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The CBO projects that 4.6 to 8.6 million people lose Medicaid coverage under OBBBA. Work requirements alone account for around 5 million. 2.1 million of them are women of reproductive age.

January 2019: 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. The 2021 peak: 33.8. December 2025: 16.6. Seven years. A near doubling. And a return to roughly where we started.

69% of the people cut from Medicaid during the unwinding were cut for paperwork reasons. Not because they earned too much. Not because they had moved. Because a form was missed. 4.6 million of them were children, disproportionately Black and Hispanic.

A pregnant woman entering a US jail has a 62.3% chance of never being given a pregnancy test. The number of incarcerated women grew more than 600% between 1980 and 2023, from 26,326 to 186,244. That is twice the rate of growth for men.

The Compromise of 1877 pulled the last federal troops out of the last three Southern states still under military Reconstruction, and it did that in exchange for the presidency. What happened after that was not a resumption of anything.

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Both stopped for the same reason: somebody showed them the file. Neither was persuaded by being told to trust the ruling. Full episode — They Called It Suicide — Live · Pt 3: nuel.ink/pG8pBb Subscribe for the whole series, free: laboracollective.substack.co…

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A Justice Department civil-rights investigation of the Louisiana State Police concluded that another trooper deliberately misdated the incident and that a supervisor who stepped over Greene's body that night signed off on all the use-of-force reports.

And in the same pamphlet she told Black readers what to do about it, quote: A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. The intimidation was not incidental to the lynching.