Madeline T. Morcelle

Tylenol use in pregnant women visiting ED dropped after Trump’s unfounded autism claim

Tylenol use in pregnant women visiting ED dropped after Trump’s unfounded autism claim. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

As if I’m going to put my two truths on god’s green internet

Trump Is Playing Games on Abortion to Avoid Impeachment A new legal filing underscores the president’s desperation to keep abortion access out of the headlines ahead of the midterms.

The administration is pushing off restrictions on the abortion pill until after the November elections in a hail mary attempt to keep control of the House. A legal filing this week underscored that Trump is reviving his strategy to gaslight voters on abortion in order to protect himself:

Judge Joseph is being asked by Louisiana to immediately end telemedicine prescriptions of mifepristone, while the FDA asked him to halt the case until a safety review is over—a review FDA head Marty Makary allegedly said wouldn't be over until after the midterms.

Now we wait for judge's decision.

thor says " because that 's what heroes do " while looking at the camera Alt: thor says " because that 's what heroes do " while looking at the camera

Shout out to the various MVPs of my medical team who have reset my hip and pelvis where they are supposed to go THRICE over the last week. #hEDS

Nothing like the worst pain flare I've had in years to remind me just how far I’ve come since my #hEDS dx. I forgot that I used to have to stand at the back of campaign director meetings and legislative hearings and once remote, work horizontally, because I couldn't sit for more than a few minutes.

I yearn for the day in which a majority of MS legislators legislate with their constituents’ well-being in mind.

The anti-trans and anti-abortion playbooks share plays, including gutting youth access before expanding to adults.

They were never going to stop with youth.

Just like they’re not going to stop with abortion and gender-affirming care.

Vanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans Adults The hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision.

This is what a genocide looks like in real time. #Vanderbilt
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Miranda Bennett (@mirandabennett) The vibe I bring to the function

The vibe we all *need* to bring to the function. substack.com/@mirandabenn...

We are deeply grateful to the health advocacy organizations and allies who joined the letter's call for Congress to prioritize health care over cruelty. Your solidarity matters.

Beyond hoping to influence Congress's policy choices, we hope that this letter serves as one articulation of why these issues belong squarely within the health advocacy space, and as a resource for anyone considering how to newly engage.

In a moment when silence can feel easier, collective clarity from health advocates helps ensure that attacks on immigrants and entire communities, including those wrought by Congress, ICE, and CBP, are understood for what they are: attacks on health.

The connection between health care cuts, escalating ICE and CBP attacks on communities financed in part through those very cuts, and waning health care access is direct and profound.

4) Demand meaningful and enforceable measures to rein in ICE and CBP and require compliance with civil rights laws, medical standards of care, and due process as a condition of any further DHS funding.

3) Strengthen the above health care programs, including closing Medicaid coverage gaps and restoring and extending enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace coverage.

2) Reverse efforts that make it harder for people to access health care, including cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, and ACA Marketplace coverage; and access to providers, such as Planned Parenthood and other providers of sexual and reproductive health care.

We asked Congress to:
1) Repeal the immigration enforcement funding provisions of H.R. 1 and claw back funds appropriated to ICE and CBP at the expense of health care and basic needs programs.

Health Advocates Letter to Congress: Fund Health Care, Not Attacks on Immigrants and Communities At a time when health care costs are skyrocketing, Congress should be supporting communities by strengthening Medicaid, restoring and extending enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace coverage, a...

Last week, 141 health advocacy organizations and allies led by Parenthood Action Fund and the National Health Law Program sent a letter to Congress urging them to fund health care over ICE and CBP's attacks on immigrants and communities. #DHSVote #ProtectMedicaid
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imagine believing that anyone in these united states is getting Too Much Healthcare

Baltimore’s Legacy of Movement Lawyering: Women Who Practice Law as Resistance - The Baltimore Times I only recently learned the phrase “movement lawyering.” Dorcas Gilmore, at Baltimore Action Legal Team, was the first to say it when I interviewed her for the Baltimore Legacy Project, and though I c...

"In other words: movement lawyers are the quiet strategists behind transformative struggles for justice. They are not simply attorneys; they are builders of possibility."
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Guatemalan detainee being held in Miami dies while in ICE detention Jairo Garcia-Hernandez, a 27-year-old man from Guatemala, died from suspected natural causes in February 2026 while in Immigration and Customs enforcement

Another person died today at the hands of ICE. Jairo Garcia-Hernandez, a 27-year-old from Guatemala, died at a community hospital in South Florida after A YEAR in an ICE concentration camp.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Perhaps part of the remedy to burnout is remembering how to dream and investing time in the practice of dream work. Even in the midst of Medicaid cut damage mitigation and soaring authoritarianism, work rooted in dreaming and building power to advance those dreams nourishes. #MovementLawyering

I’ve read 11 books thus far this year and half of those were comfort reads I was revisiting for somewhere between the second and umpteenth time. In a world designed to chain us to novelty, revisiting the things we love is a tender kind of resistance. #BookSky

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in Buffalo—five days after Border Patrol dropped him off on a street corner without notifying his family, who had moved away from the area.

CW: transphobia.

See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤

This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.

But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.

In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.

Paragraph 175 and 183.

By centering Black women’s voices and pairing data with lived experience, our groundbreaking breast cancer report offers evidence that can guide more culturally responsive education, outreach, policy, and care. Read more: wordinblack.com/2026/02/when...

Congress must fund care, not cruelty. Thank you to the groups who joined us to take a moral stand.

Instead, President Trump & his allies in Congress cut Medicaid, Medicare, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Marketplace coverage by more than $1 trillion, dramatically expanding funding for ICE and CBP's violent mass deportation, detention, family separation, & anti-democracy efforts.