ICE announced they’re going to spend more than $38 billion to detain thousands of more people. With that amount of money, we could end homelessness, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, or provide school lunches to every kid in America. This is totally unacceptable.

For those who believe the Radical Left invented #pronouns, I* give you a page out of my copy of Emily Bronte’s 1847 masterpiece, #WutheringHeights, reprinted by Random House in 1943. *”I“ is a pronoun, by the way. I invite you** to try communicating without it. **“You“ is also a pronoun.

We deported a 2 month old baby with bronchitis less than a day after he was unresponsive and treated at the hospital

Re-upping this read from the ABA’s Human Rights Magazine: “Movement Lawyering in Moments of Crisis: Some Things White Allies (and Others) Can Do“ www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/...

Slight caveat, I think it is important for Dems who opposed Newsom's candidacy to be loud about that NOW. This is especially true for cis dems. The party needs to grasp that elevating Newsom is dangerous and negligent and we do need to be really vocal that.

ICE is disrupting learning and putting our educators on the frontlines of immigration enforcement. Schools must be safe and welcoming places. We must restore sensitive locations protections. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

“She’s not from here.”

My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

Individually, each post could easily be dismissed, but taken together, they seem to form something more deliberate: a stream of repurposed Nazi propaganda for the everyday person’s feed.

For @reprolawyer.bsky.social and all my other health policy nerds who miss #HealthPolicyValentines but don't know how to start in this pit of despair

I skipped #healthpolicyvalentines this year because my healthcare heart is broken.

On Valentine’s Day eve, I’m realizing I heard not one thing about #HealthPolicyValentines this year. If that doesn’t reflect the headspace of health policy folks in 2026, idk what does.

Democratic party leaders know they have a large percentage of voters who will always vote for harm reduction and yet the harm is always increasing. Yes the Republican party has agency too, but telling leftists to shut up for fucking years has gotten Democrats to this current situation.

i think nominating Gavin Newsom will lose the White House again for Democrats. The party's left flank will stay home again because he's an empty corporate shell. The age of Democrats punching left to appeal to the center is over and it's now a matter of if the party as a whole realizes that or not.

Cissexual Necropolitics are the explicit goal of the right. It is a shame how few people want to acknowledge that.

Crestfallen that I just had to delay my genetic testing appointment & the next available appointment is 1/2027. Yet, that apt would have cost me $1,500 (based on estimate) and I am already spending $2700 on health care in the next month. Over $4k in one month just felt inconceivable.

john fetterman wants you to believe the 'sexism' problem is calling Kristie Noem a (very tame) name instead of how pregnant immigrant women in minneapolis cant go to the hospital or get prenatal care bc they're too afraid of being kidnapped & brutalized by ICE

We’ll be speaking about the @americanprogress.bsky.social Disability Reproductive Equity Coalition, the challenges of working at the intersection of disability and reproductive equity, and how we can work together. Register here: events.zoom.us/ev/Aj-hmQcmn...

I’m looking forward to joining @seemiaroll.bsky.social and @reprolawyer.bsky.social in conversation this Friday (2/13) at the Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference! www.disabilitysexualitylab.com/conference-2...

Pairs nicely with this piece noting that deporting immigrants doesn't mean Americans get those jobs. It means more automation or more outsourcing of jobs to other countries.

After years of hinting at it, conservatives have put in writing “Well little lady, you don’t need to have a job, an education, or really any opinions at all, now do ya?”

The FDA recently approved the birth control implant Nexplanon for use up to five years, instead of three. But to providers' surprise, it also placed the device under a special monitoring protocol called REMS, which is infamous for the way it has limited access to medication abortion.

On Friday, I wrote about what SRH care access advocates should know about Heritage's new insidious plan for "saving" (read: breaking) the U.S. Today, @jessicavalenti.bsky.social published a piece that offers a great big picture look at the plan: jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

The Heritage Foundation, which crafted #Project2025 & has a foothold on our federal government, recently published a report misleadingly titled "Saving America By Saving the Family." Here are some quick highlights for sexual & reproductive health advocates: www.linkedin.com/posts/morcel...

We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.

Looking forward to Mali D. Collins's talk about her new book, "Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination," in Conversation with Nadejda Webb tomorrow from 6-8 ET. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/scrap-theo...

“if they come for you they come for me too in the dead of winter [. . .] my people my people the long years we’ve survived the long years yet to come I see you map my sky the light your lantern long ahead & I follow I follow”

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

On repeat this week: “If They Should Come for Us“ by Fatima Asghar, as read by the poet: youtu.be/irGEipP10do?...

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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Horrifying. Defund ICE.

I absolutely love it when the pharmacy is unable to refill my POTS prescription because they're all out and have to order more right before a once-in a decade snow storm.

For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism. truthout.org/articles/tru...

So excited and proud that my friends at Converge: Partners in Access are opening their first in-person sexual and reproductive health clinic in Jackson, Mississippi. 🔥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNj2AQDp7X8

People who speak of hope Are themselves hope. People looking for a new way Are themselves a new way. In truly good people Is already a good world. It is within people It begins with people. Again People are the only hope. --Park No-Hae (translation by Helen S. Kim)

McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring

My toxic trait is that I love to tell non-leftist white people that AOC and Bernie are "global moderates" or "moderates in peer high-income nations." When they get angry or confused, I get out my charts. I'm just a girl who loves OECD data.

We as the repro movement need to do a better job of prepping our people to concisely answer politically charged anti-trans questions while serving as expert witnesses. "Can men become pregnant?" "Yes, trans men and intersex men can become pregnant." Next question.

Why is everything March 3–4

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

And of course Trump being Trump, his racist rental policies were executed with all the subtlety of a brick to the head:

the democratic party has shown an enormous amount of willingness to resist its base on key issues. there's no world where you get some moderate into power and just pressure them to do the right thing.

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

Idk who needs to hear this, but a wannabe dictator bombing a country, kidnapping its dictator, and staging a coup to take over its government and secure control of its oil does not make a right

The U.S. has a long tradition of not holding ourselves accountable for war crimes, delivering human rights, or anything, truly—and it shows

Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/aVuxuX6

2025 reminded me that even in the darkest years, we can strengthen our movements, build collective power, practice community care, rest, and create lasting change. I fear what 2026 will hold, but I know we’ll meet whatever comes together. www.madelinemorcelle.com/blog/bright-...