Saturday, January 31, 2026

January 31: Criminalizing Reproduction: Attacks on Science, Medicine and the Right to Choose: Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheug explain how your at-home DNA test could send women to jail, in Abortion, Every Day, noting that: "The Kentucky State Police—who seem to be especially excited about making pregnancy-related arrests these days—claim that ‘Baby Jane Doe’ was born alive and healthy, and was abandoned in a dumpster. Here’s the really chilling part: police say they found the Virginia woman thanks to “new technologies” and “advancements in forensic science.” Translation? They identified her using an AncestryDNA test—the kind people take to learn about their heritage, or find distant cousins."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY:  " This isn’t the first time  cops have used these tests to target women over pregnancies that happened decades ago...
Friday, January 30, 2026

January 30: Technology: Gone Wrong In this oppressive ICE era As Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the Homeland Security Department over the immigration operation in Minneapolis puts it in this New York Times story by Sheera Frankel and Aaron Krolik: "The technologies are being deployed, or appear to be deployed, in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past... The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities.”

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "ICE is continuing to seek more technology. Last week, the agency published a  request for information  for ways to...