The great thing about owning a car in a city is that you always have a place to scream #MedicaidWorkRequirements

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

You are not owed our joy. Your are not entitled to have a trans person perform trans joy. All that does is center your comfort in discussion of the genocidal threat trans people face. It’s only serving to ease your sense of guilt. Arguably this focus on trans joy contributes to the present problem

And it's up: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-11094.pdf

And now we wait.

🏳️‍🌈 This #PrideMonth, we uplift LGBTQ+ communities and stand firm in our belief that everyone deserves affirming health care, bodily autonomy, and the freedom to be their authentic self. 💜 We see you, we fight for you, and we celebrate you.

Tomorrow is the legal deadline for the Trump administration to release their new rules for the President's biggest #Medicaid cut, #WorkRequirements. This cut will slash health insurance coverage for millions of people with low incomes, gutting sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care access. 🧵

Trump is counting on Medicaid work requirements to "save" the government billions of dollars by severing coverage for millions who stumble over administrative barriers. But implementation is costing already strapped states millions to tens of millions of dollars. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

A brief thread juxtaposing two passages I read this morning:

Governors from across the country called on the Trump Administration to stop forcing states into an unworkable rollout of new Medicaid requirements passed by Congress last year. drive.google.com/file/d/1HvqF...

How we spend our money as a country is a political choice. Funneling health care dollars away from Medicaid and toward tax cuts for the rich and ICE: a political choice. Allowing OBGYN units to close due to Medicaid cuts: also a political choice. #StandingInTheGap www.instagram.com/reel/DY4jQ7q...

When Medicaid is under threat, state courts could provide avenues to improve health care access. Learn more with our issue brief on State Administrative Procedure Act claims. healthlaw.org/resource/state-law-alternatives-for-medicaid-enforcement-issue-brief-2-state-administrative-procedure-acts/

Ending fraud is a bipartisan goal, but these days, the White House is crying "fraud" to turn the public against Medicaid enrollees. They're even created the term "legal fraud" (an oxymoron) to try and delegitimize policies that Congress and/or CMS directly authorized. #Medicaid #MedicaidFraud

On Africa Liberation Day, I pay my respects to a great Pan-Africanist, WEB DuBois, a communist and a pioneer sociologist and historian, buried in his favourite gazebo in Accra, Ghana.

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

Most Americans aren't heckling PhRMA's social media accounts nearly enough.

A major victory for journalists and ALL working people: POLITICO management has agreed to shut down 2 error-riddened AI tools in violation of PEN Guild’s contract. This win sends a clear message: AI cannot be used to shortcut union contracts and workers’ rights.

The only thing moms.gov says about Medicaid is that moms can refuse care like vaccines. It doesn’t mention civil rights protections for Medicaid enrollees, nor does it mention that Medicaid covers millions of moms, many of whom will lose coverage thanks to Trump’s big ugly law. This speaks volumes.

"We should not have to march in 2026 to protect voting rights for all Americans. We are at a moral low as a nation when people are stripped of their right to vote because of the color of their skin. But if we have to fight that same fight again, we will. And no one will turn us around." .

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

"Political pluralism within Jewish campus life is not a threat to Jewish students. It is a reflection of the actual diversity of Jewish opinion, which surveys consistently show to be far wider than Hillel International’s guidelines allow." forward.com/opinion/8254...

I will die on the hill that there are no “red“ states. There’s only voter suppression.

Forced detransition is going to be the norm at some point unless people actually get their shit together and fight like they care about trans people...and that involves supporting and elevating trans voices, not speaking over them or for them. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

All those MAGA folks screeching about the water quality in East Palestine, Ohio after a train derailment are mighty silent about Donald Trump and his EPA wanting to roll back protections against power companies dumping toxins into our waterways across the country. So much for MAHA and MAGA. 🙄

Demonizing people who detransition does nothing to help trans people. If anything it hurts them, by depriving them of support and belonging, which drives them into the arms of conservative think tanks and turns them into anti trans activists.

Tomorrow marks the 78th anniversary of the #Nakba. Many or most American Jews have never heard of this event. I passionately believe that the Jewish people (my own people) will not be free until Palestinians are free too—because our freedom is inextricably linked. www.aljazeera.com/video/by-the...

Proud to have supported @murray.senate.gov, @duckworth.senate.gov, and @pressley.house.gov‘s efforts to improve sexual & reproductive health care equity for disabled folks via the rewrite of the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act, reintroduced today: www.murray.senate.gov/murray-duckw...

“Using civil rights law to help white folks sounds like a joke. But the punchline is the law is increasingly taking people like John Q. Whiteman very seriously.”

On Friday, May 15 from 8:30-10 am, Representative Delia Ramirez (IL-3) is hosting a shadow hearing on how the cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE has harmed communities. Livestream: x.com/repdeliarami... www.facebook.com/repdeliarami... Perhaps also via @ramirez.house.gov?

I am disappointed that this is the first I have seen this. It speaks to systemic underreporting on the trans genocide that is unfolding around us. THIS is hurting Americans, not groups that affirm Trans peoples’ humanity—yet going after these groups is key to their goal to eliminate Trans people.

“…the forces that stand today against …political representation for Black people won’t stop there…They seek a one party political system ruled by authoritarians. The political oppression of Black people is not the end. It is the conduit.”

Happening today!

NHeLP proudly participated in the 2025 cohort of the CA Doula Labor Table. The Table published three white papers for doulas, advocates, health plans, policymakers, and system leaders to support the CA doula workforce and improve the Medi-Cal benefit: publicworksalliance.org/birth-equity

NHeLP Warns Against Trump Administration's Fragmented Approach to Fertility and Reproductive Health Coverage healthlaw.org/news/nhelp-w...

Of course she was

Join the Medicaid and Reproductive Justice Collaborative on Tuesday, May 12 from 4-5 ET. We’ll address: What Medicaid cuts mean for RJ; Our RJ vision for universal health care reform; How RJ movement advocates can join us; and How allies can support our work. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Another banger from First Branch Forecast. If Congress is to take back its power, it needs internal reform. Some useful thoughts about that here. open.substack.com/pub/firstbra...

Many are aching for the days of Roe, but codifying Roe cannot be the goal because Roe was never enough. Under Roe, the Hyde Amendment was a de facto abortion ban for millions of people with low incomes covered by Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP and served by the Indian Health Service.

If collective liberation isn't at the center of your movement of choice, consider why.

In states where voters bypassed officials to expand Medicaid, policymakers are opting for stricter implementation of new requirements than what the big ugly law requires. It's a huge "screw you" to the communities they're supposed to be accountable to. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Across the country, Indigenous people are gathering this week to honor loved ones who are missing or have been killed and to call for better data collection, law enforcement response and reforms to make their communities safer. apnews.com/article/miss...

Best wishes stopping people.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

Some really great bills in here. What I like is that, though these would make a big difference, they're all achievable, incremental reforms that Dems can run on in blue, purple, and even red districts. prospect.org/2026/04/29/c...

Raymond Chandler's "Advice to a Secretary" is actually excellent advice for any person who works for someone else. Great writeup from Hillel Italie in the @latimes.com (2021): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I’d argue #WomensHealth advocacy isn’t inherently problematic so long as users aren’t using it as shorthand for cis women’s health or reproductive health, which isn’t solely relevant to women. Unfortunately, many who use this frame fail one or both hurdles, and it undermines the work.

There can be no reproductive justice or health equity without voting rights.

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism