NEWS: The Kentucky AG's office has dropped a fetal homicide charge against a woman accused of taking abortion pills due to explicit exception in the law. HOWEVER the state has added another charge against her: concealing the birth of an infant. More to come on @autonomynews.co

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

DHS has confirmed that an ICE officer shot and killed a person in Minneapolis today.

ICE agent allegedly shot & killed a woman driving through an immigration raid in Minneapolis this morning. According to video of aftermath it appears the woman's wife & dog were in the car when she was shot in the head. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Trump's New World Order is just the ancient barbarism of might makes right www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Now splashed @huffpost.com: The $100 million three-way battle over AI that is splitting both parties and the tech industry and could define the midterms. Populist backlash to data centers vs. the AI industry vs. scientists worried about existential risk. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-co...

Worried about declining birth rates? Read this 🔥 explainer from @karenguzzo.bsky.social #demography

NEW: Trump got a fair number of his judicial picks confirmed in 2025, but more interestingly, he was stymied all year by retirement-eligible judges not retiring, denying him lots more court vacancies to fill. “One of the biggest stories this year." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I had a great Q & A with @alannavagianos.bsky.social at @huffpost.com about whether low birth rates are a problem in and of themselves. www.huffpost.com/entry/should...

The USAID cuts by the Trump admin were devastating and fatal. But one American group teaming up with locals in South Sudan to bring fresh water to tens of thousands of people, showed me how they are stepping up and saving lives. Videos, photos, interviews inside:

NEW: An unprecedented fear of retaliation has set in at the State Dept's legal office—usually a foreign policy guardrail -Staff suspect frank legal advice could lead to them being sidelined/punished/fired -Increasing politicization suggests their role has "vanished" www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...

The Trump administration is using declining fertility rates to embrace unabashedly pronatalist rhetoric. I spoke with sociologist & demographer Karen Guzzo about if we should *actually* be worried about declining birth rates.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

New: In September, federal agents swarmed a manufacturing facility in upstate New York, arresting 57 people on alleged immigration violations. ...all without a single arrest warrant. Behind the unusual administrative warrant ICE used to question everyone: www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

From this week: A federal women's prison recently shut down over sexual abuse of immigrants may reopen as an ICE detention center.

Hundreds of women alleged they were repeatedly sexually assaulted by prison staff at FCI Dublin, a northern California facility so notorious for sexual violence it was dubbed “the rape club.” Ten prison guards, including the warden and chaplain, were charged... www.huffpost.com/entry/womens...

ICE whistles work.

A federal women's prison - recently shuttered over sexual abuse of immigrants - could reopen as an ICE detention center as part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda. "Imagine, if I get sent back to Dublin but now for immigration?" one immigrant survivor of sexual abuse at FCI Dublin told me.

New: Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling Target: At-Risk Teenagers In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

“Mike Pence dreams of the day when his unsolicited opinions make him slightly relevant again. Today, however, is not that day,” a White House spox told HuffPost when reached for comment.

The former vice president’s political organization painted the HHS secretary as a “progressive wolf in pro-life sheep’s clothing.”

“God has used them before. God can use them again." Of the six people in Oklahoma who have had their death sentences commuted, two — Julius Jones and Tremane Wood — shared the same federal habeas legal team. I spoke with the team about their live-saving work www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...

Mike Pence, of all people, just called for FDA head Marty Makary to be fired over his handling of a safety review of the abortion pill.

Alliance for Immigrant Survivors released an expanded version of their July report this week. The insights and testimonials are astounding. They show a rarely seen, small part of the terrifying consequences of Trump's immigration agenda.

NEW: The redistricting wars aren't going to end with the midterms. -Hochul committed to pushing through new maps in NY, Bennet + Weiser say the same in Colorado -Dems will look to redraw in Wisconsin if they win a trifecta - other possibilities in MN, NV, MI. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-re...

"In a new report, the [Massachusetts] Department of Public Health and Commissioner Dr. Robert Goldstein wrote that, "Abortion care, particularly medication abortion and early procedural abortion, is a common medical practice that can and should be integrated into primary care.""

Everyone's mad at FDA head Marty Makary over his review of the abortion pill mifepristone -- even anti-abortion organizations.

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

EXCLUSIVE: For years Donald Trump has evaded responsibility for the Jan. 6 insurrection. And for years, he has tried to kill a lawsuit that could hold him liable. He has failed. Again and again. This is it. This is the last chance to see Trump held to account: www.huffpost.com/entry/lawmak...

I asked SouthCom why it used a Jerusalem Cross in a post about an operation in which the Trump admin has killed at least 87 people in Caribbean/Pacific missile strikes. “There is no other communication intent for this image” except showing soldiers “in a ready posture,” Col. Emanuel Ortiz told me.

SBA Pro-Life America president just called for FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to be fired re: Bloomberg report that the FDA has delayed a safety review of abortion pill mifepristone. (Mife has been widely and safely used by millions since 2000.)

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Exclusive: ICE has developed a plan to arrest undocumented migrants who try to voluntarily leave the U.S. via the Mexico border, so they can face formal removal. Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers. It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...

NEW: The controversial interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast floated ending in-clinic abortion procedures and spoke of dropping abortion care altogether. Leader of the affiliate serving Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi remains in her role after an investigation that sources call a "farce."

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The Trump admin offered states a deal: Want more $ for rural health care? Pass pro-MAHA laws. “They’re holding our rural health as a hostage, essentially, for these broader policy goals," one Arizona lawmaker told me. www.politico.com/news/2025/12... with the great @ruthreader.bsky.social

NEW: Trump attacked the ICC over Gaza in his biggest bid to weaken international law. It's faltering -Governments showed more solidarity, less deference to the US than expected at key summit -Evidence only 🔼 for warrants vs Israel over alleged crimes amid "ceasefire" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access. Here's what to know 👇

From SCOTUS today: A win for the First Choice Women's Resource Center could make it easier for the growing number of crisis pregnancy centers around the country to skirt state regulations.

Public health workers are reeling from how President Donald Trump has helped HIV to circulate in more humans this year than last. @thrasherxy.bsky.social spoke to @democracynow.org about his and Afeef Nessouli's latest:

We received our first counterproposals from management today with disappointing language — including no guaranteed wage increases this year and rollbacks of hard-fought language on diversity and severance. We stand united and ready to fight for the contract we deserve.

More companies are doing multiple smaller layoff rounds this year. If you lost your job as part of a "rolling layoff" this year, would love to chat about the emotional and financial impacts it caused you. I'm [email protected] if interested!

Most presidents run into trouble near the end of their first year and so is Trump. But Trump isn't like any other president. So what does rising disapproval, a fracturing coalition, election losses and policy reversals mean when the president is an authoritarian? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

🚨Update: Vahid Abedini has been released. He wrote on LinkedIn early Tuesday, “It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had.” 🚨And: A DHS spokesperson now tells me: “This Iranian national was detained for standard questioning. He's been released.”

“It is just as terrible to create a bill that would take away the reproductive autonomy of a man as it is to have no abortion allowed for a person who can become pregnant." -- @robinmarty.com

10 years after first organizing, it's time to bargain for our fourth contract. We're prepared, we're united and we're locked in.

As HHS inspector general, Bell would be tasked with overseeing investigations into the Medicare and Medicaid programs — the latter being the largest funder of reproductive health services in the country, the Center for Reproductive Rights notes. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump calls Epstein the "Democrat's problem" but the sex-trafficking scandal has never been a partisan issue. It's always been about how powerful men — regardless of their politics — have treated young, vulnerable women as interchangeable commodities for their own sexual gratification and abuse.