Rose Broderick

Rose Broderick

@rosebroderick.bsky.social

disability reporter @statnews words/audio @radiolab @sciam hard of hearing, so i will ask you to repeat yourself 🏳️‍⚧️ email: rose[dot]broderick[at]statnews[dot]com signal: rosebroderick[dot]11

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Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/07/22/h...

theopennotebook.comHow Trans Journalists Can Stay Safe and Well While Changing Their Bylines - The Open NotebookChanging a name is a very personal decision. Unfortunately for trans journalists, it’s a decision that has to occur in public. Changing a byline can mitigate the abuse and harassment that trans journa...
Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

States are racing to reconfigure their Medicaid systems by Jan. 1 to include work requirements — and ensure people with disabilities don't lose critical care. “There’s no question of ‘Will we do this?’ States have to do this. But it will come at an enormous cost.” www.statnews.com/2026/10/23/s...

statnews.comState officials scrambling to implement Medicaid work requirements meet up to swap notesWhat state officials scrambling to implement Medicaid work requirements shared behind closed doors at the National Association of Medicaid Directors conference.
Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

A great tag-team story with @isabellacueto.bsky.social, who trekked to a conference for state Medicaid officials to capture the very anxious mood. Why are states "hungry" for more guidance from CMS? Why did Dr. Oz invoke Shakespeare in his opening remarks? www.statnews.com/2026/10/23/s...

statnews.comState officials scrambling to implement Medicaid work requirements meet up to swap notesWhat state officials scrambling to implement Medicaid work requirements shared behind closed doors at the National Association of Medicaid Directors conference.

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steven monacelli
@stevanzetti.bsky.social

Small update re: the Texas Transgender Student Union mailers. Snailworks, the company that provided mail tracking services for the mailers, denies sending them but will not disclose who hired them. The NRCC spent $4,677 on Snailworks on 8/27/26. TTSU was created days later.

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social

The "Texas Transgender Student Union" that sent out mailers, which have become a major controversy among Republicans, is a real organization — but it was only formed in September in Wyoming as an LLC and is entirely separate from TENT, the organization marketed in the fliers.

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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

NEW: The women were victims of domestic abuse. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys and anyone who would listen. It didn’t matter. They were all taken to an immigration detention center.

propublica.orgThese Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Assigned Media
@assignedmedia.org

PROMOs 10 year plan is to create a pro-trans majority in Republican dominated Missouri. Is that even possible? How are they doing it? Our EIC @evanurquhart went to St. Louis to find out. Here's his story: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

assignedmedia.orgThe Only People Talking to Missouri Voters About Trans Kids are Conservatives… and these LGBTQ+ Canvassers - Assigned MediaFor three years they've been working to humanize trans people one door at a time.

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betsy ladyzhets 😷
@betsyladyzhets.bsky.social

Today @thesicktimes.org: Big feature by @khaoticaa.bsky.social exploring the immense challenges that trans people with Long COVID face in getting healthcare. "Neglect within healthcare and the queer community both contribute to the medical and social erasure of trans people."

thesicktimes.orgTrans people with Long COVID navigate a new “dark age” in trans health - The Sick TimesWe spoke with and surveyed dozens of trans people navigating gender-affirming care and Long COVID during Trump’s second term.

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Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

Source Request: I'm looking to talk with parents of autistic kids who are currently trying or have recently tried any of the following as treatments: bleach, chelation, stem cells, hyperbaric oxygen, special diets, leucovorin.

Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

The aim with this story is to hear from folks currently navigating the complicated web of information on what does/doesn't help autistic kids and adults. If you are autistic and your parents used these kinds of treatments on you, please reach out, as well.

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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

heritagedaily.com184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archiveArchaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

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19thnews
@19thnews.org

In 1999, Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson brought a challenge to the Supreme Court, which ruled in their favor and agreed that people with disabilities have a right to live outside the walls of asylums, state hospitals and nursing homes. More than two decades later, that right is under threat.

19thnews.orgThe federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promiseLois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.

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Garnet Henderson
@garnethenderson.com

SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:

autonomynews.coNearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion TiesMillions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...

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Mike Hixenbaugh
@mikehixenbaugh.com

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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JP
@jpbrammer.bsky.social

just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

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gwen howerton
@kissphoria.bsky.social

Replying to @kissphoria.bsky.social

this post is designed to be an example of the kinds of things happening to trans people right now. nobody is asking for new stuff, they're asking for the stuff happening now to stop getting worse

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Assigned Media
@assignedmedia.org

Late last week, the HHS released a report claiming to show a link between "transgender ideology" and political violence. Among other bizarre features of this unpublished, non-peer reviewed paper it included a grand total of 13 transgender people. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

assignedmedia.orgHHS Touts Online Survey of 13 Trans People as Evidence Trans Acceptance May Cause Violence - Assigned MediaDigging into the latest propaganda from our nation’s health experts.
Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

It's feeling more like 2006 than 2026. Yesterday's meeting of the federal autism advisory committee was supposed to be about a new strategic plan that would reshape autism research. It was, instead, dominated by calls to consider vaccines as a cause for autism. www.statnews.com/2026/08/28/v...

statnews.comVaccines take center stage at federal autism advisory committeeComments about vaccines overshadowed an advisory committee meeting to discuss a plan for boosting federal funding for autism research.
Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

That link has been disproven again and again. But that didn't stop RFK Jr.-aligned committee members from asking for more research into the matter. More about the meeting and the plan, which the committee ultimately approved. www.statnews.com/2026/08/28/v...

statnews.comVaccines take center stage at federal autism advisory committeeComments about vaccines overshadowed an advisory committee meeting to discuss a plan for boosting federal funding for autism research.
Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

A member of IACC, the federal committee that shapes autism research, just said their new strategic plan "leaves the door open" on research into potential "triggers" of autism — including vaccines.

Rose Broderick
@rosebroderick.bsky.social

Back from lunch: a trio of moms — Jennifer Philips, Honey Rinicella, and Ginger Taylor — are explaining what caused their children to "regress" into autism. Both Honey and Ginger pointed to vaccines as one culprit.

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Reo Eveleth
@reveleth.com

There is something so frustrating about watching basically every staff sports writer completely mangle this story about transphobia in the WNBA, while so many trans journalists who would do a great job (and who have been pitching stories about this!) are struggling to get hired and make ends meet.

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Laurel is on parental leave
@laurelpowell.net

NEW THIS MORNING: An exclusive analysis of Census Bureau data shows LGBTQ+ people make up a record-breaking 12% of the total population - but, even more importantly, represent 10% of adults in 40 of 50 states.

hrc.orgRecord Breaking: LGBTQ+ Adults Now 12% of Population; Greater than…HRC Foundation analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Data finds a record-high 25.6 million people now identify as LGBTQ+ Heading into the midterms, the LGBTQ+…