New from me: This week marks the ninth Black Maternal Health Week began on Saturday. At Rewire News Group, we rounded up our reporting on the hurdles Black people face in getting adequate care during pregnancy and birth—and how Black women are taking action:

You can read @tmavuram.bsky.social’s full roundup of the state of Black maternal health for RNG here:

Communities without adequate access to maternal care are taking matters into their own hands. Timberly Washington, a medical student in the South who has also worked as a doula, wrote about why doulas are critical in making birth safer, especially for Black and Hispanic patients.

Hundreds of thousands of Black women lost or left their jobs in 2025, creating mass unemployment. Last November, Emma Akpan explained how that shaped their reproductive choices and restricted access to care:

🧵 The ninth annual Black Maternal Health Week began on Saturday, amplifying the perspectives of Black pregnant people and bringing awareness to high death rates Black women face during pregnancy and after birth. We cover these issues year-round. Here’s some of our reporting on Black maternal health:

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For #TransDayofVisibility, @tmavuram.bsky.social rounded up our coverage documenting the Trump administration’s legal and political assaults on trans rights and autonomy. Read more:

New from me: This past year, the White House has systematically dismantled trans rights and autonomy, making the country less safe for trans people to live and thrive. At Rewire News Group, we reviewed our coverage of these political and legal assaults and their consequences.

Even amid the bad news, we found many stories of trans resilience and joy. Last August, we published a note by a young trans girl who felt loved and supported by her family and community. “We all get to decide who we want to be,” she wrote. “And I just want to be me.”

The next month, we published a letter from Daniel, a trans teen whose family had decided to leave the U.S. in hopes of finding a safer place to raise him. “Many anti-trans laws, like Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban, target children and adolescents,” we wrote in our introduction to his letter.

🧵 This past year, the White House has systematically dismantled trans rights and autonomy, making the country less safe for trans people to live and thrive. We’ve followed these political and legal assaults, and this #TransDayofVisibility, we’re highlighting our coverage of their human consequences:

“Not being able to access your health-care appointments is such a stab in the side. … Being able to navigate any of these things in normal circumstances already has so much difficulty to it.”

NEW: In Minneapolis, @cameronoakes.bsky.social and Sam Donndelinger report, ICE’s Operation Metro Surge is preventing Latino patients from accessing HIV care. This story was produced in collaboration with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication.

I like the flexibility of freelancing, but pitching yourself all the time, constantly, and taking advantage of everything that happens as a business opportunity is exhausting. Someone commission me so I can stop marketing myself full-time!

I wrote about my Valentine’s Day weekend at the Polymarket free grocery store open.substack.com/pub/termsand...

The research is clear: Abortion is safe across body size. But BMI limits at some abortion clinics are still pushing some patients into different care and higher costs. This story was originally reported by @19thnews.org, and republished through RNG‘s partnership with The 19th News Network.

I wrote about my Valentine’s Day weekend at the Polymarket free grocery store open.substack.com/pub/termsand...

For @rewirenewsgroup.com, @setharichardson.bsky.social reported on how ICE's presence in the Twin Cities has transformed kids' daily lives: "You can’t say to this student everything is going to be OK, because it’s not. Her mom did go to the detention center." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/03/i...

planning on doing a little scene reporting at Zohran’s inauguration. subscribe today to get it in your inbox when it drops :) termsandconditions.substack.com

ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

The attack on public education is only accelerating under Trump 2.0. @tmavuram.bsky.social writes on two books with wildly competing visions for the path forward.

I wrote about the youth vote, and how young people could reshape American politics this decade, for @thenation.com

"Young voters are progressive, the conventional wisdom goes, if only they would go to the polls." Well, now they are, writes @tmavuram.bsky.social.

it's not looking good out there, folks

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration. If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

I wrote about how I'm not on Instagram anymore termsandconditions.substack.com/p/going-off-...

I wrote about how I'm not on Instagram anymore termsandconditions.substack.com/p/going-off-...

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Being a maximally mean and off-putting feminist … this is my goal for 2025.

There are dozens of congressmen/women who climbed over the most politically ambitious people in their communities to get to DC, spending (or having PACs spend) millions of dollars - and now want to just outsource their decisions to Elon. Not "surprising" really but kind of remarkable

I wrote about Luigi termsandconditions.substack.com/p/the-most-a...

i’m writing a book and i’m very excited :) it’s about ecofascism and the origins of conservation and it will be published by bloomsbury :) wow :)

Consider getting hit by a car. If you live you will receive a tremendous settlement. If you do not live you will be reincarnated on the blockchain. It is a win-win

question: why is ro khanna sharing a stage with nancy mace like 24 hours after she launched a hate campaign against one of his colleagues?

well they’re just gonna put someone else who is almost as bad but perhaps not literally a pedophile and the democrats will be like: wow, thank you for your civility, sir

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NEW: What could Trump's election mean for education in New York? ✏️Cuts to federal school funding deportations of newly arrived students ✏️A rollback of civil rights protections ✏️Restrictions to free lunch ✏️A win for private and charter schools nysfocus.com/2024/11/20/t...

- Stripping 1.5+ million people of temporary status - End of refugee resettlement - Cutting legal immigration and adding new visa bans - Overall slowdown of legal immigration - End to asylum through Kafkaesque rules - Brutality against asylum seekers - Increased arrests, detention, and removals.

they should do a bluesky for Instagram and then for the rest of society

this is really brave of me to admit but I think a cybertruck could theoretically look good if it were like. a lot smaller. a cyber mini cooper, if you will

it's really funny to me that the people in both the dev patel lookalike contest and the zayn malik lookalike contest don't look anything like either of them. those are just brown people. that's basically just the entirety of my high school graduating class

[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber

does the Eras Tour ever actually….end?

no :)