#Amy Davidson Sorkin, "Undue Burdens," The New Yorker, June 7, 2021. - "Mississippi imposes a twenty-hour waiting period after mandating in-person counselling." "Cruelly, fifteen weeks is well before the point at which a fetus would be viable outside the womb, and that is also the point at which the Supreme Court has said that a woman's interest n controlling her own body outweighs any other interests the state has."
"The Guttmacher Institute tallied twenty-eight new restrictions signed into law in the four days between April 26th and April 29th alone." About ninety per cent of the counties in the United States lack an abortion clinic." Early in June, the Texas state legislature approved what is known as a 'trigger law,' which would go into effect if Roe is overturned. It would ban abortion almost entirely as would similar trigger laws that exist in in a dozen states, such as Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah.
#Tim Murphy, "Mr. Troll Goes to Washington," Mother Jones , July + August 2021. Th GOP's most ambitious officials view their primary responsibility less as public servants than as content creators, churning out an endless stream of takes, memes, studies, and podcasts. So any podcasts." "There was no issue grave enough to take seriously, too petty to weigh in on. Anything could be resolved via tweet, precisely because nothing really can: the ephemerality was the point."
"The biggest crises in America right now, according to Cruz, CPAC, and Trump, are the interlocking threats of Big Tech and 'cancel culture.' But with a nudge from Trump, the right has become ever more dissociated from reality, channeling the energy into an endless series of fights over 'deplatforming' and who's triggering whom."
#Rebcca Leber, "Gaslit," Mother Jones, July + August 2021. - "Burning natural gas in commercial and residential buildings accounts for more than 10 percent of US emissions, so moving toward homes and apartments powered by wind and solar electivity instead could make a real dent. Gas stoves and ovens also produce far more indoor air pollution than most people realize; running a gas stove and oven for just an hour can produce unsafe pollution levels throughout your house all day."
"The gas industry also has worked aggressively, with legislation in seven states to enact laws -- at least 14 more have bills that would prevent cities from passing cleaner building codes." "Over the past hundred years, gas companies have engaged an all-out campaign to convince Americans that cooking with a gas flame is superior to using electric heat."
"In some of the most populous cities -- particularly in California, New York, and Illinois -- well over 70 percent of homes now rely on gas for cooking. Indeed, the data shows that California's buildings emit more nitrogen oxides than power plants, and only slightly less than cars." "In California's most populous cities -- which account for 8 percent of construction-related greenhouse gases -- phase out all gas-fired [appliances], other states will likely follow suit." "The industry has spent a century convincing Americans to fall in love with gas stoves, just as the public begins to fully understand the risks of what used to be its favorite appliance."
ADDENDUM:
*Monika Bauerlein, "Are You Screwed Without Trump?" Mother Jones, July + August 2021. - "For one thing, 2020 proved that even a deluge of batshit crazy can't save the traditional business model. More than 16,000 news jobs disappeared last year, a rate not seen since the crash of 2008."
"As Mojo voting rights reporter Ari Berman discovered, the parallels between today's wave of anti-voting legislation and the white supremacist movement that ended Reconstruction are stunning."
*Jacon Rosenberg, "Inflation," Mother Jones, July +August 2021. - "A just-so story emerged about how low-employment and higher wages inevitably result in inflation, a framing in which unemployment has a natural rate, but inflation is always an ill to be eradicated." "Inflation hysteria is always a class war of one kind or another, waged on behalf of the asset-holders against perceived forces of 'social destabilization.' " "It's about the wrong kind of people getting too much stuff."
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