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Today is…
the start of the Supreme Court term. Is it too late to get out of the car?
the start of National Mental Illness Awareness Week.
National Apple Brown Betty Day.
the birthday of sculptor Maya Lin (1959–), born and raised in Athens, Ohio, whose design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was selected when she was an undergrad at Yale.
Supreme Court
AP | Facing a conservative turn, Supreme Court opens new term | Jessica Gresko, Mark Sherman
The Supreme Court opens a new term with Republicans on the cusp of realizing a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the power of government.
ABC | Supreme Court begins new term as election battle looms | Devin Dwyer
CNN | Supreme Court launches new term reeling from RBG's death and in political spotlight | Ariane de Vogue
New York Times | New Supreme Court Term Could End Roberts’s Dominant Role | Adam Liptak, Allison Orr Larsen
Washington Post | Supreme Court opens new term at the center of America’s bitter political divide | Robert Barnes
SCOTUS & 2020
NPR | The Election And A Fresh Obamacare Challenge Loom Over New Supreme Court Term | Nina Totenberg
USA Today | Supreme Court begins 2020 term as a key election issue. Will it decide the election too? | Richard Wolf
NBC | Republicans may have a real shot at overturning Roe v. Wade. But political danger lurks. | Sahil Kapur
Republicans are so close to their goal of overturning Roe v. Wade that they can taste it. But suddenly, to some facing tough re-election fights, it doesn't taste so good.
ACB
AP | Alumni at Barrett's undergrad school sign letter of concern | Adrian Sainz
Daily Beast | 1,500 Alumni at Amy Coney Barrett’s Undergrad Rhodes College Condemn Her in Letter of Concern | Tori Powell
USA Today | We binge-watched 15 hours of Amy Barrett's speeches. Here’s what we learned about her judicial philosophy. | Nick Penzenstadler, Kevin McCoy
ACB & Abortion
The American Independent | Amy Coney Barrett wants doctors to go to jail for providing health care to women | Lisa Needham
[Barrett’s] views on other reproductive health issues, including fertilization and embryos, go far beyond merely opposing abortion. Indeed, she once signed onto a full-page ad that called for prosecuting doctors not just for performing abortions, but for discarding unused or frozen embryos.
BuzzFeed | A Senator Wrote An Impassioned Letter To Her Colleagues About Her IVF Treatment And Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee | Ema O'Connor
Ms. | It Was Never About Saving Babies. It Was Always About Motherhood. | Andrea Becker
New York Times | Citing fears about I.V.F., Tammy Duckworth urges Senate not to confirm Judge Barrett. | Jacey Fortin
SCOTUS & ACA, Obergefell, Etc.
Ms. | Health Care on Life Support? | Martha Burk
Vox | While Trump gets the best health care in the world, he wants to eliminate coverage for millions | Dylan Scott
Washington Post | Amy Coney Barrett’s alignment with Scalia has implications far beyond Roe v. Wade | Ruth Marcus
The fight to come
Ms. | Merrick Garland, Amy Coney Barrett, and the “Two-Faced,” “Duplicitous” Republican Senators | Carrie Baker, Julia Cornick
Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley are among the 31 Republican senators who have gone back on their word regarding nominating a Supreme Court justice during an election year.
2020
The Daily Beast | Both Sides Contradict Trump: Abortion Is on the Ballot in 2020 | Scott Bixby
HuffPost | Catholics Shouldn't Only Care About Abortion While Voting, Texas Bishop Says | Carol Kuruvilla
Ms. | Vote For Paid Leave: Women’s Rights Are on Ballot-Along With Their Children's | Amanda K. Fingarson
Ms. | Equality by Initiative: Ballot Measures to Watch This November | Oliver Haug, Corinne Ahrens, Giselle Hengst
The New Republic | The Anti-Filibuster Armies Are Mounting Up | Osita Nwanevu
Whether or not Biden chooses to acknowledge as much, passing, implementing, and defending the major items of his policy agenda will require, at minimum, eliminating the Senate filibuster and, most likely, reforming what will soon be a 6–3 conservative Supreme Court.
2020 & LGBTQ
The American Independent | Trump's campaign outreach to LGBTQ voters is all a sham | Casey Quinlan
them. | Pence Thinks Being Gay Is a “Choice.” LGBTQ+ Groups Say the Debate Must Call Him Out | Nico Lang
Illinois
Daily Herald | Casten, Ives have widely different views on abortion, contraception rights | Russell Lissau
Kansas
Kansas Reflector | Abortion a blunt instrument in Bollier, Marshall battle for open U.S. Senate seat | Tim Carpenter
Abortion
Fast Company | The pandemic sparked the rise of tele-abortion. Is it here to stay? | Ruth Reader
After 20 years in the U.S., medication abortion is finally widely accessible through telehealth. But a looming Supreme Court ruling could change all that.
Alabama
AP | Man fighting convictions in Olympic, clinic bombings
A man who was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty in the fatal bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is arguing he deserves a new sentencing hearing or a chance to withdraw his plea.
New Jersey
NPR | With Roe v. Wade On The Line, Some States Take Steps To Protect Abortion Rights | Sarah McCammon
NJ.com | N.J. lawmakers, Murphy push to expand abortion access | Michael Warren
WBGO-FM (Newark, NJ) | N.J. moves to codify abortion rights into state law ahead of Supreme Court vote | Joe Hernandez
Ohio
Ohio Capital Journal | Abortions continue to decline in the state | Susan Tebben
WOSU-FM (Columbus, OH) | Abortion Rates Continue To Decline In Ohio | Jo Ingles
South Dakota
Rapid City Journal | South Dakota abortions halted in March due to pandemic | Arielle Zionts
LGBTQ
LGBTQ Nation | George Takei leads request for LGBTQ people to reclaim #ProudBoys and it’s glorious | Juwan Holmes
More from BuzzFeed, CBS, CNN, CNet, Daily Kos, Forbes, HuffPost, Instinct, The Mary Sue, USA Today, Washington Blade, Washington Post
AP | Sexual, gender minorities much likelier to be crime victims | Astrid Galván
🠲 Vox | 9 questions about trans issues you were too embarrassed to ask | Katelyn Burns
Gizmodo | With Trump in Hospital With Covid-19, Twitter Suddenly Decides That Wishing for Someone's Death Is a No-No | Jody Serrano
Harper's Bazaar | Letter Opposing J.K. Rowling's Transphobia Signed by 1,500 Publishing Professionals | Amy Mackelden
Out | This Pride May Be the Largest In-Person Queer Gathering of 2020 | David Artavia
Kentucky
New Civil Rights Movement | Louisville, Kentucky becomes the 82nd U.S. city to ban ex-gay conversion therapy | Daniel Villarreal
Texas
Metro Weekly | Transgender Texas teen says she's been banned from school until she adheres to male dress code | John Riley
Virginia
The Advocate | Churches, Photographer Sue Over Virginia's LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Law | Trudy Ring
Metro Weekly | Norfolk photographer drops challenge to Virginia's LGBTQ nondiscrimination law | John Riley
Pregnancy & Parenting
NPR | Enough Already: Multiple Demands Causing Women To Abandon Workforce | Avie Schneider
Last month, women left jobs at four times the rate that men did. A new school year with children staying home instead of returning to classrooms in person led many women to drop out of the workforce.
Boston Globe | COVID-19 is forcing women out of the workforce. Transparency and openness is the only way forward | Kara Baskin
Inc. | How to Survive the School Year When You're Working—and They're Learning—from Home | Amanda Pressner Kreuser
The Lily | Some U.S. employers are finally offering paid parental leave. Working moms with kids at home say they’re afraid to use it. | Caroline Kitchener
Los Angeles Times | To work remotely, you’ll need high-speed internet and a quiet space. And your kids need a schedule | Kathy Kristof
NextGov | Mothers’ Careers Are at Extraordinary Risk Right Now | Marianne Cooper
POLITICO | Are women about to lose all the progress they’ve made? | Elizabeth Ralph
Working Mother | Four Times as Many Women Dropped Out of the Workforce in September as Men | Audrey Goodson Kingo
Working Mother | 'Do You Know How Many Kids HE Has?' CEO Nails How Moms Get Unfairly Scrutinized | Quinn Fish
Work & Money
CBS | "The most powerful woman on Wall Street" on closing the gender wealth gap | Michelle Miller
Forbes | Turning Ladders Into Bridges: How To Retain More Women In The Workforce | Addie Swartz
More, More, More
Reuters | China accuses U.S. at U.N. of trying to take world back to 'jungle age' | Michelle Nichols
China accused the United States on Friday of “fabricating lies” and trying to take the world back to the “jungle age” after Washington blamed Beijing and U.N. agencies for “the murder of millions of baby girls.”
So it’s going… as you’d expect… *fans self*