Back on the farm
Today is… VP debate, National Kale Day, Pumpkin Seed Day, etc etc etc I’m out of town look at the view from the front porch. We stayed at this farmhouse back in June, and the 11yo has asked for nothing else since, so here we are.
Supreme Court
ACB
Washington Post | Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise | Jon Swaine, Emma Brown, Michelle Boorstein
AP | Barrett lived in house owned by co-founders of faith group | Michael Biesecker, Michelle Smith
Ms. | Potential Complications Ahead for Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation | Amanda Becker
The New Republic | The Religious Hijacking of the Supreme Court Doesn’t Require Amy Barrett | Stephanie Russell-Kraft
HuffPost | Poll: Voters Give SCOTUS Nominee Narrowly Positive Marks, But Say Hearings Should Wait | Ariel Edwards-Levy
CNN | Amy Coney Barrett's record of advocating for limits to abortion rights | Ariane de Vogue
The Fight
AP | Democrats ask if more material omitted from Barrett response | Matthew Daly
POLITICO | Dems ask DOJ for answers over Barrett's abortion ad omission | Marianne LeVine
NPR | Duckworth: Block Supreme Court Pick Who Thinks 'My Daughters Shouldn't Even Exist' | Sarah McCammon
Fast Company | ‘Every generation has their fight, and this is ours’: Planned Parenthood’s president on the battle for the Supreme Court | Yasmin Gagne
HuffPost | 150 Civil Rights Groups Oppose Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett | Jennifer Bendery
SCOTUS & LGBTQ
CNN | Same-sex marriage at risk as Supreme Court gets more conservative | Tim Holbrook
LA Progressive | Attacks on Marriage Equality and Gay Rights Coming? | Andrea Germanos
LGBTQ Nation | Anti-LGBTQ group will ask Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality decision | Alex Bollinger
NBC News | Fight against gay marriage still 'alive and well' in U.S., advocates warn | Jeff Taylor
The Philadelphia Gay News | The U.S. Supreme Court v. LGBT Americans | Victoria A. Brownworth
2020
2020 & Abortion
CBS | Biden pledged to make Roe v. Wade "the law of the land." Abortion-rights supporters want more. | Kate Smith
Newsweek | Joe Biden Says if Amy Coney Barrett Overturns Roe v. Wade, He'll Make It 'The Law of the Land' | Darragh Roche
NowThis News | Joe Biden Promises To Protect Roe V. Wade As “Law Of The Land” | Ashleigh Carter
HuffPost | Biden Says He Will Make Roe v. Wade ‘The Law Of The Land’ | Melissa Jeltsen
Newsweek | Fact Check: Does Joe Biden Support Late-Term Abortion Up Until Birth Like Donald Trump Claimed? | Jocelyn Grzeszczak
Mediaite | Trump Falsely Claims Biden and Democrats Want to Kill Babies | Colby Hall
Romper | Trump Falsely Claims Biden Favors Abortion "Up Until The Time Of Birth & Beyond" | Morgan Brinlee
Common Dreams | Planned Parenthood Action Fund Statement on Trump’s False Tweet on Abortion Later in Pregnancy
What’s-His-Face
GEN Magazine | Trump Takes ‘Toxic Masculinity’ to New, Contagious Levels | Jessica Valenti
HuffPost | 'When You're A Star, They Let You Do It' | Emma Gray, Elise Foley
VICE | Trump’s Job Description Does Not Include 'Slandering Women,' E. Jean Carroll's Lawyers Argue | Carter Sherman
VP Debate
New York Times | Mike Pence Brought Conservatives Home. What If They Don’t Need Him Anymore? | Jeremy Peters
POLITICO | 'Out of his mouth will come these wild Trumpisms': Harris preps to take on Pence | Christopher Cadelago
USA Today | The prosecutor vs. the 'king of sound bites.' Why the Harris-Pence debate is no ordinary VP faceoff | Maureen Groppe
Metro Weekly | Five LGBTQ questions advocates want asked at the vice presidential debate | John Riley
2020 & LGBTQ rights
AlterNet | Why the right wing has put marriage equality and LGBTQ rights on the ballot | Andrea Germanos
The Daily Beast | LGBTQ Civil Rights are in Peril. Your Vote is Crucial to Help Save Them. | Tim Teeman
Abortion
Law and Crime | Democratic AGs File SCOTUS Challenge to Trump Admin’s Abortion ‘Gag Rule’ as Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Looms Large | Matt Naham, Jerry Lambe, Colin Kalmbacher
Ms. | Limiting Scientific Research is Another Front in the War on Abortion | Michelle Onello
Colorado
Colorado Times Recorder | How CO's Prop. 115 Could Deny Women Medically Necessary Abortions | Madeleine Schmidt
Rewire | Colorado Voters Could Determine Abortion Access Nationwide | Susan Rinkunas
Louisiana
Rewire | Will Louisiana Be the First State to Criminalize Abortion After Justice Ginsburg’s Death? | Susan Rinkunas
LGBTQ
INSIDER | More than 30 transgender people have been killed in 2020, making this already the deadliest year since records began | Canela Lopez
The ASCO Post | Survey of Health-Care Providers Finds Knowledge About Unique Needs of LGBTQ Patients With Cancer Is Limited | Jo Cavallo
NBC Sports | USL Championship suspends Flemmings for homophobic slur | Nicholas Mendola
California
CBS | California to house transgender inmates based on gender identity | Jonathan McDougle
Florida
GoMag | Florida Governor Nominates First Openly Gay Judge To The State's Supreme Court | Isabelle Lichtenstein
Indiana
Metro Weekly | Indiana mother plans to sue school for discriminating against her lesbian daughter | John Riley
New Jersey
The Charlotte Observer | Amazon bosses ‘harassed’ transgender worker during pregnancy, lawsuit says | Hayley Fowler
LGBTQ Nation | Transgender man sues Amazon for pregnancy & gender identity discrimination | Bil Browning
NBC News | Transgender man files pregnancy discrimination suit against Amazon | Dan Avery
Pregnancy & Parenting
Pandemic Parenting
Al Jazeera | Mom burnout: Pandemic driving millions of women from US workforce | Kaelyn Forde
Axios | Women's workplace crisis: 865,000 left the labor force in September | Erica Pandey
DAME | Our Childcare Crisis Is an Economic Crisis | Kelly Glass
KTNV-TV (Las Vegas, NV) | 'I'm in mommy mode and work mode at the same time' Why women are leaving work in record numbers | Jackie Kostek
Reproductive Health & Justice
BuzzFeed News | Despite Outrage Over Gynecological Procedures At An ICE Facility, A Detainee Says Conditions Haven't Changed | Adolfo Flores
Forbes | How Gaps In Telehealth Access Could Impact Reproductive Health | Jo Yurcaba
Global Citizen | The Gender Health Gap: Why Women’s Bodies Shouldn’t Be a Medical Mystery | Imogen Learmonth
Ms. | New Report Points to Women's Mental Health Crisis | Oliver Haug
Ms. | United Nations Population Fund Thriving as It Praises an American Who Kept U.S. Interest Alive | Barbara Crossette
Maternal Mortality
Asheville Citizen Times| When Mothers Don't Come Home | Chris Worthy
Darling Magazine | Help Me Understand: The Racial Disparities Black Women Face in Maternal Health | Sarah James
Metro Philadelphia | Kimberly Seals Allers: Fighting to Lower Black and Brown Maternal Mortality Rates | Donna Duarte-Ladd
Romper| There's Just One Problem With Biden's Plan For Reducing Maternal Deaths | Tiffany Lawrence
Washington, DC
WUSA-TV | This new DC Council bill could provide reparations to descendants of enslaved people | Jonathan Franklin
Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie's bill would also be paired with a resolution that will declare racism as a public health crisis in the District.Washington Post | D.C. slaveholders once won reparations. Now, the city eyes payment for descendants of enslaved people. | Michael Brice-Saddler, Fenit Nirappil
Work & Money
The Conversation | Paid internships elusive for women and Asian college students | Kelli Smith, Jennifer M Gillis, John Zilvinskis
Entrepreneur Magazine | To Help More Women Reach the Top, We Must First Help Those at the Bottom | Georgene Huang
Colorado
KMGH-TV (Denver, CO) | Proposition 118: Statewide paid family and medical leave question on Colorado's November ballot | Meghan Lopez
Georgia
Statesboro Herald | Council votes nondiscrimination and equity law package forward | Al Hackle
Indiana
The Journal Gazette | Editorial: Ongoing inequity
Massachusetts
Boston Herald | Pressley makes push for One Fair Wage for tipped workers | Marie Szaniszlo
Minnesota
HR Magazine | Decision Not to Promote Female Candidate Upheld | Kenneth J. Diamond
New York
City Limits | NYC's Growing Income Inequality Threatens Pandemic Recovery | Bijan Kimiagar, Jack Mullan
More, More, More
Jezebel | The Paradox of How-To Feminism For Men | Hazel Cills
Marquette Tribune | U.S. should follow global feminist movements’ examples | Jenna Koch
Ms. | Media Invited Primarily White, Male Guests to Discuss Ginsburg’s Death and Supreme Court's Future | Tyler Monroe
Smithsonian Magazine | How Have Women Voted Since Suffrage? It’s Complicated | Jennifer M. Piscopo