A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

AS FOR EXAMPLE WHEN LUDACRIS RAPS

On this day in 1894, Burnita Shelton Matthews was born. She became a suffragist, lawyer, and advocate for repealing the thousands of laws that discriminated against women. She helped end women’s exclusion from juries in D.C. In 1949, she became the first female federal district judge. #WeTheMen

Please watch Melissa Murray’s converation on Women’s Health 2025 in the U.S.

After his mom died, Fry Bread author Kevin Maillard found himself wondering, "but where did she go?" So he wrote about it. His new kids' book is And They Walk On, illustrated by Rafael López.

I’m half Jewish, so I went to a movie today but did not eat Chinese food.

The rule of law is under threat

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up. She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12. She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions. She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em

Wisconsin billboard sponsored by the Jackson County Democratic Party (via @thetnholler.bsky.social)

A little on the nose, narrative-wise

While procuring big raises for themselves, these presidents were dismantling entire departments, firing faculty en masse, and signing expensive contracts with the epistemicide company in defiance of shared governance. Abject betrayal of the university mission. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Hot take: if you don’t know how to redact a PDF, you probably shouldn’t be running the federal government’s law enforcement agency.

Alan Dershowitz, Mr “I kept my underwear on” is not going to be happy about this. The redacted document says he negotiated the Epstein agreement in order to protect himself. More generally, Epstein’s buddies are not going to be happy, as there seems to be a way to see behind the redactions …

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

Flight records show Trump "traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)," an assistant US attorney from the Southern District of New York wrote in an email dated January 8, 2020.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

"Researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers..." Pro-death administration.

What does “fetal personhood” mean and how does it expand state power over pregnant people? In this recent #podcast, Karen Thompson at @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and Garin Marschall at @patientforward.bsky.social talk with us about viability, state involvement in pregnancies, and criminalization.

Gaps in contraceptive access persist across the U.S. — and federal funding cuts could make them worse. Full report:

Also, getting rid of disparate impact was in Project 2025 because the white Christian nationalist authors hate equality. www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."

Federal law requires that at least 1 commemorative quarter for the US 250th anniversary must celebrate women. But the Trump Administration scrapped plans to honor woman suffrage & Ruby Bridges desegregating her school. A pilgrim wife is the only woman on the new quarters. #WeTheMen shorturl.at/MpUu4

Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators. Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans. What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?

Can’t wait to get this.

When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

PART 1: As Texas’s latest abortion ban—also known as HB7—went into effect, our Senior Counsel, Marc Hearron, sat down with Molly Duane, who litigated Zurawski v. Texas, to discuss what’s really at stake. Stay tuned for Part 2, coming soon!

It's the 45th anniversary of 9 to 5 and I wrote about how the workplace woes of women haven't changed all that much! wearethemeteor.com/eu-vote-magi... via @themeteor.bsky.social

Multiple studies involved having a variety of people (men and women) assessing the exact same CV with different names on top--those with female names were consistently deemed less productive, even despite having the exact same record. +

I guess it will be short, then?

NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis. Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Wow www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Kinda forgot to mention I'm going to be on a webinar panel tomorrow (16 Dec) for UN Women and ITU on Addressing Sexual Harassment Against Women in the Tech Sector - 8:30am EST. Free to join! unwomen.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Error! Bookmark not defined is a good shorthand to describe this entire presidency.

Metaphors gonna metaphor.

Pretty rich that a man who enjoys watching sexual abuse of INFANTS was deeply concerned about gender-affirming care for adolescents.

Legitimation crises happen slowly, then all at once.

Pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to be hospitalized or deliver prematurely, new data show. The study confirms the benefits of the vaccines, even as the Trump administration raises doubts about their safety. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/pre...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

💵 Power Couple Plans to Fund PR Campaign for Patriarchy America’s least favorite anti-abortion duo is gearing up for an all-out cultural and political assault on abortion rights. Josh Hawley and his wife Erin are not satisfied with Roe being overturned. buff.ly/y2JDCaG

Global telehealth abortion provider Women Help Women is now producing its own combipack of one mife and eight miso tablets, and says they will start serving the US if the FDA restricts access to telehealth abortion. @msmagazine.com @plancpills.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...