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“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

This is a really strong piece of journalism that captures what it actually feels like when ICE targets your neighborhood www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Fascinating new research from @caitlinmyers.bsky.social and others shows that when laws restrict abortion, we see a jump in property crimes such as car theft, burglary. It underscores how financially destabilizing unplanned pregnancy can be — and how ill-equipped our safety net is to address it.

RFK Jr.'s newly appointed members of a top vaccine advisory panel include an anti-abortion OBGYN from Louisiana who's spoken at Right to Life events and defended the state's abortion restrictions: www.wwno.org/public-healt... prolifelouisiana.org/addressing-p...

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In a press call just now, Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson confirmed that some affiliates — in places where abortion is otherwise available — may stop providing the service in an effort to preserve Medicaid funding. Full quote below, replying to a q from @cartersherman.bsky.social

An appeals court has allowed the Planned Parenthood defunding to take effect. The organization confirms that this means patients covered through Medicaid cannot use it to pay for health care. Decision is effective immediately. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The surge of ICE arrests in DC is threatening the women who keep child care centers operational. One child care worker used to take kids to the library and local parks. It no longer feels safe to do so. “People don’t feel that freedom to walk through the streets.” 19thnews.org/2025/09/chil...

Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett bantering about Silence of the Lambs will heal even the most hardened soul

The prominent 31-year-old media personality encouraged young women to have more babies, called for a ban on gender-affirming care and advocated for gun rights.

Kamala Harris calls the fall of Roe "a huge issue on which the president was not seeking to lead," and says Biden"struggled to talk about reproductive rights in a way that met the gravity of the moment." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Health care providers are debating whether to send abortion pills into Texas once the state's new ban takes effect. “Every day it feels like it’s very tenuous,” one told me. If Texas can end telehealth abortion, other state legislatures are likely to follow. Patients will struggle to get care.

This is going to keep happening, and pregnant people’s health will be worse as a result 19thnews.org/2025/08/preg...

President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of domestic violence crimes, saying that were it not for “things that take place in the home they call crime,” the administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., would have resulted in a bigger statistical reduction in crime.

Shield laws and telehealth have helped tens of thousands of people get safe abortions since the fall of Roe, without having to travel across the country. But the clash between state laws means that eventually, SCOTUS will probably decide if this option can continue. 19thnews.org/2025/09/tele...

jags have a better record than the chiefs ... nfl season is over today

duval???????

Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sign up for @jennifergerson.bsky.social's newsletter! It will be excellent because Jen is a great reporter and writer but ALSO because she is deeply funny and has many good cultural opinions!!!! 19thnews.org/newsletters/...

Bans on cell phones in school are here, and they seem great, even if the kids are against it. In DC: 51st.news/dc-public-sc... In NYC: gothamist.com/news/nyc-stu...

We taped this conversation before the Texas legislature passed HB7 — a bill that very much targets health care providers in California and other blue states. It feels even more relevant this week!

RFK Jr. asked today about when HHS will complete its review on mifepristone, an anti-abortion priority. RFK says no timeline, but he spoke to FDA commish Makary "yesterday" about it. Heaps of research shows medication abortion, including mifepristone, is incredibly safe & effective

to hope, perchance to dream … of duval????

Our story: Texas is attempting to break new ground in its war on abortion pills by letting private citizens sue individuals who manufacture or distribute medications used in Texas for abortions. The bill still has to be signed and does NOT take effect immediately. 19thnews.org/2025/09/texa...

The TX Senate is debating whether to pass the abortion bill. Sen. Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, says: "This sets a dangerous precedent. It flies in the face of states’ right and contradicts the rationale behind the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs that each state should set its own laws on abortion."

pitchfork giving sabrina carpenter a higher score than emotion … poptimism will pay for its sins

Tonight, the Texas Senate is debating the latest version of the bill meant to ban mailing abortion pills into Texas. If the Senate OKs the bill, it heads to Abbott’s desk. Some abortion opponents call it a model to stop telehealth abortions, which have helped thousands get around state bans.

SB 8, the Texas Bathroom bill, passed 86 - 41. Last stop is conference committee to hammer out the fines. Soon to become law of the land #txlege

Just an extraordinary letter -- an an extraordinary (still playing out) crisis for American public health

Today we and our colleagues at @‪ansirh.bsky.social‬ submitted a letter to the FDA for over 260 researchers affirming the 25-year safety record of mifepristone and urging the FDA not to restrict abortion pill access based on junk science. Read the letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...

Reuters/Ipsos poll: – 38% support Trump deploying the Nat'l Guard to DC. 46%opposed – Among independents, it's just 28% in favor, 51% opposed – Trump's approval remains at 40%. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

New Data for Progress poll: Voters nationwide oppose Trump’s military deployment in Washington, D.C., 57% say he's "being authoritarian"

The WaPo poll also finds high support for D.C. statehood, and widespread opposition to Trump's attempted takeover of MPD and the deployment of the National Guard. Residents are also generally happy with their neighborhoods.

Free DC has been organizing Washington’s 700,000 residents to resist federal interventions during the early months of the second Trump administration.

a reminder that every day is a great day to support @19thnews.org, an independent, nonprofit outlet that does in fact create great journalism

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Across Washington, D.C., hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents have arrived in the city as part of President Trump’s takeover of D.C. policing. Authorities have been seen in at least 20 incidents in all four quadrants of the city, according to a Post review. wapo.st/45kRwvt

@19thnews.org won its *second* Edward R. Murrow award for our breaking news coverage last summer — when President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his VP Kamala Harris. This is truly the best news! So proud! www.rtdna.org/2025-nationa...

holy shit @19thnews.org won a Murrow (for the second year in a row!!!) www.rtdna.org/2025-nationa...

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

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Just reposting this old story of mine about the long tradition of treating D.C. residents like they aren't real Americans. In 1972, a senator from Louisiana argued against home rule, saying the District would be controlled by "Black Muslims." The history, it repeats. wapo.st/4mCsYUm (gift link)

A proposed rule to kick hospitals out of Medicare/Medicaid if they offer trans kids gender affirming care is now being reviewed by the office of budget and management h/t my colleague @shefali.bsky.social

Medicaid cuts are set to decimate hospital labor and delivery options — forcing patients to travel hundreds of miles for essential health care, and likely yielding worse outcomes for pregnant people and their kids 19thnews.org/2025/08/preg...

The standoff over Texas' redistricting is imperiling other GOP priorities: abortion restrictions & a bathroom ban. Some conservatives want another session if Dems run out the clock. "We have no reason to believe this will be the end of our bill on abortion pills," said the head of TX Right to Life

Pregnant veterans would no longer be allowed to receive abortions at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in cases of rape, incest or when the pregnancy threatens their health under a proposed rule from the Trump administration that would revoke a Biden-era policy expanding abortion access.

game of thrones on the same tier as lost, or even better than the leftovers/mad men/crazy ex-girlfriend/fleabag/girls ... what are we doing here