Articles and appearances:

“Police Departments Are Making Their Own ‘Cops’ Videos Counteracting Police Brutality Depicted On Social Media” - BuzzFeed News

In the wake of the cancellation of police-glorifying shows like COPS and Live PD, police departments across the country are becoming their own publishing platforms, using multi-media strategies to produce slick videos projecting a “good cop” image and counteracting years of outrage over shootings, many captured on video and published to social media.

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“The Fall Of Roe Has Forced People To Use Birth Control They Don’t Want, Or Is Even Bad For Their Health” - The Guardian

Jana started using birth control at 13. For nearly a decade, she tried different kinds of hormonal contraception to find the one that least exacerbated anxiety and depression. After nearly a decade, her therapist suggested she get off birth control altogether. It worked. She felt in touch with her adult body for the first time in her life, and her mental health was finally in a good place. She started using apps to track her menstrual cycle, to tell her when she was ovulating and should avoid sex or use a condom.

After Roe fell, Jana, now a 24-year-old aspiring lawyer, saw warnings across her social media feeds that period tracker apps were sharing her data, and could be used as evidence if the user was suspected of having an illegal abortion. Jana deleted the apps. A few months later Jana was pregnant.

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“A School District Announced Guidelines To Protect The Rights Of Trans Students. Some Locals Tried To Storm The School Board Meeting.” - BuzzFeed News

When locals protested a Florida school district’s plan to protect the rights of trans students, 16-year-old Andrew Triolo decided he could no longer stay silent about his experience — no matter the cost.

When they got there, there was already a group of protesters outside. One man in a neck gaiter and baseball cap held a sign reading “Straight and Proud.” Another, a kid who couldn’t have been older than 12, held one reading “Pervert Biden Wants Girls to Shower With Boys.” A man with a megaphone yelled anti-gay slurs. He got right in Andrew’s mom’s face and told her she was going to hell, she said. She knew him. He lived down the street.
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I Can’t Stop Thinking About Britney Spears

I can’t stop thinking about her speech in court. I can’t stop thinking about her voice — how low it was compared to the chipmunkesque one she uses in Instagram videos she posts on her personal account, which her fans study for clues about her well-being. I can’t stop thinking about the way she talked about her own body — “my precious body who” — as if it is not a part of her, as if it is a commodity being used by others. And, if everything Spears says is true, then that’s exactly what it seems to be.

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This Mom And Her Seven Kids Have Dedicated Their Lives To Helping Women Get Abortions In The South

This wasn’t just any family road trip. Laurie's family was preparing to pick up a 25-year-old woman from school, bring her to an abortion clinic in Little Rock, stay there in a hotel for the third and fourth appointments she needed for the procedure, and drop her back home. It’s one of dozens of trips the family has made to bring women to and from abortion appointments all over the South over the last six years. They’ve mostly used their own cars or rentals, but they recently acquired what they call the “abobo bus,” a 12-seat van that women can comfortably lie down in. However, they got it cheap, and the bus keeps breaking.

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Also read my follow up on the woman they helped get a nearly-banned abortion.

Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed

This exposé was the first on this subject. It launched several federal investigations into ICE and DHS, some of which are ongoing.

The new ICE directive states that women are not to be held into their third trimester and that ICE is responsible for “ensuring pregnant detainees receive appropriate medical care including effectuating transfers to facilities that are able to provide appropriate medical treatment.”

But BuzzFeed News has found evidence that that directive is not being carried out. Instead, women in immigration detention are often denied adequate medical care, even when in dire need of it, are shackled around the stomach while being transported between facilities, and have been physically and psychologically mistreated.

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