Ann Neumann (otherspoon)

This is such important work. Keeping mothers and babies together while providing real support is a far better path than sending newborns into a system already stretched thin. Compassion-centered solutions like these can change entire communities.

"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”

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts.

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

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.

“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."

For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.

Stunning report.

ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes New details about Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre's detention show his posts supporting Palestine and the wrongfully convicted representing, in Homeland Security's eyes, support for terrorism

Meet Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre. He’s the US’ latest political prisoner.

His detention is designed to send the message that anything noncitizens post in support of disfavored causes can be labeled a deportable threat to national security.

She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.

Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com! Sarah is unfailingly supportive of other authors, a deeply kind and generous person in an industry with far too few of them. She's also a stone-cold genius. Buy WITHOUT CONSENT!

She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.

Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com and her deeply important book Without Consent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to review the $5 million case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

"Trump on Monday asked #SCOTUS to review the $5 million civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll." www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court

What to know about the nationwide FAA-mandated flight reductions The FAA has ordered a 4% reduction in operations at 40 major airports starting Friday, which will ramp up to 10% by Nov. 14.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air traffic controllers who are not being paid to "show up because it's their job." How about Congressional Republicans show up and do their job by ensuring all federal workers are paid, travelers are safe, and our healthcare is protected? seiu.co/482c2SH

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Slow Death of Special Education The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.

Trump is killing education for kids with disabilities.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.

If you like the work we do, come join us!

Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

Tell me a scenario in which Trump accepts that his completed ballroom is being used by a Democrat or a Republican he hates. This is, literally, a monument to permanence. It’s not the action of someone planning to leave.

Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Standing with Immigrants Oct. 21, 2025 My dear brothers and sisters, today I speak to you as your shepherd, but also as a fellow pilgrim who shares the pain of many of our immigrant communities. Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants. We stand with a mother who crosses borders to feed her children. We stand with the father who labors in silence to build a better future. We stand with the young person who dreams of safety and a better future. Our parishes and schools will not turn away those who seek comfort, and we will not be silent when dignity is denied in the enforcement of the law, it is essential that we respect the dignity of every human being. Now I want to say something directly to those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect. As the Archbishop of Chicago, I will insist that you be treated with dignity. Americans should not forget that we all come from immigrant families. You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you. God bless you all.

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

Once again, trigger discipline of a guy playing a video game in an arcade. These rejects are playing Call of Duty on our streets.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement The ADA is the basis of an agreement that keeps North Carolina nursing centers from excluding all people with addiction histories.

Great work from my friends at Disability Rights North Carolina on this case.

Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com