Oh yes, what a colossal mess, asking wealthy property owners to prove they live in those properties
Bill GrueskinThe rollout of Mamdani’s new pied-a-terre tax is a colossal mess. The incompetence is pretty brutal. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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Garnet Henderson
Профиль VivelyCofounder @autonomynews.co. Investigative reporter and researcher: abortion, reproductive justice, disinformation. Seen in The Nation, ELLE, Scientific American, WIRED, and more. Wyoming-born New Yorker. Signal: garnethenderson.12 garnethenderson.com
NEW from me at @autonomynews.co: Contrary to what some headlines suggested, Texas midwife Maria Rojas, accused of violating the state’s abortion ban, still can’t reopen her clinics. And the fact that the state has chosen to target a midwife is not a coincidence.
Texas Midwife’s Clinics Won’t Reopen Despite Court VictoryThe use of an abortion ban to target a midwife evokes a long, racist history.www.autonomynews.coI may be broke but at least I’ve never taken girlboss blood money from Raytheon
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NEW: The Georgia crisis pregnancy center I investigated earlier this year for @autonomynews.co will *not* receive federal housing funds this year. The center—which says it's opening a maternity home—had requested $630k in HUD funds this year.
One Crisis Pregnancy Center Has Received $1.1 Million in Federal Housing Funds Since 2020A Georgia anti-abortion organization is building a maternity home. Public opposition surfaced allegations of false advertising and medical licensing issues—and resulted in cease and desist letters.www.autonomynews.coAll their years of plotting. Finally come to fruition
The GuardianJavier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup
Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorsed this man btw
Susan RinkunasSimply cannot imagine saying this about Cori Bush, who wants people in St. Louis and across the country to have their basic needs met rather than sending money to a genocidal government overseas. Then again I'm not a prosecutor who got elected thanks to AIPAC apnews.com/article/miss...
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@susanrinkunas.com on the latest instance of a problem I've heard about time and again: When abortion clinic staff and volunteers experience threats and harassment, they're often afraid to call police because a. cops make everyone less safe and b. they're often on anti-abortion activists' side
Autonomy NewsNEW: After abortion clinic staff called police about threatening language posted on social media, officers were photographed praying with protestors—including the person who made the threatening post. It’s just the latest instance of officers praying outside US abortion clinics while on duty
The Boston Globe and the New York Times both used the phrase “late-term abortions”—an anti-abortion propaganda term!—in headlines this week. Subscribe to @autonomynews.co where we know better and do better.
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Support our journalism and help comb...www.autonomynews.coBizarro embryonic personhood (the “baby” he’s referring to is “embryonic-like” cells in a petri dish)
wormextremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
Trump is determined to avoid the subject of abortion heading into midterms—so members of his own party have found other ways to get what they want:
Susan RinkunasAlarming stuff happening. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee know they have the power to block Todd Blanche from becoming Attorney General permanently—he can't lose a single vote. Several Senators are now extorting Blanche into tackling an anti-abortion wish list to get their approval 🧵
This is good, but as Rojas’ attorneys said, it will be next to impossible for her shuttered clinics to reopen. Her midwifery license is still suspended. All because she was doing things midwives do, like treating miscarriages and carrying misoprostol, an essential obstetric medication
Appeals court reverses shutdown of Houston-area clinics accused of providing illegal abortionsA Texas appeals court reversed an injunction that shut down Maria Rojas’ clinics, finding the state presented insufficient admissible evidence to support its allegations.www.click2houston.comOne of my other favorite facts about Anthony Comstock is that he performatively poured out his daily ration of whiskey during the Civil War, rather than give it to anyone else
Melissa Gira GrantSuppressing birth control information (for girls), scaremongering about masturbation (for boys), it’s the kind of sex ed that Anthony Comstock stood for until his dying day (in 1915)
This is sure to provoke an instant lawsuit, but my god
Rachel Kcool cool cool Trump withholds 1 billion dollars in medicaid payments from CA and MN www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
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Support our journalism and help comb...www.autonomynews.coElise CuttsToday I spoke with the co-founders of @autonomynews.co and learned that they ~pay~ for fact-checking and copyediting on their stories. I asked how much it cost: $50/hr and they said it was still one of their smallest expenses. What excuse do bigger newsrooms have for sparing that expense?