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Reporter covering abortion, politics (formerly for @jezebel ). @wgaeast council member 💌 caitlinrcruz @protonmail .com 🏳️‍🌈 #MFFL

Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2009
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Caitlin Cruz
11 months
I got laid off from Jezebel and the site has been shuttered. If you’d like to work with me, my work can be read at My email is caitlinrcruz @protonmail .com If you’d like to send me little treat money, my Venmo is CaitlinRCruz
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mic up random congress people like it's a nba game
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BREAKING: Kate Cox, the Texas woman who sued the state to beg for abortion following a dangerous diagnosis, has fled the state for care. Nancy Northup of @reprorights who are representing Cox says she’s "been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer.”
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BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court rules state’s 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional: “This Act, which severely limits—and in many instances completely forecloses—abortion, is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman's right to privacy and is therefore unconstitutional.”
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BREAKING: ⁦ @WholeWomans ⁩ Woman’s Health moving its abortion clinics to New Mexico. The org is fundraising to open clinic in New Mexico border city and will provide first and second trimester abortions.
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Bright Eyes played two songs. Conor Oberst walked off. And now the band is suggesting Bright Eyes karaoke with Bright Eyes for the crowd…
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2 years
NEW: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice casually admitted he didn't actually know the contents of the abortion ban he signed
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BREAKING: Montana Supreme Court affirmed an injunction that blocks three bills that would’ve banned abortions after 20 weeks. The other bills include an omnibus law complicating medication abortion and mandatory ultrasound and documentation.
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@LEBassett wait they started the show without knowing their results?!
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2 years
BREAKING: Arizona’s 1901 abortion ban can be enforced, thereby outlawing abortions in basically all cases. This ban is from more than a decade before Arizona was even a US state.
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Good morning, it’s once again Supreme Court opinion day. There are 13 left, including guns, religion in public schools and of course Dobbs, the case that could overturn Roe v Wade. Every decision day that Dobbs is not announced is another day people can access abortion care.
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I've really struggled on how to fairly and accurately tell the story of the dismantling of abortion rights as Serious Reporter. I hope you'll read my essay for @Jezebel on my journey: You Are Not Owed a Reason for Somebody's Abortion
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2 years
@offbeatorbit the hair swoop!!!! I love it 🥹🥹🥹
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2 years
Something being left out of the Oz’s abortion comments is people DO have to consult their local politicians before having abortion. Those people are teens who are forced to use judicial bypass if they don’t want to involve their parents in their abortion.
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Caitlin Cruz
3 years
✨personal news✨ i'm joining @Jezebel this week!!! after 5 years of freelancing, it was time for a change and I'm so stoked to be reporting on abortion and reproductive rights from the great state of Texas
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Laura Bassett
3 years
Excited to announce that I've hired the extremely talented @caitlinrcruz to join Jezebel as a senior reporter, covering reproductive rights from her home base of Texas (!!!) She starts Wednesday!
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UPDATE: BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, who asked for an abortion due to medical exceptions. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s opinion reads.
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2 years
NEW for @Jezebel : This has been a surprisingly good week for medication abortion news! DOJ found USPS can carry and deliver abortion pills, even in red states! CVS and Walgreens will be certified (where legal) to stock mifepristone
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5 years
Some personal news: I'm joining @TexasObserver as an interim editor for the spring! I love the Observer and I love Texas so much so I'm utterly stoked. Reach me at cruz @texasobserver .org
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First official day at @Jezebel ✨ I’m covering abortion, reproductive rights, politics, etc. Got tips? Story ideas? ccruz @jezebel .com (and DM for signal)
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BREAKING: Abortion can continue at @RRWomensclinic , the only abortion clinic in North Dakota, because a state court temporarily blocked the trigger ban from going into effect
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BREAKING: North Dakota's abortion ban was blocked with a temporary injunction while litigation continues. It was set to take effect on Friday Aug. 26.
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“These are not just people with a difference of opinion. They are a political arm of violent hate groups.” In a letter published exclusively on @Jezebel , more than 600 abortion workers have a request: “Stop giving air-time to anti-abortion activists.”
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NEW: Kiersten Hogan shared her experience of being detained at a religious hospital against her will and being forced to give birth to a stillborn son
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2 years
BREAKING: @RRWomensclinic , the only abortion provider in North Dakota, has filed a lawsuit in state court to block the state trigger law from taking effect on July 28. Filing:
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NEW: In a joint statement to @Jezebel , Sudeikis and Wilde characterized the interview as an “unfortunate apex” of “18-month long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues,” calling the allegations “false and scurrilous.”
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Caitlin Cruz
4 years
Absolutely losing my mind that the senior senator from Texas felt it necessary to tweet this rn
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5 years
@BrandyLJensen at book club last month this was the ice breaker and I was like “I’d like a trust fund”
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2 years
Tomorrow @FundTexasChoice @TEAFund @LaFronteraFund @TheAfiyaCenter @westfundtx @JanesDueProcess @casnhtx @lilithfund and @dr_moayedi will be in state court against Texas AG Ken Paxton, challenging the trigger ban’s constitutionality on First Amendment grounds.
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NEW for @Jezebel : The right’s new strategy is talking about abortion pills as if they’re fentanyl coming over our borders. It's a twisted new version of the War on Drugs.
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2 years
y’all I lived in Omaha during bright eyes come-up, I know what can happen at these shows lmao And as I was typing this @WhiteOakMH announces one more karaoke song before ending the show and issuing refunds
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1 year
I stand in the strongest support with the Waffle House workers, who do god’s work.
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Waffle House workers in Columbia, South Carolina are on strike, citing unsafe working conditions and low pay “Nobody’s scared, we’re ready. We are going to keep fighting by any means necessary.”
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This is a disaster and I appreciate the attempt at triage but jesus
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BREAK: @WholeWomans has stopped providing abortions at its 4 Texas clinics after last night’s order. “This morning, our clinic staff embarked on the heartbreaking conversations with patients whose appointments must be cancelled, and our clinics have started the wind down process”
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hope Conor is okay. @WhiteOakMH employees were such champs about an increasingly not great situation. gonna go watch some basketball from my big tv instead of my gf’s phone.
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@pamelacolloff pam’s daughter should get a puppy!!!
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no disrespect to these tall boy-drinking men but this is not what I paid for
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Elizabeth Warren endorsed Jessica Cisneros today. Learn more about what Cisneros stands for in my interview with the upstart candidate in @TeenVogue
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@Nicole_Cliffe I don’t understand the childhood of ppl who got to choose the music in their parents’ cars???
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@SheaSerrano Yzme!!!!!!
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5 years
So @splinter_news was one of my regular gigs to keep the rent paid and keep me in topo chico in between features and I loved it! I’ll miss doing that writing regularly. If you know of any work/regular gig/etc. my DMs are open and email is Caitlin.cruz431 @gmail .com
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NEW from me: I dug into @AbortionCare 's 2021 report on state of independent abortion providers. In short, Non-Planned Parenthood providers are badly underfunded and under attack, and three in five patients are seeking abortions there.
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Independent Abortion Clinics Are The Backbone of Reproductive Care in America
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NEW for @Jezebel : A South Carolina Republican was forced to carry a non-viable fetus for 49 days this summer. Now she's working to get @JoeCunninghamSC and other Democrats elected. My exclusive interview with Jill:
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BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court says state’s total abortion ban — from 1925 — can be civilly enforced. Here’s the order:
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3 years
Working on a story about why people get abortions. If you'd like to talk about your abortion, my DMs are open and my email is ccruz @jezebel .com
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BREAKING: Abortion is banned at six weeks in Idaho. The Idaho Supreme Court lifted the stay on the six-week ban and civil enforcement (a la Texas) AND denied a request to block the upcoming total abortion ban. Total abortion ban goes into effect on 8/25.
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@RepJayapal is speaking now. She never told her mother about her abortion and never talked about it until 2019. “I wanted to share my story because there are so many situations when people make these choices.” #dobbsvjackson
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NEW: Late last Thursday @LaFronteraFund 's operational manager started calling anyone who they knew needed funding. She felt it in her bones that Friday would be the day Roe fell. She was right.
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BREAKING: North Carolina abortion providers asked state court to issue partial injunction, thereby allowing physician assistants, certified nurse-midwives, and nurse practitioners to provide medication abortion
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“This is the message that young women are internalizing, that hypervigilance will keep you safe, that being in a constant state of anxiety is simply a fact of life and not something to work on with your therapist.” wow absolutely loved! ⁦ @eeberquist
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NEW in @Jezebel : The Arizona law, now in effect, carries a two- to five-year prison sentence for anyone who “provides, supplies or administers” an abortion. The origins of this law are in the territorial legislature in the 1860s!
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"It is concerning that Breyer appears to have spent Wednesday doing something other than composing his retirement letter. He is still on the court. Stephen! No!"
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I’m sorry CATE MF BLANCHETT is reading @laurenthehough memoir Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing??? I am in love???
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3 years
During her Texas concerts, @lucydacus sold “Fuck Greg Abbott” tees for abortion funds. She announced today that the sales raised more than $22K for @JanesDueProcess @lilithfund Mariposa Fund and @BBFundTX
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Listening to a podcast about the last month of abortion litigation and I’m tired of people saying “these women lived in places not hostile to abortion” LITERALLY EVERY STATE IS HOSTILE TO ABORTION
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my gf sent me this link and I was the Mr Krabs meme
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4 years
For ⁦ @newrepublic ⁩, I wrote about the last week. I’m so tired. Thanks to ⁦ @kmcdonovgh ⁩ for commissioning this. Thanks to all who reached out. Thanks to Texans for always being their for each other.
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What a slap in the face to have the police officer investigating the mishandling of the Petito case write: “If this case was handled flawlessly, would it have changed anything? Nobody knows.”
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2 years
NEWS: Coalition of reproductive rights groups announce massive day of action on May 14. Bans Off Our Bodies Day of Action is organized by Planned Parenthood, Women’s March, UltraViolet, and MoveOn.
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NEW: I talked with @Kate_Kelly_Esq about what's up with the Equal Rights Amendment and how one (1) person is holding it hostage
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2 years
We said goodbye to our best girl, Pepper. Until a rescue found her, Pepper was treated terribly by the world—she carried 2 bullets in her until her death—but she remained so sweet. Always wanting scritches, always wanting to run into your legs. Always loving. I miss her so much.
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Laura took a chance on hiring a reporter down south for the end of Roe. I’m forever grateful. @Jezebel is alive and kicking for now but my contact info is readily available if anyone needs a reporter 🤷🏻‍♀️
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I guess the cat's out of the bag. I have reluctantly resigned from Jezebel, because the company that owned us refused to treat my staff with basic human decency. I will love and support my writers til the end and am so grateful I got to shepherd this site through the end of Roe.
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hahahahah i just realized i’ve been laid off by this company twice
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thank you @sueonthetown for pointing out the actual most important part of this interview: how the Biden Administration didn’t seem to have any action items ready after Friday
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Kamala Harris Dodges Question About Providing Legal Abortions on Federal Land
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@BrandyLJensen a gynp recently walked in on my changing into the gown and then she didn’t come back for 40 minutes to…..lessen the awkwardness???
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Email from @WhiteOakMH : “Due to unexpected circumstances, Bright Eyes was unable to perform at White Oak Music Hall and the show has been officially cancelled.”
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BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously blocked the state's six-week abortion ban by granting a temporary injunction while litigation proceeds. The ban had been in effect since June 27, days after Roe was overturned.
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the report released by @ossoff 's subcommittee is just heartbreaking and ICE's lukewarm testimony about it leaves a lot to be desired!
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BREAKING: Part of North Carolina’s sweeping abortion ban is struck down Medication abortion during very early pregnancy, people can help patients obtain out of state abortions and sexual assault survivors hospital abortion requirement punted until 10/1 Law goes into effect 7/1
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Honestly let me edit Teen Vogue! I would be great at it!
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5 years
"rather than a salary" just made my fucking brain explode
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5 years
@Nicole_Cliffe this is the only tweet of mine i liked but i auto-delete
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2 years
@offbeatorbit lotta tiktoks confusing curated/vintage thrift with the likes of goodwill
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3 years
In call with press, @AmyHM says nearly 70% of @WholeWomans abortion patients are already parents so out-of-state care is out of reach. #SB8 #txlege
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3 years
I love that there’s no earpieces, they just shout off stage
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3 years
Here’s the moment The View co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were pulled from the show’s set over their positive COVID test results:
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“The era of ‘a million girls would kill for that job’ is quickly coming to a close. And all for the better.”
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BREAKING: Mifepristone remains available while the appeal goes through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,
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NEW: Tricia Cotham, a NC state rep endorsed by @emilyslist , plans to change her party affiliation from D to R. This will give the state GOP a veto-proof majority to carry out policies like banning abortion.
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2 years
I am out in Austin, sweating to bring y’all the news
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2 years
Crowds Gather in 400 Cities Across the Country to Protest Abortion Bans, Kicking Off 'Summer of Rage'
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My first piece for @Jezebel is about that poorly reported Atlantic piece earlier this week: "Medication abortion is not a solution to a lack of legal protections for patients and workplace safety for providers."
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My first exclusive for @Jezebel : Planned Parenthood health centers surrounding Texas recorded a 1,082 percent increase in patients with Texas zip codes last month.
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my gf momentarily believed julia garner won an emmy for inventing anna
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“Almost every plantation has problems related to labor, but the conditions of female workers are far worse than men.” This AP investigation into treatment of women harvesting palm oil for the global supply chain (it's in so much!) is harrowing
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Good morning from SCOTUS where four activists have just taken mifepristone for the action to spread awareness about medication abortion
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Taking my mom to surgery this morning. Should be smooth sailing, but would still appreciate prayers and good vibes, whatever your preference ✨
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Steph took new a new headshot of me #NewProfilePic
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I contributed reporting to this important story in @nytimes about skyrocketing electric bills in Texas, including the story from @katandtonyT
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Today is the LAST 24 hours of @gmgunion @WGAEast contract. We’re fighting for parental leave, healthcare and compensation during unprecedented inflation!!! We’d love your support
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With this announcement, @WholeWomans @WWHAlliance is the latest southern clinic to move to New Mexico, a haven for abortion provision
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quitting journalism to wage a full time campaign to get the wnba all-star mvp trophy to look less like it’s from party city
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4 years
A necessary gut check about what happened in Iowa tonight. Having Respectable Republicans™️ as opponents leads to the same materially worse consequences for people.
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Here's the full transcript of the federal hearing about the future of mifepristone, an abortion pill, that took place on Wednesday
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Also! Media literally doesn’t have to accept Republican framing as 15 weeks being later in pregnancy!!!!!
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they’re picking more people for Marina Trench I guess
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