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...

All of this is horrific, but it should be said that women in jails and prisons in every state are routinely denied care, incarcerated while pregnant, give birth in their jail cell etc. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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

ANOTHER SAD REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,000 一 among groups.

Alliance Defending Freedom is a far right organization whose members helped write Project 2025 — they were the group behind the overturning of Roe v Wade as part of a larger plan to reshape gender roles and what rights women have access to in America.

This year's MediaFest - a conference for student journalists has a Faith breakout section that includes speakers from the Alliance Defending Freedom - a SPLC designated Hate Group (oddly CJR's article doesn't mention that). I hope attendees and sponsors pull out. www.cjr.org/feature/stud...

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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.”

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

It’s not just medical bills: Women are also more worried than men about paying for groceries, child care, housing and retirement, the polling finds.

An anti-abortion group is fundraising off @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's suggestion that Democrats run anti-abortion candidates in swing states.

NEW: I'm listening in on a second new lawsuit out of Illinois today, addressing First Amendment freedoms surrounding protests, including press and religious claims. Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee, is hearing the TRO motion and has found the plaintiffs, for TRO purposes, have standing.

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies. jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/elon...

NEW: Judge Matt Kacsmaryk transferred ongoing lawsuit against the FDA over abortion drug mifepristone to the Eastern District of Missouri. (Trump DOJ said AGs of Missouri, Kansas, Idaho couldn't sue in TX.) Denies motions to intervene from AGs of TX, FL, LA storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Surprisingly, WaPo: "The Pentagon’s top generals and admirals listened with little visible emotion as Trump spoke, according to pool reports. Laughter occasionally followed a joke, but Trump’s attacks on former president Joe Biden were met with silence."

The Broadview Police Department has opened a criminal investigation after an ICE agent allegedly shot a pepper ball at a WBBM-Ch. 2 reporter’s truck Sunday morning outside the agency’s holding facility, which has been at the center of heated protests from concerned citizens and politicians.

Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.

"...one woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the dead men said that her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...