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Pluralistic: 29 Jun 2022 by Cory Doctorow

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Protest, post, and focus on Kansas

The testimony this afternoon of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, cannot be dismissed. If what she has testified to, sworn under oath, is not countered or contradicted by Meadows or Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cippolone—either under oath themselves or eventua...

Plus: Peggy Noonan's wishcasting

Yes, <em>Roe</em> was the product of an activist Court. But so was overturning it.

An unusually personal newsletter

Stephania Taladrid and the photographer Meridith Kohut report from the largest abortion provider in Houston, Texas, where dozens of patients learned about the Supreme Court decision to overrule Roe v. Wade while they were at the clinic.

The Supreme Court’s conservatives finally felt safe to do what they wanted to do.

Following the leaked draft of the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, several conservative states have moved to restrict access to abortion. Oklahoma, for instance, has recently passed the nation’s strictest abortion ban, exposing individuals to ...

Roe’s Demise Proves That the American Dream Isn’t For Everyone by Xochitl Gonzalez

My grandmother was a devout Catholic, and I was a devout believer in Planned Parenthood. Neither of us wanted me to get pregnant too young.

(Sigh) Living under a religious theocracy is my personal nightmare. For now, you can escape pieces of it in America by living in a state that elects not to chain a twelve-year-old rape victim to a bed while her belly swells. The fact that the chains are made of law and not metal makes little practic...

A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public

The lies, pressure, bullying, and threats.

The voice inside that tells them how wrong they are.

Advocates and abortion providers are reassessing their digital security practices ahead of an expected rise in cyberattacks and surveillance.

Brooke Alexander found out she was pregnant days before the abortion ban took effect.

Meet the ambitious mediocrities who almost brought down American democracy.