The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday is allowing the Trump administration to strip legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that opens them up to deportation. The ruling will dramatically impact Columbus and Springfield, Ohio. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/25/r...
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For more than half a century, Title X has been a bipartisan program to help women and men get contraception and reproductive health care, reducing unintended pregnancies and making America healthier. Now the Trump administration is gutting it.
Sofia ResnickICYMI the Trump administration is changing the fundamental mission of the federal poverty-fighting Title X grant program from reducing unintended pregnancies, to a vague promotion of “body literacy education” and “restorative approaches to reproductive health.” stateline.org/2026/06/18/t...
Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.
Federal law already prohibits armed federal personnel at polling places. Some Democratic state lawmakers, citing Trump's calls to "nationalize" elections and rhetoric by his allies, don't want to take any chances and are pushing state-level bans on immigration enforcement near the polls
StatelineSeveral Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, Jonathan Shorman reports. https://stateline.org/2026/03/05/blue-states-push-to-ban-ice-at-the-polls-amid-federal-voter-intimidation-fears/
State & federal funding to anti-abortion pregnancy centers is growing — but oversight isn't. New series sheds light: newsfromthestates.com/tags/crisis-pregnancy-centers-series by @kelciemmorris.bsky.social @acvollers.bsky.social @chatlanis.bsky.social @amandavhernan.bsky.social & me
“We’re kind of dependent on hope this fire season, like last year,” a UNM fire ecologist said. buff.ly/2NUMRss
The families in the railroad’s path said they see this as another instance in a pattern of extraction that has defined this corner of Georgia since before the Civil War. bit.ly/4qS3nIA
I'm a health reporter at @stateline.org and @statesnewsroom.com. I'm looking for experts and researchers following the effects of #ACA subsidy expiration and #Medicaid coverage loss on chronic illness, specifically #diabetes. DM's are open and open to research links. s chatlani AT stateline dot org
From a quick read, the Fulton County affidavit doesn't include any suggestion of a foreign nexus to the investigation — further highlighting the unusual nature of DNI Tulsi Gabbard's involvement storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Three people were arrested by Ohio State Police while protesting U.S. Customs and Border Patrol recruiters at an annual Ohio State University career fair on Tuesday. via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
ICYMI: The Trump administration has sued another state — Virginia — in its quest to obtain sensitive voter data, despite two recent legal setbacks in suits against other states. stateline.org/2026/01/20/t...
ICE is using Medicaid data to find out where immigrants live | via @acvollers.bsky.social #ksleg
One of the small but interesting parts of Colvin's story: She said her action was inspired in part by a week of learning Black history from a teacher who also described the injustices in the South at length.
Alabama Reflector“For these historical, iconic women I had been taught so much about, I just couldn’t move,” Colvin told the Montgomery Advertiser in 2019. “I just couldn’t move. That’s the only way I knew how to resist, to not move. So they just dragged me off the bus.”
The Trump administration seems intent on blocking local prosecutors from even bringing charges against the ICE officer minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/09/m...