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Today at Ms. | January 13, 2026
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Musk Isn’t Stopping Grok From Creating Explicit Photos of Minors Using AI. Here’s What Can Be Done. [[link removed]]
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By Wayne Unger | Since the end of December, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has responded to many users’ requests to undress real people by turning photos of the people into sexually explicit material. After people began using the feature, the social platform company faced global scrutiny for enabling users to generate nonconsensual sexually explicit depictions of real people.
The Grok account has posted thousands of “nudified” and sexually suggestive images per hour. Even more disturbing, Grok has generated sexualized images and sexually explicit material of minors.
X’s response: Blame the platform’s users, not us.
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Predictions for Women’s Health in 2026: A Dark Year, With a Few Bright Spots [[link removed]]
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By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf | If 2025 was a “very bad year” for women’s health, 2026 promises a continued rise in attacks on bodily autonomy and barriers to care.
Among the immediate and longer-term challenges, here is what we are watching out for this year.
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The Cost of Treating Immigration as a War [[link removed]]
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By Mary Giovagnoli | On Jan. 7, 2026, Renee Macklin Good became the latest person to die because of Donald Trump’s brutal immigration agenda.
She is not the first to lose her life at the hands of immigration enforcement agents—362 people have died during encounters with CBP since 2010. Nor will she be the last, unless we take action to dismantle the power and authority given to ICE and CBP over the last year.
When state-sanctioned violent tactics are used alongside recruitment campaigns encouraging new hires to protect the homeland and help decide who will live in this country; questionable training; and administration rhetoric that comes out of the nationalist movements of the 1930s and ’40s; violence against innocent people—regardless of race or nationality—is inevitable.
As Jennifer Mascia wrote for The Trace: “… Where immigration agents have gone, gun violence has usually followed.”
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2025 was a harrowing year for many families. The Trump administration’s budget cuts are giving tax breaks to billionaires at the expense of funding healthy meals for students experiencing food insecurity; legislatures are banning books and attacking LGBTQ+ students; and immigration crackdowns are leaving many students afraid to go to school at all. Families have had a lot to be worried about—more than just tests and grades—this year. What are students, parents, and teachers worried about—and what policies are advocates watching?
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