Help: I'm looking for a source who can speak to how the difficulty of qualitative abortion research has or has not changed since the Dobbs decision. I've tried reaching out to ANSIRH twice, Guttmacher mostly does quantitative research, and I'm striking out.
I take no pleasure in saying that I and my @propublicaguild.org colleagues are on strike.
It shouldn't have come to this and i can only hope that seeing the overwhelming majority of staff walk out today opens management's eyes and convinces them we're serious about our demands.
image of a white brick wall overlaid with text reading: for a story at The Guardian, I'm looking to speak to 1-2 people who have had their community/ political organizing work impacted by being expected or forced to organize with someone who assaulted or harassed them, and that staying silent was "for the good of the movement" I know this is an extremely common story, but also one people can't always share with their name or face: anonymity or pseudonyms will be provided. I am trained in trauma-informed strategies in working with survivors, am a survivor myself, and take digital hygiene and sources' security extremely seriously. Please reach out over signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68 . I'll take this down when I have enough folks. Thank you.
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for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text).
reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68
“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.
“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”
What's going on with ACIP? After a series of bold tweets from the former co-chair, I caught up with a former member.
Upshot: ACIP still exists; the 13 members who weren't appointed properly are gone; and officials are looking new members, this source said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I'm taking this opportunity to make an extremely niche recommendation: the book "Parallel Lives" by Phyllis Rose, which follows John Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill's marriage. It proves that, yes, Harriet Taylor Mill co-authored On Liberty (and that John Mill was a major wife guy) (complimentary)
When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)
Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section.
*vibrating* part of the problem with discussing eat disorders and the wreckage they induce is that our society operates on the wisdom that the endpoint logic of them is correct.
Interesting that the men behind these anti-abortion cases keep on getting accused of abuse...
It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.
Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
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Some personal news, as they say:
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Some of the exchanges that were most interesting to me in the Epstein files reflect the sexual predator's alignment with Brett Kavanaugh, and his views about Kavanaugh's accuser, a woman who was a teenager at the time of the alleged assault www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The Ed Dept under Trump has essentially stopped enforcing Title IX in K-12 schools when it comes to sexual harassment and assault cases.
Instead, it put all its focus on using Title IX for policies related to transgender students
www.k12dive.com/news/trumps-...
(1) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video game, computer software game, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body, that depicts nudity, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sado-masochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors; or (2) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter, however reproduced, or sound recording, which contains any matter enumerated in subdivision (a)(1), or that contains explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors.
TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence"
The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.
If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
Laying off 30% of a newsroom is awful on so many levels, but at bottom it's just inhumane. My last newsroom once cut 10% of its staff in a day and I felt like I was trapped in an hours-long, massive panic attack with hundreds of other people. I can't imagine what a layoff of this scale feels like.
Also, newsletters work if you are established, either with a following or with years of experience, but usually you need both.
If you’re a journalist who didn’t buy into making yourself an influencer and just wanted to do the work, it’s not viable.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Tried to capture why Minnesotans so quickly came together to fight ICE & to help neighbors stay home: strong unions and nonprofits, high civic engagement, lessons from George Floyd, and a federal force that felt like an invasion that made people jump into action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Every Chotiner interview is what it would look like if those men that think they could win a point vs Serena Williams lined up one after another and gave it their very best effort.
