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It took us a while to get our Murder Bill ep up, and we've been thinking about what the GOP’s budget bill actually does—not just the cuts, but the structural transformation it sets in motion. It’s going to remake the health system. We got into it in this week’s episode.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid — and nearly one month since President Trump's federal budget cut almost $1 trillion from Medicaid.

“It is a matter of life and death. Literally, Medicaid has been a lifeline, and people will die.”

This is reproductive genocide. It's meant to shatter Palestinian families and destroy the social fabric.

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A pregnant woman in Tennessee said her doctor declined to treat her because she’s unmarried.

A newly enacted state law broadly allows health care providers to refuse to perform or pay for a service if it goes against their religious or ethical beliefs.

PRESSURE WORKS!

Sereen Haddad, a Palestinian student at Virginia Commonwealth University, has defeated baseless charges and had her degree restored after an appeal, a successful pressure campaign, and representation from Palestine Legal.

Sereen has lost 200+ members of her family in Gaza.

Gatekeeping Unreliable Forensic Evidence in Cases of Pregnancy Outcome Criminalization Women may be criminalized for pregnancy outcomes such as miscarriage or stillbirth, even if no sound forensic evidence exists. Whether a baby was born alive is one of the most contentious questions in...

If/When/How's Yveka Pierre defends people criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes.

In the @americanbar.org, she breaks down how stigma and junk science are wielded in cases and how attorneys must challenge irrelevant and unreliable expert testimony.

Read more: www.americanbar.org/groups/crimi...

Black and red gradient reading, "45% of pregnancy criminalization cases were reported to law enforcement by healthcare providers & social workers. Reporting patients to law enforcement for suspected or intended self-managed abortion is often unnecessary under mandatory reporting requirements and violates patient privacy laws. Cases identified between 2000 & 2020, via If/When/How’s Self-Care, Criminalized Report"

Black and red gradient reading, "In most states & situations, being a mandated reporter does not equal disclosing self-managed abortion to law enforcement. Check out If/When/How’s resources for info on the intersection between mandatory reporting with patient privacy & care."

Not only is it generally NOT required that providers report self-managed abortions to law enforcement, but it's often actually a violation of patients' rights to do so.

Check out more from @ifwhenhow.bsky.social here: ifwhenhow.org/resources

BOSTON (AP) — Judge blocks Trump administration's efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and orders that it keep getting Medicaid funds.

Breastfeeding women targeted and shot.

Repro justice means upending a status quo designed to deny Palestinians dignity and freedom from U.S.-fueled state brutality.

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Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…

BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs

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MEDIA FOLKS THIS IS A BIG STORY

Join the If/When/How Network - If/When/How If you’re an attorney or advocate, we need you.   Attorney? We need your pro-bono skills to help people who need legal representation with a judicial bypass, housing, intimate partner violence, as wel...

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We train up pro bono attorneys, law students, and advocates who can show up for young people as they go through the bypass process, exercise their rights, and try to get the care they need.

A graphic as part of an Instagram carousel about a forced parental involvement law that has just go into effect in Nevada on July 22, 2025. The background is dark black and newspaper clippings are in the upper right and lower left corners. In the center is a bold black text in a white and teal box. It reads "& don't forget about your local abortion funds. Need help paying for your abortion or need other forms of practical support? Check out these Nevadan abortion funds: Silver State Hope Fund, Wild West Access Fund of Nevada, and Indigenous Women Rising."

Donate to abortion funds!

@wildwestfund.bsky.social, Silver State Hope Fund, and
@iwrising.bsky.social ensure Nevadans can actually access abortion by assisting with the practical costs of care.

A graphic as part of an Instagram carousel about a forced parental involvement law that has just go into effect in Nevada on July 22, 2025. The background is dark black and newspaper clippings are in the upper right and lower left corners. In the center is a bold black text in a white and teal box. It reads, "Want to access an abrotion without involving your parents or guardian? The Repro Legal Helpline can help! We can talk to you about this process and your options, including free, confidential legal help through the entire judicial bypass process. Go to ReproLegalHelpline.org or call 844-868-2812."

What’s most important is that young people know their rights and we take action to support them.

Our Helpline can answer questions and offers free legal help with judicial bypass process if they do not want to involve their parents: reprolegalhelpline.org or 844-868-2812.

There are many reasons a young person cannot or may not want to involve their parents/legal guardian in their decision to get an abortion. And that should be respected. Period.

This law robs abortion seekers under 18 of basic privacy and dignity in their reproductive lives.

A graphic as part of an Instagram carousel about a forced parental involvement law that has just go into effect in Nevada on July 22, 2025. The background is dark black and newspaper clippings are in the upper right and lower left corners. In the center is a bold black text in a white and teal box explaining the news. It reads, "Yesterday, Nevada's 40-year-old forced parental involvement for abortion law went into effect for the first time. What does it mean for young people's access in Nevada?"

Yesterday, Nevada’s 40-year-old forced parental involvement law (previously held as unconstitutional) went into effect for the first time.

Now, abortion providers must notify a parent/legal guardian at least 24 hours before anyone under 18 can get an abortion.

Texas man sues California doctor over medication abortion The wrongful death suit invokes a long-dormant federal law alongside state law.

ughghghghg

that's all the commentary I have for now

BREAKING: Texas Targets California Abortion Provider The wrongful death suit also asks the court to stop a woman from having another abortion

Farah Diaz-Tello, senior legal counsel at If/When/How, noted that these cases “are ridiculous attempts to scare and intimidate people out of helping others access abortion":

Jonathan Mitchell, the architect behind some of the most extreme anti-abortion legislation in the nation, is representing another TX man taking legal action over his partner's alleged abortion. Some key background on anti-abortion litigation abuse from male partners via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social:

‘One big, beautiful’ law provision on Planned Parenthood funding partly blocked by judge This report has been updated.WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday, blocking a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that would have barred Medicaid funding from...

Updated: Trump administration files notice it will appeal preliminary injunction in Planned Parenthood case

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/one-...

“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco said

obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit

Image of Ala Kheir a Sudanese photographer. His face is forward in the frame. Set against a dark read background. In yellow letters it says: The Power of Visual Narratives. Sunday July 27th at noon. Virtual via zoom. Workshops4Sudan.

Our next workshop for Sudan is coming up in less than a week on July 27th with the talented Sudanese photographer Ala Kheir. Sudanese students can attend for free wherever you are. All proceeds go to mutual aid networks on the ground.

Sign up here:
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Alaa must be reinstated. Bluesky must stop taking part in this genocide by eliminating the accounts of people FROM OUR COMMUNITY, which is not just a lifeline but a chance at something like normalcy: making friends, talking to people, reaching the rest of the world. And BSKY takes that away

If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.

Now, 85% of Palestinians in Gaza are in the 5th stage of malnutrition. It's U.S.-backed genocide and forced starvation.

No people should face erasure by bullets, bombs, or blockade. Disrupt everything.

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The Trump Administration Is Staffing Up With Nationwide Abortion Ban Zealots Conservative activists have spent years pushing a fringe legal theory that could ban abortion nationwide. A pair of newly appointed White House lawyers could do exactly that.

I'm not prone to hyperbole but Trump appointing two absolute freaks to the Office of Legal Counsel is the most ominous step it's taken on abortion.

Josh Craddock believes the 14th Amendment requires a nationwide ban and that the Comstock Act is a ban on abortion pills. Me in @ballsandstrikes.org:

Screenshot of a New Yorker Q&A article "War on Gaza's Children." James Elder of UNICEF states, "I would say that anger is infrequent. There’s an immense vulnerability. And they’re holding their medical-evacuation forms, meaning that they were approved for medical evacuation from Gaza. But there are thousands of children who need medical evacuation from Gaza. I mean, literally thousands. So they’re holding this piece of false hope in their hands. There’s a grace and generosity in speaking to me, but there’s an absolute sadness. There’s a level of powerlessness that I’ve noticed for a long time. I noticed it more than a year ago when a parent would explain to me that their child had realized that this parent could no longer protect them, and what a horrifying moment that was. These parents know that they’ve lost the ability to keep their children safe, so that powerlessness cuts deep into people. You sit and you listen and you talk, and it’s a little girl or a little boy, and they are trying to be brave in some way, or they’re in a coma and the parent’s trying to. And in doing so, the parents, sometimes fathers in a very paternalistic environment, are in tears. One woman sort of grabbed me when I was walking out of the hospital and wanted to tell her story, and the look in her eyes was just definitive despair. She wanted nothing. She just needed to tell her story. She had spent nine years conceiving, and her son and her husband had just been killed. And so she didn’t know what she wanted. There is nothing to do in those situations. Culturally, you can’t hug someone, so there is nothing other than to listen. Many times, people are explaining what had happened to a child, and I realize that’s not the parent because the parents were killed in a strike. I’m having this explained by a neighbor or an aunt or an uncle. I’ve met more than a dozen children who lost everyone. I don’t mean mom and dad—I mean cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents."

"These parents know that they’ve lost the ability to keep their children safe, so that powerlessness cuts deep into people."

As the U.S. fuels a repro genocide, we must refuse a world where Palestinians endure this.

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Utterly cruel.

Cutting families out of Head Start, mental health services, Title X family planning, and so much basic community care based on status is revolting.

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist who was detained for months, have filed a claim for $20m in damages against the Trump administration.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil asked the court to preliminarily enjoin the govt from detaining or removing him from the US based on the second charge related to his green card application.