Pregnant in ICE Detention: Handcuffs and Pleas for Medical Care. Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/pregnant-women-ice-detention.html?smid=bs-share

Judge Rules That RFK Jr Overstepped on Transgender Care. The ruling provides temporary relief for 21 states seeking to stop the Trump administration from ending federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-transition care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran has been charged with attempted murder, the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law. | Woman charged with attempted murder under Georgia abortion law https://19thnews.org/2026/03/woman-charged-attempted-murder-georgia-abortion-law/

Moral metrics: Are corporate algorithms becoming our new moral authorities? By Beth DuFault | The Conversation https://theconversation.com/moral-metrics-are-corporate-algorithms-becoming-our-new-moral-authorities-273178?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance. OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare. | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-adult-mode-new-era-of-intimate-surveillance/

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years. Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00618-5

"What law enforcement would say is, 'these were people that were facing charges'. What are the charges they're facing if it's civil immigration authorities doing what seems to be unlawful interference with First Amendment rights? Even if that's the asserted basis, is that constitutional? I think the answer should be clearly no." | ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested : NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5739257/ice-officers-dna-protesters-database