There'll be flowers in the window

Today…

• is National IPA Day. I’ll be over here with my sour ale, but you enjoy with my blessing.

Just a quick story, then I gotta run. While I was packing last night, I made the big decision to part with the last of my CD collection. When I tell you I’m a walking GenX stereotype, I mean…

I don’t even own a CD player anymore. And I hadn’t even opened some of these in 10 years, which I realized because my two Travis* CDs were snapped in half in their cases. See, 10 years ago this month – I remember because I wasn’t here for the DC earthquake – my ex stayed with the kids for a few days while I got out of town. He apparently spent a good deal of that weekend destroying things and hiding them for me to find later, like tearing up birthday cards and stashing them behind framed pictures. The pièce de résistance was finding “whore” scratched onto my spare set of glasses.

Honestly.

*Why mad at Travis in particular? Because this was the song we walked into at the wedding reception.

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Abortion

• The American Prospect | The New Pro-Abortion Generation | Amelia Pollard 

• Los Angeles Times | Congress enters the abortion battle as Supreme Court prepares to hear a new case | Jennifer Haberkorn 

Georgia

• The American Independent | GOP House candidate reveals opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest | Emily C. Singer

Michigan

• Michigan Advance | Hillsdale proposes abortion ban, ‘spontaneous miscarriages’ would be open to prosecution | Julie Appleby

Missouri

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Anti-abortion forces continue pressing Missouri lawmakers to defund Planned Parenthood | Kurt Erickson

Virginia

• The American Independent | Virginia lieutenant governor race could decide the fate of abortion rights in the state | Josh Israel

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LGBTQ

• CNET | Why keeping Grindr a safe space for gay people is a matter of life and death | Kent German

• Healthline | HIV Prevention Drug PrEP Must Be Free Under Most Insurance Plans | Ashley Welch 

• Washington Blade | Federal prosecutors declined to prosecute 82% of hate crimes | Lou Chibbaro Jr. 

Alabama

• Montgomery Advertiser | Montgomery's LGBTQ ordinance is delayed by 'misunderstanding' | Brad Harper 

California

• Los Angeles Times | How 2.8 million California voters nearly banned gay teachers from public schools | Nicholas Goldberg 

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Pregnancy & Parenting 

• MSNBC | Matt Damon and the twisted cultural norm of the 'daughter effect' | Liz Plank

• NBC | Delta and vaccinated parents: What people with kids under 12 need to know | Denise Chow

• New York Times | It’s Hard Enough to Have a Child With Cancer. It Shouldn’t Crush Families Financially. | Andrew Kaczynski

• Vox | America isn’t taking care of caregivers | Katherine Harmon Courage 

• Washington Post | The challenges faced by breastfeeding Olympians reflect a bigger problem | Sarah Stoller

Iowa

• Des Moines Register | Iowa's economy needs lasting child care solutions | Dawn Oliver Wiand 

• Iowa Capital Dispatch | Iowa child care crisis continues despite legislative pushes | Katie Akin

Kansas

• Kansas Reflector | Kansas pilot program provides $500K in child care funding for job-seekers | Noah Taborda 

• Topeka Capital-Journal | Are you looking for a job but also need child care? Kansas has a new pilot program to help you | Jason Tidd 

Reproductive Health & Justice

• Slate | The Word for Anatomy That Shouldn’t Be “Vulgar” | Zoe Mendelson 

• Teen Vogue | Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Is a New Cause for Hypocritical Republicans | Kaylen Ralph 

California

• them. | California Could Soon Offer Menstrual Products to All College Students, Regardless of Gender | Nico Lang 

Minnesota

• MinnPost | United Health’s inaugural ‘Disparities Report’ highlights health inequities | Andy Steiner 

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Work & Money

• CNET | Activision Blizzard lawsuit: Latest updates and what you need to know | Daniel Van Boom 

• Variety | 2022 Grammy Awards Will Have ‘Inclusion Rider’ Guaranteeing Staff Diversity | Jem Aswad 

Cuomo

• The New Republic | The Cuomo Report and the #MeToo “Reckoning That Never Really Came | Esther Wang

  • Jezebel | The New Post-MeToo Defensive Strategy | Marie Solis

  • Washington Post | Perspective | The Cuomo investigation shows that getting #MeToo right takes time | Jill Filipovic

• VICE | Let’s Talk About Andrew Cuomo's ‘I Am a Not a Sex Pest’ Slideshow, Shall We? | Carter Sherman

  • More from New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo

• Washington Blade | Damning N.Y. AG report on Cuomo ensnares HRC president | Chris Johnson

  • More from The Advocate, The Hill

Olympics

• Ebony | The Olympic Conundrum Between Black Excellence and Humanity | A. Sherrod Blakely 

• The 19th | Cheerleading in Olympics could end the gendered debate on if it is a sport | Jennifer Gerson 

• Outsports | Some Olympians are ‘intentionally vague’ about being LGBTQ. We respect that choice. | Cyd Zeigler 

• San Francisco Chronicle | Pushback against transgender Olympic athletes is all about sexism | Ann Killion 

  • Bustle | Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic Sport Was An Important Part Of Her Gender Journey | Jay Polish 

  • VICE | Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic Journey Highlights Misconceptions About Trans Athletes | Gavin Butler 

• VICE | Women Athletes Are Finally Taking On Olympic Sexism—and Winning | Carter Sherman