Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within” One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.

To be clear, this story is NOT about another crisis pregnancy center. These exec level people—one said she was pro-life, another asked about partnering with an anti-abortion group—are now leading an actual PLANNED PARENTHOOD chapter. With @byninamartin.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within” One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.

When a new top exec at one of the South's leading abortion rights orgs asks a staffer if they've ever considered partnering w/anti-abortion Students for Life, you know something VERY STRANGE is going on. @kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I dig in @motherjones.com
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Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Hearing About Racism. Guess What? Me Too. Will the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts finally completely gut the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais?

Opinion: Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Hearing About Racism. Guess What? Me Too.

@angryblacklady.blacksky.app Chronicles Drop.

Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within” One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.

Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within”

Republicans are making one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation even more rigged North Carolina Republicans just passed a new Trump-inspired congressional map to oust a Black Democrat.

North Carolina Republicans just passed a new Trump-inspired congressional map to oust a Black Democrat.

What shutdown? Kristi Noem's new private jets. A shocking White House demolition. The Trump administration's gilded priorities are clear.

Kristi Noem’s new private jets. A shocking White House demolition. The Trump administration’s gilded priorities are clear.

ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”

ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, coming out to more than 700 percent compared to 2024 levels.

Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

Devastated by Israel, Gaza faces an environmental crisis "above imagination" Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war's horrific consequences.

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war’s horrific consequences.

Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within” One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.

WTF has been going on at the Planned Parenthood affiliate that serves Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi???? And how is this crisis affecting repro justice work in the region? My latest w/the great @kieraevebutler.bsky.social @motherjones.com
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A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected Jaime Slaughter-Acey said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to discover her study on Black maternal health was cancelled after the Trump administration’s NIH cuts

*The NIH-grant cancellation in late March followed the release of data from the CDC revealing that Black women were the only race or ethnic group who didn’t experience a decline in deaths from pregnancy related causes in 2023."

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Interest on student loans for low-income borrowers is about to skyrocket As Trump guts the SAVE program, "I feel like we're holding our breath while watching a train crash."

As of today, the Trump administration is rescinding the 0% cap on interest under Biden's SAVE plan. Of course, the lowest-income borrowers will be hit the hardest. Because isn't discouraging low-income people from going to college the point?

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The surgery that reveals everything that's wrong with women’s health care From "wandering wombs" to modern biases, the troubling politics of hysterectomies

"If there’s so much stigma around terminating a single pregnancy, what would it mean to get rid of the entire uterus and lose the capacity to gestate a pregnancy altogether?”
I spoke w/Hunter College's Andréa Becker abt her fascinating new book on hysterectomy:
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How viability limits end up criminalizing pregnancy Pregnancy Justice's legal director, Karen Thompson, warns: "We are in dangerous territory. This is our reality now."

Since 2022, voters in 12 states have passed ballot measures aimed at protecting abortion rights. Half of those measures restrict or ban abortions after viability.

By accepting viability limits, abortion advocates are unwittingly legitimizing the idea of fetal rights.

2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...

Just reading Scott Pelley's Wake Forest commencement speech, and: "In a few minutes, when that diploma hits your hand, it’s not a piece of paper you’re holding. We’re handing you a baton. Run with it." 🥹🫶
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Here we go with the US v. Skrmetti oral arguments. Here's where you can listen in: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen... And @elienyc.bsky.social, @hegemommy.bsky.social, @garnethenderson.com are all live tweeting (skeeting?). I will have some skeets to add too!

If you’re looking for primers on federal law, the Congressional Research Service is an excellent resource—balanced, accurate, and clear. Here’s its paper on recess appointments.
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