Punch the clock it's time to work
Today… to start on a positive note, is National Great American Pot Pie Day. But that I lived near a Bob Evans.
…there’s little else but SCOTUS, so if you’re feeling as overwhelmed as I am, check out this list from Anoa Changa of ways to “direct our rage into action.” Democracy is in danger. Sustained engagement can help.
…I enjoyed this. (Apologies to Marie Solis.)
Haters cannot touch our drive. We’re here to work.
Supreme Court
New York Times | Ginsburg Will Lie in State in the Capitol, the First Woman to Be Given the Honor | Annie Karni
The nomination
New York Times | Men Promised a Woman for R.B.G.’s Seat. Is That What Women Want? | Rebecca R. Ruiz, Sydney Ember
Newsweek | Donald Trump Explains How He Picks Supreme Court Nominees | Jeffery Martin
The Mary Sue | Who’s on Donald Trump’s Shortlist to Destroy the Supreme Court? | Vivian Kane
LGBTQ Nation | Trump’s likely choices for the Supreme Court are all very, very bad for LGBTQ people | John Gallagher
POLITICO | Trump-world clashes over Barrett vs. Lagoa | Marc Caputo, Alex Isenstadt
ACB
CNN | Trump court announcement set for Saturday as Amy Coney Barrett emerges as a favorite | Pamela Brown, Ariane de Vogue, Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins
CNN | Democrats weigh how to handle Trump's potential Supreme Court pick after past flap over Barrett's faith | Manu Raju
Cosmopolitan | Amy Coney Barrett May Become Trump's SCOTUS Pick. So, Who Is She? | Sara Li
NBC | Trump Supreme Court favorite Amy Coney Barrett would be the ultimate insult to RBG | Jill Filipovic
Newsweek | Amy Coney Barrett on Abortion, Roe v. Wade and Judicial Precedent in Her own Words | Emily Mae Czachor
Newsweek | What Amy Coney Barrett Has Said About ACA | Jacob Jarvis
RawStory | Trump Supreme Court front-runner belongs to a group that inspired the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ | Igor Derysh
Refinery29 | Did Amy Coney Barrett's Religious Group Inspire "The Handmaid's Tale?" | Sarah Midkiff
Scary Mommy | Amy Coney Barrett Is A Pro-Birther Who Needs To Stay Away From The SCOTUS | Elaine Roth
Larsen
AP | 'Justice Joan' Larsen emerges as finalist for Supreme Court | Ryan Foley
What’s At Stake: Abortion
The Atlantic | How Abortion May Change in the Supreme Court | Emma Green
The Daily, New York Times | A Historic Opening for Anti-Abortion Activists | Michael Barbaro
HuffPost | How A Supreme Court Vacancy Could Spell The End Of Legal Abortion | Melissa Jeltsen
MSNBC | Trump's 2020 plan to ban all abortion - and the campaign to stop him | Ari Melber
Newsday | Ruth Bader Ginsburg protected your abortion rights. Be afraid now that she's gone | Carla Hall On it, Carla. On it.
NPR | What A Supreme Court Vacancy Might Mean For Abortion Cases | Audie Cornish
Reuters | Trump-appointed justice could signal major Supreme Court shift on abortion | Lawrence Hurley
The Left
Mother Jones | The Left Wasn’t Ready to Fight Brett Kavanaugh. That Isn’t the Case This Time. | Kara Voght
Mother Jones | Democrats Need to Make Republicans Pay a Price for Filling Ginsburg’s Seat | Kevin Drum
POLITICO | How abortion groups on both sides are mobilizing after RBG's death | Alice Ollstein
CNBC | Planned Parenthood launches ad campaign to oppose Trump pick to replace Ginsburg on Supreme Court | Brian Schwartz
The Advocate | HRC: SCOTUS Front-Runner Amy Coney Barrett Threatens LGBTQ+ Rights | Trudy Ring
BuzzFeed News | Volunteers Are Coming Out In Droves To Support Reproductive Rights After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death | Ema O'Connor
The Role of Religion
Washington Post | Why conservatives want the court fight to focus on Catholicism | David Weigel
New York Times | How the Religious Right Has Transformed the Supreme Court | Lee Epstein, Eric A. Posner
Washington Post | A new conservative Supreme Court justice could boost religious rights at the cost of LGBTQ protections | Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Samantha Schmidt
To Pack Or Not To Pack
The American Prospect | The Republican Court-Packing Scheme | Harold Meyerson
CNN | 'Everything is on the table': GOP's Supreme Court push escalates Democratic debate over packing court | Dan Merica, Gregory Krieg
LA Times | Maybe it's time to expand the Supreme Court | Doyle McManus
New York Magazine | If The McConnell Rule Is Dead, Court Packing Is Permitted | Eric Levitz
Newsweek | The Political Minority Is Ruling America. But the Path to Reform Is Clear | Doug Gordon
Time | Is the 'Court Packing' Debate Hurting Democrats Electorally? | Alana Abramson
What’s At Stake: The Future Of The Court
The Atlantic | RBG's Death and the End of Liberal Faith in Courts | Amanda Tyler, Alan Rozenshtein
New York Times | The Supreme Court Is Slipping Away From Democrats | Spencer Bokat-Lindell
The New Yorker | How Trump’s Supreme Court Maneuver Could Dangerously Increase the Powers of the President | David Rohde
Washington Post | Partisan fight over Supreme Court could affect issues and image | Robert Barnes
Washington Post | If Trump appoints a third justice, the Supreme Court would be the most conservative it’s been since 1950 | Michael Bailey
Really Big Gratitude
Bitch Media | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Never Asked to Be Notorious | Andi Zeisler
Bustle | Why It Hurts So Much | Margaret Wheeler Johnson
Ms. | Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy-as a Lawyer, on the Bench and in Dissent | Carrie Baker
Ms. | Women’s Inequality Has Been Maintained by Force of Law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Knew This. | Michele Goodwin
Slate | How RBG Evolved From a Minimalist Jurist to a Galvanizing Force of Nature | Dahlia Lithwick
Time | How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Paved the Way for Women to Get Credit Cards | Samantha Rosen
Abortion
The Hill | The Trump administration's war on abortion rights is worse than you think | Michelle Onello
LGBTQ
Mother Jones | Mike Pompeo Has Turbocharged the State Department’s War on LGBTQ Rights | Dan Spinelli
GoMag | Bill For LGBTQ+-Inclusive National Suicide Hotline Passed Unanimously Through Congress | Isabelle Lichtenstein
The Guardian | Crowdsourcing surgery: how trans people rely on donations when the US government backs away | Lillian Kalish
The New Republic | The Accelerating Attack on Trans Student Athletes | Melissa Gira Grant, Katelyn Burns, Sydney Bauer
DeVos
Metro Weekly | Ed Sec Betsy DeVos threatens to withhold desegregation money over transgender athletes | John Riley
Out Magazine | Governor Tells Betsy Devos to 'Butt Out' Over Trans Student-Athletes | Donald Padgett
Pregnancy & Parenting
Jezebel | Author Lyz Lenz On the Silent Labor of Pregnancy and Motherhood | Joyzel Acevedo
Pandemic Parenting
CBS News | Hungry with children: 1 in 3 families with kids don't have enough food | Aimee Picchi
Chalkbeat | Another pandemic shift: In many school districts, 1 in 10 kindergartners didn’t show up | Kalyn Belsha
Forbes | New Findings On Family Life During The Pandemic | Naomi Cahn
New York Times | How Burnout Became the Norm for American Parents | Anne Helen Petersen
Psychology Today | How to Ease Parental Stress & Burnout During the Pandemic | Paula Davis-Laack J.D
Minnesota
Duluth News Tribune | House committee on racial justice discusses Black infant, maternal mortality rates at first meeting | Sarah Mearhoff
Reproductive Health & Justice
ICE Detention
BuzzFeed | Immigrant Women Detained By ICE Will No Longer See A Doctor Accused Of Performing Unwanted Gynecological Procedures | Adolfo Flores, Hamed Aleaziz
Bitch Media | ICE Is Using Women’s Bodies as a Battleground for Racial Purity | Barbara Sostaita
Reuters | "Unacceptable" if Mexicans subjected to medical abuse in U.S. custody, minister says | Edgard Garrido
VICE | ICE Released Another Woman Who Complained of Questionable Gynecological Surgery | Greg Walters
Work & Money
American Prospect | Social Security for All | Deepak Bhargava, Mimi Abramovitz
People seeking help for the first time are learning what poor and working-class people—mostly women and people of color—have long known: that in times of crisis, the net doesn’t catch you when you fall.
Military.com | House Approves Bill Ordering VA to Change Gender-Exclusive Motto | Nikki Wentling
NBC News | Why Kamala Harris' nomination is pushing this academic idea further into the mainstream | Julianne McShane
A Biden-Harris win could help center the concerns of women of color in public policy.
Gothamist | After Train Worker Loses Baby And Sues MTA, Changes Are Finally Coming for Pregnant Workers | Stephen Nessen