BREAKING: SCOTUS keeps mifepristone available on current terms, including mailing of the abortion drug. Thomas and Alito each authored a separate dissent. New, at Law Dork:

Some of the essential reads on reproductive health, rights, and justice from @jennieindc.bsky.social's bookshelf, many by authors she's had the joy of interviewing on the podcast! If you haven't already, we hope you'll grab your own copies and dig in. Listed in comments with @bookshop.org links 📚

🌱 NEW EP 🌱 @renee.bsky.social and @byreginamahone.bsky.social proudly share their ab0rtion stories, which led one of them to realize she wanted to be a mom, and confirmed for the other that she didn’t. Plus: s*x after ab0rtion. 🎧LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3PQ

Let’s talk misoprostol-only abortions! www.instagram.com/reel/DX0KtRe...

As Dr. Angela Davis has told us, "freedom is a constant struggle."

DC statehood yesterday

i'm a WRITER. i will not be okay with you using an LLM that plagiarizes thousands of people like me, who are struggling to make a living and continuing to write, despite the state of the world. PLEASE LEAVE ME TO HAVE AI ALONE.

what's actually happening is that my opposition to AI reminds you that there's a part of you that knows it's immoral to use it. and trying to convince me is just trying to convince yourself that you're a good person even if you use it. rinse and repeat for watching Harry Potter, etc.

i will never understand why people need to be validated in their problematic choices by me specifically. like why are you trying to convince me that your use of AI is chill? just use it if you want, and I'll think you suck for it if i want. damn.

A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst at risk of rupture, a federal judge ruled. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

📢 Join us for a book talk with Grace Howard on The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood, in discussion with @renee.bsky.social. 🗓️ Mar 2 | 12–1:15 PM ET 📍 In Person - AUWCL Yuma Building (Y115) | Free & open to all (recorded) 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5fzc7dvf

LOVE THIS 💗

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

This Black History Month we honor the frameworks Black leaders have created to survive, resist and transform the world, through the words of @renee.bsky.social, author of Liberating Abortion and the founder and former Executive Director of We Testify.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.

In August, our neighbor, friend, and handyman Ervin was kidnapped by ICE from my friend’s house during the ICE raids in Washington, DC. Please join me in donating to their Go Fund Me for his immigration representation and to bring him home. We miss him. Thanks for your support. 🫶🏽 Link is in my bio.

Cardi B called out ICE at her show last night: “Bitch, if ICE come in here we’re gonna jump they asses. Bitch, I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, bitch”

Thank you @signsjournal.org for the vital work you do and to @carmenriosss.bsky.social @profkori.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social for your thoughtful (and humbling!) considerations of All We Want is Everything!

I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.

Thank you for the opportunity to think and write about @sorayachemaly.bsky.social’s new book and the impact it will have.

New Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!

@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."

Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.

A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.

This week the House is expected to vote on a resolution that would repeal a D.C. bill that decoupled the city's tax code from some of the tax changes Republicans made last year. City officials say that if it passes Congress, it would cost D.C. $600 million over four years.

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

DC friends, come see me and @renee.bsky.social (author of Liberating Abortion) at Lost City Books on Tuesday 2/17! We'll also hear from DuPont Clinic's Chief of Staff about their vital work to support people who have abortions in DC. There are rumors there will be dessert (the rumors are from me).

🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards. Not education, health care, or public transport. Cages for people. DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ. The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland. A third in El Paso.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

Local bookshops across the country are hubs of community organizing. We had one event at Moon Palace Books in 2024 and they had so many organizing resources and a huge ABOLISH THE POLICE sign. They are doing incredible work for the community, alongside many local TC bookshops (Tropes & Trifles too!)

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

These people are such losers.

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Resharing my @theflytrapmedia.com reporting about evil ghoul Kristie Noem, just for funsies.

this is an interview of Aru Shiney-Ajay from Twin Cities Sunrise Hub by @ericblanc.bsky.social. please read and share www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Last week I was in St. Paul to lay our sweet cousin to rest. While it was beautiful to be with my family, it was difficult to see the destruction of ICE and the federal government everywhere. Tearing families apart and murdering people.

I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026