I’m an IVF Doctor. Business Is Booming Because Ob-Gyns Aren’t Doing Their Jobs. Just last Monday, a woman sat across from me in my office and asked a question I have come to dread. Why had no one told her? She is 33, a therapist, married three years, and she has been to her gynecologist every year since high school. She was also on the brink of perimenopause. She had assumed that when she was ready, her body would be too. No one in two decades of annual visits had ever explained that the most consequential decisions about her capacity to bear children were being made by her ovaries on a calendar she could not see, while her doctor took her blood pressure and refilled her birth control. She is the patient I see several times a month. She is the most preventable tragedy in American medicine. thefp.com/p/im-an-ivf-doctor…

"So many of these mothers have spent years away from their children and families, missing birthdays, holidays, and everyday moments most of us take for granted," she continued. "I’m honored to partner with REFORM and LOHM to help reconnect these families so they can hold their children, laugh together, and simply be a family again.” @KimKardashian This Mother's Day, in partnership with @KimKardashian and @thelohm we’re reuniting 50 families. EXCLUSIVE: people.com/kim-kardashian-vi…

“As soon as devices were introduced into classrooms around 2010 scores have been falling in reading, in math, basically around the world.” “We have over a decade of research showing this experiment was a fail... Having students on devices harms their learning.”

Today, April 30th, @POTUS proclaimed April as Second Chance Month.  I am proud to serve our country in my role as White House Pardon Czar. America is a nation of laws. But it is also a nation that believes in growth, responsibility—and redemption. I know that because I lived it. Working alongside many partners across the country, I see every day that public safety must come first—but also that when people truly change, they deserve a real opportunity to rebuild their lives. President Trump has led historic criminal justice reform—and never lost sight of that balance. A second chance changed my life.  Now I work every day to help others earn theirs. 🙏🏽🇺🇸 @WhiteHouse @Potus whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…

Adopted children are promised ‘forever homes.’ An Associated Press investigation finds that many are quietly institutionalized in for-profit facilities instead. apnews.com/article/adopted-c…

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening. UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm. The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6. Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it. The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in. About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters. "I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

We are proud to announce that our CEO @JessicaJackson has been named by @TheHill as one of the Top Women Shaping Policy in the United States! The Hill’s list recognizes 50 lawmakers, advocates, and innovators at the forefront of the most critical policy debates in Washington and across the nation. Throughout her career, and as CEO of REFORM, Jessica has been a champion for policies that have changed the lives of people under supervision all across the country and the world. We’re grateful for this recognition of Jessica’s leadership and thrilled to see her sharing the spotlight with other inspiring women who are effecting change. #WomensHistoryMonth

🎉 IT’S OFFICIAL: HB 149 / SB 136 has passed the VA General Assembly. Now it heads to @SpanbergerForVA's desk to be signed into law. If signed, this bill creates a clear path to early termination for people who have worked hard and done everything right while on probation—complied with the conditions of their supervision, maintained employment, completed treatment, and demonstrated they are not a public safety risk to the community. That means: ✅ Individuals are empowered to earn their way out of the system ✅ Probation officers can focus on higher-risk cases ✅ More Virginians can participate in the workforce ✅ Public safety resources are directed where they matter most Governor Spanberger, let’s finish the job. 💪

Safer Operations. Stronger Accountability. Smarter Technology. BOP’s upcoming Body Worn Camera Industry Day brings industry partners together to demonstrate technologies that support accountability and operational readiness. Full article: bit.ly/3MVud4O

What a blessed morning!!! Last night, @POTUS extended mercy to 21 deserving individuals — with 9 people immediately released, including grandmother Angela Reynolds, Angela Cupit, Andre Routt, and Zechariah Benjamin. Grateful to @RealDonaldTrump, the WHC team, and Deputy Dir Josh Smith and BOP for moving swiftly to bring people home. Will share more later.