Katie Herchenroeder
@katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
Journo on politics and gendered violence. Past: Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, TNR, VICE, + | Alum: Newmark J-School, City College of New York.
Amazing list of stuff America could buy with the additional $200 billion Trump and Hegseth want for war on Iran. Starting with salaries for 2.8 million public school teachers... www.motherjones.com/politics/202... from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social @inaeoh.bsky.social @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
Trump wants $200 billion for bombs. Here's what that could buy instead.
7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.
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United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation. Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.
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SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records. Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.
Potential Trump EO compelling banks to collect citizenship info could endanger domestic abuse victims, @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social reports:
Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
The White House is reportedly eyeing rules that advocates say “will make getting a bank account nearly impossible" for many survivors, citizens or not.
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The administration could require proof of legal status to bank—which many survivors, documented or not, won't have.
Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
The White House is reportedly eyeing rules that advocates say “will make getting a bank account nearly impossible" for many survivors, citizens or not.
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Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
Trump may force banks to demand your papers. Survivors of abuse will pay.
The White House is reportedly eyeing rules that advocates say “will make getting a bank account nearly impossible" for many survivors, citizens or not.
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The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 6mo agoA high-speed car chase involving a federal agent in St. Paul ended with a multi-vehicle crash and injuries to the fleeing driver, who was taken away in an ambulance. bit.ly/4kvJo0M 📸: Leila Navidi
Trump’s SCOTUS case challenging the E. Jean Carroll judgment misrepresents a Law & Order SVU ep that some on the right - including Trump’s legal team - have claimed, in a bid to discredit her, contains a plot similar to Carroll’s allegations against Trump, @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social reports
The president’s lawyers submitted false information about a “Law and Order” plot
The episode is cited in Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation claim.
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NEW: Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court about a Law & Order: SVU episode in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll, according to filings I reviewed. My latest in @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The president’s lawyers submitted false information about a “Law and Order” plot
The episode is cited in Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation claim.
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
A disgusting development in the story of the aftermath of Renee Good’s death. From @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social: Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Good in a bikini—the woman who was killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis.
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent.
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Hours after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Elon Musk’s chatbot took off her clothes and put her in a bikini www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Reporting by @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled an X user’s request to put a bikini onto the body of ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good. The chatbot, launched by Elon Musk, has been making deepfakes of a lot of other women, too. My latest in @motherjones.com: 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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People organized on the fly and in many places in the freezing cold to turn out to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good, @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social writes: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“ICE KILLED GOOD”: Protesters decry Minneapolis shooting
Images from across the country show how people are honoring a 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents.
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If you want to learn more about how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse, check out @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social's feature on the subject:
She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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NEW: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt.
New York is the latest state to provide relief for victims of coerced debt
“Domestic violence is rarely limited to physical abuse,” said Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, who sponsored the new law.
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My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 8mo agoRFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare
RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare
RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn't get his way.
The health department’s proposed regulations on gender affirming care for minors are not legally binding and are set to be challenged in court.
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“The Trump administration’s attempt to carve out gender dysphoria from disability nondiscrimination protection is harmful, baseless, and cruel,” @nwlc.org senior counsel Ma’ayan Anafi told @motherjones.com about the regulation trying to remove gender dysphoria from disability civil law.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 8mo agoRFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare
Right now, there’s a bill on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk to provide a remedy for victims of coerced debt. Hochul has until December 19 to sign the bill. My latest on the fight to get the bill over the finish line for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Inside the last minute fight on legislation for victims of coerced debt in New York
The legislature passed a comprehensive bill to help people who have been victims of financial abuse. Activists worry industry is trying to water it down.
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Right now, there’s a bill on New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk to provide a remedy for victims of coerced debt. Activists worry industry is trying to water it down.
Inside the last minute fight on legislation for victims of coerced debt in New York
The legislature passed a comprehensive bill to help people who have been victims of financial abuse. Activists worry industry is trying to water it down.
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“This has a great potential to cause harm, and I simply hope that the committee will accept its responsibility when this harm is caused,” ACIP member Joseph Hibbeln said after voting against changing the guidance. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr.'s handpicked panel votes to end hepatitis B guidance for newborns
The committee now endorses "individual-based decision-making" for pregnant people who test negative for the virus.
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My latest in @vanityfair.com: The court's LGBTQ books ruling opens the door for parents to challenge other books they disagree with + serves as tacit acceptance to groups that hope to use "parental rights" as a Trojan Horse for anti-trans/anti-gay/anti-abortion cases in the future.
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Parents Who Oppose LGBTQ Books
Ahead of Pride parades across the US this weekend, the nation's highest court overturned a Maryland public school district's refusal to allow parents to opt their kids out of sexuality and gender educ...
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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“For the first time, it became clear that young women today will have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” @kamalaharris.com tells @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social on Dobbs anniversary. “But even in the face of that loss, we keep fighting.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/k...
Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting”
The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....
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NEW from me: Former VP Kamala Harris made a surprise Zoom visit to a conference of abortion storytellers ahead of the Dobbs anniversary. Their “voices,” she tells @vanityfair.com, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/k...
Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting”
The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....
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Jacinda Ardern Is No Longer Campaigning for Office—Now It’s for Humanity @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social speaks to the former New Zealand PM www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...
Jacinda Ardern Is No Longer Campaigning for Office—Now It’s for Humanity
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the former New Zealand prime minister discusses stepping back into the public eye with a new memoir and documentary, what it was like to lead with empathy in the face...
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Trump administration cuts $258M program crucial for HIV vaccine fight. Public health experts say the lack of funding is expected set back decades' worth of progress against HIV.
Trump Administration Cuts $258M Program Crucial To Discovering HIV Vaccines
The lack of funding is expected to set back decades' worth of progress against HIV, according to public health experts.
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