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Carter Sherman

@cartersherman.bsky.social

reporter | host of a new podcast at the Guardian | author of THE SECOND COMING, about young Americans and the fight over the future of sex | signal: cartersherman.01

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Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 4w ago

On the Fourth of July, the Trump administration's new 'Trump accounts' for children went live. @cartersherman.bsky.social speaks with @moiradonegan.bsky.social about how these accounts are really the work of the pronatalist movement, which wants women to have as many babies as possible:

The shadowy movement behind ‘Trump accounts’ – Stateside with Kai and Carter

On the Fourth of July, the Trump administration's new 'Trump accounts' for children went live. Carter Sherman speaks with Guardian columnist Moira Donegan about how these accounts are really the work ...

theguardian.com

Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ICYMI: Texas Children’s will create ‘detransition clinic’ to settle DOJ and state investigation Advocates and doctors who treat trans youth are concerned about the precedent this sets as the DOJ continues investigating hospitals nationwide. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Texas Children’s will create ‘detransition clinic’ to settle DOJ and state investigation

The agreement ends a three-year battle over transgender healthcare at the country’s largest children’s hospital. Advocates for trans rights raised concerns about politics shaping medicine.

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Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3mo ago

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.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Help: I'm looking for a source who can speak to how the difficulty of qualitative abortion research has or has not changed since the Dobbs decision. I've tried reaching out to ANSIRH twice, Guttmacher mostly does quantitative research, and I'm striking out.

Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I take no pleasure in saying that I and my @propublicaguild.org colleagues are on strike. It shouldn't have come to this and i can only hope that seeing the overwhelming majority of staff walk out today opens management's eyes and convinces them we're serious about our demands.

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo ago

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 4mo ago

Source Callout: for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text). reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

image of a white brick wall overlaid with text reading: for a story at The Guardian, I'm looking to speak to 1-2 people who have had their community/ political organizing work impacted by being expected or forced to organize with someone who assaulted or harassed them, and that staying silent was "for the good of the movement" I know this is an extremely common story, but also one people can't always share with their name or face: anonymity or pseudonyms will be provided. I am trained in trauma-informed strategies in working with survivors, am a survivor myself, and take digital hygiene and sources' security extremely seriously. Please reach out over signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68 . I'll take this down when I have enough folks. Thank you.
Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 5mo ago

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 5mo ago

What's going on with ACIP? After a series of bold tweets from the former co-chair, I caught up with a former member. Upshot: ACIP still exists; the 13 members who weren't appointed properly are gone; and officials are looking new members, this source said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Confusion abounds over future of US vaccine advisory committee

Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisions

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Carter Sherman@cartersherman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm taking this opportunity to make an extremely niche recommendation: the book "Parallel Lives" by Phyllis Rose, which follows John Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill's marriage. It proves that, yes, Harriet Taylor Mill co-authored On Liberty (and that John Mill was a major wife guy) (complimentary)

Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

ProPublica@propublica.org · 5mo ago

Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section.

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

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xenia hospitality princess@m01r4.bsky.social · 5mo ago

*vibrating* part of the problem with discussing eat disorders and the wreckage they induce is that our society operates on the wisdom that the endpoint logic of them is correct.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 5mo ago

something i'm noticing in all these mainstream pub profiles and SEO writeups about "looksmaxxing"/clavicular, which are seemingly mostly written by men, is that they use their phrasing of engaging in "self-improvement," implying that their beauty standards are somehow objective and even rational

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation

Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

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Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.” The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

The answer is a rewrite experiment, backed by AI. We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories. The role will require an evolving expertise in prompt writing for an AI chatbot, to get the quality stories you might want to read. This is not a one-and-done kind of thing. We envision the rewrite specialist tweaking the stories a good bit with additional prompts for refinements. I see this as a writing role.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner@skirchy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Some of the exchanges that were most interesting to me in the Epstein files reflect the sexual predator's alignment with Brett Kavanaugh, and his views about Kavanaugh's accuser, a woman who was a teenager at the time of the alleged assault www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show

Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

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Tyler Kingkade@tktk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Ed Dept under Trump has essentially stopped enforcing Title IX in K-12 schools when it comes to sexual harassment and assault cases. Instead, it put all its focus on using Title IX for policies related to transgender students www.k12dive.com/news/trumps-...

Trump’s OCR resolved no K-12 sexual harassment, assault complaints in 2025, data shows

The Education Department contends "it has restored commonsense safeguards against sexual violence by returning sex-based separation in intimate facilities."

k12dive.com

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 6mo ago

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

(1) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video game, computer software game, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body, that depicts nudity, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sado-masochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors; or (2) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter, however reproduced, or sound recording, which contains any matter enumerated in subdivision (a)(1), or that contains explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors.