In 1974, an Internal Revenue Service attorney named Paul Haring pitched an idea to Catholic leaders that would shape the lives of millions of women for the next half-century.
The Hyde Amendment is a ban on federal Medicaid funding of abortion that will mark its 50th anniversary this year.
100000 percent
Speaking of people who are out here doing The Work: follow Kelcie, she’s brilliant.
My point is: resist that. Seek out the work of journalists, activists, and thinkers like @garnethenderson.com @susanrinkunas.com @kylietcheung.bsky.social @amylittlefield.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @beccareatucker.bsky.social @renee.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social + so many others
I think it goes to show just how much this sort of reporting gets buried by *tHe AlGoRiThMs,* and when I think too hard about that, I want to walk into the sea.
When this story published, I did the thing where you send it out to people who might be interested. A man I consider smart and well read observed that abortion as a subject in journalism has “fallen off the radar a bit,” and I can’t stop thinking about that comment.
I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
Read this piece on how abortion clinics are facing more, and more sophisticated threats, from @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s pardon of anti-abortion activists who harassed and threatened clinics and patients has created the sense that it’s “open season” on providers across the country.
@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on what one North Carolina clinic reveals about our endless abortion wars.
my god. this has to stop, this all has to stop. we are in the clutches of actual monsters.
After Trump was reelected, he quickly pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of harassing and threatening clinic patients and staff. Federal investigations into bomb threats against clinics suddenly vanished.
@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on a newly emboldened abortion protest movement.
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
Oooh @melissagiragrant.com is it the Claire Saffitz one? That shit slaps
Let's be clear about what's happening: Trump gaslit voters about his abortion stance during the campaign because winning meant staying out of prison.
His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
And the exclusion of Planned Parenthood from Medicaid
These state efforts also complicate political accountability. Will people think "oh the fed gov cuts werent that bad"? Will they know to credit the dem states?
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day…
…a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals.
5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
An honor! Thank you so much!
Excited to have @mindahoney.bsky.social back this week at @niemanstoryboard.org, in conversation with the reporting team behind the serialized podcast "American Shrapnel." Thanks @johnhammontree.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social @johnarchibald.bsky.social
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If you're covering the Epstein of it all, remember: they were underage *girls*. Not women.
If I could tell you how many women journalists I've known over the years who work so hard despite repeated sexual harassment and discrimination and then to live in a time when the president is openly calling a reporter piggy and that woman probably got paid a lot for that stupid book. I can't.
Don’t waste editors’ precious bandwidth with this crap. Good grief.
I truly didn’t know my mood could get any more foul but here we are
This reporter also wrote a glowing profile of Danny Elfman that demonized that young women he assaulted. Great guy, that one.
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
This is one of the weirder bits of fundamentalist rhetoric. There's an school of thought in several churches including some old Catholic ones that women are supposed to suffer because of Eve. I am not telling you it makes sense. I am telling you he's parroting a line that is a giant warning sign
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
Great news for an active court case that could expand abortion access in Pennsylvania:
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