As many as $3 of every $4 for anti-abortion pregnancy centers in Missouri was from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in 2024, and in the 2026 fiscal year, it will be $2 out of $3. By @kelciemmorris.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...

ICYMI: Since ICE’s Operation Metro Surge began in early December, an increasing number of Latino patients in Minnesota are delaying or canceling what can be lifesaving care for the prevention and treatment of #HIV. Check out the story on @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social and @rewirenewsgroup.com

“Bounty hunter” laws designed to incentivize people to sue their neighbors for getting an abortion are spreading throughout the country. @queenmab.bsky.social reports:

ICE's siege on the Twin Cities is disrupting HIV care for Latinos, who already saw a 24% rise in cases from 2010-2022. "Every day is a risk," one person said. By @cameronoakes.bsky.social & Sam Donndelinger for @rewirenewsgroup.com & @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social: rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/03/03/i...

New from Sam Donndelinger and me for @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social and @rewirenewsgroup.com: Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care

#HIV is preventable. #HIV is treatable. But federal immigration enforcement, on top of 15 months of escalating threats to HIV research, prevention, and treatment funding puts the gains of the last few decades at risk, experts told us. rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/03/03/i...

These findings are particularly concerning for Latino communities, who, as of 2023, are 72 percent more likely than the general U.S. population to be diagnosed with HIV. And while overall infections have decreased, cases among Latinos increased by 24 percent between 2010 and 2022.

In a January 2026 declaration, the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health said HIV testing among Latino populations has “dropped dramatically” and that “although grantee staff continue to go into the community to promote and provide testing, people are not showing up.”

Red Door, Minnesota’s largest STI and HIV clinic has had a “modest uptick” in no-shows and missed appointments since December.

The clinic serves a large number of Latino and undocumented clients, and while it usually sees 750 people walk through their door each week, according to providers, it reported seeing 100 fewer people each week since December.

The Aliveness Project, a community wellness center in Minneapolis specializing in HIV care, told Uncloseted Media and RNG they have seen a more than 50 percent decrease in new clients.

Since ICE’s Operation Metro Surge began in early December, an increasing number of Latino patients in Minnesota are delaying or canceling what can be lifesaving care for the prevention and treatment of #HIV.

That story is now live:

even if you believe this was unintentional, you can still recognize the harm done? but no one at BAFTA had sufficient empathy for Jordan and Lindo to acknowledge that—to seek them out and say, e.g., "you should not have had to hear that and we're so sorry it happened"—and it's fair to ask why tf not

A team of University of North Carolina researchers found that despite numerous barriers to care, the number of abortions for Latinas in North Carolina increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.

what a shot

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

ICE raids in the Twin Cities are taking a toll on Minnesota’s children.

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

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...

Minnesota parents are figuring out on the fly how to tell their children about and protect them against armed federal immigration enforcement agents occupying the city and ripping people haphazardly off the street. @setharichardson.bsky.social reports:

How do you explain ICE raids to children? @setharichardson.bsky.social reports on how Minnesota parents are struggling to protect their kids from the trauma of ICE’s occupation, while teachers face half-empty classrooms as students stay home for fear of being detained.

Interviewing a 5-year-old about how they're worried because "bad guys are taking mommies and daddies" is not something I ever thought I'd do.

I talked with parents, teachers and kids about ICE's ongoing operation and how it has upended their day-to-day lives. One of the harder stories I've reported. For @rewirenewsgroup.com rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/03/i...

Please take the time to read this. This is harrowing, heartbreaking, and despicable. "“All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said in an interview with Rewire News Group. “A lot of people have dark skin, so I try to keep them safe.”

"Bad guys are taking mommies and daddies." @setharichardson.bsky.social did the painstaking work of talking to children and families about how the Twin Cities ICE raids are affecting their daily lives. And @natasharoy.bsky.social led the edit. It's a gutwrenching read, but a necessary one:

Since ICE got to Minneapolis, 5-year-old Vera has a new hobby: setting traps. “All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said. “So I try to keep them safe.” @setharichardson.bsky.social on how kids, parents, and schools are handling the upheaval of ICE violence.

It's live. Get your tissues. “I’m OK with crying in front of him," said a mom, "but he’s come up to me a couple times and said, ‘It’s OK mama, I’ll protect you.’ That’s my job as a mom. I need to protect you.” Vera, 5, is taking matters into her own hands: She sets traps to catch the "naughties."

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...

In late 2025, the FDA warned companies that make and sell chest binders that their products could be seized and their sales could be halted if they continued to market them as a treatment for gender dysphoria. Read @hallielieberman.bsky.social on what that means for trans customers:

Federal vaccine requirements have changed. @martha-kempner.bsky.social, our sex health columnist, answers some frequent questions about the HPV vaccine, including who should get it, when, and how it works.

Pitch us! RNG is the only national U.S. newsroom exclusively dedicated to expert reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. For our first 2026 call-out, we especially seek timely, incisive story ideas from journalists covering disability justice, science, and parenthood.

Today’s @rewirenewsgroup.com story takes a look at how Bridgerton and other romance stories depict consent, and how the romance genre’s concept of consent has evolved over the years. So excited about today’s piece, please give it a read!! rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/28/b...

Bridgerton fans are getting hyped to step into a new season tomorrow—but can the show improve its depiction of consent? The romance genre has long grappled with how to show people mutually agreeing to sex, and Bridgerton has a chance to improve upon its source material.

Today’s @rewirenewsgroup.com story takes a look at how Bridgerton and other romance stories depict consent, and how the romance genre’s concept of consent has evolved over the years. So excited about today’s piece, please give it a read!! rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/28/b...

When young people started disappearing during Argentina’s military dictatorship, their mothers refused to stay silent. Enduring mockery, smears, abductions and killings, the women mounted a potent resistance that exposed the government’s atrocities: “It matters how society reacts to state terror.”

A pause in ICE activity in Minnesota is not debatable after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti Saturday morning in south Minneapolis, writes the Star Tribune Editorial Board.

According to @moderation.bsky.app, basic health care is too "adult" to be shown fully on the platform. But that shouldn't stop you from reading @haileycolp.bsky.social's latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com

Can pelvic floor therapy be helpful for you? Probably! In today's @rewirenewsgroup.com story, @haileycolp.bsky.social shares her experience with pelvic floor therapy and debunks common myths about it. Check it out here: rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/22/p...

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...

Breaking from me and @cameronoakes.bsky.social: Virginia lawmakers voted today to enshrine abortion rights into the state's constitution. Now it's up to voters. VA, the only southern state that has not enacted restrictions since the fall of Roe v. Wade, is a haven for patients across the region.

NEW: Virginia voters will get to weigh in on a reproductive rights amendment to their state constitution. rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/16/v... From @catesby.bsky.social and me for @rewirenewsgroup.com

"If I lose this case, what’s keeping me going is I would still have music, playing the trumpet in my high-school band. If we win this case, I’ll get back to being a kid doing what I love."

NEW: Louisiana today announced it indicted a California doctor for allegedly sending abortion pills to a patient in Louisiana in 2023. The Pelican State has a near-total abortion ban and reclassified mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances in 2024.

on Sat I did my first protest dispatch @us.theguardian.com, reporting from 2 protests in Philadelphia. the message at both: “From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power.”

✨ @rewirenewsgroup.com's Campus Dispatch is back! I love this explainer from a medical student in Alabama who has worked as a doula on what exactly doulas do, what kinds of doulas exist, and how they help promote healthier, safer births: rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/09/w...