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."

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...

By Lila Dominguez, Editor in Chief of the Roosevelt Standard, news site of Roosevelt High School: "Later in the afternoon today my high school Roosevelt was paraded by ICE vehicles during dismissal. Our community and staff stepped up to protect one another."

Super psyched to see my @rewirenewsgroup.com story republished in @documentedny.bsky.social. If you haven't already, I hope you'll give it a read: documentedny.com/2026/01/02/i...

God bless fact-checkers and seriously, please hire more fact-checkers.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I plan to continue reporting at the intersection of immigration and reproductive health in 2026. Have ideas about what we should cover next, or thoughts on the issues media has missed? Get in touch.

For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...

✍️ @cameronoakes.bsky.social spent months reporting on how chronic stress from ICE raids may impact immigrant people's pregnancies: “Pregnant patients aren’t avoiding seeking care by choice,” one doctor said. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...

📚 @rewirenewsgroup.com's 2025 book recs are out!! Mine are Bad Summer People (if you liked the Hunting Wives, you will like this!!) for adults & Santa's Diaries for kids rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/09/2...

When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it. No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.

New from me for @rewirenewsgroup.com: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/05/v...

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about what's at stake for chronically ill contractors and freelancers as Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits expire. When you're already sick, the possibility of not being able to afford health insurance at all is terrifying. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This holiday season, between the recent upending of SNAP benefits and increasing economic uncertainty, people are hungry. Queer groups are stepping in to make sure their communities get fed. Really proud of this piece from Priyanka Bansal. I hope you'll give it a read.

Jamal Hinton and Grandma Wanda officially celebrate Thanksgiving together for a 10th year. 🦃

Before Thanksgiving comes for Blackout Wednesday, when singles mingle at their hometown bars. @cuteflesh.bsky.social's latest sex column for @rewirenewsgroup.com. includes describes life IRL as the "meaty fleshspace"& features some Carrie Bradshaw-esque anthropological dating observations. Enjoy!

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Richest nation in human history

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

To be frank: It’s insulting. Their proposed floor is $8,000 less than what our lowest-paid member makes. They want to wrap up bargaining by December, but we won’t accept less than what our members deserve.

A month ago, we proposed a salary floor of $90k to management, citing our costs of living, RNG’s wage disparities, and the fact that most of us worked second jobs in the last year to make ends meet. Yesterday, management countered—with a salary floor of $60k.

dhoom machale as zohran’s walkout song… aunties everywhere are ON whatsapp

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

new from me, @rewirenewsgroup.com is watching races in Virginia, New Jersey, and NYC tonight: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/11/04/e...

🧵Today, voters across the country will cast their ballots in state and local elections— some of which could have serious impacts on abortion access and other reproductive justice initiatives. Here are the races we’re following:

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Conde Nast and Vogue (which Teen Vogue is being pulled into) are truly underestimating how much young people are impacted by and care about politics.

Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email [email protected] & I'll share info.

having an absolutely gorgeous sandwich on this fine cloudy day... there is joy etc...

New from me and @catesby.bsky.social: Why abortion is still an issue in Virginia this election cycle, even though it's not technically on the ballot rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/20/v...

Reporting on my homestate from me and @cameronoakes.bsky.social Abortion is on the ballot in Virginia this election (even though it’s not)

Virginia is the last Southern state allowing abortion care past 6-12 weeks. This year's gubernatorial & legislative elections will determine whether the South retains regional abortion access. From @cameronoakes.bsky.social & @catesby.bsky.social rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/20/v...

ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals. It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained. 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

With SCOTUS back in session we're all terrified of all the horrible decisions coming from the conservative wing but I think Kavanaugh opinions might offer a winning argument to protect abortion access across state lines. My latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/14/b...

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I am so proud of the work my colleagues and I do at Rewire. But by our calculations, management gave themselves $942,817.55 for their 7 salaries, and allotted $464,373.70 for our union's 6. We are so disappointed by this and we want more equitable pay. Details on that below ⬇️

Our union members are proud of the work we do at Rewire, but we’re incredibly disappointed and jarred by the vast pay disparity between management and the unit. By our calculations, mgmt gave themselves $942,817.55 for their 7 salaries, and allotted $464,373.70 for our 6. We deserve equitable pay.