Bitey cat, bitey cat, it's not your fault
Today…
is Constitution Day.
is National Bakery Day celebrate responsibly. Or not. Enjoy your life.
is the birthday of Mary Burnett Talbert (1866–1923), native Ohioan, educator, and lifelong leader in the fight for civil, voting, women’s and international human rights. She was an early organizer of what would become the NAACP.
this handsome boy finally goes to the vet to begin addressing our little aggression problem. He came to us declawed, bad news for obvious reasons, among them – declawed cats bite.
Abortion
Axios | Focus groups: U.S. swing voters oppose restrictive Texas abortion law | Sarah Mucha
BuzzFeed | Long Before Texas, Advocates Have Been Preparing To Fight The Rising Legal Risks For People Seeking Abortions | Nicole
Daily Beast | ‘Court-Packing’ Doesn’t Seem So Radical After TX Abortion Law | Eleanor Clift
Quartz | Why abortion rights are a workplace issue | Sarah Todd
Rolling Stone | How to Order Abortion Pills Online | Tessa Stuart
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | The word is abortion. Say it. Talk about it. Protect access to it. | Mariceli Alegria, Kelsey Rhodes
TechCrunch | In internal memo, Apple says it is monitoring legal challenges to Texas abortion law | Matthew Panzarino
Colorado
Denver Post | Robert Dear, Planned Parenthood shooting suspect, ruled incompetent in federal case | Shelly Bradbury
– More from AP, Colorado Sun
Georgia
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Georgia GOP Senate leader eyeing Texas’ restrictive abortion law | Maya T. Prabhu
– More from WGCL-TV, WXIA-TV
Montana
Yellowstone Public Radio | Montana Lawmakers Study Medicaid Coverage Of Abortion Services | Shaylee Ragar
South Dakota
KELO-TV | Noem administration seeks more conditions on abortion informed-consent form | Bob Mercer
Texas
Bloomberg | Texas Judge Rejects U.S. Bid for Earlier Hearing on Abortion Law | Erik Larson
– More from NewsweekLos Angeles Times | For many Texans, it's a long drive out of state for abortion | Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Ms. | Texas’s Abortion Ban Is Already Causing a Brain Drain in the State. Will Companies Speak Out? | Roxanne Szal
– Dallas Observer called it a Texodus omgThe 19th | The 19th Explains: Will Texas’ six-week abortion ban be blocked by the courts? | Shefali Luthra
AP | Explainer: The Texas abortion law's swift impact, and future | Paul Weber, Jessica Gresko
VICE | Meet the Doctor Who Did 67 Abortions the Day Before the Texas Ban | Carter Sherman
Washington Post | Mark Lee Dickson paved the way for the Texas abortion ban, one small town at a time | Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
Virginia
CBS | Vaccine mandates and abortion bans fuel Virginia's first gubernatorial race debate | Aaron Navarro
Washington
KING-TV | Some Washington lawmakers take stand against restrictive Texas abortion law | Kaila Lafferty
LGBTQ
The American Independent | GOP-led states are making life harder for LGBTQ student-athletes | Casey Quinlan
– USA Today | LGBTQ youths are less likely to play sports because of bullying -- and advocates fear they're missing out | Marc RamirezBuzzFeed | Biden’s Border Policy Is Trapping LGBTQ Asylum-Seekers In Dangerous Conditions In Mexico | Adolfo Flores
Deadline Hollywood | Transgender Talent Agency Aims To Bolster Transgender & Nonbinary Portrayals On Screen Via New Consulting Arm | Peter White
Wall Street Journal | Why Gender Pronouns Are Becoming a Big Deal at Work | Te-Ping Chen
California
Bay Area Reporter | California to collect LGBTQ violent death data under bill signed by Newsom | Matthew S. Bajko
Oregon
The Oregonian | Oregon Board of Education calls on Newberg school board to reverse course on Pride, Black Lives Matter symbol ban | Eder Campuzano
– More from Oregon Public Broadcasting
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Republicans advance bill to allow parents to remove children from school lessons that discuss sexual orientation. Tony Evers will veto it. | Molly Beck
– More from The Capital Times, WisPolitics, WORT-FM
Pregnancy & Parenting
Medscape | How Black Women Have Fought the HIV Epidemic for Decades | Heather Boerner
Motherly | Dr. Fauci on the timeline for vaccinations for kids under 12 + why pregnant and breastfeeding women should get vaccinated | Jessica D'Argenio Waller
Well+Good | The American Heart Association Calls Out Maternal Mortality | Sierra Lyons
Wisconsin
Urban Milwaukee | State Has Troubling Maternal and Infant Racial Health Disparities | Corri Hess
Reproductive Health & Justice
The Lily | The ‘before and after’ trend dominates Instagram. People recovering from eating disorders are reclaiming it. | Courtney Beesch
Work & Money
Business Insider | The Gender Pay Gap Shrank in 2020, but Not Because Companies Started Paying Women More | Madison Hoff
CNBC | Democrats look to extend the expanded monthly child tax credit payments through 2025. The terms could still be up for negotiation | Lorie Konish
CNBC | A paid family leave policy could be coming to the U.S. Here's what it would look like | Ruth Martin, Annie Nova
Inc. | New Report Uncovers Gender Discrepancy and What It Takes to Create a Sense of Belonging at Work | Marcel Schwantes
Marie Claire | Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics—And Neither Have Our Nation’s Moms | Christy Turlington Burns, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Ms. | Student Activists Are Breaking the Silence on Period Poverty | Audin Leung
NBC Sports | USWNT Players Association Calls USSF's Identical Deals Proposal a ‘PR Stunt' | Max Molski
Salt Lake Tribune | LuLaRoe and the shadow side of Mormon gender roles | Jana Riess
– I binged the LuLaRich docuseries a few nights ago and very recommend (especially if you, like me, devour stories about Fyre Festival, WeWork, Theranos and the like).Washington Post | Analysis: Coverage for low-income kids and new moms is on Democrats' to-do list | Rachel Roubein
Virginia
WRIC-TV | Free menstrual products available for Richmond School students in middle, high school | Tyler Thrasher