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“What Is the Comstock Act?” 2025. Reproductive Freedom for All. February 27.
Cheung, Kylie. 2025. “Trump Effectively Greenlights Anti-Abortion Violence.” Jezebel. January 27.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 2024. “The Threat to Abortion Rights You Haven’t Heard Of,” July 8.
Luthra, Shefali. 2024. “The 19th Explains: What Is the Comstock Act?” The 19th. June 20.
Beck, Andrew. 2024. “Anti-Abortion Extremists Want to Use the 150-Year-Old Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Nationwide.” ACLU. May 30.
Felix, Mabel, Laurie Sobel, and Alina Salganicoff. 2024. “The Comstock Act: Implications for Abortion Care Nationwide.” KFF. April 15.
Contreras, Russell. 2025. “Why Trump won’t be deporting ‘millions’ of criminals.” Axios, January 27. ⁠
Elassar, Alaa. 2025. “Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps.” CNN, January 27.
Geisel, Hunter, and Chelsea Jones. 2025. “Miami man claims wife was detained in one of several Florida ICE raids: ‘They snatched her.’” CBS News. January 27.
King, Jordan. 2024. “Nancy Mace Puts Up ‘Biological’ Women Sign on Capitol Bathroom.” Newsweek, November 20.
Montell, Amanda. 2024. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality. Simon and Schuster.
“The Evolving Pejoration of ‘Karen.’” 2023. Department of Linguistics. April 14.
Shelden, Rachel. 2022. “What Dred Scott teaches us about the draft abortion ruling.” Washington Post, May 7.
Goldblatt, Henry. 2020. “A Brief History of ‘Karen.’” The New York Times, August 3.
Montell, Amanda. 2018. “A Brief History of the Word ‘Bitch,’ Necessitated by Benedict Cumberbitch.” Medium, March 24.
Saul, Jennifer. 2018. Dogwhistles, Political Manipulation, and Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press eBooks.
Catulle, Katherine. 2022. “Flaws of the Tiers of Scrutiny.” Harvard Undergraduate Law Review. June 3.
Quillin, Martha. 2025. “How Could NC Schools Be Impacted by a Shutdown of the US Dept. Of Education? What We Know.” Raleigh News & Observer, March 12.
Sherman, Lucille. 2025. “NC Republicans Revive ‘Bathroom Bill’ Themes in New Legislation.” Axios, March 25.
Goldman, Maya. 2025. “HHS Redefines Sex as ‘Immutable’ in New Guidance.” Axios, February 20.
GLADD. 2025. “Still No Meeting for Trans Leaders at the New York Times.” GLAAD | GLAAD Rewrites the Script for LGBTQ Acceptance. February 13.
American Civil Liberties Union. 2025. “Transgender and Nonbinary People Take Trump to Court Over Passport Restrictions | American Civil Liberties Union,” February.
Golde, Kalvis. 2025. “United States V. Skrmetti.” SCOTUSblog. January 2.
Telford, Taylor, Faiz Siddiqui, and Casey Parks. 2024. “Elon Musk said his trans child was ‘dead.’ She’s calling him out.” Washington Post, July 26.
Boyle, Patrick. 2024. “What Is Gender-affirming Care? Your Questions Answered.” Assoc. Of American Medical Colleges, May 9.
HHS Office of Civil Rights. 2024. “Discrimination on the Basis of Sex.” HHS. May 15.
HHS Office of Population Affairs. 2022. “Gender-Affirming Care and Young People.” Report. HHS.
Faguy, Ana. 2025. “What Is the Department of Education - and Can Trump Dismantle It?” BBC. March 20.
Filson, Jackie. 2025. “New Poll Confirms: Trump’s Plan to Abolish Department of Education Is Extremely Unpopular Among Voters.” Student Borrower Protection Center. February 5.
Wolf, Brandon. “Background on Trump Day One Executive Orders Impacting the LGBTQ+….” 2025. HRC. January 22.
Assoc. Press. 2025. “Mexico’s President Amused by Trump’s Orderto Rename the Gulf of Mexico | AP News.” 2025. AP News. January 21.
Ainsley, Julia, Didi Martinez and Laura Strickler. 2025. “Trump’s inauguration day recap, from festivities to executive orders.” January 20.
Pozzebon, Stefano, Jessie Yeung, and Lex Harvey. 2025. “El Salvador Offers to House Violent US Criminals and Deportees of Any Nationality in Unprecedented Deal.” CNN, February 4. ⁠