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Don't forget this is the same guy who turned a significant chunk of the voting population against trans people under the guise of ... protecting women's sports.
My column.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/25/h...
My new column:
If people want the horrors of ICE to end, we must oust the GOP.
All Democrats must vote for the Dem in the primary who can win the general ... and in the general vote blue no matter who.
No 3rd party voting or staying home. That's deadly.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I cheered when Elana Meyers Taylor won gold. I cheered even louder when she thanked her nannies.
My column 🏅
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/18/h...
If we can’t agree, as a nation, that childhood should not be spent in captivity, I truly don’t know where we go from here.
My column.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/13/h...
As a surgeon and researcher, I’m driven by one mission: children’s healthy development, in the short- and long-term. The current approach to immigration is deeply detrimental to both.
I’m grateful to @thehill.com for letting me weigh in on this crucial topic.
thehill.com/opinion/immi...
Coming in July! “Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity, and Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI”
A troubling fear nags at me: that human connection—the one thing children need most—is at risk of becoming a rarity. My book, I hope, provides families a line of defense 💚
As a pediatric physician, as an early childhood researcher, and as a child development expert, I am compelled to state, in no uncertain terms: the current approach to immigration reform is deeply detrimental to children, in both the present and long-term.
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
Where are the folks who thought masks and remote learning were government overreach? Who thought vaccine mandates were fascism? Who thought capacity restrictions were tyranny?
I'm having a hard time reconciling all that with what's happening now.
My column
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/23/h...
Someone on Threads writes: I. Stand. With. ICE.
i think standing too close to ICE is what has been getting people killed
“Ignore what your pediatrician recommends” is a slippery scary slope … and not one I would’ve wanted to be on while I was exhausted with little kids
The new vaccine schedule—arrived upon with no scientific input—represents the unraveling of a pretty key component of the American Dream: the part where you give your children a better life than the one you had.
My column.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/09/h...
Thank you! Happy new year ♥️
An inspiring, life-affirming column from @heidikstevens.bsky.social to start the New Year, reminding us to find the joy wherever we can & take care of one another ✨️ #NewYear2026 #newyear
From the Leo High School choir's joyful energy, to the Chicago Marathon’s collective humanity.
From every act of resistance, to every holiday card writer.
From every sunrise, to every sunset.
25 things I'm carrying with me into 2026.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/25/h...
Thanks to Heidi spotlighting Pinta Pride Campaign from the beginning, I continue to send out holiday cards every year to people I don't know and will likely never meet.
We can also send them year-round. Birthdays, Halloween, Pride, whatever.
A creative and impactful way to be an #LGBTQ #ally.
It's easy to feel like you don't recognize this country right now. But a campaign to write holiday cards to LGBTQ+ folks shunned by their families is sending tens of thousands of notes to strangers.
That's also who we are.
My column ❤️
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/h...
“One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.” open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Thought-provoking column by the always brilliant @heidikstevens.bsky.social, who makes the connection between “Quiet, piggy” and why women who’ve been abused don’t come forward.
Thank you, Nancy ♥️
Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
Thank you!
I’m definitely not surprised
Worth a read
The president of the United States, when asked about his documented friendship with a convicted sex offender, replied, “Quiet, piggy.”
We’re done asking why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward, right?
My column.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
This, by @heidikstevens.bsky.social, is a gut punch
“We’re waiting to see what we stand for. Stand for meaning what defines us, and stand for meaning what we’ll allow. What we cherish, what we’re willing to concede.
Who we’ll protect from abuse of power, and whose abuse of power we’ll protect.”
Trump’s “mental faculties are crumbling like blue cheese, and major media need to write prominent stories about this alarming problem – not just stick a sentence into the 14th paragraph of a news story.”
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“I want to see a world — not just for my son, but for everybody who is neurodivergent or has a disability — that accepts them and allows them to be who they are,” he continued. “That doesn’t see them as other. That doesn’t take away their human value. There’s good for everybody in that.” Same.♥️
Grotesquely transparent racist.