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My friend Terri is fostering Merle in DC but he needs a permanent home. Maybe yours? toolkit.rescuegroups.org/javascript/v...

"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100 percent but we are." 19thnews.org/2025/09/trum...

In case you missed this on Friday... 19thnews.org/2025/07/trum...

Rubio and Bondi have both worked to combat human trafficking over the course of their political careers. But now, the administration is pulling back on work it had been doing 19thnews.org/2025/07/trum...

Puerto Rico doesn't get SNAP; instead, people rely on a block grant, which provides less money in a place where food is much pricier and people can't buy much in bulk to stock a freezer because of the blackouts that hit at a moment's notice 19thnews.org/2025/07/puer...

The administration wants to deport a lot of people — so it needs to look beyond the criminals it's said it is focused on. Yessenia Ruano hoped the fact that her visa application for victims of human trafficking was processing would help her stay. ICE told her to leave. 19thnews.org/2025/07/upro...

The MLM-ification of our politics 19thnews.org/2025/06/mlm-...

The deadly shootings in Minnesota have left abortion providers shaken in an already hostile political climate. Story from @shefali.bsky.social and me: 19thnews.org/2025/06/minn...

A 16-month investigation into the Hague Abduction Convention by @19thnews.org and ‪@typeinvestigations.org‬. Meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart. 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...

The National Women’s Law Center sued the Trump administration, arguing that restrictions on domestic violence and sexual assault grants are illegal and conflict with requirements laid out in the Violence Against Women Act 19thnews.org/2025/06/dome...

In Albany, New York legislators are ending their session without passing two measures that would provide new protections for survivors of sexual misconduct within and outside of the workplace. 19thnews.org/2025/06/cuom...

In this week's episode of Trump’s reality show presidency, strength and power are defined from Los Angeles to Washington by a public and excessive show of force, where pageantry is a means of reinforcing control. My latest column for The Amendment: 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...

Decision Desk HQ calls the NJ Dem gov primary for Rep. Mikie Sherrill 19thnews.org/2025/06/miki...

The administration wants to change how gun rights are restored but hasn't laid out what the process will be, raising concerns that domestic abuse offenders will get guns back — and women will die 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...

Among the cuts in the first months of the Trump admin: the only team at the federal level working specifically on domestic and intimate partner violence prevention. 19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...

The federal government has long been critical to efforts to address domestic and intimate partner violence. It's taken just 130 days for the Trump administration to destabilize a safety net that took four decades to build. 19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...

Tory Lanez's bid to have his conviction overturned got support this week from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna 19thnews.org/2025/05/anna...

The Democratic former mayor of Atlanta says she will focus on the economic anxieties plaguing Georgians amid Trump’s second term.

The USDA program changes are coming at what Vince Hall, the head of government relations for Feeding America, the nationwide foodbank network, called an already “very precarious moment for food banks because there’s no resiliency left in the system.” 19thnews.org/2025/05/usda... via @19thnews.org

While we wait for the signing ceremony for the Take It Down Act, it's worth thinking about the words we use around this — and why "revenge porn" is neither revenge nor porn 19thnews.org/2024/07/reve...

Trump is set to sign the Take It Down Act today; @jazzmyth.bsky.social breaks down what it means for people impacted by the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images 19thnews.org/2025/05/take...

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Yessenia Ruano has been in the U.S. for 14 years. She's had twins, become an integral part of the school where she works and her church, bought a home, and checked in with ICE 17 times. Now she has a one-way ticket to El Salvador that she's still hoping not to use. 19thnews.org/2025/05/upro...

There's a pipeline that goes from birth control skepticism --> MAHA --> MAGA 19thnews.org/2025/05/birt...

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In February, the DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women removed all of its notices of funding opportunities and told grantees not to work on any applications that were in progress. Last week, they put up new ones — here's what's different, via @jazzmyth.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/05/revi...

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What happens after red state voters pass an abortion rights initiative 19thnews.org/2025/05/miss...

Efforts to address the missing and murdered Indigenous people epidemic — specifically with a focus on Native American women, girls and two-spirit folks — have historically been bipartisan. Both Biden and Trump signed executive orders aimed as addressing the crisis #MMIWG 19thnews.org/2025/05/indi...

Speaker Johnson keeps talking about Medicaid cuts in terms of able-bodied young men 19thnews.org/2025/05/medi...

“The one power that must not fail is the voice of the people,” Kamala Harris said in a speech last night where she warned of a constitutional crisis 19thnews.org/2025/05/kama...

“It is estimated parents spend over $20,000 in the first year of a baby’s life,” the letter said. “A $5,000 baby bonus could help families—but mothers deserve support to care for their families, not pressure to grow them.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District is one of the few districts that voted for a Democrat for the House and also Trump — here's what the impact of Trump's first 100 days looks like there 19thnews.org/2025/04/new-...

According to the latest @19thnews.org/@surveymonkey.com poll: - 49% of Americans think politicians should not focus on trans issues at all - 29% think they should focus on protecting trans rights - 17% think they should focus on restricting trans rights 19thnews.org/2025/04/amer...

With @surveymonkey.com, we re-ran our questions on trans rights from our annual poll. One change from the fall: More people want politicians to not focus on trans issues. 19thnews.org/2025/04/amer...

The White House has “weaponized” an accusation of domestic violence against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Alliance for Immigrant Survivors says 19thnews.org/2025/04/whit...

As the Latinx voting population has grown, so has the number of Latinas in statehouses 19thnews.org/2025/04/lati...

RFK Jr's former nonprofit is churning out content that questions the efficacy of vaccines even as he (kinda) supports vaccinations against measles 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...

The Take It Down Act, which seems on track to pass the House, is supposed to empower the FTC to get nonconsensual intimate imagery removed from the internet. But the FTC is down two commissioners + staff 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

Three offices in DHS that helped survivors of gender-based violence and discrimination have been gutted 19thnews.org/2025/04/immi...

We're watching what's next for the child tax credit, as more Republicans are outspoken about wanting to expand it 19thnews.org/2025/04/chil...

The Supreme Court ruled that the government must “facilitate and effectuate the return” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

How much is this primary gonna cost? www.texastribune.org/2025/04/08/k...

Mixed messaging on measles 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...

The fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely is over — for now 19thnews.org/2025/04/prox...

Bills that would treat abortion as homicide aren't passing in states — but they're getting more support than ever 19thnews.org/2025/04/stat...

The 2024 election isn't over www.wcnc.com/article/news...