Sick Girl Summer A recent piece. Social isolation when you’re immunocompromised and everyone but you stops masking.

Really feel this

A reminder: the first Western novel featured a cowboy advocate for women's suffrage who is killed by powerful cattlemen threatened by his populist politics. To avenge him, his widow dresses up as a cowboy, goes to work at the ranch operated by his murderers, and eventually kills them in a shootout.

They want to intimidate people into saying they didn’t sign the petition so they can claim it’s fake. This is reprehensible

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Ron DeSantis’ election police questioned people who signed abortion petitions

DeSantis’ election police questioned people who signed abortion petitions

Two residents of Lee County said they were questioned at their homes about the validity of petition signatures.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-would-an-adequate-covid-response

What would an adequate COVID response look like?

Ok, COVID is a problem. What can we do about it anyway?

This is ann amazing piece, a real must-read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Who Gets to Kill in Self-Defense?

Self-defense laws were written for men. This is how they fail women who fight back.

Your Labor Day reminder that Project 2025 would essentially ban unions for public service workers (pg. 82), let bosses avoid overtime pay (pg. 592), make it easier for private companies to decertify unions (pg. 603) and allow states to opt out of federal labor laws (pg. 605).

Absolutely baffling

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Maybe because forcing a woman to have a baby before she's ready is the fastest way to push her into economic precarity and leave her with little choice but to settle for a less-than-ideal partner or take a less-than-ideal job.