Today… I don’t even know. It’s late, I’m exasperated with the whole wide world*, and like two cold nickels all I have rattling around in my brain is eff Greg Abbott and this song.
*Except you, of course, you are delightful and your hair looks especially good today.
Texas Toast
The latest
ABC | Biden Justice Department expected to file suit against Texas over restrictive abortion law
More from Business Insider, Daily Beast, MarketWatch, Political Wire, POLITICO, WSJ
The governor’s BS
Slate | Texas Governor: Abortion Law Doesn’t Need Rape Exception, Victims Have Six Weeks Like Everyone Else
Austin American-Statesman | Gov. Greg Abbott wants to eliminate rape. More than 90% of sexual assault cases in Texas are never reported
Texas Tribune | Texas has banned abortions at about six weeks. But the time frame for pregnant patients to get one is less than two.
More from San Antonio Express-News
The Hill
Vox | The Women’s Health Protection Act seeks to codify Roe v. Wade’s abortion rights | More from KVUE-TV
Newsweek | Greg Abbott Must Put $10K Bounties on Rapists, AOC Says, Mocking Texas Abortion Law | More from Changing America, KXAN-TV, LGBTQ Nation, The Mary Sue, New York Daily News, People, Teen Vogue
The court
Bloomberg | Abortion Brush-Off Contrasts With High Court Move in Church Case
Slate | Republicans Don’t Actually Want Roe v. Wade to End This Way
USA Today | Supreme Court uses abortion ruling to unleash constitutional mischief
The fight
CNN | What to know about the developing state court fight over Texas' abortion law
Boston.com | Why the Satanic Temple in Salem is working to increase abortion access in Texas | More from Daily Dot, MassLive.com
Forbes | How Texas’s Oldest Abortion Fund Is Responding To The State’s Abortion Ban
HuffPost | Progressive Judicial Group Launches $1.5 Million Effort To Expand Supreme Court
The New Republic | A Legendary Abortion Rights Activist on What Comes After Texas
The Texan | Abortion Facilities Aim to Halt Private ‘Heartbeat Act’ Lawsuits Preemptively After Supreme Court Denial
The $$$
Daily Beast | Amazon, Google, Facebook Helped Fund the Far-Right Groups That Pushed for Texas Abortion Ban More from Houston Chronicle
Washington Post | Texas Abortion Law Ends an Era of Business Pragmatism
The sweet, sweet schadenfreude
WIRED | The Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host | More from New York Daily News
The Texas Signal | Anti-abortion website shut down after flood of trolling | More from Daily Dot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The harm
The American Independent | Study shows more people could die under extreme abortion restrictions
KHOU-TV | Yes, private citizens given power to enforce Texas abortion ban and could be awarded $10,000
New York Magazine | Anti-Abortion Activists Aren’t Hypocrites
San Antonio Current | Fearing lawsuits, Planned Parenthood's three San Antonio abortion sites halt the procedure
The ripple effects
The Nation | Texas Is the New Republican Template | More from Variety
New York Magazine | How Far Will the Anti-Abortion Movement Go?
Colorado: Colorado Politics | Colorado abortion clinics, advocates see surge of patients from Texas in wake of new law
Florida: Miami Herald | After ‘unconstitutional’ Texas win, Florida legislators too eager to stomp on abortion rights
Massachusetts: WWLP-TV |MA lawmakers look to expand women’s rights as other states move to ban abortion | More from MassLive.com
Montana: AP | Montana asks court not to block new laws targeting abortion
Oklahoma: KTUL-TV | Demand for abortions jumps in Tulsa due to Texas
Oregon: Business Insider |Portland postpones vote to boycott Texas products over the state's new restrictive abortion law, saying the city needs longer to study the potential impact | More from AP, Portland Mercury
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Inquirer | A governor’s veto pen is the only thing standing between Pa. and Texas-style abortion laws More from Erie Times-News
Virginia: The New Republic | The Texas Abortion Law Could Juice Democratic Turnout in Virginia | More from Washington Post
LGBTQ+
NBC | Half of LGBTQ workers have faced job discrimination, report finds
Time | Why the Human Rights Campaign Had to Fire Its President
Iowa
The Advocate | Iowa Teacher Placed on Leave After Coming Out to Students
Missouri
Kansas City Star | Gay teacher says Missouri district threatened firing if he brought ‘personal agenda’ to class
More from The Hill,LGBTQ Nation, Newsweek, USA Today
Missouri Independent | Democrats demand LGBTQ exhibit return to Missouri Capitol or other exhibits be removed
More from The Advocate, Metro Weekly
Utah
Salt Lake Tribune | Can Utah students who are transgender or nonbinary ask to use a different name at school? The law is unclear.
Pregnancy & Parenting
Popular Information | The shameful treatment of American families
SheKnows | The Cost of Preschool Nearly Broke Us — And It’s a Symptom of What Is Wrong in Our Country
Washington Post | Democrats ready $450 billion plan to expand child care and prekindergarten as broader economic package hits new political snags
Mississippi
Mississippi Free Press | In Mississippi, Fetal Deaths Double Among Unvaccinated Pregnant Women With COVID-19
Reproductive Health & Justice
USA Today | Adults fear sex education will cause kids to have more sex. It won't. | Alia E. Dastagir
Work & Money
HuffPost | Joe Biden Nominates More Historic Firsts To Be Lifetime Federal Judges
Morning Consult | Republican Women Want Paid Family Leave. GOP Men Are Starting to Get on Board
New York Times | Men Fall Behind in College Enrollment. Women Still Play Catch-Up at Work.
Ohio
Ohio Capital Journal | Study: COVID-19 reversed progress for Ohio women, more than 1 million workers displaced