Lauren Rankin
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Author of BODIES ON THE LINE.
@Truthout.org
Contributor. Exceptional yeller. YNWA. she/her
Anti-abortion groups are trying to force the public release of Indiana's pregnancy termination records, even though the state has a near-total abortion ban. Why? They want to expose abortion seekers and providers to public harassment. My latest for
@truthout.org
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Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public
Abortion rights opponents want Indiana to use reporting rules to expose abortion providers and recipients to targeting.
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-abortion-groups-try-a-new-intimidation-tactic-make-abortion-records-public/
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sarah jeong
12 days ago
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling.
www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
https://www.theverge.com/policy/872783/tear-gas-children-portland-ice-labor?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik82RXlIMFRrQmciLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84NzI3ODMvdGVhci1nYXMtY2hpbGRyZW4tcG9ydGxhbmQtaWNlLWxhYm9yIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwNTU5NDA5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzAxMjc0MDl9.NXDhQVZs0OcbLM77v7-6vvt15w2y84nywTGWgPgZ1uo&utm_medium=gift-link
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Stephen Miller is a Nazi pass it on
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We already learned the hard way with abortion rights that mealy-mouthed positions only embolden your opponents. Now we see congressional Democrats doing the same thing with ICE. Abortion is a human right. ICE must be abolished; it's fascist and deadly. There should be no wavering on either.
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jamelle
20 days ago
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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emptywheel
20 days ago
Reup: Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/s...
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Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable - emptywheel
The right wing wants to blame Kristi Noem's propaganda failures for the cratering legitimacy of Stephen Miller's deportation regime. If they want to scapegoat, let's make sure they include Miller as w...
https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/stephen-miller-not-just-kristi-noem-and-greg-bovino-must-be-held-accountable/
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Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban man imprisoned an ICE concentration camp, was murdered when guards essentially choked him to death. His name should be on our signs, too. Geraldo should be alive, with his family, in his home. Instead, our federal government murdered him because he was an immigrant.
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Kat Tenbarge
21 days ago
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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Tim Onion
22 days ago
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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A group of fascist terrorists are hunting and murdering innocent people at the behest of the federal government. The time for statements of condemnation is gone. Any elected official who wrings their hands yet refuses to take action against ICE is abetting this terror and should be voted out ASAP.
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Caitlin Kelly
about 1 month ago
NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy. But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.
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A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.
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Sports are made up. The "rules" of sports are made up, and they change all the time. Baseball introduced a pitch clock in 2023 and the NFL implemented the Dynamic Kickoff rule this past year. There is no immutable code that says that only cis people can play sports. It's just bigotry.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
about 1 month ago
even ignoring all other evidence showing that trans sports bans are about discriminating against trans people, not protecting cis women... I'm supposed to believe that the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and has two justices credibly accused of sexual misconduct cares about womens rights?
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molly conger
about 1 month ago
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom)
about 1 month ago
We don’t need to compare what happened in Minneapolis to Nazi Germany. We can compare it to what has happened in Minneapolis before.
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ICE isn't just a terror squad--it's a white supremacist death squad. ICE murdered someone today and it won't be the last murder they commit. It is imperative that state and local leaders REFUSE to cooperate in any way with ICE and put their resources into protecting immigrant communities.
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Susan Rinkunas
about 1 month ago
Kentucky State Police charged a woman with "fetal homicide" after she allegedly used abortion pills bought online—despite the fact that the statute explicitly exempts pregnant people from charges. But her mugshot is all over the internet including People fucking magazine
www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...
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Julianne McShane
about 2 months ago
🚨🚨 SCOOP
@ms.now
: The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
https://www.ms.now/news/abortion-ban-veterans-affairs-va
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it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns
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Danielle Kurtzleben
3 months ago
Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
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There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism."
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NBC News
3 months ago
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
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Mary
4 months ago
“These videos aren’t produced by OB-GYNs or scientists. They aren’t based on medical information. By using a seemingly anodyne tactic in order to cunningly and covertly attack abortion rights, they are a sinister tool of anti-abortion propaganda.” —
@laurenarankin.bsky.social
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Abortion opponents have realized that they've lost public opinion among adults. Now, they're trying to brainwash children by mandating that schools show junk science videos about fetal development. And it's already the law in several states. My latest at
@truthout.org
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truthout.org/articles/gop...
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GOP Wants to Mandate “Fetal Development Education.” It’s Anti-Abortion Nonsense.
Republicans can’t seem to convince adults to vote against abortion, so they’re trying to brainwash kids instead.
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-wants-to-mandate-fetal-development-education-its-anti-abortion-nonsense/
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Melissa Gira Grant
4 months ago
if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE
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Prisonculture
4 months ago
the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.
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Autonomy News
4 months ago
NEW: Recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, shared exclusively with Autonomy News, reveal that anti-abortion physicians are reluctant to prescribe abortion pill “reversal”—even as the conservative legal movement uses the supposed treatment to expand CPCs’ free speech rights.
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Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.
Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.
https://www.autonomynews.co/abortion-pill-reversal-is-a-hoax-its-also-a-powerful-right-wing-legal-strategy/
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund
5 months ago
Good news: y’all have already raised $300! Bad news: she’s measured further along and the cost has gone up. She needs a total of $3,400 now in addition to the $1,000 we already pledged. Our goal is now $2,500 to raise for her and we will cover the rest of the balance.
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Just a reminder that mifepristone is incredibly safe and has been approved by the FDA for a quarter of a century. You can purchase medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) online and have it shipped to your home through
@aidaccess.bsky.social
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Truthout
5 months ago
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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Vaccine deniers have learned from abortion opponents that you can ban health care without actually making it illegal––stigmatize it and make it inaccessible. It's meant to make us distrust science and disbelieve what we see with our own eyes. My latest for
@truthout.org
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truthout.org/articles/fda...
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
https://truthout.org/articles/fdas-arbitrary-restrictions-on-vaccines-are-right-out-of-anti-abortion-playbook/
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Irin Carmon
5 months ago
Hi Bluesky! Have I mentioned my book UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy is out October 28? It tells a bigger story of reproduction in America through the experiences of five women, and it’s available for preorder now:
bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...
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Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
https://bookshop.org/p/books/unbearable-five-women-and-the-perils-of-pregnancy-in-america-irin-carmon/58ef27a6cc76796c
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Abortion opponents have firebombed and shot up abortion clinics. They've murdered 11 abortion providers and stalked, harassed, and terrorized untold others. I personally have been doxxed, threatened, and stalked. They aren't interested in talking to us. They hate us. They want us dead. Literally.
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s. e. smith
5 months ago
So many 'progressive' orgs behave like this and it sucks. People work here because they believe the work is important and they get treated like garbage while their employers talk a big public game about how great they are.
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The Board of
@apiaryps.bsky.social
just surprise-fired their entire staff (amazing, dedicated folks) and put the organization on "pause" because the Board hated that the staff demanded they live up to actual RJ values. I saw this firsthand working with Apiary. I'm disgusted but not surprised.
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Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a woman in Texas, and it doesn't quite pass the smell test. For
@truthout.org
, I wrote about how abortion opponents may have found a new avenue to attack medication abortion.
truthout.org/articles/wro...
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Wrongful Death Suit in Texas Poses New Threats to Medication Abortion Access
Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in the lawsuit filed this August by a woman in Texas.
https://truthout.org/articles/wrongful-death-suit-in-texas-poses-new-threats-to-medication-abortion-access/
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Dan Devine
6 months ago
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
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Interrupting Criminalization
7 months ago
"It’s time to think beyond the courts; not to abandon the judiciary as a tool, but instead to reframe what justice looks like, and how we can create it for ourselves and our communities."
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Autistic Science Person
7 months ago
This is a BIG deal and people need to be following this - If it goes to the Supreme Court, it could allow states to go over the FDA and ban whatever medication they want to ban. (including hormones/surgeries for trans people)
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A federal appeals court recently upheld West Virginia's insidious medication abortion ban. For
@truthout.org
, I wrote about what that means, its long-term implications, and why everyone who can get pregnant should purchase medication abortion now.
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Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What?
If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.
https://truthout.org/articles/federal-appeals-court-upheld-west-virginia-ban-on-medication-abortion-now-what/
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Don Moynihan
7 months ago
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
7 months ago
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord.
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The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
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Truthout
8 months ago
Adriana Smith, who was forcibly kept alive by the State of Georgia — against her family’s wishes — because she was nine weeks pregnant, was taken off life support on June 17 this year after her fetus was delivered via C-section. This is a direct result of the Dobbs decision.
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3 Years in, Horrors Wrought by Anti-Abortion “Dobbs” Ruling Are Apparent to All
We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.
https://buff.ly/IwZi5Pc
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Siva
8 months ago
Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation
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It's been three years since the Dobbs decision, and the horrors it unleashed would be unbelievable if abortion rights advocates hadn't been telling you this would happen for years. I wrote about what Dobbs has wrought for
@truthout.org
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3 Years in, Horrors Wrought by Anti-Abortion “Dobbs” Ruling Are Apparent to All
We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.
https://truthout.org/articles/3-years-in-horrors-wrought-by-anti-abortion-dobbs-ruling-are-apparent-to-all/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
8 months ago
Adriana Smith was brushed off when she went to the hospital in pain She was braindead within hours That was in February. Doctors performed a c-section on her on Friday. They kept her on life support for months in order to avoid violating Georgia's abortion ban
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Georgia’s Abortion Ban Just Forced a Brain-Dead Woman On Life Support to Give Birth
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs upended decades of settled law. Adriana Smith and her family paid the price
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/brain-dead-birth-georgia-abortion-ban/
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The crusade against trans kids isn't an attempt to divert attention; it is THE POINT. It's not a diversion to a trans kid in a state with a GAC ban. It's not a diversion to a trans adult who feels invalidated by this egregious ruling. Stop treating trans kids like pawns and FIGHT FOR THEM.
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ryan cooper
8 months ago
Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people
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Great reporting from
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