“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
by Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser, photography by Lexi Parra for ProPublica
November 19, 2025, 6:00 am
Tierra Walker had reached her limit. In the weeks since she’d learned she was pregnant, the 37-year-old dental assistant had been wracked by unexplained seizures and mostly confined to a hospital cot. With soaring blood pressure and diabetes, she knew she was at high risk of developing preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that could end her life.
Her mind was made up on the morning of Oct. 14, 2024: For the sake of her 14-year-old son, JJ, she needed to ask her doctor for an abortion to protect her health.
“Wouldn’t you think it would be better for me to not have the baby?” she asked a physician at Methodist Hospital Northeast near San Antonio, according to her aunt. Just a few years earlier, Walker had developed a dangerous case of preeclampsia that had led to the stillbirth of her twins.
But the doctor, her family said, told her what many other medical providers would say in the weeks that followed: There was no emergency; nothing was wrong with her pregnancy, only her health.
Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant.
Walker’s death is one of multiple cases ProPublica is investigating in which women with underlying health conditions died after they were unable to end their pregnancies.
Walker had known that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she had thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was at risk.
Dead at 37. Now, her living son has no mother.
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 9:16 AM on Wed, Nov 19, 2025:
How many women have to die? How much suffering do these bans need to cause before Republicans admit that there is no safe or moral way to legislate pregnancy?
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1991163712359547265?s=03)
ProPublica (@propublica) posted at 6:00 PM on Sat, Nov 22, 2025:
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
https://t.co/jB4mBKQi3e
(https://x.com/propublica/status/1992382626867433892?t=95XTUgQRl5V3kFs70W_XBw&s=03)
If you are only safe if you’re in a R+14 district, I will take those odds for the Democrats.
David Frum
@davidfrum
The point is not that a better-for-the-district candidate would have flipped TN-7. The point is that a godawful-for-the-district candidate seems to have cut the Republican margin by nearly 2/3. This was a pure test of Trump toxicity, and the results are flashing bright.
9:49 PM · Dec 2, 2025
https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1996064099302867290?s=20
Liz Szabo
@lizszabo.bsky.social
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
Liz Szabo, MA December 1, 2025
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/fda-official-proposes-impossible-standards-vaccine-testing-could-curtail-access
Dilan Esper (@dilanesper) posted at 5:58 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
Hegseth may not survive this. I am serious.
Part of the issue is plenty of conservatives are ex-military, and probably 95% of the military thinks you don’t shoot at people holding onto flotsam in the ocean. That makes the Right Wing BS Machine ineffective here.
(https://x.com/dilanesper/status/1996187336720462197?t=2nIbW32Q6cj3XluCSmy5XQ&s=03)
Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) posted at 8:59 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high. https://t.co/VnKBfLzmmU
(https://x.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1996051615476859099?t=84-WTHlC506LXpN_aPrjSQ&s=03)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) posted at 9:12 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
The Trump administration’s EEOC declared that the President can fire any random federal worker for any reason he wants, even ones which are plainly illegal discrimination.
That claim will be tested in court. https://t.co/iau2Jey7xh
(https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996236138504245741?t=e5yzjiCP-btGLggyXkUhAg&s=03)
Phil Ehr (@PhilEhr) posted at 0:57 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Federal law governing presidential libraries was strengthened in 2008 to require stricter financial guarantees and covenants before any project can move forward. That means the host institution is responsible for ensuring the terms protect the public interest, not private or political agendas.
https://t.co/7ytDHHDkjQ
(https://x.com/PhilEhr/status/1995930462187921646?t=w6QV-sZHepGEgfyLDJkiQQ&s=03)
Manu Raju (@mkraju) posted at 6:56 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Darrell Issa made a beeline to a nearby stairwell when I saw him today and his aide tried to shut a stairwell door on us.
He’s considering the highly unusual move of running for a House seat in Texas, even though he represents a district in CA. He does not want to talk about it. https://t.co/n3KNbNDM46
(https://x.com/mkraju/status/1996020586309365973?t=ayAllvxizIyZ79J5DLK10g&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 8:06 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
House Republicans passed a blatantly unconstitutional bill to exclude noncitizens from being counted in the census, and limit apportionment to solely citizens. If enacted, the legislation would likely buy GOP-dominated states more congressional seats.
https://t.co/pxd0oJ3IzK
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1996219388723130809?s=03)
Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) posted at 6:52 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
BREAKING: Fox News host Jessica Tarlov destroys MAGA hack Jesse Watters for trying to defend Pete Hegseth’s Caribbean “double-tap” war crime as the White House scrambles to do damage control.
This just went off like a bomb in pro-Trump living rooms across the country…
“All right, so Jessica, it takes two strikes to knock the boat down to the bottom of the ocean. How is that a war crime?” asked Watters, who habitually defends everything that this administration does.
It doesn’t matter how fascist or blatantly criminal MAGA becomes, Watters will reliably support Trump and his cronies because he has no actual principles or beliefs. He only cares about courting the MAGA base and ingratiating himself with Trump.
“Well, it’s a war crime,” said Tarlov bluntly. “And we didn’t play any Republicans, but there were plenty of them that have been talking about it, like John Yoo, who was the architect of the Bush 9-11 response, was talking about this as well, that if there are people who are shipwrecked, which is what these two survivors were—”
“Survivors?” interjected Watters.
“They survived the first strike,” said Tarlov.
“They’re terrorists Jessica, They’re not survivors,” insisted Watters.
Of course, there’s no good evidence that the victims were drug traffickers, let alone terrorists. The Trump administration is desperately pushing the “narco-trafficker” label for these victims to justify these killings. They realize on some level that assassinating alleged drug smugglers is a gross violation of the law. If they really believe that these people are trafficking narcotics, they should arrest them and try them in a court of law.
“You know… That’s how the DOD manual says that you have to do it, that you have to take them, you should send a helicopter and get them out of there, and then you try them or— ,” Tarlov continued.
“Huhuhuh what?” chuckled Watters.
“International law also says that as well,” said Tarlov. “You could play [Senator] Roger Wicker talking about it, Senator Thom Tillis, Mike Turner. These are all Republicans saying it. So the narrative that this is about the left getting all hot and bothered about another hoax is absolutely beautiful.”
“Can I just ask you one question?” said Watters.
“No, you can’t, actually,” shot back Tarlov. “You already asked me a question.”
“Please, I insist,” said Watters.
“No, I insist you stop,” said Tarlov.
Hegseth himself has dismissed the reporting that he ordered a second illegal strike to take out the survivors of a boat strike in September as “fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory.” The victims were clinging to the wreckage and Hegseth allegedly ordered them murdered in cold blood, perhaps out of a fear that they would survive and it would turn out that they weren’t drug smugglers after all.
At a Pentagon brief earlier today, Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson trotted out the administration’s scapegoat for this atrocity. She said that the decision to hit the “narco terrorist vessel” a second time was made by Admiral Frank M. Bradley. Clearly, they’re trying to insulate Hegseth from the legal consequences of his actions.
A full Congressional investigation must be launched immediately. If he violated the law, Hegseth must be removed from power, prosecuted, and incarcerated.
Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Jessica Tarlov!
https://t.co/XJjZnAJyUD
(https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1996019620961268061?t=1rnUdSWloFvJYbNvcLOvGQ&s=03)
Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) posted at 9:21 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
The federal government should enforce immigration laws, but this is different. Racist rhetoric is being used to justify targeting Somali Americans who are lawfully present in the U.S, many of them U.S. citizens.
This is unconstitutional and un-American.
https://t.co/YI1eNkARlo
(https://x.com/RWPUSA/status/1996057169368940758?t=jDTowBqS0_9v_6v0H5Q3Vg&s=03)
David Goodhue (@DavidGoodhue) posted at 9:21 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
Agents conducting immigration traffic stops in Key Largo Wednesday pulled this woman, who is wearing medical scrubs, from her car as she screamed she is a U.S. citizen. Agent cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go. By David Goodhue/Miami Herald. https://t.co/hN83QWfQfW
(https://x.com/DavidGoodhue/status/1996238435556774095?t=G4_7sK9V3DNKxv30lVpGug&s=03)
HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) posted at 7:25 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
🚨 SNAPCHAT JUST FLIPPED ON A SETTING THAT CAN TRAIN AI WITH YOUR FACE, VOICE & SAVED SNAPS – AND MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA
A viral video is exploding after a creator uncovered a hidden Snapchat setting that gives the app permission to use your face, your voice, and even your saved snaps to train their AI systems – and the craziest part?
It’s automatically turned ON.
She shows exactly where it’s buried:
Settings → Privacy & Data → Generative AI Settings → “Allow Use of Public Content”
Inside that toggle is the permission that lets Snapchat:
• scan your saved snaps
• map your facial data
• analyze your voice patterns
• store it
• and then feed it into AI training
People checking their phones are finding it enabled without ever touching it.
The reactions are full panic:
“Mine was ON. I never even saw this.”
“This should be illegal.”
“They’re training AI with kids’ faces???”
“Turning this OFF immediately.”
“No app should get to do this without permission.”
The creator even turned it off on her little brother’s account because he had no idea Snapchat could use his data this way.
Between deepfakes, AI clones, and identity scraping, users are calling this Snapchat’s “creepiest update yet.”
Is this the future of social media… or a massive privacy line being crossed?
https://t.co/BwXbSxccob
(https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1996027999137804512?t=xAmRHptY67Vo2xhMmccaVA&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 0:23 PM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
NEW: A right-wing legal group notorious for attacking voting rights filed a lawsuit against California’s Prop 50, arguing it violates the Constitution. They seek to block the voter-approved congressional map, despite overwhelming support for the measure. https://t.co/Oku6UD5F02
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1996284098407453031?t=_V3Kl6WqjOVC9rZn-jyuWA&s=03)
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) posted at 11:09 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
ICE detain active duty U.S. Navy Sailor in full uniform—refuse to accept his military ID.
“Agent said he had ‘reasonable suspicion’ to suspect he was in U.S. illegally,” said Navy Chief.
“Needs to provide other ID to prove citizenship… his military ID is not sufficient.” https://t.co/sTvZwoJ3Xr
(https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1996265537857364131?t=JYN_M10AFsH9CC_YTq0lpw&s=03)
The shooter was from Afghanistan.
WTF do the Somalians have to do with this?
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:52 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage?
McLAUGHLIN: We’re really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
https://t.co/Tyce74f3yU
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996246136445599966?t=Obra4QtOJQw8qH12BfsUyQ&s=03)
Cannot repeat this enough…
To the Rest of the Higher Up Military Brass…
1. THEY WILL DESTROY YOUR CAREER WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT AS THEY THROW YOU UNDER THE BUS
2. THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T FOLLOW ILLEGAL ORDERS
Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1) posted at 11:54 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Unconfirmed sources linked to Admiral Bradley say the only reason he gave the order to strike the boat a second time was because those orders came from the President himself & apparently there’s proof of it! 🤬 https://t.co/Jmgm1iZg4C
(https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/1996095681627320354?t=H0TmyDoPfUrF8EZxLh391A&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 3:49 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
NEW: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon recently suggested on a podcast that the president should send in the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving prison time for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, from state prison. https://t.co/PCY2dAA3Sv
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1995973563476537630?t=w-Q_sNwr9CrrPhertHl-3w&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 9:28 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
⚖️TODAY’S DOCKET⚖️
A federal court will hear a pro-voting lawsuit challenging a Georgia law. The plaintiffs warn it could give private citizens the power to target the eligibility of other voters using unvetted and unreliable documentation.
https://t.co/YT6XqApaag
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1996240008060051488?t=9lGcsLMrKmvc43hUhsh2oA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 8:43 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH
“Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.” https://t.co/F5yQ2bb16x
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996047586617425982?t=HQAmKOabP0pLNwbQtd6UaA&s=03)
ProPublica (@propublica) posted at 10:00 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent “we come in peace” when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
https://t.co/0EJgMSSvC1
(https://x.com/propublica/status/1996066906558603471?t=VQyzW_l_nsAHbdM36eQGXQ&s=03)
Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) posted at 6:44 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
JUST IN! The FBI is so demoralized that agents won’t even apply for the Assistant Director job in the Criminal Division, the “Bureau’s crown jewel.”
The internal application process just closed with ZERO (0) applicants for the job.
Unheard of!
https://t.co/3GPyRm3qKd
(https://x.com/KyleSeraphin/status/1996017650221158588?t=1wNM3Cv3IddjMd9aUWUddg&s=03)
Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) posted at 1:26 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
🦔Northwestern and University of Chicago researchers found that once homeownership looks impossible, behavior shifts dramatically. The share of millennial renters with zero down payment savings jumped to 67% in 2023 from 48% in 2018. Among renters with net worth under $300,000, those admitting to low work effort is 4-6%, twice the rate of homeowners. The median house price was 5.81 times median household income in 2022, up from 4.52 in 2010 and 3.57 in 1984.
The Behavior Shift
The researchers found hope of homeownership affects how people work, consume, and invest. When that hope fades, people stop saving for down payments, demand more work-life balance, and pursue high-risk investments like crypto as a last resort. Renters with low ownership odds “effectively live hand-to-mouth with negligible asset accumulation.” That behavior carries over: children of parents who lost hope are more likely to give up too.
My Take
This explains doom spending, quiet quitting, and crypto gambling. They’re not random trends, they’re rational responses when homeownership becomes mathematically impossible. The median home is $439,701 against median income of $83,730. Investors are buying a third of all homes. People do the math and stop trying. Why save for a down payment you’ll never reach? Why work harder when it won’t matter? Why not gamble on crypto when the traditional path is blocked? The researchers found by age 40, most renters have decided whether they have a shot at ownership. An entire generation is hitting that age and deciding no. When hope disappears, behavior changes, which makes ownership even less attainable. The children of renters who gave up are more likely to give up too. This isn’t just a housing crisis, it’s a generational wealth trap that feeds on itself.
Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/1oKRmqouXY
(https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/1995937512179859867?t=K-nkP0e93Ia3Cjg69VCLjw&s=03)
ABC News (@ABC) posted at 7:13 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
The family of the Colombian fisherman who was killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him.
https://t.co/3rSAkAmhN5 https://t.co/E01t8zFu2s
(https://x.com/ABC/status/1996025073707175996?t=U8boKef59AeavhXzsorNPw&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 7:44 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Paul: Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. And then the next day, from the podium at the white house, they’re saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he’s incompetent https://t.co/YnVZvKE5Kq
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1996032714164891715?t=_WgyAKa8u6qLPoj8oSPESQ&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 8:30 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
JUST IN: Judge Howell bars the Trump administration from making warrantless immigration arrests in D.C. without probable cause that a target is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.
https://t.co/gAQU3wWYN8
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1996044285851074708?t=pdS5ZBG59nAbGvQ4U6MZVQ&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 8:30 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
She notes that senior officials like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino made erroneous claims about the standard required for making warrantless arrests — only for DOJ to say it’s OK because those officials aren’t lawyers who understand the nuances. https://t.co/gAQU3wWqXA https://t.co/IphtLfUlSN
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1996044287276921017?t=ncQ72Lj9zDmT15k4V9zArw&s=03)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) posted at 8:59 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
🚨Immigration officers have no legal authority to arrest immigrants without determining that the person is “likely to escape” before an administrative warrant can be obtained. Yet agents routinely violate that rule. Now a federal judge just blocked that practice in DC. https://t.co/vKdgUHRtCs
(https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996051515006747078?t=fOxv1W_6AZL9ltLgOzyipw&s=03)
Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) posted at 6:13 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
This is the most blatant electoral fraud I have seen in my life:
Members of Honduras’ National Electoral Council (CNE) published videos and publicly exposed how the results transmission system is taking votes from candidates and giving them to others.
Right-wing candidates are stealing votes. This comes while the US government is openly meddling in Honduras’ election. Trump campaigned for right-wing, drug cartel-linked, oligarch candidate Tito Asfura, and Trump threatened to punish Honduras if he is not “elected” as president.
Weeks before the election, Honduras’ left-wing ruling Libre Party published leaked audio recordings exposing how right-wing US-backed groups aimed to steal the election by hacking the results transmission system. It looks like that is exactly what has happened.
(https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1996009976989700423?t=mgW3M11HlF7TFfLrNhi8Fg&s=03)
MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) posted at 10:48 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
NEWS: Democrat Mary Robichaux has defeated Republican incumbent Kurt Wilson in a runoff election to become the next Mayor of Roswell, Georgia. A major upset and another sign of shifting suburban politics in the South. https://t.co/2owmJvwqej
(https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1996078973584113940?t=tU5eZ6Zs9RgRyB1O9DZ1-w&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 5:53 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
NEW: Indiana Republicans are trying to make sure no judge can stop their new gerrymander, adding provisions in their bill to ban temporary blocks, bypass lower courts and force every challenge straight to the conservative-majority state Supreme Court.
https://t.co/fdRX8IEvxu
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1996004878850650483?t=iw4QF0T1v8HGjIgFqYwe4w&s=03)
CathyNotToday2 🌿 (@Cathy2NotToday) posted at 3:27 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
JUST AIRED
Maddow nailed it
They wanted to use the Aliens Act to deport people but then realized we needed a war to legitimately do that
So …. Declare war on Venezuela and illegally bomb boats ( most of which weren’t even pointed at the US) and on top of that violate DOD rules of war by murdering survivors of a shipwreck caused by our own attack
AND putting good people like Gen Bradley and his subordinates ultimately in the position of being tried for war crimes /murder
SHAMEFUL on so many levels
https://t.co/wDT09lGGau
(https://x.com/Cathy2NotToday/status/1995968066895663488?t=x656QfzpDj38PkfotSUfQw&s=03)
Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) posted at 6:16 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Illinois state officials have given national rental car companies official notice that ICE agents using their vehicles are not allowed to swap the rental’s assigned license plates for other plates to disguise the vehicles, and if they do, the rental car companies could be held liable .
https://t.co/YkxXy8ylQC
(https://x.com/yashar/status/1996010527911543161?t=i4KSOnowNOaJmWlckbtKqw&s=03)
Visioner (@visionergeo) posted at 0:32 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to Western media information, Steve Vitkov and Trump’s family, Jared Kushner, canceled today in Brussels the planned meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, because they gave Putin a condition that after the talks held in Moscow yesterday, they would directly go to Washington .
https://t.co/qPYtA5NiG4
(https://x.com/visionergeo/status/1996105195919437883?t=gTNUJnpNfHWXJwgRrLSduA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 6:51 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Homan threatens to arrest Mpls police chief Brian O’Hara for expressing concern about ICE tactics: “Bottom line is when ICE or Border Patrol shows up, they’ll have gear on, & they may be wearing a mask to protect from doxxing themselves and their children … he ought to put his badge in the dust drawer and walk away”
https://t.co/tt0IYtCQBA
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996019341867786541?t=Ps3_8KjQ8nUe1-eyf0VB0w&s=03)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) posted at 9:56 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
The people running the Bovino account are lying yet again. The 19-year-old college student deported on her way home was not a criminal. She was brought here as a child at age six. She had no criminal record. As Judge Howell emphasized tonight, being removable is not a crime. https://t.co/maxeGgRz8B
(https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996066063944220732?t=OduR_UJ9piFjVLoJ5iqROQ&s=03)
Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) posted at 3:24 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Scoop: After “multiple reports of federal ICE agents illegally swapping out the license plates,” on rental cars, Illinois Secretary of State sent ICE a cease and desist letter, and warned rental car agencies they could be held liable for the activity.
https://t.co/EOuucHH5HY
(https://x.com/natashakorecki/status/1995967283869745358?t=rKxTXvpKsNmCBsukBGc0wA&s=03)
Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) posted at 3:24 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
The secretary of state’s office received more than 600 complaints since they launched a tip line on the practice, leading to the revocation of one license plate so far.
(https://x.com/natashakorecki/status/1995967285874532592?t=Ijnc6fEOoCiDsWZMK0q6dg&s=03)
Doctor (@DipshikhaGhosh) posted at 11:26 AM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Menopause being ignored entirely. Almost no research, no treatment options, barely trained doctors. Women are told to “just deal with it”.
If menopause happened to men and as a result of it men experienced a drastic reduction in metabolism, muscle loss acceleration, severely dropping bone density, increase in insulin resistance, sudden increased risk of cardiovascular events, depression and mood instability rise, cognitive issues, sleep disruption, etc, we would have had multiple modalities of management and support systems by now.
Menopause makes women invisible overnight. Everything chances and nobody prepares women beforehand or supports us. Women remain unheard, overlooked, dismissed and undervalued.
(https://x.com/DipshikhaGhosh/status/1995907475388940336?t=5q7CQ1j5WeFYUbC1PMjJDw&s=03)
CathyNotToday2 🌿 (@Cathy2NotToday) posted at 6:01 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
👀👀👀Oh. My …. This was just aired on CBS
Not only are the TAXPAYER FUNDED Florida charter school scams exposed, so is the corrupt wife of Byron Donalds who is running for Governor ( fun fact, Byron “forgot” to add his wife’s massive charter school profits on his disclosure form)
Republicans have systematically destroyed public schools in favor of unaccountable charter schoolshttps://t.co/PFJ2ieV4LD
(https://x.com/Cathy2NotToday/status/1996006812437316019?t=5B5036ff_y_sZbWMXXAbXg&s=03)
CathyNotToday2 🌿 (@Cathy2NotToday) posted at 7:50 AM on Tue, Nov 19, 2024:
sound the clarion-Erika Donalds.
“As an adv bc member for the right-wing group Moms for Liberty and Heritage Found fellow, she hasn’t been shy about her mission to upend public ed in favor of charter schools —taxpayer-funded but privately owned”
Hillsdale inspired curricula https://t.co/8oMUmwIrHz
(https://x.com/Cathy2NotToday/status/1858870447120486498?t=dpbiJWyYUegf6oMXTSxzzg&s=03)
Jose Olivares (@jlosc9) posted at 0:26 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
NEW INVESTIGATION🚨 As the Trump administration escalates its immigration enforcement operations, the federal watchdog system at DHS overseeing civil rights violations has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to “abuse people with impunity,” experts warn.
I spoke with five recently dismissed DHS civil rights officials. The already limited oversight practiced within the DHS prior to Jan 2025 now appears almost nonexistent.
Recent figures show *only nine people total* are employed at the civil rights office — down from 150.
Before they were dismissed, civil rights officials were investigating grave allegations of civil rights abuses. Among the cases were the following allegations:
🔴Border Patrol agents in Arizona forcibly injected a man with ketamine to sedate him in 2023.
🔴Guards at a privately owned Louisiana detention center in 2024 pepper sprayed around 200 detained immigrants then locked them in the unit and cut the power and water for hours.
🔴In a Florida jail, a 33-year-old immigrant woman with mental health problems was forcibly stripped naked, strapped to a restraint chair and mocked by male guards.
My latest for The Guardian:
(https://x.com/jlosc9/status/1995922662263017867?t=SHzTWTcVMnrqzqTXOhrlNQ&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 6:56 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
BREAKING: The DOJ sued six more states to force them to hand over unredacted voter rolls with the information of millions of voters.
Fourteen states have now been sued by the DOJ over their voter rolls. No case has yet succeeded.
https://t.co/35szevYkO9
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1996020657155449051?t=Csy7os0NJS4rJDD-s-_BhA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 7:24 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: “A big miss on the ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in November. That’s the fourth negative number in the past six months. The estimate was for plus 40,000, so the street was off on this one … small business getting hammered and there is some information that some of this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs.”
https://t.co/KaQw8P36K8
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996208803394506838?t=apRQbuO4mz7_uRFxoPpx9w&s=03)
Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) posted at 5:05 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
New: The Texas Comptroller’s office announced Tuesday it is removing women- and minority-owned businesses from the state program intended to give additional exposure to businesses owned by economically disadvantaged groups. https://t.co/xAZpoXrc3B
(https://x.com/TexasTribune/status/1995992863272755297?t=iROeU6EteirYKJ3I4in_Vg&s=03)
Jack Camber (@ducdeparma) posted at 8:59 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
what is interesting is how they did it. looks like the gop is scrapping the principle of separation of powers and is attempting to change legislation from the executive branch. if this is a truly popular action, why not call a special session and put it to a vote?
(https://x.com/ducdeparma/status/1996051565975928972?t=KhGrA55xPLVjME1YayvDHg&s=03)
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) posted at 2:33 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PARADOX NO ONE IS DISCUSSING
A sitting American President just claimed authority to declare his predecessor mentally unfit and void 4,245 acts of clemency.
No court ruling.
No Federal Register filing.
No legal mechanism.
Just a Truth Social post.
The facts that should terrify every American:
Trump’s November 28 declaration claims 92% of Biden documents are “terminated.” His December 2 escalation explicitly targets pardons and commutations, warning recipients their clemency is “of no legal effect.”
Yet his own Department of Justice ruled in 2005 that presidents “need not personally perform the physical act of affixing a signature” and may direct subordinates to use autopen.
Stanford constitutional scholars confirm the Constitution does not require pardons to be written at all.
Zero autopen signatures have been invalidated in 222 years of American history.
And here is where it fractures: Two weeks before declaring Biden’s autopen signatures void, forensic document experts confirmed to the Associated Press that Trump’s own November 7 pardons bore identical mechanically reproduced signatures. The DOJ quietly replaced them, calling it a “technical error.”
The Pardon Attorney admits in writing there exists “no mechanism or precedent to reverse a pardon issued by a past president.”
This is not law. This is information warfare dressed as constitutional remedy.
The strategy requires no legal success. By creating uncertainty around 80 pardons and 4,165 commutations, it forces Fauci, Milley, and the January 6 Committee to live under perpetual legal threat while litigating the past rather than contesting the future.
What you are witnessing is the attempted retroactive decoupling of the state from the acts of the state.
The question is no longer about signatures.
It is whether executive power now extends backward through time itself.
https://t.co/4cCtRLNbcO
(https://x.com/shanaka86/status/1996135678154097128?t=02AYZkgtVtTtzpo4BNjqbw&s=03)
Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) posted at 6:43 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
A classified final version of the Pentagon inspector general’s report into Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss sensitive military operations has been delivered to the House and Senate Armed Services committees for review, and a declassified, redacted version is set to be released
(https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1996017468305813681?t=l-ZbyCyw8ZZeYIUnoQNWvA&s=03)
Deeqa 🇸🇴 (@Deee_luul) posted at 6:28 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
ICE agents are now trying to intimidate and deport Somali American citizens, and they literally ran off the moment journalists arrived.
What a mess, all to cover up the failures of the Trump administration.
Trump’s team is using Somalis as a scapegoat to distract from the pressure they’re under to release ALL the Epstein files and so many other issues the American public actually cares about.https://t.co/D2C8SAwew2
(https://x.com/Deee_luul/status/1996013658543886656?t=NIiTDTgfgrLsDu5Ty-76mQ&s=03)
James Blunt (@JBlunt1018) posted at 9:58 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
USCIS just dropped the memo we have all been waiting for and this one is the most aggressive yet and goes a bit further.
Here’s what it actually does (in plain English):
1. Full asylum freeze — for EVERYONE.
Not just high-risk countries.
Not just certain categories.
ALL I-589 asylum cases are paused nationwide.
“Place a hold on all Forms I-589… regardless of nationality.”
2. All pending applications from 19 countries are frozen.
This includes:
Green cards (I-485)
ROC (I-751)
Green card replacement (I-90)
Parole/travel docs (I-131)
N-470, etc.
If you are from one of the 19 listed countries, everything stops until DHS completes “security checks.”
3. Mandatory interviews for all.
No waivers.
Every single case must be interviewed even if normally exempt.
4. Retroactive re-review of previously approved cases.
Anyone from these countries who entered the U.S. since Jan 20, 2021 may be re-investigated.
This includes:
People with green cards
People with EADs
People who already passed interviews
Travel documents
Even some naturalization applicants
5. DHS may expand the dragnet even further.
The memo says they may extend re-review to people who entered before 2021.
This is the broadest operational immigration freeze USCIS has issued in decades.
https://t.co/2rHUfxZ2v9
(https://x.com/JBlunt1018/status/1996066375278673927?t=zNFo8_9_KYm7ZBnUWXKLHA&s=03)
Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) posted at 3:10 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
As ICE is deporting, a quirk of the law continues to place unaccompanied alien children into the U.S. asylum system — the very “catch-and-release” phenomenon that caused the border crisis.
There’s an opportunity NOW for Congress to close the loophole in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) that continues to enable the cartel smuggling, abuse and exploitation of children.
This unintended consequence of sloppy legislation is absurd, and it causes real harm to tens of thousands of real children every year. Now is the time to fix it.
@SenatorWicker @RepMikeRogersAL @SASCGOP @HASCRepublicans @SenRickScott @SenAshleyMoody @RepBrianMast @LanceGooden @CaptClayHiggins @MarioDB @chiproytx @BensmanTodd @USCISJoe @JessicaV_CIS @I_A_Project @ali_hopper @lora_ries
https://t.co/aqHj6oJ6vx
(https://x.com/KimWexlerMAJD/status/1995963815620391354?t=DwHi9TXAVkqgZ6RzgBWO1g&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 6:26 AM on Wed, Dec 03, 2025:
A Black mayor-elect in Newbern, AL was locked out of town hall by white officials who resisted his win — in 2020. He sued and won using the same VRA protection SCOTUS is poised to strike down, risking a return to a darker era for minority voters.
https://t.co/piifwdwEsd
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1996194206168092799?t=e6K71GUubJn5c1L2jjR5Lw&s=03)
CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) posted at 6:07 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
A CBS News Investigation looks at the rise of taxpayer-funded charter schools offering a “classical” education. Touting a more traditional curriculum, the schools are often pitched as a conservative alternative to regular public schools. But they also tend to operate with less oversight.
Parents in Fort Myers, Florida told us they were left scrambling when the Optima Classical Academy failed to open. Meanwhile, a CBS News review of tax filings between 2020 and 2023 shows other Optima-run schools spent millions on outside firms with ties to its CEO, Erika Donalds, a leading school choice advocate and wife of Congressman Byron Donalds.
In a statement, Donalds’ spokesperson said she is “an accomplished businesswoman with a strong record of starting successful charter schools and providing thousands of students with an excellent education.” cbsn.ws/49S4nb9
https://t.co/BBp3TRkkk1
(https://x.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1996008391810932911?t=-jndSru1o4ber20bxxtYpg&s=03)
Nick (@MrRockMan2001) posted at 10:13 PM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
The real story is Byron Donald’s wife. Not the charter schools in general. Just because his wife got hold of one and corrupted it doesn’t mean charter schools are bad. They’re far better than public schools
(https://x.com/MrRockMan2001/status/1996070346206970253?t=nQ71xvcWdkTiqmAsUjbtwA&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 11:55 AM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you. https://t.co/FSXcYYczCl
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1995914819476881679?t=EzR3f0diAW_H56wHybVkbA&s=03)
Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) posted at 1:45 AM on Sat, Nov 22, 2025:
Russia has burned through 70 years of stockpiled military gear – it’s gone.
And some still don’t understand that Putin’s only path to victory now requires US assistance.
(https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1992137415079915928?t=VE7sF8sZxEFYjMq9THCTcg&s=03)
Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) posted at 2:29 AM on Sun, Nov 23, 2025:
Notice how there’s no pro-Ukraine accounts revealed to be from troll farms in Africa, Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh Thailand or India?
It’s almost like Russia has completely taken over this platform, as we’ve been saying for years.
(https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1992510688728891413?t=Qs7NHG1GAllVt023QIsadg&s=03)
Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) posted at 11:08 AM on Tue, Dec 02, 2025:
Americans thought Trump would just loot the country. Now they find that its going to be a catastrophe, selling the entire post WW2 security architecture that kept the from teoeating WW2, all in exchange for cash and power.
Some still wonder why Putin built an entire multi-billion dollar propaganda machine to get him into power.
(https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1995902908789903548?t=PrRX1ozrbkS6hXowPbfgYQ&s=03)
David Pepper (@DavidPepper) posted at 9:36 PM on Mon, Dec 01, 2025:
Vivek thinks extending school day to 4 pm will eliminate child care costs for Ohio families.
He says Ohioans and Americans are lazy and strive for mediocrity.
He wants to end property taxes and income taxes, while at the same time make school year round.
His latest video was so bad, his own supporters thought it was an AI deepfake?!!
https://t.co/rl0yyzJm8N
(https://x.com/DavidPepper/status/1995698520431411712?t=pkrdhJQtCeDNVApo0dAKdw&s=03)
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: Turning Point USA is quietly imploding.
A TPUSA staffer is now accused of sexual harassment, kidnapping a 14-year-old, and weaponizing local police and the court filings are explosive.
I just published the full breakdown.
Inside the lawsuit, the receipts, and the rot inside Charlie Kirk’s empire:
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1995793401099194791?s=20
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
NBC News: At least 11 Indiana Republicans have been targeted with threats or swatting incidents amid Trump’s gerrymandering pressure campaign in the state.
8:50 AM · Dec 2, 2025
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1995868111040561407?s=20
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
ANOTHER threat against an Indiana Republican who opposes redistricting
Sen. Mike Bohacek says his family received “threats of a bomb placed at our home”
8:04 AM · Dec 2, 2025
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1995856659688947963?s=20
It is a shame that they are trying to throw that Admiral under the bus about those War Crime.boat killings..WHEN WE ALL KNOW IT WAS THE UNQUALIFIED DEI YT MEDIOCRE FOX HOST MASQUERADING AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WHO DID IT.
but, I hope the rest of Military Brass is watching.
1. THEY WILL DESTROY YOUR CAREER WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT
2. THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T FOLLOW ILLEGAL ORDERS 😡
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Basically Trump’s defense on the double strike boat murder is that it didn’t happen, but if it did it was all Hegseth.
6:58 PM · Nov 30, 2025
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1995296435773079814?s=20
Trump Tracker
@trackingdonald
Interesting cause and effect here…
10 States with the lowest life expectancies and who they voted for in 2024.
🔴 Mississippi – 70.9 years – 57.8% Trump
🔴 W. Virginia – 71.0 years – 68.8% Trump
🔴 Alabama – 72.0 years – 62.6% Trump
🔴 Louisiana – 72.2 years – 60.6% Trump
🔴 Kentucky – 72.3 years – 64.7% Trump
🔴 Tennessee – 72.4 years – 62.1% Trump
🔴 Arkansas – 72.5 years – 64.0% Trump
🔴 Oklahoma – 72.7 years – 61.8% Trump
🔴 S. Carolina – 73.5 years – 54.9% Trump
🔴 Indiana – 73.5 years – 59.3% Trump
10 States with the highest life expectancies and who they voted for in 2024.
🔵 Hawaii – 79.9 years – 60.7% Harris
🔵 Ma. – 79.6 years – 61.8% Harris
🔵 Connecticut – 79.2 years – 56.1% Harris
🔵 New Jersey – 79.0 years – 51.7% Harris
🔵 New York – 79.0 years – 55.5% Harris
🔵 Minnesota – 78.8 years – 51.2% Harris
🔵 NH – 78.5 years – 50.4% Harris
🔵 Rhode Island – 78.5 years – 57.9% Harris
🔵 Vermont – 78.4 years – 64.5% Harris
🔵 California – 78.3 years – 58.5% Harris
https://x.com/trackingdonald/status/1995225873767690523?s=20
Unpopular And Under Pressure — Has Trump’s Autocratic Offensive Stalled?
Donald Trump’s attempt to transform the country has hit a serious roadblock as he faces rising disapproval numbers, growing opposition and a fracturing coalition.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-autocratic-offensive-setbacks_n_6927659be4b00aca68d41014
I believe this to the bottom of my soul…
Black people resting is what has put the sand in the gears of their plans.
They hinged everything on being able to stoke the anti-Black fires and use us as the reason for enacting Martial Law.
US RESTING has deprived him and the MSM who was more than willing to go along with him perpetuating that WE were a violent mob that needed to put down.
There is a poster on TikTok who has this saying.
”Black people are not a monolith…but, sometimes, were do monolithic shyt.”
I’m still sort of spooked by the fact that Black people, by the time, the sun had risen on November 6th..
Without any meetings..
Without any discussions..
Without any back and forth..
Had come to the conclusion that WE needed to REST.
You can’t convince me otherwise that this wasn’t the Ancestors telling us what to do. I can’t explain it otherwise. There’s no other explanation. It went against CENTURIES of our natural inclination towards activism.
Look at this bullshyt with the National Guard shootings last week. The BEST patsy that they could come up with was someone who WAS CIA VERIFIED AND VETTED?
There’s one born EVERY MINUTE.
Jon Cooper 🇺🇸
@joncoopertweets
Any sucker who invested $12,500 in Melania Trump’s memecoin scheme at its peak now has a measly $118 left. Buh-bye life savings!!
I’m sorry, but I don’t feel bad for these losers. Maybe now they’ll finally realize that ALL the Trumps are scamming grifters.
https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1995500181140488571?s=20
RIP
soultracks
@soultrackscom
We are devastated to pass on the news of the passing of Chubby Tavares, lead singer of the legendary group Tavares — the first act we ever profiled on SoulTracks. Rest in Peace, Chubby https://zurl.co/0Fzxe
https://x.com/soultrackscom/status/1995218333898023192?s=20
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer Alina Habba in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor were illegal and she is disqualified, a federal appeals court said Monday.
A panel of judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in Philadelphia sided with a lower court judge’s ruling after hearing oral arguments at which Habba herself was present on Oct. 20.
RIP, Ms. Walker🙏🏽😪
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊