Emily Ramshaw
@eramshaw.bsky.social
Co-founder and CEO @19thnews, former @TexasTribune EIC/enthusiast. Occasional mom content.
“A lot of students have to make these daily tough decisions where they’re wondering, ‘Where am I going to get my next meal from?’ instead of focusing on homework, on classwork."
@nadrakn.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
@nadrakn.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
The overlooked SNAP recipients: 1.1 million college students
With benefits suspended, college students — especially those with children — have been distracted by a battle over food they never expected to fight.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“A lot of students have to make these daily tough decisions where they’re wondering, ‘Where am I going to get my next meal from?’ instead of focusing on homework, on classwork."
@nadrakn.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
@nadrakn.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
For the past decade, Davis has been battling against giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was jailed for six days and fined $100,000 plus attorney’s fees for refusing to do so.
Supreme Court declines to hear case to overturn marriage equality
For the second time, the Supreme Court rejected Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
For the past decade, Davis has been battling against giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She was jailed for six days and fined $100,000 plus attorney’s fees for refusing to do so.
"A conclusion arrived at quickly was that Spanberger deftly figured out how to respond to anti-trans attacks from her opponent and Republican interest groups in a way that Harris’ campaign never did — and she did so without throwing the vulnerable population ... under the bus."
Democrats responded to anti-trans attacks this year — and won
LGBTQ+ rights organizations and party strategists point to wins in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey as a template heading into the 2026 midterms.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"A conclusion arrived at quickly was that Spanberger deftly figured out how to respond to anti-trans attacks from her opponent and Republican interest groups in a way that Harris’ campaign never did — and she did so without throwing the vulnerable population ... under the bus."
“It makes you feel like you’re not a good mom... It makes you feel hopeless, like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Like, how can I possibly make ends meet?”
@bcrodriguez.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
@bcrodriguez.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
The fight over SNAP benefits continues — and so does the mom guilt
The worry over long-term access to food collides with the reality that children and their families face detrimental health effects when they experience food insecurity.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“It makes you feel like you’re not a good mom... It makes you feel hopeless, like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Like, how can I possibly make ends meet?”
@bcrodriguez.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
@bcrodriguez.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
“This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
@jkutzie.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
@jkutzie.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
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November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
@jkutzie.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
@jkutzie.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
So incredibly proud (once again!) of @errinhaines.bsky.social. This time for being included in The Root 100 list this year — alongside so many including Coco Gauff, Doechii and Beyonce!! theroot100.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So incredibly proud (once again!) of @errinhaines.bsky.social. This time for being included in The Root 100 list this year — alongside so many including Coco Gauff, Doechii and Beyonce!! theroot100.com
The order is the latest in a back-and-forth on the policy as the country debates the right for its transgender citizens to live openly.
Supreme Court blocks transgender people from updating passports
The decision barring transgender people from changing their gender markers will cause "irreparable harm," advocates say.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The order is the latest in a back-and-forth on the policy as the country debates the right for its transgender citizens to live openly.
Versions of this story have quietly been playing out across the nation, including in Arkansas, Oregon, Maryland and New Jersey.
States are quietly cutting child care funding — and families are out of options
Facing budget shortfalls due to the end of COVID funding, cuts to Medicaid and tariffs, states are turning to one place for cuts: child care.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Versions of this story have quietly been playing out across the nation, including in Arkansas, Oregon, Maryland and New Jersey.
Her retirement from the House sets up a crowded race for her safely Democratic San Francisco-area House district.
After 35 years, Nancy Pelosi is retiring from Congress
Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Thursday that this term in Congress will be her last.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Her retirement from the House sets up a crowded race for her safely Democratic San Francisco-area House district.
Across the country, Democrats had a night of victories powered by women candidates, many of whom campaigned on the cost of living and energy prices, and achieved historic firsts.
Women running on affordability powered Democrats’ night of victories
Democratic women proved effective messengers in an election focused on the rising cost of living and the effects of Trump’s second term.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Across the country, Democrats had a night of victories powered by women candidates, many of whom campaigned on the cost of living and energy prices, and achieved historic firsts.
Nationwide, 1 in 5 child care workers are immigrants, most of them Latinas. In Chicago, it’s 1 in 4.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Nationwide, 1 in 5 child care workers are immigrants, most of them Latinas. In Chicago, it’s 1 in 4.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
@chabeli.bsky.social reports.
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Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield has won the mayor’s race, according to the Associated Press. She becomes the city’s first woman mayor, a Black woman, with housing for single-mother-led households as a major part of her legacy and platform. 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary...
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield has won the mayor’s race, according to the Associated Press. She becomes the city’s first woman mayor, a Black woman, with housing for single-mother-led households as a major part of her legacy and platform. 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary...
Zohran Mamdani, who ran on universal child care, elected New York City mayor 19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr... via @19thnews.org
Zohran Mamdani, who ran on universal child care, elected New York City mayor
Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Zohran Mamdani, who ran on universal child care, elected New York City mayor 19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr... via @19thnews.org
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Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...
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Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor and only the second woman to serve in the office. The race was closely watched as a barometer of the national mood 10 months into Trump’s second term. https://bit.ly/4i2tSIV
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor and only the second woman to serve in the office. The race was closely watched as a barometer of the national mood 10 months into Trump’s second term. https://bit.ly/4i2tSIV
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Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia’s next governor and the first woman to hold the state’s highest office. Her campaign promised to fight the “chaos” of President Donald Trump’s second term and to address cost-of-living issues. https://bit.ly/3JEKGZp
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia’s next governor and the first woman to hold the state’s highest office. Her campaign promised to fight the “chaos” of President Donald Trump’s second term and to address cost-of-living issues. https://bit.ly/3JEKGZp
"I’ve seen firsthand what housing insecurity does to families — it creates instability that ripples through generations."
For Mary Sheffield, Detroit’s future begins with keeping families housed
Detroit’s City Council president is running to become the city's first woman mayor, with housing for single-mother-led households as a major part of her platform.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"I’ve seen firsthand what housing insecurity does to families — it creates instability that ripples through generations."
“I’m economizing in as many places as I can, but the inflation of almost everything I use is outpacing my income."
‘Everything goes up except income’: Older women are struggling to keep up with rising electricity costs
As rates spike across the nation, penny-pinching isn’t feeling like enough for people on fixed incomes.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“I’m economizing in as many places as I can, but the inflation of almost everything I use is outpacing my income."
This is such a heartbreaker for a publication that produced excellent, hard-hitting political journalism for an underserved audience — and has been a model for many of us at @19thnews.org www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...
Vogue Absorbs Teen Vogue
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November 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is such a heartbreaker for a publication that produced excellent, hard-hitting political journalism for an underserved audience — and has been a model for many of us at @19thnews.org www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...
Hashmi is running to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor in a competitive race against Republican John Reid, a former conservative talk radio host, who could make history himself as the first openly gay Republican elected to statewide office in the country.
Virginia could make history with first Muslim woman elected to statewide office
Trump’s travel ban inspired state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi to first run for office. Years later, she said fighting bigotry and the “chaos” of Trump’s second term is top of mind.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hashmi is running to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor in a competitive race against Republican John Reid, a former conservative talk radio host, who could make history himself as the first openly gay Republican elected to statewide office in the country.
New Jersey has long been solidly blue at the statewide level but saw a dramatic rightward shift in the 2024 presidential election, with Trump gaining significant ground among working-class and non-White voters, especially.
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A former Navy pilot and ‘Jersey guy’ face off for governor of New Jersey
Gendered talk and expectations have infused the race between Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New Jersey has long been solidly blue at the statewide level but saw a dramatic rightward shift in the 2024 presidential election, with Trump gaining significant ground among working-class and non-White voters, especially.
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“This is what we do,” she said. “We’ll be here.”
'We'll be here': Across three cities, communities step up as SNAP runs out
A mother of four in Detroit, a pastor serving LGBTQ+ congregants in Dallas and a food bank manager in Chicago share their fears — and resilience — as federal funds are set to expire.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“This is what we do,” she said. “We’ll be here.”
“Queer and trans folks had built that for themselves over about 15 years of democracy in Germany, and once the Nazis came to power, all of that was able to be destroyed within just a matter of weeks.”
Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes
Queer historians are using LGBTQ+ History Month to reflect on the often forgotten but powerful resistance against the Nazis.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Queer and trans folks had built that for themselves over about 15 years of democracy in Germany, and once the Nazis came to power, all of that was able to be destroyed within just a matter of weeks.”
This would be the first such disruption to the federally funded but state-administered safety net program that disproportionately feeds women, children, disabled people and the elderly since it was started in its current form in the 1960s.
How SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans could be saved during the shutdown
The USDA has refused to release contingency funds, and Congress remains gridlocked — but there are still paths to keeping the nutrition assistance program alive.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This would be the first such disruption to the federally funded but state-administered safety net program that disproportionately feeds women, children, disabled people and the elderly since it was started in its current form in the 1960s.
In the over 30 years since, no other private or public organization has financed anti-domestic violence work as broadly or as deeply as the U.S. government.
Without the federal government, almost no money exists to fight domestic violence
Work to prevent intimate partner violence, feed families in shelters fleeing abuse or help survivors file for legal protection would not exist on the scale it does today if the federal government step...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In the over 30 years since, no other private or public organization has financed anti-domestic violence work as broadly or as deeply as the U.S. government.