You may have seen the stories of Cherise Doyley and Brianna Bennett recently across your TL. Florida judges forced them to undergo C-Sections, despite them refusing. Their right to decide their medical care was stripped when they were made to testify during a court hearing while actively in labor.

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

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ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many. The numbers offer the most detailed look at how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing people have been caught up in the immigration enforcement surge, despite federal policy discouraging the practice.

Staggering numbers from DHS: from 01/01/25 - 02/16/26
- 363 pregnant, postpartum, nursing immigrants deported
- 16 miscarriages recorded
- 498 pregnant, postpartum, nursing people “booked out” of ICE detention (meaning they were detained and then left) @shefali.bsky.social reporting in @19thnews.org

Excerpt of People magazine article "Donald Trump Fires Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem After Her Combative Hearings with Congress"

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Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffer...

New:

Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS.

But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

With his fourth three tonight, Tyrese Maxey has just passed Allen Iverson and is the new all-time leader in made threes in Sixers history.

Me gusta la chocha de las Américas On Bad Bunny, the Plantation, and Dancing Through Repair

Bad Bunny held 500 years of colonial violence, all the peoples of this hemisphere, the plantation that is the game - and showed us we get to dance through the repair. Messy, impossible, necessary. Made us proud...gave us fuel? Let us hope, Américas!

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This is correct. But it also misses the point.

Normal humans find this hard to fathom but billionaires *like* losses. They *need* losses.

Losses provide ownership/control/power/entertainment while offsetting income and reducing taxes.

This isn’t about the Washington Post losing money.

Bobby Portis Tiny Desk (Swishahouse Remix) Remembering Michael "5000" Watts (and Sly Dunbar)

We lost Michael "5000" Watts last week and I wrote about him, his major label collabs, Sly Dunbar (also RIP) and the concept of canons.

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month 28 Films to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month

The 2026 edition of @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social's 28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month is out. A good number of these are available online for free. Thank you @mayascade.bsky.social 🖤

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026

Journalist Georgia Fort arrested over reporting on anti-ICE protest Georgia Fort is the second independent Black journalist arrested by federal agents in connection to coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a church.

“As journalists, our first obligation is to bear witness and to inform. When those obligations are met with detention or prosecution instead of protection, we must ask: what message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced?" @amandabecker.bsky.social @19thnews.org

I didn't really know him, but he once offered to buy and ship bootleg Eagles gear to me. He seems like a really nice and funny guy.

'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents? The number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has doubled over the past year -- driven by a massive recruitments campaign. Who the new recruits are and how they’re being trained.

My ProPublica colleague @cengizyar.com was on @wbur.org's On Point today, talking about the ongoing events in Minneapolis. Listen to the whole episode here:

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.

'Full Circle': AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise - ICT Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE

American Indian Movement (AIM) patrols have returned amid rising tensions in Minnesota with ICE. Nearly 100 volunteers are helping watch over elders and community members as federal agents outnumber local police and confrontations continue to draw protests and legal action.

Thanks @democracynow.org for giving me a chance to share a new @propublica.org investigation from @mckenziefunk.com & me

Here's the story: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.

NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy.

But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult.

www.propublica.org/article/nort...

BREAKING:

We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing

People have had seizures. They passed out.

“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen

Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished

www.propublica.org/article/vide...

If you followed immigration news this year, please support the many, many local journalists who made it possible. Nonprofit media needs support!

I kept returning to @lataco.bsky.social @calmatters.org @wbez.org @blockclubchi.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com & so many more

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.

We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.

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the people shaking their heads about fans booing the Eagles offense have failed to consider that they deserve it

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

A new @propublica.org investigation highlighting the trauma of family separation as a way to deter new immigrants from coming and to terrify those who are here into leaving: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

There's been so much deep work this year synthesizing what's happening on the ground.

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Watch our reporter Lizzie Presser discuss Tierra Walker's story on @msnowreports.bsky.social:

“What I want to be clear about is that this isn’t a bug in these [abortion ban] laws, this is a feature ... Anti-abortion activists have fought hard to keep health exceptions outside of these laws.”

This 100 percent tracks with what I see on a daily basis

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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NY1 YouTube livestream? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpg...

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.