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1 day ago | motherjones.com | Laura Morel

Last week, the US Supreme Court lifted an order from a Massachusetts district court that had maintained humanitarian parole protections in place for about 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua who had been living in the United States legally under a Biden-era program. Advocacy groups in South Florida condemned the decision that will inevitably impact scores of immigrants and their families living in the area.

2 days ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to Tiller’s clinic in Kansas, and then, after his murder, to the storied Southwest Women’s Options abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2 days ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like her—“became very clear to lots of people. ​I was angry, I was bitter, I was frustrated, and I thought, What can I do? How can I help?

2 days ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were stymied by a terminally broken bureaucracy.

3 days ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times best-selling author. But he is not a climate scientist. That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of global heating to mass audiences. “You’ve got to speak to people in a way they can understand,” he said.