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Gail Cornwall

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Former teacher & lawyer who now works as a mother & writer. Bylines for the Atlantic, Nation, NYT, Good Housekeeping, Guardian, New York Mag, USA Today, & many more. Stories tackle education, psychology, parenting, etc.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · Nov 11

A little-known requirement meant to incentivize academic performance has been doing the opposite for decades, disqualifying capable students from financial aid for life & becoming “a de facto end” to their education. It’s not fair or smart. My latest for @hechingerreport.org & @washingtonpost.com.

The hidden financial aid hurdle derailing college students

Little-known rules requiring that students make ‘satisfactory academic progress’ to receive federal grants have derailed countless college students. But legislators are finally taking notice.

hechingerreport.org

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 20h

“The movement against no-fault divorce is about walking back women’s rights & autonomy …. Although no-fault divorce hasn’t gotten to … Trump’s chopping block yet, rumors have proliferated, and people are justifiably anxious.” @amyshearn.bsky.social for @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2025/03/10/g...

The GOP’s Next Target? No-Fault Divorce and Women’s Right to Leave

The GOP’s Next Target, According to Trump, Vance and Johnson? No-Fault Divorce and Women’s Right to Leave Violent or Unhappy Marriages

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 22h

“TikTok's algorithm recommends porn & highly sexualised content to children's accounts, according to a new report by a human rights campaign…. ‘TikTok isn't just failing to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content - it's suggesting it to them….’” www.bbc.com/news/article...

TikTok 'recommends sexual content and porn to children', says report - BBC News

Researchers find TikTok's algorithm recommends sexual content to newly-created child accounts.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 22h

The Trump administration is talking out of both sides of its mouth, claiming MAHA’s goal of improving child nutrition while disappearing USDA programs and cutting SNAP, the funding for schools and states to meet it. Small-time farmers and kids will take the hit. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

What Happens to School Lunches in the MAHA Era?

R.F.K., Jr., promised healthier food for kids, but the Trump Administration is cutting programs that achieve this goal.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 1d

“New Mexico has quietly emerged as a progressive health-care sanctuary in the Southwest. Since the Dobbs decision, the number of abortion clinics in NM has more than doubled …. More than 10K women have travelled there to receive abortion care.” @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

How New Mexico Became a Sanctuary State for Health Care

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the number of abortion clinics there has doubled. With strong protections for gender-affirming treatment, and now universal child care, the state is betting on a prog...

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 6d

And super smoothly written.

Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 6d

“raising the question of whether they are a generation maladapted to the world around them or the first generation to be thoroughly understood.” 2/2 Caitlin Moscatello for @thecut.com c/o @markisero.bsky.social’s #ArticleClub www.thecut.com/article/what...

What If a Child Was Terrified of Food?

The rise of ARFID, a new eating disorder driven not by body image but by fear.

www.thecut.com

Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 6d

“ARFID may be more easily understood … as an anxiety disorder that centers on food. Its rise coincides with a pediatric diagnostic boom … as more and more children are treated for generalized anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD ...” 1/2 www.thecut.com/article/what...

What If a Child Was Terrified of Food?

The rise of ARFID, a new eating disorder driven not by body image but by fear.

www.thecut.com

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 6d

“If the playbook Doctorow describes involves promising benefits to people only to erratically renege on, and degrade, existing services, then Donald Trump is the enshittifier-in-chief.” @chaykak.bsky.social

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

The Age of Enshittification

In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

www.newyorker.com

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 6d

I see you. And, yes. Yes it does.

Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 7d

This is the brutality & tyranny the U.S. Constitution was drafted to prevent:

In the middle of the night, “she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building w/out any clothes on & into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 7d

Omg, this #NewYorkerCartoons from @tysoncole.bsky.social is 🔥.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 10d

“I wrote enthusiastically a few years ago that the mainstream media was leaning into playing a more pro-democracy role. That’s over now…. We are seeing a huge retrenchment, particularly in elite institutions, from caring about racial inequality and describing the Republican Party honestly.”

Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 10d

“Our reckonings on racism and journalism didn’t go too far … they didn’t go far enough. And the diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in the U.S. has ended.” @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Black Voices Are Vital to Democracy. The Media Must Stop Firing Them.

The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah is the latest prominent Black journalist to lose her job. The trend is a sign of retrenchment in both fighting racism and saving democracy.

newrepublic.com

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 10d

“When … DOGE initiated its … spree, federal offices lost, on average, about 10% …. Within the Office of Fair Housing, the reduction was 65% …. More concerning … 100s of cases … halted or dropped…. ‘This is a deliberate plan, & it’s about shutting down fair housing.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

www.nytimes.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11d

A small but significant proportion of mothers and fathers wish they’d never had children. The whole family can suffer as a result, Gail Cornwall wrote in 2021. https://theatln.tc/6Dp12ZPW

📸: Olivia Arthur / Magnum

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d

Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 11d

“Princess Awesome … is one of the small U.S. businesses straining under the weight of Mr. Trump’s tariffs, and … plaintiff in an epic legal fight to overturn them.” (Not the same case being heard by SCOTUS soon, but same arguments and this article explains them well.) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Princess Awesome vs. the United States of America

www.nytimes.com

Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 11d

Georgia’s new program, with roots in what supporters called “the segregation amendment,” has been used to move 8K+ kids from public schools to ones predominantly affiliated w/ churches. Another $1.7 mil went to 153 companies, including Amazon. @maggie-lee.bsky.social thecurrentga.org/2025/09/23/c...

Christian schools, Amazon attract most Georgia voucher school dollars - The Current

Georgia's new program to subsidize private education has helped over 8,000 children move from public schools to private schools, with $5.4 million of the $7.1 million distributed going to 286 private ...

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 11d

“Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 … has served more than 1K students across 3 counties. Last year, the program had 65 students enrolled in college while living at Bay Area juvenile halls, including 8 at UC schools.” Sara Hossaini for @kqednews.kqed.org

www.kqed.org/news/1205596...

This UC Berkeley Student Could Be the First to Graduate While Incarcerated | KQED

A Bay Area program helping incarcerated youth earn college degrees is reshaping access to higher education across California.

www.kqed.org

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12d

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 13d

Can’t wait to keep reading your incredibly insightful, rigorous work!

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