Sheriff Chitwood’s battle with the neo-Nazis began when a group of men laser-projected “Hitler was right” on the Daytona International Speedway. Things got personal — and genuinely scary — when I rode along with him in Volusia County, Florida:

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The Florida sheriff vs. the neo-Nazi ‘scumbags’

After a group of neo-Nazis moved to Florida, Volusia County’s top cop grappled with the dark side of the First Amendment.

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Abortion ban states saw a 10.5% drop in applicants for OB/GYN residencies - a steep decline with potential long-term impact on the availability of doctors to care for pregnant people, deliver babies across the South & Midwest. By

@FrancesSSellers

@FenitN

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Abortion ban states see steep drop in OB/GYN residency applicants

States with abortion bans have seen a 10.5 percent drop in applicants for OB/GYN residencies from the previous year, according to new data.

THIS is the story u didn’t know u needed: “He was already showing the hormonal aspects of raising a chick. And he was taking such good care of his rock that we decided that he would be our best bet.” Thank you, ⁦

@praveenavsoma

⁩! 🙏🏾

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An eagle tried to hatch a rock. Now, he’s a ‘stepdad’ to an orphaned bird.

Murphy, a 31-year-old bald eagle at a Missouri sanctuary, started incubating a rock last month. In early April, he bonded with a living, breathing chick.

Tracy Jan

@TracyJan

Apr 20

Also reassuring when metro comes to a standstill and the conductor announces: “We have a good train. We have a good train. Don’t worry about it. Moving momentarily.”

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An eagle tried to hatch a rock. Now, he’s a ‘stepdad’ to an orphaned bird.

Murphy, a 31-year-old bald eagle at a Missouri sanctuary, started incubating a rock last month. In early April, he bonded with a living, breathing chick.

Tracy Jan

@TracyJan

Apr 19

So excited to FINALLY meet the famous

@eramshaw

in person in Chicago next month at

@19thnews

Represents Summit after all these years! Tapping back into my former reporter role to talk about the importance of journalism in unearthing untold stories.

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The Washington Post Joins The 19th As its National Media Partner for the annual 19th Represents...

Letitia James, Lauren Underwood, Monique Rodriguez And Tarana Burke Among Headliners for Three Days Of Conversations About Gender And Racial Equity In Tech, Justice And Economic Mobility May 18-20

More on the “bridge access program,” which officials are characterizing as a temporary solution after several funding requests got blocked by Congress.

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Coronavirus vaccines will remain free to uninsured under Biden plan

Vaccine makers are expected to charge as much as $130 per dose after the government winds down its pandemic response.

As migrant children were exploited for cheap labor in the US, the people who were supposed to protect these kids looked the other way. Whistleblowers warned the White House for two years, but were dismissed as thousands of children took on dangerous jobs.

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U.S. Was Warned of Migrant Child Labor, but ‘Didn’t Want to Hear It’

The White House and federal agencies were repeatedly alerted to signs of children at risk. The warnings were ignored or missed.

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Think I was the last to know when we began working together last fall that journalism is in his blood. Finally met Theo’s proud parents

The most rewarding part of serving on the

@StanfordDaily

Board of Directors has been doing journalism with the brave, ambitious, hard-working

@tab_delete

, an 18 y.o. FRESHMAN!!, & Editor in Chief

@sbcatania

. Such a joy and honor.

So incredibly proud of ⁦

@tab_delete

⁩, the youngest ⁦

@PolkAwards

⁩ winner ever, for his investigation into Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and alleged scientific misconduct for ⁦

⁩.

Complications from wisdom tooth removal, colonoscopy and Viagra use carry greater risk than the abortion pill, according to the American Medical Association, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and other medical organizations opposing the lawsuit.

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Apr 13

Texas judge’s abortion pill decision cites research based on anonymous blog posts, cherry picks stats that exaggerate the negative physical & psychological effects of mifepristone, & ignores hundreds of scientific studies attesting to the drug’s safety. washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04

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Truly stunning. The researcher whose study the judge relied on to raise safety concerns about mifepristone is accusing Kacsmaryk of deliberately misinterpreting his data.

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Health & Science reporters unpack the flawed science cited in the unprecedented ruling to block access to mifepristone despite FDA approval two decades ago By

Unpacking the flawed science cited in the Texas abortion pill ruling

Texas judge ignored scientific evidence of abortion pill’s safety, citing statistics that overstate the negative physical and psychological effects of mifepristone.

Unpacking the flawed science cited in the Texas abortion pill ruling

Texas judge ignored scientific evidence of abortion pill’s safety, citing statistics that overstate the negative physical and psychological effects of mifepristone.

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At the time, Sexton had said: “You have to balance the will of the voters and overturning the will of the voters.” And yet, expelling

@brotherjones_

@Justinjpearson

overrides the will of thousands of voters in an unprecedented act of retaliation to silence its opponents.

This was only the 4th time that the TN House expelled members. Republicans had killed a 2019 effort to expel state Rep. David Byrd (R), who was accused by three women who said he sexually assaulted them while teenagers on his basketball team. Byrd has denied the accusations.

The Republican supermajority — largely White and male — is led by House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R), who deemed the brief protest — during which no one was harmed — an “insurrection” equivalent to or worse than that at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Tenn. GOP deepens racial tension after expelling Black lawmakers

In a state with a legacy of brutal battles over race and power, Tennessee House Republicans voted to oust two young Black Democrats who led a protest in the chamber.

Tennessee House Republicans explain their expulsion of two young, Black Democrats as “a matter of decorum, the need to behave properly in the historic chamber of the state Capitol." 🧐 By

@anniegowen

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Tenn. GOP deepens racial tension after expelling Black lawmakers

In a state with a legacy of brutal battles over race and power, Tennessee House Republicans voted to oust two young Black Democrats who led a protest in the chamber.

Twenty years ago today, Tim McLaughlin’s flag stood for victory in Iraq. Now, it's tucked away in his basement -- and the Marine veteran struggles with the painful memories it evokes,

@GregJaffe

writes.

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This American flag famously covered a Saddam statue. Now it’s in a basement.

As millions watched the statue fall in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, Tim McLaughlin’s American flag came to symbolize victory in Iraq.

"They were just kind of, like, hoarding us like Pokémon cards." Amid tech layoffs, we spoke to former workers who say they were paid huge salaries to do nothing at all:

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These Tech Workers Say They Were Hired to Do Nothing

Amid layoffs, former workers in tech are venting about jobs with little to do: “hoarding us like Pokémon cards.”

Tracy Jan

@TracyJan

Apr 6

The U.S. government does not monitor or regulate assisted-living facilities, and no federal data is available on the frequency of evictions. In 2020, about 18 percent of 818,000 residents in U.S. assisted-living facilities were supported by Medicaid payments.

In Wisconsin,

counted at least 50 Medicaid-related evictions since the fall based on statements by operators, as well as nonprofit and government Medicaid agencies.

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Assisted-living homes are rejecting Medicaid and evicting seniors

Residents who drained their nest eggs to cover private-pay rates have been evicted after turning to Medicaid to pay their bills.

Cruelty is evicting low-income seniors at the end of their lives from assisted living because these facilities stopped accepting Medicaid. The American system is broken. An outrageous MUST READ by

@PostRowland

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Assisted-living homes are rejecting Medicaid and evicting seniors

Residents who drained their nest eggs to cover private-pay rates have been evicted after turning to Medicaid to pay their bills.

Children should be made to understand that they cannot say whatever they feel, speak too loudly or spill their food deliberately. ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

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Forget gentle parenting and discipline your 1-year-old, psychologist says

French psychologist Caroline Goldman says 1-year-olds are ready to be punished with timeout, triggering a fierce debate about what counts as too strict.

Tracy Jan

@TracyJan

Apr 4

After decades under a virus’s shadow, he now lives free of HIV I love this ⁦

@majohnso

⁩ story about life, love, science & hope so much! Especially as a SF Bay Area child of the 80s when AIDS was a huge part of the news & classroom, family convos.

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After decades under a virus’s shadow, he now lives free of HIV

Paul Edmonds was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 and didn’t expect to survive. Now in full remission, he's telling his story of a medical breakthrough to offer hope.

Tracy Jan

@TracyJan

Apr 3

I loved how raw and real Boston was. Thank you

@andrewvandam

for using data to highlight the city’s high “informal helping rate.” ❤️

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Analysis | America’s friendliest big cities are not the ones you’d expect

Skeptical of a report ranking the City of Brotherly Love and Beantown as the most helpful cities in the nation, we sought a broader measure of civic engagement.

I moved to Boston during the 2004 World Series. When a Red Sox cap flew off a worker’s head as the garbage truck he was standing on drove up Mass Ave, drivers parked and got out of their cars to help the man retrieve his hat.

Not to mention all the random acts of kindness I witnessed of neighbors helping neighbors (often strangers) in my South End hood, especially during snowstorms, helping to get cars unstuck or unburied. (Can’t say the same for Southie & their habit of hogging shoveled parking!)

The first time was my first day of work at The Boston Globe in 2004, when the paper was on Morrissey Blvd in Dorchester. Got tripped up by one of those damn roundabouts. A lady in the grocery store parking lot by the T stop kindly guided me to work.

And where not one but THREE strangers on diff occasions volunteered to guide me in their cars to set me on the right route when I was hopelessly lost, back in the pre-GPS days when reporters routinely had to find our way around unfamiliar places via map books (aka Thomas Guides.)

Hard yes to BOSTON being a surprisingly friendly city. I still miss it. It’s where I witnessed a Silver Line bus driver jump out on Washington St. in the South End to break up a fight between two men & hop back on & continue driving like it was nothing.

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Analysis | America’s friendliest big cities are not the ones you’d expect

Skeptical of a report ranking the City of Brotherly Love and Beantown as the most helpful cities in the nation, we sought a broader measure of civic engagement.

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The call for prayer can be used as a silencer. “In Nashville, White, Christian culture and gun culture are practically synonymous. And not everything that is successfully marketed as Christianity is moral.” By ⁦

@SilviaElenaFF

⁩

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After school shooting, Nashville’s Christian community grapples with guns

A look at how the "buckle of the Bible Belt" contends with the question of gun control.

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on why syphilis is rising among U.S. infants after nearly being eradicated a decade ago. This is a preventable public health scourge that experts say should not be happening in developed nations.

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The tragic, preventable reasons syphilis is surging among U.S. infants

The spike in babies born with syphilis is driven in part by the nation’s drug and homelessness crisis. The trend is especially apparent across the Sun Belt.

How a fake Nashville manifesto fueled anti-trans rage online washingtonpost.com/technology/202 via

@drewharwell

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How a fake Nashville manifesto fueled anti-trans rage online

The fake highlights how trolls and liars can use computer tools to muddle the truth about mass shootings.

Tracy Jan

@TracyJan

Apr 1

The spike, driven in part by the nation’s drug and homelessness crisis, is especially apparent across the Sun Belt. The rate of syphilis is five times higher for babies born to Black mothers than to White mothers, reflecting racial disparities in access to maternal health care.

Syphilis can be passed from mother to child through the placenta. Congenital syphilis resulted in 188 stillbirths and 23 infant deaths in 2021, according to latest CDC data, and can cause organ damage, profound fetal anemia and long-term complications for surviving babies.

Oman, Cuba and Sri Lanka are among the countries that have virtually eliminated mother-to-child transmission of syphilis in recent years, according to the World Health Organization.

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on why syphilis is rising among U.S. infants after nearly being eradicated a decade ago. This is a preventable public health scourge that experts say should not be happening in developed nations.

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The tragic, preventable reasons syphilis is surging among U.S. infants

The spike in babies born with syphilis is driven in part by the nation’s drug and homelessness crisis. The trend is especially apparent across the Sun Belt.

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