There's been a lot of agreement so far, until Charles Booker says he won't accept AIPAC money and challenges others to say the same. Romans says he'd gladly accept AIPAC money. McGrath said she agrees with Romans, and then seemed to say she wouldn't? Stevenson says she wouldn't.

Today Patrick Silvanic writes about the gutting of the availability of gender-affirming care for minors in the U.S. and his own experience struggling to be allowed to become who he always was as a child. www.welcometohellworld.com/receiving-ge...

My heating pad has stopped working and this feels like the thing that might do me in.

A Senate committee cancelled a vote on a bill that would restrict food assistance eligibility requirements for Kentuckians, after two GOP members brought up concerns. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kyga26

I spoke to experts about the real threat xAI's Grok poses to girls and womenfor @prismreports.org : prismreports.org/2026/03/16/g...

Pretty much everyone is aware and has personal experience with men in positions of power being predatory, abusive, and violent—and getting away with it. What is rarer and invokes rage and backlash is when someone tries to hold those men to account. That is what people have a problem with.

Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.

Going to need my vitamin D to like...start kicking in. 🫠

An autistic 9yo was held with his mother at Dilley for almost 3 months. Without his familiar routine, school supports, and daily therapy, his mother says, he struggled to understand what was happening or why they couldn’t go home. He grew frantic, hurt himself, and had frequent meltdowns.

Estefany Rodriguez, a Nashville Spanish-language news reporter, has a bond hearing this morning in Louisiana, where she is being held in an immigration detention center. Rodriguez' husband, attorneys to hold press conference afterward tennesseelookout.com/2026/03/16/m... @tennesseelookout.com

Good morning! I've been battling for my life in my emails to send interesting pitches to editors but I've got zero bites. Please let me know if you hear of anybody looking for interesting culture stories, as well as digital cultures stories, and honestly anything you'd like to assign me!

I spent about two full years working on this story. The FBI announced its investigation of ARC for Medicaid fraud in 2024, but there has been little indication of what they were specifically accused of. Thanks to two new pieces of information this year, I pieced it together, here:

Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"We have been here for nine months,” wrote the 9-year-old. “Please get us out.” "I miss my bear," the 5-year-old said. In letters & drawings, the longest-held family at the Dilley ICE detention center describe it as "slowly killing us on the inside." www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/e...

"A new report by the Kentucky League of Women Voters found the majority of people detained by U.S. Immigration, Customs and Enforcement in Kentucky jails have no criminal record."

There's been a weird uptick in calls to family members referencing my work but are clearly scam/spam calls (i.e. book won an award, etc.) Is reupping DeleteMe the best course of action here or are there over services people recommend?

Just wanna say aloud: I hope editors (both in publishing and media) are paying attention to what an enthusiastic response this is getting ... Platforming queer and trans people, engaging with all the bigoted horseshit head on, readers are excited by such things ...

This is an EXTREMELY cool project that @maris.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social worked so hard on!

DHS employees, including TSA, will miss their first full paycheck this week as Republicans in Congress refuse a funding bill that covers everyone in DHS other than ICE and border patrol.

I've posted about this before but if there are any editors interested in a story about a group of young mothers fighting to improve work conditions for pregnant workers, I'd love to pitch you a story I'm trying to find a home for! (The pitch is not this vague! Connects to a national issue too.)

In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.

What's fun is I did a bunch of free writing by hand for something I'm working on and am now immersed in the process of trying to read my own handwriting. 🫠

NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

The gun industry must be protected from the liability lawsuits that can follow deadly shootings in Kentucky, a Republican lawmaker said Wednesday before his civil immunity bill advanced to the House floor.

Influencers have emerged as leading voices in our cultural zeitgeist. So when they spread health misinformation, the impacts are swift. For my latest @19thnews story, I spoke with health experts on the dangers of social media influencers giving diet and nutrition advice. bit.ly/3N0DXLk

Are you or a loved one on a fixed income and struggling to pay for gas right now? Want to talk to a reporter about it? Email sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM.

What's fun is I did a bunch of free writing by hand for something I'm working on and am now immersed in the process of trying to read my own handwriting. 🫠

NEW: Kansas revoked 1,700 transgender drivers’ licenses. Some are leaving the state I spoke to trans Kansans and the one Republican who voted against the law. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"Kentucky’s burgeoning tenant union has won its first major battle — a collectively bargained lease for some of its members, the first of its kind in the southern U.S., according to the group."

Sophie @hurwitz.bsky.social on war tax resistors today in @us.theguardian.com! "It’s not a new form of dissent—one of the first protests in the United States was, after all, a protest of unfair taxation—but it’s gaining steam, as Americans reject how their tax dollars are being spent under Trump."

"Kentucky’s burgeoning tenant union has won its first major battle — a collectively bargained lease for some of its members, the first of its kind in the southern U.S., according to the group."

"The Pentagon had been working on a plan to avoid civilian deaths. It was heading toward implementation until Trump officials waylaid it last year." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-u-s...

Where do you even start with this? Does he think people receive unlimited amounts of SNAP benefits? Meanwhile, the Trump administration made the largest cuts to SNAP in history. According to the USDA, 47.9 million people lived in food-insecure households in 2024.

Where do you even start with this? Does he think people receive unlimited amounts of SNAP benefits? Meanwhile, the Trump administration made the largest cuts to SNAP in history. According to the USDA, 47.9 million people lived in food-insecure households in 2024.

looking to report on folks with Long COVID in US prisons. if you have a penpal or loved one inside, it would be awesome if you can ask them if they know anyone who suspects they have it! if you know someone or have an idea where I might look, my signal is @freeze.16 and email [email protected]

The fancy coffees are ruining society but this is fine, I guess?

From one perspective, this is a story about grit and determination. From another, it's a damning portrait of a country where someone working full-time at $11/hour lives in a $60-a-night motel with her toddler—then spends evenings DoorDashing with her kid because affordable childcare is nonexistent.

As food insecurity runs rampant in the U.S., hunger is being used as punishment. Most U.S. states have restrictions on SNAP benefits for people with probation violations — potentially leaving many vulnerable folks behind:

Tired: Fancy coffee is why you'll never be able to afford a home. Wired: Fancy coffee is responsible for the downfall of American society.

Journalism Jobs: The @ctmirror.org is hiring a photojournalist to work in their newsroom ctmirror.org/work-for-us/

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

Food stamp recipients, laid-off autoworkers, ICU nurses don't want war with Iran. I talked to workers who are horrified by the US-Israeli bombing of schools, hospitals, homes—and outraged that we're spending billions of public dollars on war while people in the US go hungry.

NEW: For @theguardian.com, I spoke to people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s whose parents were deported under the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations about the long-term impacts of family separation:

Well, this wasn't something I ever expected: today several state representatives honored THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US with a resolution at the Georgia State Capitol. I'm very grateful—and hopeful it helps shine a light on Georgia's predatory housing market and the need for stronger tenant protections.

It's all so clear

I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Apparently I was saving all my productivity for the hour we lost.

Oh yeah? That's what is destroying society?