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senior correspondent @nymag . writing a book for @onesignalpub about the broken system around being pregnant in America. irin.carmon @nymag .com
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Honestly can't tell anymore if and when tweeting is shouting into a void BUT I'm going to be writing a book and I wanted to tell you! UNBEARABLE will be a reported and analytical account of our broken pregnancy care system, from contraception to abortion to birth and beyond.
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One thing to remember is that the Supreme Court didn’t have to take up abortion at all. There was no conflict, no ambiguity in a type of ban they’ve easily dismissed before. Just a series of pleas from the right that at least four justices decided now was the time to answer.
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This Ohio tragedy is, among many other things, a lesson that there is no account deemed sympathetic enough to break through to people who simply do not care about the suffering they’re causing. Instead we get denial, misdirection, or attacking those who told the story.
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"Free birth control" is also incorrect. "Included in the plan you already pay for" is more accurate.
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I asked: When the time comes, what would you like to be remembered for?
"Someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has."
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This is the piece I never wanted to publish.
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Did Elizabeth warren just say she shot a man in Reno just to watch him die?
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Just heard a woman shout into her phone, "I don't want to hear sorry. The best fucking sorry is changed behavior." 👍🏼
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Lindsey Graham: "You want to pick judges, you better win." Hadn't
@BarackObama
won when Scalia died?
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RBG comes out swinging. "You are shifting the employer’s religious beliefs, the cost of them, onto these employees who do not share the religious beliefs... The women here are getting nothing. They are required to do just what Congress didn’t want."
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Wishing a swift recovery to RBG, who has had cancer twice and a heart stent put in, and until today, never missed a day on the bench.
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It’s been three weeks since Roe fell and just about every predicted worst case scenario has already shown up in the reporting, plus a few I never even heard anyone warn of.
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Jeff Flake got 50 parades thrown for him in the past six days, but this takes real courage.
My statement on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh:
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Can’t watch this without thinking of Brett Kavanaugh.
“Stop it. You all quit playing! Quit playing! I didn't do this stuff! This is not me! I'm fighting for my f***ing life! Y'all killing me with this sh*t!"
@RKelly
told
@GayleKing
, standing up. "I gave you 30 years of my f***ing career!"
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My theory of Trump's relative appeal is no matter who you are, eventually he gets around to bullying someone you secretly think deserves it.
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Pretty sure this was the last time I saw RBG in person, in December celebrating the museum exhibition adapted from our book. She said to my husband, “Are you still taking good care of her?” This moment was when I told her I was pregnant.
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I thought "multimillionaires who feel oppressed" was the GOP base
.
@newtgingrich
on athletes kneeling: "If you're a multi-millionaire who feels oppressed, you need a therapist not a publicity stunt."
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Marveling at the “overturning Roe won’t do anything” argument from people who have made it their literal life’s work.
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Struck by the dissonance between the broad caricatures of young people and what happens when they speak for themselves.
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“In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them.”
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This woman was shot in the stomach and suffered a pregnancy loss but the police statement was that “the only true victim in this was the unborn baby.” Personhood is already here.
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Never seen anything like this before. (Typed while feeding my newborn.)
Louisiana ranks 50th in crime, 48th in education, and 46th in health care. I’m running for Congress to stop this race to the bottom because our children deserve better.
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That video is first and foremost about racism. But what a week to have been told there’s nothing wrong with how we raise boys or how we define masculinity.
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Schumer now speaking at Battery Park rally. "Are we gonna win this fight?" Someone yells, "No thanks to you! Stop voting for his nominees!"
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I paused to imagine this morning a world in which say, Sonia Sotomayor allegedly throwing ice in a stranger’s face would be chalked up to youthful hijinks.
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It’s actually illegal for Democrats to hold an event at which John Legend doesn’t perform.
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Happy 84th birthday to Justice Ginsburg, aka
@notoriousrbg
. This is my favorite vintage photo of her, in her 30s
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This photo of White House staff watching Obama today says so much
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I think about this a lot: Hillary Clinton gave a campaign speech (in Wisconsin!) about the importance of the courts. How many people remember it?
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"I didn't understand why I would need lawyers." Because she didn't think she would be on trial as she is.
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Just here to share that the representative from the rug cleaning service had "rug life" tattooed across his knuckles.
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Al Gore chose RBG to swear him in in 1997. Wish she had lived to see today.
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Eric Swalwell is definitely the dad in the surveys who thinks he does half the household labor.
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In 1971, when Hugo Black retired, Pauli Murray wrote to Richard Nixon to propose replacing him. "I am a Negro woman 60 years old...My application is to forestall the popular misconception that no qualified women applied or are available." A half century later...
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Asked if he would make the same agreement again, Acosta is talking about how today's world is so different because there's no victim shaming. 1) Ask E. Jean Carroll, Christine Blasey Ford and many others about that 2) 2007-2008 was not an eternity ago.
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To be clear, this would mean Roberts overturning Roe but pretending he isn't
🚨(CNN) — Roberts does NOT want to completely overturn Roe v Wade, meaning he apparently would be dissenting from Alito's draft opinion, likely w the court's 3 liberals, sources tell CNN.
Roberts is willing, however, to uphold MS law banning abortion at 15 weeks, CNN learned.
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Sexual harassment is a tax almost exclusively paid by women.
One of the most striking things about all these pieces is how many women left the business, after discovering this was how it worked.
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RBG turns 87 today and if you want to protect her and other elders, stay the fuck at home as much as you can.
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Sad it still needs to be said: people who look, dress all kinds of ways are also sexually assaulted or harassed.
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I know Ron Klain feels sheepish about this now but it’s such an incredible document, it must be shared.
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Pretty striking how Warren's wonkiness is perceived as a liability while everyone swoons over Mayor Pete. (Who seems great! But still.)
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I mean, even the 5th Circuit found this numbingly obvious. Look at the first section of their opinion striking down the 15-week ban, in very plain English.
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Gayle King asked Warren for evidence that Bloomberg told a pregnant woman to “kill it.” Not only was that the woman’s testimony, a third party witness — the kind Bloomberg said in a deposition he required for an assault claim — backed it up to Wapo
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Yale classmate: “When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive....I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark...by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”
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When I interned at the Anniston Star in Alabama, someone once asked me if I was Jewish and added, "One of my best friends is Jewish." Pause. "A Jewish carpenter."
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“Her son James, who was at Monday night’s performance, said Ginsburg walks a mile a day and is working with her trainer again.”
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I have to say, I’m only halfway through the Harvard complaint and the Times piece actually underplays the allegations (like leading with the helmet comment)
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Also sad that Bialik doesn't see cruelty about her looks and way "ideal" women treated are two sides of same coin.
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TX doctor: “recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion —the usual standard of care — would have been illegal.” Patient became dangerously ill.
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We've reached the inevitable "grab them by the pussy" stage of the presidential campaign
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Imagine a woman bragging about missing her kid’s first day of school so she could poll in the single digits.
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There's something heartbreakingly idealistic about Christine Blasey Ford believing the senators in charge would genuinely want to hear from her before they voted.
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Thinking about how 10-15 years ago, so many baby boomer women complained that young women weren't feminists. And now it's all, "These young women have gone too far."
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Stephen Breyer is telling you that more high profile Democrats need to be running for Senate.
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Ladies, ladies, don't you worry, some of his best mother and daughters are women.
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From the reporter who broke the Ford story:
Christine Ford noticed Sunday morning, even before her name was made public, that Ed Whelan appeared to be seeking information about her.
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Anyway, by sunset it became clear: my baby had been waiting for a marginally better world to make her appearance. She was born at 10:23pm and so far so good. Grateful to everyone who helps make this world that much less cruel.
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And that’s in a dozen years of reporting in this, including on the predicted risks to interstate travel and to other care, of criminalization, to those accused of aiding and abetting, etc.
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Much of my job has involved asking people, mostly women, to truthfully tell their stories even when it might harm them or the institutions they care about. I figured the least I could do was to try to do the same.
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This is what is happening in Alabama, today.
A pregnant woman was shot in the stomach during a fight. The shooting caused her pregnancy to end. She has been indicted for manslaughter. This is how people-- especially women of color-- are already being punished & having their pregnancies criminalized.
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There was a compromise brokered by three Republicans. It was called Planned Parenthood v. Casey and the scotus majority threw it in the trash.
There's this strange new genre of pieces saying "Why can't stupid Democrats accept this abortion compromise?" proposing something Dems would be quite happy with and the GOP would laugh at and reject. Do you not see who the uncompromising radical ones are right now? It's bizarre.
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I don’t remember any nightmare boss stories from ex Hillary Clinton staffers — on the contrary. We aren’t hearing them about Warren, Harris, Gillibrand, Gabbard (beyond general chaos). Relatedly, it’s great to have lots of women running.
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AOC versus Zuck is the young millennial-old millennial showdown we don’t even deserve.
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This essential hospital worker in NYC had bumper stickers on his car for Warren and Klobuchar. He recorded police blocking him from trying to get home during curfew and saying, “How about you take that bumper sticker off his car, too?”
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The director of Period. End of sentence. is 25.
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Sasses says it's a 30 year tradition to have "screaming protests saying women are going to die...Where is the hysteria coming from?" (He says hysteria three times.)
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There’s never been a better time to witness the sheer unimpressiveness of so many white men with cult followings.
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To state the obvious: They’re spending so much time trying to cut her down because she’s so damn effective and it terrifies them
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Absolutely devastating and full of new information. Wow.
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Black women aren't infallible, but it occurs to me they are rather less likely to have worn blackface or to have been accused of sexual assault.
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Find me a terrorist who isn't a domestic abuser too
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP )— Transcripts: Mother of man accused of driving car into crowd called 911 repeatedly; said he beat her.
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The Elon takeover reminds me so much of the Trump presidency, complete with assurances that he would rise to the occasion, only sped up.
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RBG on SNL: “I liked the actress who portrayed me and I would like to say Ginsburned sometimes to my colleagues.”
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Fun fact: four years after Bork, a Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed Clarence Thomas with 11 Democratic votes.
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Decided I had a few more things to say about Alito's draft. This one's personal.
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Even female workers who are not directly targeted for harassment are harmed by a work environment that affords impunity to certain men.
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SOTOMAYOR: “will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts?”
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Yes, it’s always been about whose motherhood is (rhetorically) exalted and whose is punished.
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I am not at all surprised that this is what it took for New York to get its first female governor.
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A few weeks after Roe was overturned, I went to see
@DorothyERoberts
, the visionary scholar of reproductive justice, to understand not only how the country got here but what to look for next.
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Christine Blasey Ford told friends as early as late 2017 that a federal judge had assaulted her, they told the Mercury News
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Warren's exit means not just the loss of symbolic representation (which matters) but also a structural vision that was genuinely feminist in substance (for example, emphasizing childcare AND good jobs for childcare workers). That shouldn't get lost today.
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A scoop by me: Yale Law prof Jed Rubenfeld (aka Mr. Tiger Mom) has been banned from teaching for two years after Yale found he had sexually harassed multiple students. Allegations spanned decades. He told me he's a "target" for his views on Title IX.
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I wrote about today's abortion dissent — a loser's game by definition, but unusually blunt and clarifying, with a central message: Don't let anyone tell you you're overreacting.
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Do these people know big donations are a totally legal way to bribe your children’s way into college?
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You mean when marital rape wasn't recognized as a crime?
With all the accusations of sex assault emerging (eg Louis CK) we are going to soon remember why sex was traditionally enshrined in marriage...
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“I’ve seen a lot of 13-year-olds do phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal,” she said. [being forced to carry a pregnancy at that age] “doesn’t have to be a negative thing.”
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I get that we need more educational diversity on the court, but try to imagine how a Black woman with Amy Coney Barrett’s resume would be treated.
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