State lawmakers in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin have introduced bills that would restrict abortion pill access. This story was republished from News From the States, part of @statesnewsroom.com.

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ICYMI: ICE raids are taking a toll on Minnesota’s children.

New episode just dropped! This week on Boom! Lawyered, @angryblacklady.blacksky.app and @hegemommy.bsky.social unpack the why the feds pressed charges against Black journalists after an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:

Love this compelling argument by Imani Gandy at @rewirenewsgroup.com hell yes. "The Third Amendment protects against being forced to house the military. It may also apply to ICE."

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ICE raids in the Twin Cities are taking a toll on Minnesota’s children.

State lawmakers in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin have introduced bills that would restrict abortion pill access. This story was republished from News From the States, part of @statesnewsroom.com.

"Vera’s heard her friends say something is happening. And Vera’s taken up a new hobby: setting traps at home. 'I do need to make one because the bad guys are taking mommies and daddies,' she said." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/03/i...

Minnesota parents are figuring out on the fly how to tell their children about and protect them against armed federal immigration enforcement agents occupying the city and ripping people haphazardly off the street. @setharichardson.bsky.social reports:

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.

ICE’s occupation has completely upended schooling in the Twin Cities, where more than 3 million people live—and Minnesota’s children have noticed. Read @setharichardson.bsky.social about how families are struggling to adapt to their new, violent reality:

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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...

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The FDA is targeting companies that sell gender-affirming shapewear.

How do you explain ICE raids to children? @setharichardson.bsky.social reports on how Minnesota parents are struggling to protect their kids from the trauma of ICE’s occupation, while teachers face half-empty classrooms as students stay home for fear of being detained.

For @rewirenewsgroup.com, @setharichardson.bsky.social reported on how ICE's presence in the Twin Cities has transformed kids' daily lives: "You can’t say to this student everything is going to be OK, because it’s not. Her mom did go to the detention center." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/03/i...

"Bad guys are taking mommies and daddies." @setharichardson.bsky.social did the painstaking work of talking to children and families about how the Twin Cities ICE raids are affecting their daily lives. And @natasharoy.bsky.social led the edit. It's a gutwrenching read, but a necessary one:

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.

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?

ICYMI: On last week’s episode of B*tch, Listen, @angryblacklady.blacksky.app talks to disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social about how ableism shapes true crime coverage, and why disabled victims are often erased from the narrative.

Gender-affirming shapewear is the latest target in the Trump administration’s attacks on trans communities. @hallielieberman.bsky.social reports:

Federal vaccine requirements have changed. @martha-kempner.bsky.social, our sex health columnist, answers some frequent questions about the HPV vaccine, including who should get it, when, and how it works.

In late 2025, the FDA warned companies that make and sell chest binders that their products could be seized and their sales could be halted if they continued to market them as a treatment for gender dysphoria. Read @hallielieberman.bsky.social on what that means for trans customers:

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Fantastic article on what we can learn in the US from the mothers who resisted authoritarianism in Argentina: theconversation.com/how-governme... Great work from @rewirenewsgroup.com & @us.theconversation.com (shoutout @catesby.bsky.social!) #ICEout #AbolishICE

At least 12 companies that make and sell chest binders received letters from the FDA warning that they may be in violation of federal regulations around medical devices. The business owners @hallielieberman.bsky.social interviewed disagree, with one calling the campaign "transphobia driven.”

Pitch us! RNG is the only national U.S. newsroom exclusively dedicated to expert reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. For our first 2026 call-out, we especially seek timely, incisive story ideas from journalists covering disability justice, science, and parenthood.

Our editorial director @catesby.bsky.social worked closely with @us.theconversation.com to recount a dark chapter of Argentine history, during the military dictatorship of the late 1970s, that people reckoning with ICE violence in the U.S. may find helpful––even, Catesby says, "heartening."

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Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains how aging out of childhood programs leaves families fighting for the bare minimum. Those systemic failures create desperation. And ignoring them lets ableist narratives prevail. B*tch, Listen. Out now.

Forcing people to carry pregnancies to term without the resources to raise disabled children is ableism. @angryblacklady.blacksky.app talks with @vilissathompson.bsky.social about how reproductive injustice and abandoning caregivers set people up to fail. 🎧 New B*tch Listen • Out now.

True crime is everywhere—but these stories rarely explore crimes against disabled people. In this week's pod, @angryblacklady.blacksky.app and disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social discuss how disabled victims get erased from true crime and what ethical storytelling would require.

Bridgerton season is upon us.

Bridgerton fans are getting hyped to step into a new season tomorrow—but can the show improve its depiction of consent? The romance genre has long grappled with how to show people mutually agreeing to sex, and Bridgerton has a chance to improve upon its source material.

This drops tomorrow. Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social joins B*tch, Listen, hosted by @angryblacklady.blacksky.app, to lay out how true crime reframes violence against disabled people as “mercy”—and what gets erased in the process. 🎧 New episode • Jan. 29, 2026

Today’s @rewirenewsgroup.com story takes a look at how Bridgerton and other romance stories depict consent, and how the romance genre’s concept of consent has evolved over the years. So excited about today’s piece, please give it a read!! rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/28/b...

“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.”

Thanks to our partners at @us.theconversation.com, which co-produced this story with @rewirenewsgroup.com. Here's their version. Shoutout to non-profit news collaborations.

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.

When young people started disappearing during Argentina’s military dictatorship, their mothers refused to stay silent. Enduring mockery, smears, abductions and killings, the women mounted a potent resistance that exposed the government’s atrocities: “It matters how society reacts to state terror.”

When disabled people are killed by family members or caregivers, true crime often reframes the violence as “mercy” or caregiver stress, shifting sympathy away from the victim. Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains this narrative on B*tch, Listen. 🎧 New • Jan. 29, 2026

When disabled people are killed by family members or caregivers, true crime often reframes the violence as “mercy” or caregiver stress, shifting sympathy away from the victim. Disability justice advocate @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains this narrative on B*tch, Listen. 🎧 New • Jan. 29, 2026

@hegemommy.bsky.social and @angryblacklady.blacksky.app on why conservatives want to ban trans girls from sports

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