Defending the right to choose if, when, and how we build our families. Home to both the Repro Legal Helpline (https://xitter.cf/t.co/rOj8BxyhVQ) + @reprolegalfund.
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“Officers were responding to a shoplifting call alleging that Wiley’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, and Latoya Ferrell had stolen a pack of diapers.”
This is unacceptable. This baby died over a resource that should be free. Absolutely disgusting to call this justified.
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi attorney general’s office announced mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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Maryam Ahmed Ghanem is being treated at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital for second-degree burns to her face and body, and smoke inhalation, a year into the so-called ceasefire, after an Israeli strike murdered her 33-year old mother in the middle of the night Wednesday.
Three-year-old Maryam Ahmed Ghanem watched her mother burn to death while flames surrounded her. At around 4am on Wednesday, an Israeli occupation airstrike hit their apartment in Gaza City and set it on fire while the family slept. Journalist Ali Al-Jaafarawi heard her screaming, fought his way through the smoke on his third attempt and carried her out. Her mother, Reem, was 33 and did not survive. Maryam’s father was killed at the start of the genocide, and her grandmother is now all she has left. She is lying in Al-Shifa Hospital with second-degree burns and smoke in her lungs. This happened a year into a ceasefire. Remember her name.
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Important story by my colleagues @msanchezMIA and @annaleighclark These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead. propublica.org/article/domes…
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Columbus used a 15th-century legal doctrine to colonize and slaughter the Indigenous peoples he encountered. And it's still the law in the U.S. today. 1/3
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We’re launching a crowdfunding campaign with the Gaza Municipality to help displaced families prepare for the rain and winter. 🌧️
@munigaza
Are you ready to support us?
gaza-city.org/campaign/6
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Oscar Bergal was shot by ICE in my district last Thursday, then pulled out of the hospital by ICE while still needing surgery. His lawyers say he’s in solitary with the bullet lodged in his neck, his face is numb, and he’s losing hearing in one ear. This is atrocious and inhumane, but it’s not a mistake. It’s yet another example of ICE working as designed. We don’t need another few years of broken safeguards. We need to abolish ICE.
Man shot by ICE in NYC still has bullet lodged in neck, attorneys say
gothamist.com/news/man-shot-…
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There are zero rigorous, peer-reviewed studies suggesting that the FDA should roll back access to medication abortion. On the contrary, a large body of gold standard evidence strongly supports removing the unnecessary restrictions that already exist.
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⚠️ SAVE THIS THREAD!
Abortion is DIRECTLY ON THE BALLOT in FOUR STATES this year! If you’re in Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, or Virginia: do not forget to fill out your ballot COMPLETELY and vote to PROTECT reproductive rights this year! ⬇️
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We need to also please be very loud and supportive for Kendall who was violently raped by an LSU football player and bravely told her story to the world
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I wrote abt the campus SA crisis that never went away despite the public moving on after the Obama era; the material ways SA punishes victims the rest of their lives while assailants are systematically rewarded; & just tried to put to words what I think is going unsaid right now:
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Our recent amicus brief from 300+ reproductive health researchers extensively details how the anti-abortion junk science behind the latest attempts to block access to medication abortion is, to put it frankly, "plagued by fundamental analytical errors.” ansirh.org/research/research…
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The attorneys general from Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that allow providers to send abortion medication to other states. truthout.org/articles/republ…
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Immigration law is infamous for its impossible hours and laughable salaries, but since early 2025, the sense of purpose that animates so many immigration attorneys has been tested by the federal government’s efforts to target them—and their budgets.
The ensuing chaos nearly broke them. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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One of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims a 1996 law mandated the detention of millions without a right to seek bond, yet no one noticed until 2025.
A victory would greenlight mass detention at levels not seen since Japanese internment.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the legality of ICE's mandatory detention policy, weighing in on an issue that has been ovewhelmingly rejected by district and appeals courts but has nevertheless roiled the justice system nationwide.
politico.com/news/2026/10/01…
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“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.”
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HTf_MFQWcAAJXwa.jpg?name=orig)
ALT SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 26A428 KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY [September 30, 2026] The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.
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Unfathomable grief and loss
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NEW: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 unreasoned order, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to.
The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.
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Like so many women, I’ve experienced a miscarriage.
Years ago, when my doctor couldn’t find a heartbeat, I was given medication to help me through it. I was grateful to have access to the care I needed during an incredibly difficult time.
That’s why protecting access to mifepristone and medication abortion matters. These medications are an essential part of medical care, including during miscarriage.
No woman should have to navigate an experience like this without the care and choices she needs.
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BREAKING:
Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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50 years ago, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, barring federal funding from going to abortion care in almost all instances. The stories since have remained the same...
It’s time for change. Tell your lawmakers that Hyde belongs in the past: bit.ly/4rDHjDR
