Eleanor Grano

Know your rights under Texas' new 'bathroom bill' Senate Bill 8, dubbed the "bathroom bill," goes into force on Dec. 4. The new law could impact transgender and cisgender Texans alike.

New: chatted with an attorney from @aclutx.bsky.social about SB 8, the Texas bathroom bill, and what it means for Texans, trans and cis alike. The law goes into effect tomorrow, Dec. 4. Here's what it does (and does not) do - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Please clap! I’ve survived 11 days without daycare + a major snow storm that kept us stuck inside. January me would’ve crumbled. But, look at me now. I’ve hit a parenting growth curve 🌱

every single baby had to be
hospitalized.

A new article with @mjnelson.bsky.social in PRQ, using a conjoint, CPS ASES and medical residency application data, finds that abortion bans make states less desirable places to live for young women, college graduates and doctors.

This law is more extreme.

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a couple dozen illinois state police, cook county sheriffs police, broadview police, and maywood police stand in beach street facing protesters on either side of the concrete barricades.

vibes have chilled somewhat.

lines of police facing protesters on both sides of the “free speech” zone.

faith leaders still leading demonstrators in song as people dance and chant. “get up, get down. chicago is an immigrant town!”

Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago.

“Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.”

“It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”

Chicago Abortion Fund Celebrates Milestone As State Expands Reproductive Health Efforts At the 40-year mark, the Chicago nonprofit — the largest independent abortion fund in the country — is serving record numbers of patients.

🎉 Congratulations to @chiabortionfund.bsky.social for four decades of fearless advocacy, care, and community. As the largest independent abortion fund in the country, CAF sets the standard for access, care, & compassion, proving that Illinois is the blueprint. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/11/c...

Republicans Are Pushing 'Catch Kits' For Miscarriages & Abortion 11.12.24

Wisconsin Republicans are proposing a bill that would mandate women use ‘catch kits’ when they have a miscarriage or abortion—forcing them to bag up their pregnancy tissue and bring it to the doctor as medical waste.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

It may feel like they are riding high because Project 2025 was high profile, but Heritage has been falling apart ever since Kevin Roberts took over. They’ve never had so little ability to do real policy analysis and advance conservative policy. All they do is produce slop for conservative media.

Here’s Who Will Be Affected by Disruptions to Federal Food Aid

Unlike other projects the Trump administration has canceled during the shutdown to punish Democratic-leaning places, disruption to SNAP will touch every corner of the country, including many communities that support the president.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Just hit 100 trick or treaters! Just 400 away from my goal and it’s only 6:30PM. LFG baby 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

I know this top tier Millennial cringe. But one of the teen girls who came by my house tonight told me I was the coolest mom on the block bc I had specific treats for them (bat eye masks & Halloween socks) & everyone is taking pics with their family in front of my yard.

Mom, I’ve made it!

Here's How Many People May Use ChatGPT During a Mental Health Crisis Each Week OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effecti...

In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around .07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and .15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

As access to contraception spread it changed our world – making it newly possible for more women to build prestigious careers and civic lives. I've spent my career carefully contributing to the evidence of this amazing, messy process. So I know that it has done a lot of good and this will hurt many.

screenshot of letter dated 10/9/25 Today, your agencies have all the information they need to bring an end to previous Democrat-administrations’ abortion drug regulations while a comprehensive review is conducted. As a starting point, we recommend the following: 1. Suspend the approval of any new generic versions of mifepristone pending the outcome of the REMS safety review; 2. Commit to ensuring that all generic versions of mifepristone are included in the ongoing reevaluation of prior REMS approvals; 3. Reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone and all its generic versions; 4. Suspend the distribution of mifepristone and all generic versions as an “imminent hazard” under Section 505(e) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA); and 5. Withdraw FDA guidance permitting pharmacy distribution of mifepristone and all its generic versions. We are committed to continuing to work together to give a voice to the voiceless and protect women from the dangerous effects of unregulated access to chemical abortion drugs. The life, safety, freedom, and health of millions of Americans, born and unborn, depend on it.

NEW: 51 Senators urge RFK Jr. and Marty Makary to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone— and to suspend its distribution as an "imminent hazard" under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Collins and Murkowski only GOP members not to sign
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@susanrinkunas.com and I contacted every Planned Parenthood affiliate potentially affected by the Medicaid “defund.”

Here’s what we learned about whether people with Medicaid can still visit their local PP:

Lots of inaccuracies floating around re: the new generic mifepristone. It's not the first generic, it's the second, and it's not a "new abortion pill." It's the same thing that's already on the market, there are just a total of three companies making the drug now (brand name and two generics).

The Trump administration says it's freezing $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure funding.

It’s game day in #Chicago and every day is a win when abortion is safe and accessible. 🐻🧡🏈 #InternationalSafeAbortionDay

For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors - Bolts Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across the political spectrum that have adopted such reforms.

NEW: California was on track to pass a law this year that'd bring a path out of prison for some survivors of domestic violence who've been convicted of harming their abuser.

But the bill ended up dying in the state Senate as the session drew to a close this summer. Bolts reviews what happened:

Join us on November 6th at Room 1520 as we celebrate 40 Years of Meeting the Moment for abortion access in Illinois and beyond. 💚

🎟️ Tickets: chicagoabortionfund.org/40thevent

People sitting at an outdoor restaurant. Headline: What Happened to Mexico City’s Food Scene? Americans.

U.S. citizens reportedly make up less than 7% of foreigners living in Mexico City. Yet their impact has been outsize: whole swaths of Mexico City’s food scene — a point of immense pride — have been remade in the American image. It started with the salsas. nyti.ms/4nxs63V

Carol Mason Explains How Abortion Opponents Went From Blockading Clinics to Storming the Capitol A conversation with the author about her new book, From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary.

Despite Trump's claims, data shows that right-wing extremists are far more violent than those on the left.

And the origins of today's far-right insurrectionism lie in the anti-abortion movement.

I spoke with Carol Mason for @thenation.com:

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Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like. As pregnancy criminalization is on the rise, Birth Behind Bars offers a rare look at what it’s like to be pregnant behind bars.

Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people.

And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks.

California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

California legislators have passed one of the strongest measures so far to protect health care providers operating under shield laws.

Attacks on Shield Laws Are the Next Step in Criminalizing Abortion Care

Shield laws have become a lifeline for abortion patients and providers in the US post-Dobbs, which is precisely why conservative policymakers are turning to the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to attack this critical method of care. 🧵
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ICE Strike Team, Troops Could Reach Chicago in 48 Hours: Gov. JB Pritzker “I’m deeply concerned, uncertain, about what the future looks like at the moment, but as you can see, fighting like hell to make sure we don’t fall into the abyss as a result of unconstitutional actio...

Gov. JB Pritzker warned on Wednesday that a strike team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accompanied by National Guard troops or other “armed military personnel” could hit Chicago’s streets as soon as Friday or Saturday. @wttw.bsky.social

This lawsuit was originally filed by anti-abortion legal terrorist Jonathan Mitchell, and it is now crumbling apart

Illinois becomes the first US state in the Midwest to guarantee access to medication abortion and contraception on public university campuses.