking the Court.

I used Google Translate heavily in a past job requiring me to scour newspapers worldwide. I could hear what Pakistani bloggers had to say about India and browse Egyptian culture pages. A miracle! But it also called Nicolas Maduro "Nicolas Plantain" and misgendered world leaders. WE NEED HUMANS TOO!

#HIV is preventable. #HIV is treatable. But federal immigration enforcement, on top of 15 months of escalating threats to HIV research, prevention, and treatment funding puts the gains of the last few decades at risk, experts told us. rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/03/03/i...

Did you know Latino men have the US’s highest risk of new HIV infections? They are 72% more likely to be diagnosed than the general population—and in Minneapolis, they are skipping clinic visits for fear of ICE, report @cameronoakes.bsky.social & @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social

There are many days where I’m relieved I’m not an intl editor anymore & almost as many where it feels hard to have spent a decade covering the world—from Iran to Venezuela—and then do/say nothing when the US attacks those nations. This week has already had 10 of those days and it’s only Tuesday.

That Kansas law invalidating trans ppl’s licenses? It also allows trans residents sue trans ppl who use public bathrooms—for money. Texas created this kind of bounty hunter law to punish abortion patients, but you can trace the origins back to “fugitive slave” laws, writes @queenmab.bsky.social.

Ask yourself: Who wins by making it harder for people to get a photo ID, and why.

Surprised and delighted to find Cher in the running for this week's main character

There's no such thing as 'barely legal,' explains Martha Kempner in this week's column for @rewirenewsgroup.com, and parsing the meaning of pedophilia ignores the main issue here, which is power.

Yes, that's a dildo helmet. No, it's not the only way anti-ICE protesters used this sex toy at recent protests in Minneapolis; things got a lot spicier than that. Read @hallielieberman.bsky.social report to find out how and why one dildo distributor sees them as "kryptonite to these fascists."

🧵 Trump posted a video depicting the Obamas as apes. He deleted it. A handful of Republicans objected. Most said nothing. Nothing changed. My most recent column isn’t about shock. It’s about consequences.

The ongoing snow is a bad, even cruel joke and I'm ready for this particular comedy set to end.

Quick correction here. Zurzurvae is the first pill specifically designed for PPD--not the first medication, which was a 60-hour IV injection approved in 2019 and withdrawn from the market a few years later. The dek of this story has been corrected for accuracy.

Journalism tends to focus on the problems, not the solutions. If it bleeds, it leads. Today @rewirenewsgroup.com is flipping the script. Postpartum depression is a big problem—and now there’s a treatment that seems to work. So why don’t more new moms take the PPD pill? Mara Santilli investigates.

Srsly! A bit much

I am lowkey in denial about NYC schools being closed tomorrow after they were already closed last week for Feb break. Denial = 2nd glass of red wine

Fantastic

🧵I am co-leading the Writing for Liberation program at @empowermentave.bsky.social, an organization that supports incarcerated journalists, essayists, and poets in publishing their work. Our writers have been published everywhere from the Dallas Morning News and Prism to Rolling Stone and Cosmo.

There’s a metaphor in here

Today the members of my Buy Nothing group have requested, among other items: -a typewriter -VHS player -CDs Analog is back, baby.

I have a toddler so Ms. Rachel is already a hero in my house but my goodness the woman knows how to use her power for good.

lololol @cuteflesh.bsky.social does it again. "Instead of spending this Feb. 14 feeling sorry for yourself, envying the relationships of others or planning an anti-Valentine’s Day celebration with your gal pals, spend the evening doing something healthier & more obviously pleasant: masturbating!"

Even if you’re not on TikTok you’ve seen this trend: “unalive” for dead; “segs” for sex. It’s cutesy and a little clever, but research shows it might also be bad for free expression—and self-censorship around sex and the body can harm girls and young women the most.

I talked with parents, teachers and kids about ICE's ongoing operation and how it has upended their day-to-day lives. One of the harder stories I've reported. For @rewirenewsgroup.com rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/03/i...

Since ICE got to Minneapolis, 5-year-old Vera has a new hobby: setting traps. “All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said. “So I try to keep them safe.” @setharichardson.bsky.social on how kids, parents, and schools are handling the upheaval of ICE violence.

Rewire is about to publish a story reported from Minneapolis about how parents are trying to explain the ICE invasion to their kids. It includes interviews with littles as young as 5 who want to protect their friends from the "naughties" and when I say tears were shed during editing. Stay tuned.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Today's story by @hallielieberman.bsky.social is a perfect example of what sets RNG apart from other outlets. Where else can you read about the FDA's new campaign targeting manufacturers and retailers that sell chest binders, compression garments used to minimize the appearance of breast tissue?

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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

From Argentina’s dictatorship to today’s ICE raids, mothers have turned grief into resistance. A political scientist who lived through Argentina’s junta draws urgent parallels. A collaboration with @rewirenewsgroup.com: theconversation.com/how-governme... #polisky

“No later than Tuesday,” per judge’s order.

Terrifying. And of course, that’s the point.

In today's Rewire Weekly, I explain why Minneapolis in 2026 made me think of 1970s Argentina, and what can happen when mothers unite to resist government terror. Sign up ASAP to get your Friday morning reproductive justice newsletter hot off the presses: rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/

I don’t know whether I’m obsessed with asap and Rihana or whether instagram just thinks I am, but I am starting to think that is a distinction without a difference.

Former senior international editor here. Can confirm.

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It’s overwhelmingly awful out there, which is why I kept thinking about how Argentines resisted & outlasted a brutal dictatorship to restore democracy & get justice for the dead. It’s a hard read but I think a heartening one. As Laura Tedesco writes, it matters how people respond to state terror.

Moms who resist can change history. In Argentina, state terror inspired mothers to “became a potent force in resisting authoritarianism and ultimately restoring democracy,” according to a political scientist who lived through the dictatorship in her native country.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

Bridgerton season is upon us.

Nothing makes for a more relaxing Tuesday evening by than shoveling your car out from the two mountains of icy-packed snow the neighboring building plowed up behind it 😡

“In both its use of masks and its brazen disregard for proportionality, ICE evokes in me unsettling memories of all-powerful, authoritarian governments that exercise control over life and death.”

After Renee Good's killing, I kept thinking about Argentina -namely, how moms became a potent resistance force when the dictatorship started "disappearing" their kids. I asked an authoritarianism scholar who survived that regime what the U.S. could learn. It's hard reading but, I think, heartening.

This may be the coolest thing to has happen to Manhattan in a long time

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026