Consequential hearing related to abortion pills happening tomorrow, via @elishabrown.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/loui...

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

SCOTUS is dealing with problems that arise from justices’ ownership of individual stocks. What did the court do to address this ethical question? Did the justices agree to divest from individual stock ownership? Of course not. Parties are directed to include stock ticker symbols in their briefs.

Even if ICE is leaving Minnesota, the consequences — including delayed abortions, missed cancer visits, fewer people getting birth control — will be felt for a long time 19thnews.org/2026/02/abor...

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

“Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous. We will not stop until the truth is fully revealed and every perpetrator is finally held accountable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

NEW @ms.now: Anti-abortion activists pardoned by Trump for invading clinics are joining a new effort led by Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry to revive mass clinic protests. I spent some time with them in DC last week. “We’re going to disrupt this country as much as we can," one said. 🧵

“We’re a profession where our purpose in life is to be the caretakers of society — the caretakers of people... That involves so much mental, emotional, physical, spiritual effort, that when something like what happened to Alex happens, it is a devastating blow to our very soul.”

These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/pape...

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

God bless Emily Waldorf and these women for their strength and courage in fighting our state’s cruel and reckless abortion ban. youtu.be/xBVKof6W4-Q?...

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Ohhhhh boy.

Four women and one doctor are suing the state of Arkansas and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders today. In a similar suit to Zurawski v. Texas, the women were denied care because of the state's abortion ban: abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/u...

Breaking news: 911 calls from ICE detention staff described the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos as a suicide, which conflicts with an autopsy’s later finding of homicide, according to audio recordings.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

The state called a health department inspector to the stand. When he was asked by Planned Parenthood attorneys if an increased focus on inspecting abortion facilities was unrelated to health and safety standards, he paused for several moments, then replied: “I would say that’s true, yes.”

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

And, full report is up: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-lik...

NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It was SUCH a wonderful discussion with Alison Stewart (including a poignant question about how I kept my sanity while working on the book) and you can listen right here:

A haunting, urgent piece about a woman who counts the number of women murdered by men in the US and how profound an exercise it is.

Hi @cnbc.com this story on abortion has multiple serious errors that need correcting 1. States that ban abortion prohibit procedures and pills. There is no state that bans one and not the other www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/a...

Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration

The North Dakota Supreme Court reinstated a near-total abortion ban on Friday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision and making abortion once again illegal in the state.

A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”

President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community. n.pr/43La07b

Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

New hard-hitting investigation from my friend @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social and the excellent team at @statnews.com How RFK Jr., America’s celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Shooting in parking lot next to a South Carolina Planned Parenthood, anti-abortion protestor may have been the shooter: A witness told reporter "she saw an altercation between an anti-abortion activist and the man driving the car. She said she later saw the anti-abortion activist being arrested."

surprise!

"Democrats have decided to embrace a big-tent mindset. Now comes the hard part" - @elainegodfrey.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Congressional Democrats are livid after a handful of their Senate colleagues voted Sunday to advance the House-passed stopgap and end the government shutdown. w/ Cheyanne Daniels + @miacmccarthy.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The Supreme Court did grant review of one case today, Watson v. Republican National Committee, and it's a big one over state laws allowing the counting of ballots cast by Election Day but received after Election Day. Here's the docket: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke... And question presented:

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.” Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

After the NYTimes published the op-ed "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", I remembered that a NYTimes Guild report in 2021 found "Overall, median pay for women was $10,000 less per year than for men, meaning women earned roughly 92 percent of what men earned." nytimesguild.org/papers/2021-...

"Stevens is only in this seat, which became vacant during the Biden administration, because Illinois Democratic Senator and then-Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin chose to uphold the “blue slip” custom...handing those seats to Trump and Republican senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt to fill."

The VA is making It harder for male veterans With breast cancer to get coverage. The agency cites no new science but relies on a Trump executive order about “restoring biological truth." 🤔🤔 @ericumansky.bsky.social

First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom. 19thnews.org/2025/10/east... via @19thnews.org

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE