ICYMI: Texas Children’s will create ‘detransition clinic’ to settle DOJ and state investigation Advocates and doctors who treat trans youth are concerned about the precedent this sets as the DOJ continues investigating hospitals nationwide. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Unless and until we hear otherwise, Justice Alito just let a nationwide telemedicine ban on mifepristone take effect via the shadow docket. follow @autonomynews.co to stay up to date

The @us.theguardian.com has an excellent new video podcast! Congratulations to colleagues @cartersherman.bsky.social Kai Wright @rachump.bsky.social @jmenjivar.bsky.social and team First episode is here: youtu.be/k6iGsCJBsmo?...

Stateside, the new podcast at @us.theguardian.com, with hosts @cartersherman.bsky.social and Kai Wright, focuses on big, in-depth conversations about our country right now. It's so well done on every level. The first episode dives into the gutting of voting rights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6iG...

My brilliant colleagues @cartersherman.bsky.social and Kai Wright have a new podcast and it’s so good! It’s basically the opposite of that terrible sad WaPo screenshot everyone’s been sharing so watch and share this instead. First interview with Stacy Abrams!

Keep this man away from journalists, journalism, the internet, and other people’s money.

Help: I'm looking for a source who can speak to how the difficulty of qualitative abortion research has or has not changed since the Dobbs decision. I've tried reaching out to ANSIRH twice, Guttmacher mostly does quantitative research, and I'm striking out.

I take no pleasure in saying that I and my @propublicaguild.org colleagues are on strike. It shouldn't have come to this and i can only hope that seeing the overwhelming majority of staff walk out today opens management's eyes and convinces them we're serious about our demands.

Source Callout: for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text). reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

What's going on with ACIP? After a series of bold tweets from the former co-chair, I caught up with a former member. Upshot: ACIP still exists; the 13 members who weren't appointed properly are gone; and officials are looking new members, this source said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm taking this opportunity to make an extremely niche recommendation: the book "Parallel Lives" by Phyllis Rose, which follows John Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill's marriage. It proves that, yes, Harriet Taylor Mill co-authored On Liberty (and that John Mill was a major wife guy) (complimentary)

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section.

*vibrating* part of the problem with discussing eat disorders and the wreckage they induce is that our society operates on the wisdom that the endpoint logic of them is correct.

Interesting that the men behind these anti-abortion cases keep on getting accused of abuse...

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Some personal news, as they say:

Some of the exchanges that were most interesting to me in the Epstein files reflect the sexual predator's alignment with Brett Kavanaugh, and his views about Kavanaugh's accuser, a woman who was a teenager at the time of the alleged assault www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

everything is awful but this at least made me laugh www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The Ed Dept under Trump has essentially stopped enforcing Title IX in K-12 schools when it comes to sexual harassment and assault cases. Instead, it put all its focus on using Title IX for policies related to transgender students www.k12dive.com/news/trumps-...

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Laying off 30% of a newsroom is awful on so many levels, but at bottom it's just inhumane. My last newsroom once cut 10% of its staff in a day and I felt like I was trapped in an hours-long, massive panic attack with hundreds of other people. I can't imagine what a layoff of this scale feels like.

Also, newsletters work if you are established, either with a following or with years of experience, but usually you need both. If you’re a journalist who didn’t buy into making yourself an influencer and just wanted to do the work, it’s not viable.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Tried to capture why Minnesotans so quickly came together to fight ICE & to help neighbors stay home: strong unions and nonprofits, high civic engagement, lessons from George Floyd, and a federal force that felt like an invasion that made people jump into action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Every Chotiner interview is what it would look like if those men that think they could win a point vs Serena Williams lined up one after another and gave it their very best effort.

We could not have pulled off this incredible deal without each and every member of the unit standing together. We are so proud and grateful to work alongside such brave and compassionate people. #SolidarityForever

Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.

Don Lemon is charged with violating the FACE Act, a law that's supposed to protect abortion providers from violence. I've reported on the FACE Act and the fight over it for a long time. This is, to say a least, a new way of using it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New: Texas A&M University announced Friday that it is eliminating its women’s and gender studies degree program.

"On Wednesday, Waldorf, an OB-GYN and three other Arkansas women who say they were also blocked from getting abortions sued the state in an attempt to strike down its near-total abortion ban," @cartersherman.bsky.social reports. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"In theatre"? Like a military theatre? Is he talking about Minnesota like it's the European theatre of World War II

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

Trump just wrapped up his remarks on Trump Accounts and imo the most newsworthy development was that he held hands with Nikki Minaj

ICYMI: My @autonomynews.co investigation revealed allegations of substandard medical practices and licensing issues at a Georgia crisis pregnancy center that has received $1.1 million in federal housing funds. The center, which is applying for $630k more, says it's building a maternity home.

"As prenatal care becomes a luxury, maternal and infant health is increasingly presented as a matter of personal responsibility, with choices as basic as what to have for breakfast framed as high stakes." www.thecut.com/article/preg...

BREAKING: Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, will seriously restrict access to users in the UK beginning Feb. 2: www.404media.co/uk-pornhub-b...

I talked to one of the r/MassiveCock posters who decided to bring anti-ICE conversations to the subreddit. "... Nothing in life should feel ‘normal’ when these sorts of things are happening in our country. Even porn and sex," he said. Gift link (obviously): tinyurl.com/mr3nua5k

“Let’s do the fucking news”

Minneapolis officials on Saturday morning said they are aware of reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement officers in the city.

“I’ve been telling them I’ve been having cramps and they told me I have to have a referral to see the doctor,” Cecil Elvir-Quinonez told me. “I’ve been telling them every day, and they just say I have to wait.” She hasn’t seen her kids — a 5 year old and an infant — in weeks.

Alex Honnold is such a great interview. I think I'm more stressed about his climb than he is www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...