Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where apparently every woman in America now needs a permission slip, and I think mine got lost in 2022.

This week: a mom who needed the state’s permission to leave for an abortion and didn’t get it, ICE losing count of the miscarriages in its own custody, a Michigan gym class that wants a note about your daughter’s period, a cop who used a license plate camera to help a domestic violence suspect find his accuser, and Florida’s attorney general arguing that surrogacy is slavery. Let’s get into it.

On Parole? Good Luck Getting Permission to Get an Abortion

About 800,000 women in this country are on probation or parole, and four out of five live in states that restrict abortion and make them ask permission to leave. Abortion, Every Day found out what happens when the answer is no. A young mom they call Sue got six years of probation as a teenager because she was wearing her boyfriend’s hoodie and there was a weed vape in the pocket. The judge gave her the maximum, for outerwear. Years later, raising a toddler on her own, she got pregnant, knew she couldn’t continue it, and had abortion funds lined up to cover the procedure and the trip. All she needed was a permission slip. Two, actually, because she was on probation in two counties. One probation officer said yes and the other said no, so her uterus got a split decision, like a boxing match nobody paid to watch.

By then she was 18 weeks along. Her lawyers went to court, in front of the same judge who sentenced her as a teenager, who signaled yes, slept on it, and switched to no the next day. That’s a fine way to handle a lunch order and a terrible way to handle a pregnancy. The official line from anti-abortion politicians is that nobody’s stopping a woman from leaving the state. For about 650,000 women, somebody is, and he has a clipboard. Sue had the baby. Then, right as her six years were ending, the county tacked on six more because she’d missed some breathalyzer tests while raising a newborn and a toddler alone, and they put her in jail over Christmas. Season’s greetings from the party of family values.

ICE Stops Counting Miscarriages for Pregnant Women in Detention

Meanwhile, ICE locked up more pregnant women last fall and winter than at any point in the year before, and then, in an incredible coincidence, stopped counting their miscarriages. The Guardian had to sue to get the records. ICE logged 18 miscarriages in the first nine months of this administration, and then the numbers just stop on October 3rd, 2025, because ICE ended its contract with the office that handled its medical billing. So the official reason nobody knows how many women lost pregnancies in federal custody is that they switched billing vendors. DHS first told the Guardian it was tracking miscarriages in monthly reports, then admitted it has no data from October 2025 through June 2026. That’s nine months, the exact length of a pregnancy, and I can’t decide if that’s poetry or a cry for help.

One woman the Guardian calls Anabell showed up for a routine ICE check-in, got detained, and found out she was pregnant in a Kentucky jail. Two positive tests, then no ultrasound and no bloodwork. When she started bleeding, in her words, “I told them I need to see a doctor.” They got her to an emergency room the next day and shackled her to the bed, presumably in case a woman losing a pregnancy made a run for it, and an interpreter told her she was no longer pregnant. Medical experts say you usually can’t pin one miscarriage on detention. What we do know is that months later she’s still in custody, still bleeding, losing her hair, and still waiting on the follow-up care the hospital told them she needed.

Mich High School Asks for Period Permission Slips

And one high school in Michigan has a permission slip for periods. At Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores, the ninth grade gym syllabus says girls who miss swim days because of their period can make them up, but only with a written note from a parent stating how long their daughter’s period lasts. Written or email, because the district respects your time. Dear Coach, please excuse Madison from the pool, her uterus is having a week, estimated completion five to seven business days. No note, no makeup, and the missed days count against her grade. One dad says his daughter lost points under the same rule last year. According to Andy Amsdill, the dad who blew the whistle, the teacher wants “the suspected length of the cycle.” Suspected, like her period is a person of interest. He said it’s “nobody’s business but hers, her doctors, and whoever she feels like sharing that with,” and he’s looking at a Title IX complaint. I love a man who reads the syllabus.

Police Gave Flock Info to DV Abuser - It’s Probably Not Even a Crime

Wednesday I told you about the Flock license plate cameras, the ones the president says he likes. This week a national study out of Tulane and UC San Diego found 61 percent of American women have experienced intimate partner violence, and nearly one in five have faced the kind that can kill you, like strangulation, a knife, or a gun. Now meet the San Jose police officer who logged into the city’s Flock system on his personal phone, found the car of a woman who had accused his cousin of domestic violence, and sent his cousin the location. The cousin used it to track her down. The officer was fired. Nobody has been charged, and a former prosecutor told ABC7 it may not even be a crime, because the officer was technically authorized to use the database. So the only thing standing between a domestic violence victim and the man she reported is a login and a cop with a cousin. Flock sells itself as public safety, and in fairness, it kept one member of the public very well informed. The police chief said, “This technology is new; the standard is not.” Great, now do the law.

FL Judge Says Surrogacy = Slavery

And finally, Florida, where Attorney General James Uthmeier has decided surrogacy is slavery. Two married dads worked with a surrogate and asked a judge for the routine parental rights order. Judge Marlon Weiss granted it, then wrote in his order that surrogacy itself might be unconstitutional, because “if a preborn living human being is entitled to legal personhood, it goes without saying that such persons cannot be subject to contractual bartering or ownership.” Then Uthmeier’s office jumped into the case and argued, according to the family’s lawyer, that surrogacy violates the 13th Amendment. The one that abolished slavery. Florida, the state whose school standards say enslaved people developed skills that could be applied “for their personal benefit,” has finally found a form of slavery it’s against, and it’s two dads and a newborn. The baby’s been home with them since birth, and their lawyer says the state isn’t even questioning whether they’re good parents. It just wants a ruling it can use against reproductive technology. And this week Ron DeSantis promoted Judge Weiss to the very appeals court now hearing the case, which is like the guy who started the rumor getting promoted to fact-checker. According to the family’s lawyer, Uthmeier has also argued that sperm and egg donors should have parental rights and pay child support. My dude, your whole party is panicking about the birth rate, and your big plan is to sue the people helping make babies.

Speed Round

Students for Life cheered the EPA’s plan to test drinking water for abortion pills by warning about “mifepristone-poisoned feces and urine” in your tap, and these people think about women’s toilets more than plumbers do.

In Michigan, GOP lieutenant governor nominee Jay DeBoyer floated using a state constitutional convention to undo the abortion rights voters passed in 2022, asking a crowd, “If I could get that pulled off today and get it reeled back to 12 weeks, would you support me?” Reeled back, like our rights are a walleye.

And in North Carolina, an anti-abortion activist pushing to crack down on mailed abortion pills wrote that “our elected representatives have determined that women need certain medical safeguards,” from a legislature that’s about 70 percent men.

Stay angry. Stay loud. Under Her Eye.

SOURCES:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/06/18/dobbs/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/15/ice-detention-miscarriages-pregnancy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/17/michigan-school-period-policy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/physical-sexual-violence-study-us

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/13/san-jose-officer-fired-flock-camera-misuse

https://abc7news.com/post/san-jose-police-officer-fired-allegedly-sharing-flock-camera-data-suspect-domestic-violence-case-authorities-say/19825592/

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/09/14/florida-judge-marlon-weiss-surrogacy-uthmeier-ivf-abortion/

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/floridas-new-education-standards-says-slavery-had-personal-benefits

https://michiganadvance.com/2026/09/15/a-constitutional-convention-to-limit-abortion-rights-democrats-push-back-on-deboyer-suggestion/

https://www.wunc.org/politics/2024-12-02/women-representation-nc-legislature-2025

The family of a Texas woman who died begging for an abortion is suing Ken Paxton. It’s the first lawsuit in this country over a death caused by an abortion ban, and it names the attorney general who is currently running for Senate.

Her name was Tierra Walker. Thirty-seven years old, a dental assistant in San Antonio, a wife, and a mom to a kid named JJ. In 2021 she developed preeclampsia and lost twins. So when she found out she was pregnant again in September of 2024, with uncontrolled blood pressure, diabetes, and seizures nobody could explain, she knew exactly what was coming for her.

On October 14th, 2024, she asked a doctor at Methodist Hospital Northeast, “Wouldn’t you think it would be better for me to not have the baby?”

She was told there was no emergency. Nothing was wrong with the pregnancy. Only with her. She would hear a version of that for the next eleven weeks.

More than 90 doctors were involved in Tierra Walker’s care. Twenty-one of them were OB-GYNs. One of them wrote in her chart that she was at “high risk of clinical deterioration and/or death.” Not one of them offered her an abortion. That reporting is Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser at ProPublica, who told her story last November, months before a lawyer filed anything.

Her attorney Molly Duane says doctors in Texas are now scared to write the word abortion in a patient’s chart at all. That’s not squeamishness. Texas makes it a crime to aid and abet an abortion, and performing one carries up to 99 years. Ken Paxton has spent years suing doctors in other states to make sure everybody got the message. He built that fear on purpose and then acted shocked when it worked.

On December 27th, Tierra went to the ER with a blood pressure of 174 over 115. They diagnosed preeclampsia. They lowered her blood pressure and they sent her home.

Her discharge paperwork from that night says delivery may be the best treatment for preeclampsia. At 20 weeks, delivery is an abortion. They wrote the cure on the discharge papers and walked her out the door.

Three days later, on his 15th birthday, JJ opened his mom’s bedroom door and found her face down on the bed. He called 911, and the dispatcher talked him through sliding her onto the rug and starting compressions. “I need you,” he shouted. “I need you.”

The Texas Medical Board’s contribution to all this was a statement explaining that doctors are “not required to wait until a mother’s life is in immediate danger” before they act. Good to know. More than ninety of them waited anyway, and she’s dead.

And Dr. Christina Francis, who runs the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said Tierra’s death was “certainly not the fault of Texas’ abortion law,” and then said she should have been stabilized “and then delivered.” Delivered. At 20 weeks. You just prescribed the abortion. You described the exact procedure your own movement turned into a 99-year felony while insisting the law had nothing to do with anything.

Ken Paxton is 47 days from a Senate seat. He’s running against James Talarico, and right now he’s losing. If you live in Texas, that’s not a poll, that’s an assignment. Go vote.

Tierra’s aunt LaTanya was asked what she would say to him.

“Honestly,” she said. “Go to hell.”

Sources:

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-death-lawsuit-tierra-walker-ken-paxton/

https://19thnews.org/2026/09/texas-abortion-lawsuit-ken-paxton-tierra-walker/

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/16/texas-abortion-ban-lawsuit-san-antonio-tierra-walker/

Hackers ripped a Flock license plate camera off a pole, copied everything inside it, and found out it isn’t just watching your car. It’s built to spot you. Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra at 404 Media and WIRED went through the code, and this is the first real look inside the cameras going up over roads all across the country.

Here’s how it works. When anything moves, the camera fires off a burst of photos, about twenty eight for a normal car and more than a hundred for some. One camera, over about three weeks of logs, shot roughly 50,000 vehicles and 1.6 million images. And the software doesn’t only hunt license plates. It detects people, records where they are in the frame, and how sure it is that they’re human. Flock says it doesn’t do facial recognition, and the reporters didn’t find any switched on. So relax. It just knows you’re a person, where you were, and what you drive.

It’s also bad at its one job. It mistook bumper stickers and dealership frames for license plates, and in one clip it cropped out an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag as if it were a plate. The most patriotic thing on that road got processed like a suspect.

Flock has described these cameras as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers found an encryption key stored on the camera itself and used it to unlock thousands of videos. That’s locking your front door and taping the key to it. Flock’s response was that removing its camera is illegal and that “Flock takes security seriously,” which is exactly what you say right after someone proves you don’t.

My favorite part is the check-in. Every two minutes, a bit of code confirmed the camera was still alive by logging the message “Who’s a good boy?!” It logged that more than twelve thousand times. When it restarted, it signed off with “A reboot was requested! ¡Adios Amigos!” Somebody built a surveillance network and gave it the personality of a golden retriever with a badge.

Now here’s why this matters to you. In many towns, police departments all over the country can search those cameras. WIRED found cameras in Alpharetta, Georgia, open to more than 2,000 agencies, including an inspector general’s office at the federal General Services Administration, for reasons nobody can explain. 404 Media already caught local cops running searches for ICE, including in places that banned it, and a Texas cop searching Flock cameras nationwide for a woman who self-administered an abortion.

By August, at least 54 cities had already canceled or rejected Flock this year. Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, wants to cut off federal money for these cameras with a bill he actually named the Flock-Off Act. And three days before this hack came out, the President of the United States said, “I like them.”

Go follow Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra, because nobody else is reading this camera’s diary. Every two minutes, somebody checks on the camera to make sure it’s a good boy. Nobody is checking who’s searching it.

Sources:

https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/14/trump-expresses-support-flock-license-plate-surveillance-technology/

https://burlison.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-massie-burlison-introduce-legislation-defund-surveillance-state-cameras

https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-dozens-contracts-alprs-controversy-cancellation

Women are dying of ectopic pregnancies at nearly double the rate they were before Roe fell, and the climb is steepest in states that banned abortion. It’s the CDC’s own data, sitting in a federal database for years, and nobody in government said a word until ProPublica pulled it this week.

Leitaea Lowrimore spent a week bleeding through four hospitals in Oklahoma and Arkansas with a pregnancy growing in the wrong place, and a doctor told her he couldn’t take it out because it might get him, quoting her lawsuit,

“10 years in the poky.”

Ten years in the poky. That was the medical opinion. Poky. A licensed physician watched a woman bleed and reached for the word a cartoon prospector uses. Ten years in the hoosegow. Ten years in the clink. He is one gold tooth short of Yosemite Sam, and he is the man standing between her and a treatment that takes twenty minutes.

An ectopic pregnancy implants outside the uterus, usually in a fallopian tube, and grows until the tube bursts. It is never viable. The only treatment is ending it. Lowrimore finally drove to Kansas and got the injection within hours. Nothing about her body changed on that drive. Only the statute did.

She lived. Not everyone does. From 2020 to 2025, 196 women died after an ectopic pregnancy. The six years before, 106. In ban states the death rate is 13.1 per million live births. Without a ban, 7.1. An OB-GYN in Philadelphia told ProPublica a death like this “should really be a never event.” Every one preventable. That is what ending Roe bought.

Every one of these bans has an exception for ectopic pregnancy. But an early ultrasound often can’t see where the pregnancy is, so a doctor who wants certainty waits days while the tube gets closer to rupturing. In Texas, guess wrong and it’s up to 99 years in the pokey.

Kyleigh Thurman went to two Texas emergency rooms in 2023 with clear signs of an ectopic pregnancy. Both sent her home. Her tube ruptured. Regulators found one hospital never properly screened her and never called an OB-GYN, breaking federal law and its own policy. She called it “a time bomb you can’t control.” She lost the tube, and that is the good outcome. You survive and pay the bill in fertility.

Texas passed a law putting ectopic pregnancy right in the statute. Then the Texas Medical Board wrote the training course, and the only example they included is one where you can already see the pregnancy on the ultrasound. The scenario that was never the problem. Asked whether doctors need a clear image, a board spokesperson said commenting on every possible situation would be, their word, “impractical.”

Impractical. My dude, you wrote the course. The situations are the course. That is a driving instructor declining to get into what the pedals do.

The federal response has been nothing, because nobody is left to respond. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says maternal health is a priority, which is strange to say while canceling the grants and emptying the offices. The CDC division that studies this lost most of its hundred employees. The team running the country’s pregnancy monitoring system is home on paid leave. The people whose job is finding out why women are dying are being paid not to find out.

They wrote exceptions they knew nobody could use. Then they turned off the machine that counts.

SOURCE https://www.propublica.org/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-doubled-analysis

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching America bet forty billion dollars on football through prediction markets, which are legally not gambling because somebody renamed them.

This week: the president made a stadium swear an oath to cheat, ICE is coming to your polling place, the Pentagon is reading troops’ medical files to find the trans ones, Border Patrol is pulling your bank statements to decide who gets pulled over, and the Interior Department found a way to run the Park Service layoffs a judge already blocked. Let’s get into it.

I Swear to Cheat

Thursday night in Dallas, the president closed out his own midterm convention by asking a stadium full of Republicans to raise their right hands and swear an oath, not to the country, to him.

Here it is.

“I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much he can’t even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends. I’ll do it any way, I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do.”

He wrote that. He read it out loud, in pieces, slowly, so that thousands of American citizens could repeat it back to him on camera fifty-three days before a federal election. And somewhere in the middle of walking them through election fraud he stopped to describe himself as a man who loves this country so much he cannot physically breathe. My dude, that’s a cardiac event, and there is a doctor at Walter Reed who would very much like to hear about it.

Then he wrapped up with the incentive structure. “You know what happens if you don’t vote? You go to hell.” So the offer on the table is eternal damnation if you stay home and a federal charge if you show up the way he just described. Gavin Newsom had the line of the night:

“Trump just replaced the Pledge of Allegiance with a pledge of allegiance to himself.”

ICE Patrolling Polling Places?

And he’s sending help, because on September first Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed that ICE officers can walk into your polling place to serve warrants and run immigration enforcement.

Congress outlawed armed federal agents at polling places more than a hundred and fifty years ago, back when the men who fought the Civil War were still alive to explain why. Denver, a group of watchdogs and the lawyers at Democracy Forward sued over it Thursday, in a case called LULAC versus DHS.

Notice that nobody at Homeland Security is promising arrests at the polls. They don’t need arrests. They need you to walk up to the church basement, see two guys in vests, and decide today is not the day.

Pentagon Searching Service Member’s Medical Records for Sleeper Trans Troops

The Pentagon spent this week going through service members’ medical records hunting for trans troops to throw out.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense is running electronic health records for anyone with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a past diagnosis, or symptoms it has decided are “consistent with” one, and then notifying that person’s commander to start separation. Several hundred people outed in two months, according to SPARTA Pride and attorney Priya Rashid at the National Institute of Military Justice. That number includes cadets at the service academies and in ROTC. Kids.

Rashid says the search is also flagging people who aren’t trans at all, troops who happened to get a certain procedure or diagnosis while being treated for something else entirely. The database can’t tell the difference and nobody down the chain is checking.

And in May of last year a senior defense official stood at a Pentagon podium and said the department was “committed to protecting both their privacy and their medical data.” Then this August the Army issued an internal order specifically forbidding commanders from searching health records for soldiers with gender dysphoria. Excellent rule. Very principled. So the Secretary of Defense’s office does the searching itself and mails the names down the chain.

Every one of these people volunteered. They passed the physical, they raised their right hand for the actual oath, and then they went to the only doctor they have coverage for, the military’s. The file they were promised was confidential is now the evidence against them. The government is trying to hold one of these separation hearings this Tuesday.

CBP Has Your Bank Records, Giving Names to Local Cops

Border Patrol, meanwhile, has been reading Americans’ bank activity and handing the names to local cops so those cops can go find a reason to pull them over.

404 Media got the name of the units, which had never been public. Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams. PITT. Not to be confused with The Pitt, one of the greatest shows on television, I hope they clean up at the Emmys tomorrow night, but back to the Border Patrol PITT.

Kyle Olson was driving across Montana. A PITT team ran his finances. A local officer stopped him and told him his license plate was “a little bit obstructed.” That was the reason he was given. It was not the reason he was stopped. He learned that months later when the real one turned up in discovery, in a Homeland Security memo. CBP was asked what financial activity it monitors and whether it bothers getting a warrant, and declined to answer, citing operational security. We can’t be told whether it’s legal, because telling us would compromise the operation, which is the one they are running on us.

Jake Laperruque at the Center for Democracy and Technology put it plainly: “Genuine probable cause cannot be synthetically generated.”

Park Service is Restructuring, Not Laying People Off 😉

Last fall, during the forty-three day shutdown, the Interior Department tried to cut staff out of the Park Service’s regional offices, and a federal judge stopped it.

So this week the Washington Sun got hold of Interior’s draft plans from August, and the same cuts are back but with a new term. It isn’t layoffs anymore. It’s a reorganization. All four hundred and thirty-three park sites move to a “hub and spoke” model, where certain hub parks will set priorities, leadership and direction for the spoke parks that now report to them.

An Interior executive told the Sun the plan was developed “very hush hush,” which is a senior federal official describing his own government in the vocabulary of a middle schooler.

Interior is legally required to notify Congress before it reorganizes. It has been planning this since July. It has not notified Congress. And the meeting where superintendents were finally going to learn what’s happening to their own parks got postponed indefinitely, so they can read about it here with the rest of us.

The Park Service has already lost about a quarter of its permanent workforce in two years. These are the people who come get you off the mountain when you’ve made a bad call at altitude. Next summer there will be fewer of them. The crowds aren’t going to be smaller.

Speed round

Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Texas Senate candidate James Talarico and then couldn’t put it on television, because Trump’s FCC went after ABC, its affiliates and the show, over who Kimmel books as a guest. He put the interview on YouTube instead, so go watch it there. Link with my sources. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez noted this is the second time in a matter of months that a late night host has had to bury an interview.

Joe diGenova, the MAGA lawyer Trump hired to speed up the investigation of everyone who ever investigated him, quit Thursday and told the New York Post why. “If you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem.” By Friday he was telling the AP he’d been taken out of context and there was plenty of evidence, which is what it sounds like when someone remembers who signs the checks.

And the Alexander brothers, convicted this year of running a sex trafficking operation, have paid Alan Dershowitz half a million dollars to chase them a pardon. That’s the same Dershowitz who defended Jeffrey Epstein and then defended Trump at his first impeachment. Half of it went out as a retainer and the rest came on an invoice, itemized, filed, in writing, because nobody involved has any reason to think a paper trail is a risk anymore.

That’s your week in tyranny. Welcome to the golden age.

SOURCES

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6083597-trump-midterm-pledge-vote-convention/

https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/LULAC-v-DHS.pdf

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/09/pentagon-searching-medical-records-to-identify-transgender-troops/

https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/

https://washingtonsun.com/agencies/trump-quietly-plan-national-parks-run

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6084344-jodigenova-trump-investigation-resigned/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/nyregion/dershowitz-alexander-brothers-pardon.html

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where I spend my Saturdays going through the receipts on what the men running this country did to women all week.

This week, an argument to take the vote away from American women went mainstream. Texas moved its maternal death report to four weeks after the midterms. Louisiana spent Wednesday in federal court trying to end mail order abortion pills in all fifty states. And Indiana argued in front of its own Supreme Court that its religious freedom law was never meant for Jews.

Let’s get into it.

Coming for the 19th Amendment Because of…Empathy

The Federalist published a piece this month arguing that women who feel sorry for Lindsay Clancy are the best argument for repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. That’s the one that gave women the vote in 1920, after seventy two years of asking.

Lindsay Clancy killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts in January of 2023, during a postpartum psychosis, after months of going to doctors and telling them exactly what she was frightened of. Her trial ended in a mistrial this month. A lot of women responded with something like sympathy, and the American right decided the women were the problem.

Ann Coulter wrote, “I guess the Lindsay Clancy trial has put an end to that whole thing about a woman being president.”

Meghan McCain posted, “Feel like a woman becoming president has now gotten much further away from happening since the Lindsay Clancy trial.”

The Washington Examiner ran a piece saying feminism should be on trial alongside her. Jessica Valenti has been tracking this all week at Abortion, Every Day, and where it went from there is men filming themselves swearing off ever voting for a woman, people demanding that anyone who sympathizes with Clancy be committed, and thousands of comments underneath all of it that just say repeal the 19th. There is now a petition on Change.org.

The Federalist’s actual argument is that suffragists won the vote by claiming women had the same capacity for judgment as men, and that Clancy’s defenders have now disproved it. Over in The Spectator, Geoffrey Cain writes that women spent generations fighting to be treated as full moral agents, “not as creatures governed by emotion or reproductive biology.” One hung jury in Massachusetts and we’re back to creatures.

Clancy told her providers what was happening to her, over and over, and got sent home with a stack of prescriptions. Not one of these people wrote a column about that.

Speaking of things women aren’t supposed to see.

Texas Hiding Maternal Death Stats Until After the Midterms

Texas was supposed to publish its maternal mortality report on September first. It’s coming out December first instead, which is four weeks after the midterms.

This is the first report covering a full year of pregnancy deaths since Texas banned abortion. The last one the state managed to release found that roughly eight in ten pregnancy related deaths in Texas were preventable, and that was data from before the ban.

The health department says the acting commissioner asked the committee to strengthen the report by better describing its work around preventability. Which is a curious thing to need three extra months for, given that deciding what was preventable is the committee’s entire job, and given that nobody in Texas government has prevented anything.

Texas ran this identical play in 2022, pushing the same report past that November’s election.

The report already has a hole in it, because the committee voted to skip deaths from 2022 and 2023 entirely. Those are the first two years under the ban, which makes them the only two years anybody is asking about.

And Texas seated Ingrid Skop on that committee, an anti-abortion activist who has spent years arguing publicly that maternal death numbers are inflated. So the report is three months late, it skips the years that matter, and one of the people signing off on it doesn’t believe the numbers to begin with.

State Representative Ann Johnson called the delay an unconscionable dereliction of duty to Texas mothers. She’s being polite. Nobody needs ninety extra days to describe work they already finished. They need ninety days to get past November.

Louisiana Coming for Abortion Pills Nationwide

Now to Louisiana, where Attorney General Liz Murrill spent Wednesday in federal court trying to take the abortion pill away from all fifty states.

In 2023 the FDA dropped the rule requiring the abortion pill to be handed to you in person by a doctor. That’s what made telehealth possible, and it’s now how more than one in four abortions in this country happen. Murrill wants that rule put back, and she isn’t asking for it in Louisiana. She’s asking the FDA, which means everywhere.

Louisiana already bans abortion. What Louisiana cannot do is stop a doctor in California from mailing pills to Baton Rouge, because California has a shield law and Louisiana’s authority stops at the state line. So Murrill isn’t reaching into California. She’s going after the federal rule that lets that doctor mail anything to anybody. Kill the regulation and the pills stop moving in every state at once, including the states that voted to protect this. So much for states rights.

Murrill herself says more than a thousand abortions a month are happening in Louisiana right now with mailed pills. The ban is in place, Louisiana women are getting abortions anyway, and the state’s answer is to switch it off for Oregon.

The Trump administration sent a Justice Department attorney to the hearing who would not defend the FDA’s rule and would not argue against it, because the administration has its own review of the drug running. Judge Stephen Higginson told him, “I find that very unsatisfactory, that the agency won’t give an opinion as to its own regulations.”

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Murrill, and their attorney Gabriella McIntyre told The Hill that if Louisiana wins:

“We’re going to see for the first time truly what it looks like for pro-life states to actually be able to enforce their pro-life laws.”

She called that the promise of Dobbs. The promise of Dobbs was that your state would decide. She’s telling you Louisiana decides.

The FDA reports back on its review in October, a month before the election.

Indiana had a week too.

Indiana Says Religious Freedom Law Doesn’t Apply to Jews

Indiana spent Thursday arguing in front of its own Supreme Court that its religious freedom law does not apply to Jews.

In 2015 Indiana passed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by Governor Mike Pence, built so Christian business owners could turn people away. In 2022 a group called Hoosier Jews for Choice picked up that same law and aimed it at the abortion ban, because under Jewish law life begins at first breath and the mother comes first. In March a judge agreed and permanently blocked the state from enforcing the ban against them. Senator Jim Banks responded by calling for that judge to be impeached.

So the state appealed, and Indiana Solicitor General James Barta stood in front of five justices and said this.

“Our nation’s long tradition of respect for religious exercise has never been understood to encompass a right to intentionally destroy human life, any more than a right to abusively punish children.”

My dude. You are comparing Jewish women to child abusers, in a case about a law your own party wrote to protect a bakery.

Barta’s backup argument is that these women have no standing, because not one of them is pregnant and seeking an abortion at this precise moment. He called their case purely hypothetical. One of those plaintiffs is trying to get pregnant right now and is frightened of what happens if something goes wrong. Indiana’s position is that she has to be bleeding out in an emergency room before she’s allowed to have an opinion about the law.

Kenneth Falk of the ACLU of Indiana asked the justices why Indiana’s ban makes room for secular exceptions, rape and incest, but not a religious one. Indiana hasn’t answered that.

Speed Round

North Carolina flew its flags at half staff for Gloria Steinem, and the Republican mayor of Monroe told a local outlet, “I’m outraged.” Sir. They’re flags.

And a Louisiana photography studio is selling little girls a baby adoption package that comes with a hospital gown, an ID bracelet and a pretend pregnancy ultrasound. Louisiana’s abortion ban has no exception for rape or incest.

Stay angry. Stay loud. Under Her Eye.

Sources:

https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/31/lindsay-clancy-truthers-are-the-best-argument-for-repealing-the-19th-amendment/

https://anncoulter.com/2026/09/03/lindsay-clancy-democrats/

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-pregnancy-death-report-set-to-release-after-midterms/

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/release-of-2026-maternal-mortality-report-pushed-back-3-months/

https://lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/5th-circuit-abortion/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-skeptical-bid-curtail-abortion-pill-access-2026-09-09/

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/10/indiana-supreme-court-weighs-limits-of-religious-exemptions-to-abortion-ban/

https://www.jta.org/2026/09/10/united-states/a-case-pitting-indiana-jews-against-an-abortion-ban-heads-back-to-court

More Americans have now been killed by the air at Ground Zero than were killed by the planes. Nearly ten thousand of them. And they are dead because the people in charge told them it was safe to breathe when it wasn’t.

The attacks killed 2,977. Since then the Victim Compensation Fund has tied nearly 10,000 more deaths to illnesses people got from the dust, 5,892 of those cancer. About 400,000 people breathed it in. The federal health program is treating 145,275 of them right now, and that number goes up every year.

Christine Todd Whitman ran the EPA at the time. One week after the attacks she announced the air in Lower Manhattan was safe to breathe. EPA’s own inspector general later found the agency had no data to support that, and that the Bush White House went into the drafts, added reassuring lines and cut the warnings, partly because they wanted Wall Street reopened. Whitman still says she never lied.

Giuliani’s City Hall pushed the same message, and they had it in writing. Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released 170,000 pages of city 9/11 records, from 68 boxes New Yorkers had been requesting for twenty-five years and being told didn’t exist. Democratic strategist Scott Dworkin found the page, stamped NYC-WTC 000136725, a memo to Giuliani’s deputy mayor Robert Harding. City lawyers count 35,000 people who could sue and list what for. Number three, the city’s health advisories sent people back downtown too soon and poisoned them. Number four, rescue workers got broken respirators or none.

Giuliani’s lawyers wrote down that telling people the air was safe would get them sick. Then Giuliani kept telling people the air was safe.

Meanwhile the orange menace has spent twenty-five years inventing a version of that morning with himself in it, and Tuesday he outdid himself. He told a room of first responders that two firefighters grabbed him under the arms and carried him out. He’s also said he watched the second plane hit from his apartment four miles uptown and knew where it was going because he studies air patterns. So he was in Midtown watching and downtown being rescued. He says he sent hundreds of workers down there. FDNY battalion chief Richard Alles says there’d be a record, and there isn’t. And that afternoon, with people still buried alive, Trump called a radio station to mention that one of his buildings was now the tallest in Lower Manhattan. It wasn’t true. Three thousand people dying and he’s on the phone about his square footage.

Today he skipped Ground Zero, reportedly because they don’t let politicians give speeches there. Every other living president went. He took the Pentagon instead, got his podium, and an hour in Reuters photographed him with his eyes shut and his chin on his chest while Melania and Condoleezza Rice sat beside him wide awake.

Then he and Pete Hegseth used the Pentagon dead to sell the Iran war. Hegseth said our warriors are fighting a regime that cheered on 9/11, and name-checked our comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan. My dude. I deployed to Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Neither did Iran. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi. So was bin Laden. And the Saudis put two billion dollars into Jared Kushner’s fund.

And Rudy Giuliani spent this week demanding Mamdani, who is Muslim, stay away from the memorial. Rudy Giuliani. Disbarred in two jurisdictions for lying, on the hook for 148 million dollars for lying about two election workers, mayor when the city lied and said the air was fine.

Mamdani opened the boxes. Giuliani is what’s in them.

They rang a seventh bell at Ground Zero this morning, the first new one in twenty-five years. It’s for everyone the lie killed. Rudy stood there and listened to it.

SOURCES https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-12/documents/wtc_report_20030821.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/wtc/ataglance.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trumps-stories-about-his-own-9-11-response

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-eyes-close-911-ceremony/

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-09-11/9-11-commemoration-new-york-pentagon-22821057.html

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_raskin_kushner_fara.pdf

Eighty one people in Kansas have been arrested over unpaid medical bills, at the request of the OB-GYN who treated them. His name is Roger Marshall. He is a United States senator, and Kansas can vote him out in eight weeks.

His campaign calls him Doc Marshall and advertises his deep appreciation and passion for the sanctity of life. The New York Times went through Kansas court records. He and his practice sued more than seven hundred patients, garnished paychecks, froze bank accounts, and charged eighteen percent annual interest on bills as small as one hundred and one dollars.

Meischa Zimmerman owed three thousand five hundred and ninety six dollars for an emergency C-section. At eighteen percent interest it passed seven thousand before deputies came for her. She asked them quietly if they could not put the cuffs on in front of her two year old. That is the daughter the C-section delivered.

Joe Vasquez and his wife were arrested on Easter weekend in 2007 while their grandkids got ready for an egg hunt. Four thousand five hundred and sixty one dollars for her emergency hysterectomy. Two days in jail. He was on disability. She worked at a plant. Marshall’s lawyers are the ones who went to the court and asked for that warrant.

In 2004 he sued a woman for twelve hundred dollars. She wrote to the court asking not to be held liable for care, her words, “for me and my twins (who I lost).” They held her liable anyway. She buried two babies and then she paid for them. My dude, you run on the sanctity of life.

Look at what every one of these bills is for. A C-section. A hysterectomy. Twins that died. Nobody elects any of that. Forty six percent of Kansas women live in a county with no OB-GYN and nowhere to give birth, and Marshall’s hospital in Great Bend is the regional delivery room for a chunk of that map, in a county poorer than the national average. Closing that gap is the job he ran for. Instead he found the people the gap produced and sued them.

He kept collecting until 2021, five years after he went to Congress. In 2017 he helped lead the push to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The oath is do no harm. His version was find the harm, bill for it, then add eighteen percent.

His opponent, a pastor named Adam Hamilton, put it this way. “In Washington, Roger Marshall votes to strip healthcare and raise costs. In Kansas, he sued more than 700 patients who couldn’t afford the bill.”

Marshall’s spokeswoman’s answer to all of it: “Judges issue warrants, not doctors.” Right. And the gun did the shooting.

A hundred million Americans are carrying medical debt right now. You are unconscious or you are terrified, somebody hands you a bill weeks later, and in forty four states that bill can end with you in a cell. Marshall did not build that. He just ran it harder than almost anyone. Kansas deserves better. So does the rest of the country.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/roger-marshall-obgyn-doctor-debts.html

https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-nursing/about/ku-nursing-magazine/winter-2025/the-decline-of-rural-maternal-services.html

https://www.aclu.org/report/pound-flesh-criminalization-private-debt

Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s Health Department canceled sixteen grants last month, including the program trying to keep Black babies alive in the Arkansas Delta, and told the people running it the money’s going to erectile dysfunction instead.

I read that three times. NOTUS has the letters.

The Office of Minority Health killed sixteen grants worth thirty eight million dollars, more than half of what it had, and everybody was already two years in. The letters went out August twenty fifth, all basically identical, which is the care you bring when you’ve decided the outcome first.

Here’s what didn’t make the cut. Postpartum home visits. Cancer screenings. Infant and maternal death among Black families in Arkansas. Childhood obesity among Native kids. And here’s what did, quoting the letter, “reducing overmedicalization in health care by addressing the root causes of infertility.” Which they define as hormonal imbalances, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, low sperm count, low testosterone, and erectile dysfunction.

They cut cancer screenings to reduce overmedicalization, then moved the money to testosterone prescriptions.

And look, I want to be fair to erectile dysfunction. It is the best funded health problem in America. It has pills. It has generic pills. It has telehealth companies whose whole business is mailing them to you in a plain envelope. It has commercials with two bathtubs sitting outdoors on a hill for reasons no one has ever explained. The private market solved this in nineteen ninety eight. Then Kennedy looked at the one condition in this country that’s fully handled and said you know who needs a hand, the fellas.

They also called it a root cause of infertility, which is generous. It’s a delivery problem. They’re funding the truck.

The other new priority, again quoting, is programs promoting “regular physical activity and exercise.” So the federal strategy on Black maternal mortality in Arkansas is walking.

Grantees wrote back asking if there’d been a mistake. The department told groups focused on mothers and babies that their work “does not advance minority health.” Maternal and infant health does not advance minority health. That came out of Health and Human Services.

The Arkansas grant belonged to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Their spokesperson didn’t know why it got cut, but added, “it’s certainly a big issue in our state considering we’re number one in the country.” Number one. In babies and mothers dying. That’s the one they picked.

In Colorado, Illuminate Colorado used its grant to send nurses into the homes of new mothers. Its co-executive director found out from a form letter that this is no longer minority health.

Congresswoman Diana DeGette wrote the assistant secretary for health that it’s “shocking that OMH under any leadership would prioritize erectile dysfunction over the health and wellbeing of infants and new mothers.” Shocking is doing heavy lifting. Ronald Reagan created this office. They tried to kill it last year. Next year’s budget cuts what’s left by forty percent.

They said they’d fund root causes. The root cause of a baby dying in the Delta is that nobody came to the house. They defunded the person who comes to the house so a guy in Ohio can get a second opinion on a problem Pfizer fixed in nineteen ninety eight.

Sources:

https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility

Did you know, there is no constitutional right to drink water that won’t poison you. That’s not a hot take, that’s a federal appeals court ruling handed down Friday, and Sophie Hurwitz at Mother Jones is one of the only people who noticed.

Here’s what that means in practice. Your city can put lead in your water. Your city can find out about the lead. Your city can then tell you the water is fine. And when your kid comes back from the pediatrician with brain damage, you have no federal case. Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote that these deprivations, and I quote:

“While grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.”

Grievous but constitutional. Sounds like a rejected Latin motto.

This is Jackson, Mississippi. In 2015 the state health department found elevated lead and sat on it for six months while people drank it. In 2020 the EPA found “persistent and concerning violations.” Nobody fixed it. What the city did issue was boil-water notices, and here’s the part that would be funny if it weren’t load-bearing. Boiling kills bacteria. But is also concentrates lead, because the water leaves and the lead stays. The official public health guidance was to reduce the poison like a pan sauce.

A quarter of Jackson is children. Several kids of one of the plaintiffs have been diagnosed with lead poisoning, which causes permanent brain damage.

Engelhardt’s suggested remedy for permanent brain damage is to sue in state court, petition your legislature, and:

“Elect officials who will better manage the water system.”

Vote harder. Turnout is the antidote. Get out there, kids, and if you can’t read the ballot, well, we know why.

Now, how does a judge get to no right to clean water. You have to show a right is deeply rooted in the nation’s history and tradition. That is the test the Supreme Court invented in Dobbs to end abortion, and Engelhardt reaches for it six separate times. So the movement that spent fifty years building a machine to prove the framers never wrote down a right to an abortion has now handed every judge in America a machine that works on anything the framers never wrote down. And the framers never wrote down lead pipes. They were still bleeding people with leeches.

The ruling binds Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Forty million people. The Sixth Circuit went the other way on Flint, which makes a split, which means the Supreme Court can pick it up and hand the rest of us the same deal. Same Court that wrote the test. These people want us living like it’s 1791 so badly they’re taking the shots away too. Give them a few more terms and we’ll be back on leeches for real, except the leeches will be a public-private partnership.

And in case you assumed clean water was protected somewhere else, it isn’t. Nine states protect it on their own. Nine. There is no federal protection. There never was.

Same day, Trump’s EPA moved to weaken the Clean Water Act further. So one branch ruled they can poison you and lie about it, and the other spent Friday making the poisoning easier. And this is the deal now. Every state for itself. Your right to an abortion, your right to vote, your right to stay in the country, and now your right to a glass of water depend entirely on which side of a state line you were standing on when you got thirsty. Forty-one states where the only thing between your tap and your kid is a city official’s word, and a court just ruled that word does not have to be true. Pack a canteen.

Sources

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-60370-CV1.pdf

https://www.epa.gov/wotus