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Today… I have no brain for words because Friday mama sleeeeeepy.
in 1892, a “little band of nine ladies,” including Susan B. Anthony, illegally voted in Rochester, New York.
is the birthday of Ida Tarbell (1857-44), an investigative reporter and among “the most influential muckrakers of the Gilded Age,” whose expose on Standard Oil led to a federal investigation and break-up of the company.
is National Doughnut Appreciation Day, yes please, thank you.
Abortion
The Atlantic | No, Really, the Right to an Abortion Is Supported by the Text and History of the Constitution | David H. Gans
New York Times | Do Gun Rights Depend on Abortion Rights? That’s Now Up to the Supreme Court. | Linda Greenhouse
Reckon | Abortion laws: A state-by-state breakdown | Abbey Crain
Rewire News Group | A 15-Week Abortion Ban Is a Coward's Compromise | Imani Gandy
The New Republic | There’s Nothing Moderate About a Ban on Abortions at 15 Weeks | Esther Wang
Roll Call | House Democrats, Republicans clash over Texas abortion law | Sandhya Raman
Slate | Why men need to hear the abortion stories women whisper to one another. | Susan White
Louisiana
KEDM-FM | Access to abortions for some minors restored in Louisiana after judge dismisses lawsuit | Rosemary Westwood
KEDM-FM | Louisianans would live farthest from an abortion clinic if Roe v. Wade were overturned: report | Rosemary Westwood
Ohio
The Cut | Ohio Proposes Extra-Extreme Version of Texas Abortion Ban | Claire Lampen
Texas
Ms. | Texas Is Failing Its Children: The Hidden Consequences of S.B. 8 | Shanta Trivedi
LGBTQ
The Advocate | The U.S. Will Now Have 1,000 Out Elected Officials in Historic First | Trudy Ring
Metro Weekly | School board candidate becomes first transgender person elected in Ohio | John Riley
Metro Weekly | Pennsylvania candidate becomes first nonbinary person elected to a judicial position in the United States | John Riley
LGBTQ Nation | Most of Salt Lake City’s city council will be LGBTQ people now | Bil Browning
HuffPost | For Trans And Nonbinary People, The Pandemic Provided A Safe Space To Come Out | Brittany Wong
Louisiana
WDSU-TV | New Orleans council pushes for easier ID changes for transgender, non-conforming community | Greg LaRose
Mississippi
Sun Herald | ‘They took it back.’ MS reverses course on policy easing gender changes on licenses | Isabelle Taft
Tennessee
Sports Illustrated | ACLU, Lambda Legal and transgender boy Sue Tennessee over anti-trans sports law | Ben Pickman
More from The Advocate, AP, CBS, Chalkbeat, CNN, NBC Out, The Tennessean, U.S. News & World Report
Texas
CNN | Texas governor calls books 'pornography' in latest effort to remove LGBTQ titles from school libraries | Sharif Paget, Nicole Chavez
Virginia
LGBTQ Nation | The religious right is crowing they won the Virginia governor’s race by sowing fear of trans people | Bil Browning
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Meeting to discuss transgender issues at Hanover schools draws vocal supporters for both sides | Holly Prestidge
Pregnancy & Parenting
Colorado
Colorado Newsline | Maternal health is worsened by the housing crisis in Colorado | Kayla Frawley
Texas
Spectrum News | Texans are having fewer babies. That’s bad for a strong economy. | Sabra Ayres
Work & Money
Deseret News | Most moms will be breadwinners at some point. Why don’t we treat them that way? | Lois Collins
The 19th | For the first time, a woman of color will helm NARAL, a pro-abortion group | Mariel Padilla
More from The Hill
Build Back Better
AP | What's in, and what's out, as House nears vote on Biden bill | Josh Boak, Kevin Freking
The Mary Sue | House Democrats Put Paid Family Leave Back in Bill, Manchin Keeps Making It About Him | Vivian Kane
Changing America | Building back better - or leaving women behind? | Sung Yeon Choimorrow
Philadelphia Inquirer | Four weeks of paid family leave isn’t enough. American women need to go on strike. | Jo Piazza
Michigan
Michigan Advance | Whitmer signs bill axing ‘tampon tax’ | Allison Donahue
More from Changing America, Detroit Free Press, Detroit Metro Times, Detroit News, The Hill, WDET-FM
More, More, More
Mother Jones | Were the ultra-conservative “mama bears” Youngkin’s secret weapon? | Kiera Butler