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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Sep 8

"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100 percent but we are." 19thnews.org/2025/09/trum...

Trump downplays domestic violence in speech about religious freedom

In a speech about religious freedom, Trump talks about domestic violence and crime stats in Washington, D.C.,

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · Jul 21

In case you missed this on Friday...

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Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority

As Republicans reel from the fallout surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, advocates working on human trafficking issues say the administration has abandoned promises to prioritize the issue.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jul 18

Rubio and Bondi have both worked to combat human trafficking over the course of their political careers. But now, the administration is pulling back on work it had been doing 19thnews.org/2025/07/trum...

Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority

As Republicans reel from the fallout surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, advocates working on human trafficking issues say the administration has abandoned promises to prioritize the issue.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jul 16

Puerto Rico doesn't get SNAP; instead, people rely on a block grant, which provides less money in a place where food is much pricier and people can't buy much in bulk to stock a freezer because of the blackouts that hit at a moment's notice 19thnews.org/2025/07/puer...

High prices, blackouts and half the money: Inside Puerto Rico’s stagnant food aid system

Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jul 1

The administration wants to deport a lot of people — so it needs to look beyond the criminals it's said it is focused on.
Yessenia Ruano hoped the fact that her visa application for victims of human trafficking was processing would help her stay. ICE told her to leave. 19thnews.org/2025/07/upro...

‘Adiós, Milwaukee’: A family uprooted, a hole left behind

Yessenia Ruano's long fight against deportation, fueled by her Milwaukee community, ended last month under orders from ICE.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jun 26

The MLM-ification of our politics 19thnews.org/2025/06/mlm-...

What Trump’s politics and your ex-classmate selling skincare have in common

There are MLMs everywhere — including in American politics, Bridget Read writes in her new book.

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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · Jun 18

The deadly shootings in Minnesota have left abortion providers shaken in an already hostile political climate. Story from @shefali.bsky.social and me: 19thnews.org/2025/06/minn...

Deadly shootings in Minnesota have shaken abortion providers

The suspected shooter had a list of targets that included abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood affiliates and employees.

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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · Jun 17

A 16-month investigation into the Hague Abduction Convention by @19thnews.org and ‪@typeinvestigations.org‬.

Meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.

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Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers

The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jun 16

The National Women’s Law Center sued the Trump administration, arguing that restrictions on domestic violence and sexual assault grants are illegal and conflict with requirements laid out in the Violence Against Women Act 19thnews.org/2025/06/dome...

Domestic violence nonprofits sue over Trump administration’s anti-DEI funding rules

Domestic violence grant restrictions conflict with requirements in the Violence Against Women Act, the lawsuit argues.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jun 16

In Albany, New York legislators are ending their session without passing two measures that would provide new protections for survivors of sexual misconduct within and outside of the workplace.
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As Cuomo attempts a political comeback, reforms for harassment victims stall

Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 after a report found he harassed 11 women, is one of two leading candidates in the New York mayor contest.

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Errin Haines @errinhaines.bsky.social · Jun 12

In this week's episode of Trump’s reality show presidency, strength and power are defined from Los Angeles to Washington by a public and excessive show of force, where pageantry is a means of reinforcing control. My latest column for The Amendment: 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...

On two coasts, a show of force — and a test of ours

Analysis | In Trump’s reality show presidency, strength and power are defined by a public and excessive show of force and pageantry is a means of reinforcing control.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jun 11

Decision Desk HQ calls the NJ Dem gov primary for Rep. Mikie Sherrill 19thnews.org/2025/06/miki...

Rep. Mikie Sherrill is New Jersey Democrats' pick for governor

Rep. Mikie Sherrill's win means women candidates will lead 2025’s two biggest statewide elections.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · Jun 9

The administration wants to change how gun rights are restored but hasn't laid out what the process will be, raising concerns that domestic abuse offenders will get guns back — and women will die 19thnews.org/2025/06/trum...

Domestic abusers could have easier path to getting gun rights back under Trump proposal

Democratic lawmakers and gun violence prevention groups say that jettisoning the current process may be dangerous for women.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 30

Among the cuts in the first months of the Trump admin: the only team at the federal level working specifically on domestic and intimate partner violence prevention. 19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...

The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims

Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 30

The federal government has long been critical to efforts to address domestic and intimate partner violence.
It's taken just 130 days for the Trump administration to destabilize a safety net that took four decades to build.
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 23

Tory Lanez's bid to have his conviction overturned got support this week from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna 19thnews.org/2025/05/anna...

Why a GOP congresswoman has joined the call to free Tory Lanez

Pop culture and politics are often combining in online spaces full of misinformation — including in the case of the rapper convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · May 20

The Democratic former mayor of Atlanta says she will focus on the economic anxieties plaguing Georgians amid Trump’s second term.

Keisha Lance Bottoms enters Georgia governor’s race, pledging to fight 'the chaos of Trump 2.0'

The Democratic former mayor of Atlanta says she will focus on the economic anxieties plaguing Georgians amid Trump’s second term.

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · May 20

The USDA program changes are coming at what Vince Hall, the head of government relations for Feeding America, the nationwide foodbank network, called an already “very precarious moment for food banks because there’s no resiliency left in the system.” 19thnews.org/2025/05/usda... via @19thnews.org

Their small farms helped stock food pantries. That program is going away.

The Trump administration is ending a USDA assistance initiative as the country’s food pantries are “stretched to the breaking point" and a hunger crisis looms.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 19

While we wait for the signing ceremony for the Take It Down Act, it's worth thinking about the words we use around this — and why "revenge porn" is neither revenge nor porn 19thnews.org/2024/07/reve...

They’re crimes — so why do we keep calling them ‘porn’?

When we use outdated terms like 'revenge porn,' we blur the line between consensual entertainment and abuse.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 19

Trump is set to sign the Take It Down Act today; @jazzmyth.bsky.social breaks down what it means for people impacted by the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images 19thnews.org/2025/05/take...

Here’s how you can use the Take It Down Act after it’s signed today

The 19th explains how the new law on nonconsensual intimate imagery will be implemented — and how you can request the takedown of explicit images created or shared without permission.

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 16

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It's the final day of The 19th's Spring Member Drive! Our newsroom has reported on some of our country’s most pivotal moments since 2020. Now, as we cover President Donald Trump’s second term — and as...

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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · May 16

We're also looking at the impact of the Trump administration on efforts to help domestic violence victims 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...
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