I seem to recall some Supreme Court precedent saying you can't cancel contracts with a religious entity because of disagreement with religious principles. Something that like Schmulton v. Schmity of Schmiladelphia.
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
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“A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/22/u...
Local Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax March 12, 2026 at 9:54 pm EDT non-shortened link https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/georgia-woman-charged-with-murder-after-taking-abortion-pills-giving-birth-hospital/6GA7IHO7YNBCLC24BXHHBAV6XI/
Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her.
@pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb
Utah authorities arrested a man because he had dried pinto beans. They thought it was drugs. By the time they realized it was beans, they dropped charges, but it was too late: ICE had found and detained him.
After Trump was reelected, he quickly pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of harassing and threatening clinic patients and staff. Federal investigations into bomb threats against clinics suddenly vanished.
@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on a newly emboldened abortion protest movement.
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
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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...
God bless Emily Waldorf and these women for their strength and courage in fighting our state’s cruel and reckless abortion ban.
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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
And Chelsea Stovall, the 4th plaintiff listed, was forced out of state for an abortion after she learned her daughter was developing without a diaphragm. Her stomach and intestines were strangling her heart and compressing her lungs. abortioninamerica.org/stories/our-...
Theresa Van, a third plaintiff listed in the lawsuit, was forced to carry a pregnancy she knew had no chance of survival because doctors, bound by state law, couldn’t intervene. She had to wait until there was no heartbeat to get care: abortioninamerica.org/stories/fort...
Allison Howland, another plaintiff, was sexually assaulted on a work trip, which resulted in a pregnancy. Because Arkansas does not have rape exceptions in their abortion ban, she was denied an abortion and had to travel to Chicago for care: abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/u...
Emily Waldorf, the lead plaintiff, went into premature labor 17 weeks into her pregnancy, and was told by her hospital that they couldn't give her an abortion until her condition worsened. Her sister called Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to ask for help, and was told to get a lawyer instead:
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.
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