1. Planned Parenthood of Arizona has "paused" gender affirming care for transgender adults. It appears to be a case of massive over compliance. This kind of move could threaten the majority of trans people's medication in the US. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

A woman was shot and killed by a state trooper after an altercation on I-10 westbound in Tucson near Park Ave.

A Tucson attorney said he knows of 12 students at Arizona State University who have had their student visas revoked, including one now detained at an ICE detention center in Florence, AZ, despite having no serious criminal record. Some only had traffic-related offenses. tucson.com/news/local/e...

I keep coming back to the insanity of this statement from an ICE official, which would sound like something out of 1984 except lacks Orwell's sense of irony and self-awareness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

So many of the countries getting hit hardest by Trump's Folly were lectured for years by the WB, IMF, Washington and others about taking responsibility for their own development through trade, not aid. Trump just pulled the USAID rug out from under them, then kicked them when they were down.

Momodou Taal, the Black Cornell University student targeted by ICE for protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians, has announced he is leaving America. x.com/MomodouTaal/...

6. The judge ruled the ban relied on unscientific definitions of sex that barred intersex people from bathrooms: “Under the Act, however, transgender people cannot use sex-separated facilities that correspond with their gender identity and intersex people cannot use sex-separated facilities at all.”

5. The judge also ruled that transgender status and sex are private, and protected by the Montana state constitution.

4. “The Act fails strict scrutiny because it is motivated by animus and supported by no evidence that its restrictions advance its purported purpose to protect women’s safety and privacy," said the judge.

1. Incredible news for trans people in Montana. A Montana judge has temporarily blocked the state's bathroom ban targeting trans adults in airports, colleges, and more. He ruled that the state showed no evidence bathroom bans protect women. Subscribe to support our journalism.

As the Rapid Support Forces launched vicious attacks in central Sudan last year, local volunteers began a daring rescue of civilians. This is the inside story of their efforts: ⬇️

Two journalists in Burkina Faso were abducted just days after they publicly condemned the military junta’s media stranglehold. Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba were arrested by people claiming to be members of the intelligence services, reporters said.

Community: we just published an interactive map to help folks visually understand the impact of the the USAID funding crisis. Please share!

USAID terminates nearly all its remaining 900 employees "Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees," according to two senior USAID officials, as the remnants of USAID are folded into State

The nine people who have been pursued and, in some cases, detained by federal officials include current and former students and professors. Most of them have publicly expressed pro-Palestinian views. Some have green cards, making them lawful permanent residents. Others have student visas.

Inspiring and grounded episode. 🖤

The Trump regime is now seizing anti-Putin dissidents in the US and deporting them to Russia.

Gavi acknowledges that the PCV rollout has room to improve, but the impact is huge: 1.2 million children's lives were saved by preventing pneumonia through the rollout of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in low-income countries from 2009-2023. Under-5 deaths from pneumonia were almost cut in half.

PCV was introduced in high income countries years earlier: this is the fatal divide in access to medicines that we speak of, and that the world shouldn't tolerate but does. In Canada, pneumococcal vaccination is part of the routine immunization schedule for kids and older adults. It saves lives.

The US is cutting its funding for Gavi, an organization that has undoubtedly saved the lives of millions of children by scaling up vaccine access and introducing new vaccines to routine immunization programs. This cut will put millions of kids' lives, and global public health, at risk. 🧵

The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home theintercept.com/2025/03/26/s...

Sociopathic RFK Jr. wants to cut 20,000 jobs from Health and Human Services. This will delay health and medical progress for decades. Someone you know will die unnecessarily of something that could have been prevented or cured if these people were allowed to do their jobs wapo.st/3Y5sGeJ [gift link]

“We condemn the use of our land as an imperial prison and the attempt to turn our territory into free zones for neofascist experimentation. We demand the immediate release of all kidnapped Venezuelan migrants..."

8. It’s not just trans and gender nonconforming people who should be worried — most every marginalized group will be impacted by this measure, as well as huge impacts on married women.

4. According to the Center for American Progress (CAP), the order makes passports important to guaranteeing an American’s right to vote. But roughly half of all adult citizens—about 146 million people—do not have a passport. www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

2. President Donald Trump issued a wide-reaching, constitutionally contested executive order on Tuesday, stoking false claims about election fraud, invalidating mail-in ballots received after Election Day, and mandating documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal races.

1. Trump's voting EO that attacked mail-in ballots and required voter ID could be devastating for transgender people. Trans people often have trouble updating birth certs, and passports right now are held up. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Brilliant reporting.

There were an estimated 18,900 fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa in 2024. The Sahel remained the most lethal theater on the continent for the fourth year in a row with an estimated 10,400 deaths linked to militant Islamist violence. africacenter.org/spo...

James Copnall, BBC: “On bombing in Tora, N Darfur, Drar Adam tells us he has been able to confirm 61 deaths - but many more at risk as there are hardly any medical facilities in the town […] And outlook for Darfur bleak - as well as SAF airstrikes, RSF committing abuses” #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

Sudanese journalist Mohanad Hashim: “For all their hubris, the RSF collapse in Khartoum is spectacular. The great raid of the janjaweed on Khartoum has come to a swift end. Millions displaced, thousands killed and maimed, the scars of war are imprinted on every soul and wall in the city” #Sudan

The Atlantic just published all of the messages from the signal chat. archive.ph/ta6gH

Another thing the Signal chat revealed: Trump is seriously planning to charge a fee for discrete military operations based on an internal analysis of the costs to the US and benefits to the beneficiaries, in this case Europe. short 🧵

Utter indifference to (Arab) human life as a core component of the Yemen model - and of US Middle East policy more broadly. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/the-yemen-...

It is obviously bad that they were texting this on Signal and bad that they let a journalist into their group chat. But the actual act they’re talking about—intentionally bombing civilians, a war crime—is the far more fundamental wrong.

Fucking ghouls

Targeting an individual for assassination at a building known to be his romantic partner’s residence by collapsing the whole structure seems to me to fall squarely within the Geneva Convention’s prohibition on targeting civilian objects, and probably other defined war crimes as well

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

This story keeps getting worse: the CIA Director also named a covert CIA operative in the Signal thread about military strikes in Yemen. We should have wall-to-wall coverage of this story for weeks (though I'm not placing any bets).

Yes, this Signal scandal is actually a series of nested scandals, not least of which is that they appear to have pre-targeted an apartment building, killing and wounding civilians.

The Signal scandals, continued: 8. Command and control lapse (where was Trump?) 9. Principals freelancing policy given Trump absence 10. Where were the staffs? 11. Did all of this on their personal devices, including... 12. One principal who was in Moscow while waiting to talk to Putin (!)

The Signal scandals: 1. Used Signal for classified material 2. Unauthorized release of said classified material 3. Violates federal record-keeping laws 4. Exposed existence of other Signal channels 5. Gabbard, Waltz perjured themselves 6. Amateur-hour strategy by idiots 7. Strikes killed civilians

The report provides public health recommendations, such as vitamin protocols for returnees, and the use of masks while in contact with war debris, in Arabic and Ukrainian translations. [7/8]

People returning to homes in bombed areas bear the brunt of heavy metal exposure from military activity, and nutritional gaps can compound health risks. [6/8]