Jennifer Block

Journalist. Author of PUSHED and EVERYTHING BELOW THE WAIST. Recent words @BMJ_latest @Romper @GlobeIdeas @theFP. Mentor @theopedproject. Pro-information.

[Jennifer Block @writingblock]

NEW DOC SHORT out. The fight over puberty blockers, hormones, etc. is often framed as inseparable from politics, but we show here why a broad coalition--yes, including lefties--is raising concerns or even supporting restrictions. https://t.co/OVgzeLpCWV YouTube link below.

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

📰A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions (under age 23) did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have had a negative impact. Link ⬇️ /1

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

Ace reporting as always by @writingblock, about how hospitals have robbed women of even the option of delivering vaginally in the case of a breech baby, thus robbing them of providing comprehensive informed consent.
https://t.co/jCGcYYkJgO

[Dennis Goris | Cartoons @DennisGoris]

Good night. #washingtonpost

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

It’s been three years since ‘Time to Think’ was published, so I haven’t read a review in a while. However, these reflections posted yesterday really got to me, especially in the current climate. Whoever posted has, I think, captured the essence of the book. Thank you

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

@megynkelly @TheFP @meghan_daum @JulieRei This is a remarkable find by @byrne_a: Dr. Loren Schecter, president elect of WPATH and head of gender-affirming surgery at Rush Univ, appears to have done a 180 on whether gender-transition surgeries prevent suicide: https://t.co/GMiPr5sIl8

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Matt Walsh and these other right-wing empty men who think they're avatars of über-masculinity particularly hate Alex Pretti because he exemplified the virtues they love to extol but are too cowardly to actually embody.

They cosplay as trad men by dressing up in campy plaid shirts and sitting in podcast studios with a log cabin aesthetic.

Alex Pretti went to the street to fight for causes he believed in, protected and helped others in both how he protested (he was helping two women when ICE grabbed him) and in his work as an ICU nurse. He lived the values they pretend defines them, all while they lack the courage to ever do or risk anything. He's a reminder to them of what they're not: a mirror showing their own fragility.

That's why they feel vicariously strong watching ICE agents shoot him in the back and killed him.

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

My mom was stopped and harassed by masked ICE agents while shopping at an outlet mall in Texas. Because she has an accent, they assumed she spoke Spanish and started talking to her in Spanish. When she said she doesn’t speak Spanish, they began demanding where she was “from,” rapidly listing countries without even giving her a chance to respond.

My mom told them she’s been in this country longer than some of them have been alive. She was only allowed to leave after showing a photo of her U.S. passport on her phone.

She is a U.S. citizen. She has lived in this country for 47 years. If you think this is just about “sending criminals back,” you are dead wrong.

[Anthony LaMesa @ajlamesa]

ICE agents in Minneapolis threaten to smash the windows and forcibly remove the occupants of a vehicle carrying Italian journalists.

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Full ACLU report is here: https://t.co/Jdrb4zFUaw

[Jennifer Block @writingblock]

@tilleymylily @annbauerwriter Are you reading the news? This is not immigration enforcement. It’s indiscriminate, it’s endangering children, and it’s not civilized governance of a free society. BTW citizens have been harmed, killed for exercising their rights to document and protest. https://t.co/Ig66yDIaGS

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

I hope the vast majority of freedom-loving Americans are uncomfortable with the idea that masked police are now telling people engaged in First Amendment-protected activity that they are "domestic terrorists" who will be added to a secret government database.

[Jennifer Block @writingblock]

@annbauerwriter Really difficult for me to see how this is hazy. And baffling how people who saw authoritarianism during covid are having a hard time seeing it now.

[Kyle Potter @kpottermn]

On Instagram, Minneapolis journalist and anchor Jana Shortal of @kare11 - clearly wearing a press credentials - says she was pepper sprayed and punched in the eye by federal agents while trying to capture the aftermath of today’s fatal shooting.

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

It’s the first day. We will learn more.

A NYT analysis of video offers an initial sequence.

A citizen holding a phone is put on the ground.

His weapon is found and taken.

Only afterward is he shot, again and again and again.

Agents block police from the crime scene.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

A judge has unsealed the memo ordering the detention & deportation of Rümeysa Öztürk. It confirms the sole evidence against her was that she co-wrote an op-ed the government disliked.

Here she is being arrested by men in plainclothes. Over an op-ed.

[Rachel Manuel Bruns @rachelbruns]

Excellent article by @writingblock "The appeal of 'free births' without doctors or midwives" provides important perspective missing from @guardian #BirthKeepers scam series on why families turn to unassisted birth in failing health system https://t.co/nBqMBrJwC2 via @BostonGlobe

[Anthony LaMesa @ajlamesa]

Horrible.

She was brought to the U.S. from Honduras as an 8-year-old child.

DHS is out of control.

[Jennifer Block @writingblock]

@DanWuori Never stop posting these!