Heidi Stevens

Heidi Stevens: Dissenting Americans keep making lemonade out of Trump’s lemons — including his hockey call Trump has made a big deal about championing women’s sports. But his call to the USA men’s hockey team spoke volumes, writes Heidi Stevens.

Don't forget this is the same guy who turned a significant chunk of the voting population against trans people under the guise of ... protecting women's sports.

My column.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/25/h...

I worked with ICE when I was at DOJ. Abolishing it won't bring justice. You think Immigration and Customs Enforcement is bad? Letting Trump build a new agency from the ground up would be a disaster.

My new column:

If people want the horrors of ICE to end, we must oust the GOP.

All Democrats must vote for the Dem in the primary who can win the general ... and in the general vote blue no matter who.

No 3rd party voting or staying home. That's deadly.

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Heidi Stevens: I cheered when Elana Meyers Taylor won gold. I cheered louder when she thanked her nannies. I love that Elana Meyers Taylor shouted out her nannies alongside her husband and parents and kids, writes Heidi Stevens.

I cheered when Elana Meyers Taylor won gold. I cheered even louder when she thanked her nannies.

My column 🏅
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/18/h...

Heidi Stevens: Letters show how a Disney dream vacation became part of America’s immigration nightmare No policy in the world can justify scarring children the way we’re doing in the name of immigration reform, writes Heidi Stevens.

If we can’t agree, as a nation, that childhood should not be spent in captivity, I truly don’t know where we go from here.

My column.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/13/h...

As a surgeon and researcher, I’m driven by one mission: children’s healthy development, in the short- and long-term. The current approach to immigration is deeply detrimental to both.

I’m grateful to @thehill.com for letting me weigh in on this crucial topic.

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Coming in July! “Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity, and Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI”

A troubling fear nags at me: that human connection—the one thing children need most—is at risk of becoming a rarity. My book, I hope, provides families a line of defense 💚

As a pediatric physician, as an early childhood researcher, and as a child development expert, I am compelled to state, in no uncertain terms: the current approach to immigration reform is deeply detrimental to children, in both the present and long-term.

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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Heidi Stevens: As federal agents target citizens, where are the folks who cried ‘tyranny’ over pandemic restrictions? I’m wondering how federal immigration agents’ actions sit with those who saw vaccine mandates as government overreach, writes Heidi Stevens.

Where are the folks who thought masks and remote learning were government overreach? Who thought vaccine mandates were fascism? Who thought capacity restrictions were tyranny?

I'm having a hard time reconciling all that with what's happening now.

My column

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/23/h...

Someone on Threads writes: I. Stand. With. ICE.

i think standing too close to ICE is what has been getting people killed

“Ignore what your pediatrician recommends” is a slippery scary slope … and not one I would’ve wanted to be on while I was exhausted with little kids

Heidi Stevens: Stripping science from vaccine schedule chips away the dream of a better future for our children I fear that skepticism and scorn have been elevated to the upper echelons of power, where fateful decisions are being made, writes Heidi Stevens.

The new vaccine schedule—arrived upon with no scientific input—represents the unraveling of a pretty key component of the American Dream: the part where you give your children a better life than the one you had.

My column.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/09/h...

Thank you! Happy new year ♥️

An inspiring, life-affirming column from @heidikstevens.bsky.social to start the New Year, reminding us to find the joy wherever we can & take care of one another ✨️ #NewYear2026 #newyear

Heidi Stevens: At the end of an imperfect year, a list that reminds us what tomorrow is for There’s still more growing, healing, loving and protecting to do, so here are the things I’m carrying into 2026, writes Heidi Stevens.

From the Leo High School choir's joyful energy, to the Chicago Marathon’s collective humanity.

From every act of resistance, to every holiday card writer.

From every sunrise, to every sunset.

25 things I'm carrying with me into 2026.

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Thanks to Heidi spotlighting Pinta Pride Campaign from the beginning, I continue to send out holiday cards every year to people I don't know and will likely never meet.

We can also send them year-round. Birthdays, Halloween, Pride, whatever.

A creative and impactful way to be an #LGBTQ #ally.

Heidi Stevens: In these fraught times, a growing holiday card campaign perhaps means a little bit more The Pinta Pride Project raises awareness and support for the LGBTQ+ community despite the cruelty and chaos of our political climate.

It's easy to feel like you don't recognize this country right now. But a campaign to write holiday cards to LGBTQ+ folks shunned by their families is sending tens of thousands of notes to strangers.

That's also who we are.

My column ❤️

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/h...

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...

“One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.” open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right? If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.

Thought-provoking column by the always brilliant @heidikstevens.bsky.social, who makes the connection between “Quiet, piggy” and why women who’ve been abused don’t come forward.

Thank you, Nancy ♥️

Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right? If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.

Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...

Thank you!

I’m definitely not surprised

Worth a read

Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right? If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.

The president of the United States, when asked about his documented friendship with a convicted sex offender, replied, “Quiet, piggy.”

We’re done asking why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward, right?

My column.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...

Heidi Stevens: It’s morning in America, and we have no idea if the day will bring help and hope — or more cruelty Our country and our city are at a precipice, and we may soon see what we stand for, writes Heidi Stevens.

This, by @heidikstevens.bsky.social, is a gut punch
“We’re waiting to see what we stand for. Stand for meaning what defines us, and stand for meaning what we’ll allow. What we cherish, what we’re willing to concede.

Who we’ll protect from abuse of power, and whose abuse of power we’ll protect.”

Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain

Trump’s “mental faculties are crumbling like blue cheese, and major media need to write prominent stories about this alarming problem – not just stick a sentence into the 14th paragraph of a news story.”
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“I want to see a world — not just for my son, but for everybody who is neurodivergent or has a disability — that accepts them and allows them to be who they are,” he continued. “That doesn’t see them as other. That doesn’t take away their human value. There’s good for everybody in that.” Same.♥️

Grotesquely transparent racist.