This fall, WA voters will weigh in on a ballot measure to bar trans athletes from participating on girls’ sports teams. The initiative requires girls in K-12 school sports to undergo sex testing, including an examination of their reproductive anatomy. My latest: www.thecut.com/article/wash...

The Push to Force Genital Exams on Student Athletes

In just a few months, Washington could become the first state to require sex-verification tests for girls playing sports in K–12 schools.

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A decade ago, college-age women graduated into the glossy corporate-feminism era of Lean In and girlbosses trying to “have it all.” With that fantasy thoroughly popped, I wanted to find out what ambition looks like to today’s young women. Here's what they said: www.thecut.com/article/dont...

How 40 Striving Young Women See Ambition

Girlbosses are out. Personal fulfillment is in.

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On Monday, an ICE officer shot and killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in his vehicle in Biddeford, Maine. Governor Janet Mills called the shooting ‘disturbing and infuriating.’

What We Know About the ICE Shooting in Maine

On Monday, an ICE officer shot and killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in his vehicle in Biddeford, Maine. Governor Janet Mills called the shooting ‘disturbing and infuriating.’

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Wrote about what's been bothering me about Graham Platner's rise and fall: www.thecut.com/article/grah...

Why Didn’t Graham Platner’s Many Red Flags Matter?

The women who pointed out his unfitness for office long before the rape allegations were painted as nagging hags. They were right all along.

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Daiana Lilo has no legal citizenship anywhere in the world. The only way she has any valid government identification is through her DACA permit. But, last month, she lost her permit due to the Trump administration’s renewals backlog, throwing her life into chaos. www.thecut.com/article/how-...

The Woman Who’s a Citizen of Nowhere

Daiana Lilo, a law student at Tulane University, is stateless. Under Trump, her life has been thrown into chaos.

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this is perhaps the scariest thing i've seen come out of this administration. top five, at least. 30 - 70 years for protesting. apnews.com/article/prai...

8 convicted of terrorism charges in Texas immigration center shooting sentenced to decades in prison

A demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.

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Friends, I'm still looking to chat about AMBITION with young women and femmes who are rising college seniors or recent graduates for an upcoming @thecut.com story. Is that you or someone you know? Fill out this survey to participate or share it with people in your life! forms.gle/cS2DCDrTTN6x...

The Cut Survey: Tell Us Everything About Your Ambition

Are you a young woman or femme who is a rising college senior or a recent graduate? We want to hear everything you think about ambition — the good, the bad, and the weird — for an upcoming story on Ne...

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On Sunday, police shot at a car in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

What We Know About the Killing of Kohen Wiley

On Sunday, police shot at a car in the parking lot of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

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NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump

On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.

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For an upcoming story on @thecut.com, I'm surveying young women and femmes about AMBITION. If you'd like to participate, just fill out the form below. Also please feel free to share with the people in your life who may fit the bill! forms.gle/wqRbZdSPFHhY...

NEW at @autonomynews.co: The nation's largest abortion fund and support service went dark for a day last week because workers went on strike over management's refusal to bargain with them on AI protections. This ongoing dispute could lead to tremendous disruptions in the abortion access landscape:

National Abortion Hotline Went Dark Amid Worker Strike Over AI

“This work is not just a paycheck for us. Each and every caller matters, so it was extremely difficult for us to come to the decision to strike,” the workers’ union said.

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In June 2019, a Lyft driver raped Cristen Giangarra on her ride back home. She sued the company and now, nearly seven years after the assault, she will finally face Lyft in court. We spoke about how the rape changed her life, why she didn’t settle, and what’s next: www.thecut.com/article/cris...

‘It’s Following Me No Matter What, So I Have to Make Meaning of It’

Nearly seven years ago, a Lyft driver raped Cristen Giangarra. She refuses to end her fight against the rideshare company until justice is served.

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In June 2019, a Lyft driver raped Cristen Giangarra on her ride back home. She sued the company and now, nearly seven years after the assault, she will finally face Lyft in court. We spoke about how the rape changed her life, why she didn’t settle, and what’s next: www.thecut.com/article/cris...

‘It’s Following Me No Matter What, So I Have to Make Meaning of It’

Nearly seven years ago, a Lyft driver raped Cristen Giangarra. She refuses to end her fight against the rideshare company until justice is served.

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I spoke with domestic terrorism expert @jonlewis27.bsky.social about the San Diego mosque shooting and what leads teen boys to become radicalized online. Read our interview: www.thecut.com/article/onli...

What Leads a Teen Boy to Commit Mass Violence?

Authorities say the two teenagers who opened fire on the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three, became radicalized online.

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I spoke with domestic terrorism expert @jonlewis27.bsky.social about the San Diego mosque shooting and what leads teen boys to become radicalized online. Read our interview: www.thecut.com/article/onli...

What Leads a Teen Boy to Commit Mass Violence?

Authorities say the two teenagers who opened fire on the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three, became radicalized online.

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BREAKING: SCOTUS stays the Fifth Circuit's mifepristone stay order, keeping mifepristone available on current terms. Thomas and Alito file separate dissents. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/mifepristo...

Unless and until we hear otherwise, Justice Alito just let a nationwide telemedicine ban on mifepristone take effect via the shadow docket. follow @autonomynews.co to stay up to date

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: It’s now past 5pm ET and no word from the Supreme Court. This means the 5th Circuit’s ruling restricting telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone is now in effect. However the Supreme Court could act and change this at any time.

As a young law professor in the 1980s, Kimberlé Crenshaw could have never predicted that her life’s work would become a Fox News punch line — let alone the subject of government bans. We spoke about how that feels, her new memoir Backtalker, and much more: www.thecut.com/article/kimb...

The Mother of Intersectionality Thinks You Have It All Wrong

The right is trying to erase Kimberlé Crenshaw’s life’s work. She has something to say about that.

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Had the best time chatting with @slate.com's ICYMI about Trump 2.0 and the Great Numbing Out. Listen here: slate.com/podcasts/icy...

Are You “Numbing Out”?

After subjecting ourselves to years of constant bad news on social media, some are opting out entirely.

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As a young law professor in the 1980s, Kimberlé Crenshaw could have never predicted that her life’s work would become a Fox News punch line — let alone the subject of government bans. We spoke about how that feels, her new memoir Backtalker, and much more: www.thecut.com/article/kimb...

The Mother of Intersectionality Thinks You Have It All Wrong

The right is trying to erase Kimberlé Crenshaw’s life’s work. She has something to say about that.

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Second (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:

“I just can’t pay attention to the news anymore. I physically can’t," one friend despondently told me recently. So I set out to find why formerly politically engaged people seem to be in a state of paralysis barely one-third into Trump's second term. Read more: www.thecut.com/article/reas...

The Great Numbing Out

Why formerly politically engaged people are in a state of paralysis this time around.

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“I just can’t pay attention to the news anymore. I physically can’t," one friend despondently told me recently. So I set out to find why formerly politically engaged people seem to be in a state of paralysis barely one-third into Trump's second term. Read more: www.thecut.com/article/reas...

The Great Numbing Out

Why formerly politically engaged people are in a state of paralysis this time around.

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It is tempting to treat Shamar Elkins’s actions as the isolated incident of a madman. But poor mental health is never a reasonable explanation for attempting to execute one’s wife and children. Patriarchy offers a better explanation.

The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’

It is tempting to treat Shamar Elkins’s actions as the isolated incident of a madman. But poor mental health is never a reasonable explanation for attempting to execute one’s wife and children. Patriarchy offers a better explanation.

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Not only has Trump decimated anti-trafficking services, but as his administration indiscriminately detains immigrants to comply with his mass-deportations agenda, trafficking survivors have been caught in the dragnet — even when they have legal status. My latest: www.thecut.com/article/sex-...

They Survived Sex Trafficking — Then ICE Detained Them

The Trump administration vowed to protect trafficking victims. Instead, it is targeting them — and putting them at even graver risk.

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What do you do when your friend steals your husband and posts about it for her 3 million followers? Akira Montague went scorched earth.

The $1.75 Million Betrayal

What do you do when your friend steals your husband and posts about it for her 3 million followers? Akira Montague went scorched earth.

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An exception people probably don't know about: Though Puerto Ricans are American citizens, our citizenship is not constitutionally guaranteed but granted by the Jones Act of 1917. So in theory just like Congress giveth one day Congress could taketh away. Love to be a colonial subject!!!

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

Most plausible reason they took it.

A broad coalition of artists including Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Keke Palmer, and Ms. Rachel, as well as physicians and policy experts, published an open letter today demanding the immediate closure of the Dilley detention center. Read more: www.thecut.com/article/cele...

Madonna, Pedro Pascal, and Others Call for Dilley to Close

A letter signed by dozens of artists, doctors, and policy experts demands that children are released from a notorious detention facility.

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Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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