Angela Vasquez-Giroux 💅🏼

Some big news for me via @playbookdc: I’m thrilled to share that I’m headed back to Planned Parenthood 💞 I could not be more honored or more excited to join this team, or more ready to continue this fight.

Apparently the NYT is about to publish a story that suggests Planned Parenthood might stop providing abortions in order to preserve federal funding. President Alexis McGill Johnson says that’s never going to happen and “any claims to the contrary are an outright lie.”

So we're going to see lots of hyperbolic language coming from the Louisiana prosecutor. I'll have more soon, but consider this your regular reminder to support abortion providers and funds.

The initial reporting relayed what Paxton claimed: that the woman who took the medication had some major medical complication. In truth, she had just gone to the ER because she was concerned about bleeding - according to the brief, she wasn't treated

Please remember that when you're reading articles about this indictment that right now the only info is what comes from the prosecutor - and you can't trust what they say. Remember what happened when Texas AG Ken Paxton sued a NY abortion provider?

A Louisiana grand jury has indicted a New York doctor who shipped abortion medication to a patient in there. I'll have more at the newsletter shortly, but don't want to link to the coverage so far because I'm concerned about misinfo. More coming.

White people voting because eggs are too expensive are cancelling their Costco memberships and access to unbeatable food prices because of DEI. Curious.

But I was assured it “couldn’t possibly get any worse” for Palestinians in Gaza under Trump than it had been under Biden

📢 @danpfeiffer asks what many of us are thinking: Why are Democrats voting for Trump's nominees? messageboxnews.com/p/why-are-demo…

Costco defends its diversity policies as other US companies scale theirs back apnews.com/article/costco…

It is possible for us to know the measure of scripture and miss its mission and in missing it's mission it would be better that you didn't know scripture at all

Jesus is in tension with a temple community that treats the marginalized poorly. His appeal is not just for the temple to know scripture ... but know mercy

Something to pay attention to: per WSJ poll, Elon Musk’s unfavorability has ticked up six points since October; his favorability has gone done five points. Was 45/45... now underwater at 40/51

I can’t help but wonder about the divine moment of her transition today — of all days. A transition into a new and concerning era for our nation, and the commemoration of MLK. It’s a last reminder from Cecile to stay grounded in our fight and passionate about freedom and justice.

We are devastated to have lost Cecile Richards. Without question, she made Planned Parenthood the force that it is today. She was a POWERHOUSE and pushed this org to be the smartest, nimblest, most innovative 100+-year-old org we could be.

As the reproductive freedom movement navigates unchartered territory, we know Cecile would tell us the best way to honor her memory is to suit up (in pink!), link arms, and fight like hell for the health and rights of all people.

We are heartbroken to lose the indomitable force that is our former president, Cecile Richards. In her 12 devoted years of service to our org, she brought us to new heights in our health care, education, and advocacy work. She was the embodiment of “Care, no matter what.”

@MollyJongFast @CecileRichards A true lionheart. What a loss for us all -- and a reminder of how fortunate we all were to have her for as long as we did. I can't think of many who did more with their time than Cecile.

Her family's statement says: "If you’d like to celebrate Cecile today, we invite you to put on some New Orleans jazz, gather with friends and family over a good meal, and remember something she said a lot over the last year: “It’s not hard to imagine future generations one day asking: ‘When there was so much at stake for our country, what did you do?’ The only acceptable answer is: ‘Everything we could.’”

None of these victims were killed by immigrants. If you’re worried about you or a loved one being a victim, you’re far more likely to be killed by the murderers of these people: seriously flawed US citizens who found it far too easy to obtain guns they never should have had.