Ann Neumann (otherspoon)

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

Again, looking to talk to VA employees about what they've been hearing from local and national leadership after Alex Pretti was killed. Hearing a lot so far from people and want to talk to more VA staffers for an article. Please reach out to me on signal at nslayton.12

HUD Demands Public Housing Officials Check for Undocumented Immigrants The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would punish public housing authorities that did not adequately verify tenants’ immigration status within 30 days.

The Trump administration has stepped up its effort to comb public housing rolls for undocumented immigrants, telling public housing authorities across the country on Friday that they would face sanctions if they did not adequately verify whether tenants met eligibility requirements.

The killings will continue until you give us the state voter rolls

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family m...

Heinous. Obscene. Shameful. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

High vaccine rates are a sign of a healthy community. You don't just immunize (or mask) for yourself, you do it for the people around you.

This article got me just what I was looking for: This week a man in Minnesota read it and got in touch because he knew my father when they served together at Kagnew Station, a premier listening post in the Horn of Africa, in the 1960s.

Herd Immunity | Ann Neumann The current measles epidemic provides us with a master class on the catastrophic breakdown in our understanding of what we might call the social contract.

Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000—but it’s back with a vengeance. From the Archives: @annneumann.bsky.social writes on epidemics in the age of the broken social contract.

The Mourning Suit Reading public grief and politics with Ann Neumann and Sandhya Dirks

Seventh essay: Thinking with @annneumann.bsky.social & @audiosand.bsky.social on Erika Kirk and the weaponization of mourning: slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-mourni...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.

We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.

Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.

Spoiler: That's not true.

@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:

www.propublica.org/article/usai...

She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery

“The one thing I’ll scream so that everybody can hear me, is that we’re still humans. Just because we use, just because we were homeless, just because we couldn’t get clean while we were pregnant, does not make us any less of a human.” -Stephanie Rosell www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Special thanks to the dozens of mothers who spoke with me, including Stephanie and Dona. Thanks to staff at the centers who answered thousands of questions. Thanks to
@guardianjessica for bringing this story my way. And to the incredible Rebecca Kiger for photos.

At one center, Maddie's Place in Spokane, WA, more than 90% of alumni are still sober and still have custody of their children. instagram.com/maddies.plac...

Mothers are given a chance to bond with their newborns in a safe, supportive, nonjudgmental environment—and babies and mothers recover together. Mothers are supported throughout recovery, and guided through opaque systems like the courts, social services, even the DMV.

For @theguardian I visited three of these centers to write about their obvious innovation: keeping opioid exposed mothers and babies together. The results are astounding. Babies and mothers recover together.

But in states ravaged by the opioid epidemic, like WA, OH, AZ, and WV, a new paradigm of treatment is being developed by upstart non-profit organizations who saw the challenges these babies faced in the NICU and foster care

For decades, babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) have been removed from their mothers, pushed into the troubled foster care system, their mothers shamed, arrested, or sent back to the streets. @theguardian

She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery

ICYMI I wrote about an aspect of the opioid epidemic too often misunderstood... or completely missed: the flood of babies who are born with opioid exposure. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.

This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery

It's not enough to say, "here's an approach that can solve a problem." You have to show it fully in real people's lives. That's what @annneumann.bsky.social does in this rich exploration of programs that keep addicted moms & babies together while moms get sober. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Just because someone was an addict doesn’t mean they can’t be a good mother. And it doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to have their children.” Fantastic new piece by @annneumann.bsky.social on an innovative family preservation effort.

She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery

For decades NAS babies have been sent into the troubled foster care system while their mothers were sent back to the street. These centers, in cities decimated by the opioid epidemic, keep mothers and babies together. Photos: Rebecca Kiger; edits: Jessica Reed.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery

Powerful reporting by @annneumann.bsky.social and another example of the Guardian keeping on top of the addiction crisis (and ways to tackle it) in America www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I’ve been writing about the incredible Philip Benight since the day I met him. Today marks one year since his death. Obit at @lancasteronline.bsky.social

Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

GOP states are restricting youth voting by
-requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs
-locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations
-limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...

Yes; and I want to make a different point.

Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”