This seems to open the door for an abortion-like legal landscape for contraception, where you might have access to different forms depending on what state you live in.

It’s here! I am thrilled readers will finally meet the people I have spent so much time with, who have taught me what it means to seek an abortion in post-Roe America.

I’ll be at Harvard Bookstore tonight to start a book tour. Come if you can!

harvard.com/event/shefali_…

NEWS

Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI.

I have confirmed its authenticity directly with her publicist.

'Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system. He told me that he felt that

Don't know if Baby Reindeer is going to give me an ulcer or a panic attack first

OMGGGGG. *starts countdown clock until I can read*

Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction. nyer.cm/fVKOKoH

It was a good one. Not at all low energy.

How do you strengthen democracy? 19thnews gathered experts to explore solutions. Here’s what we learned.
19thnews.org/2024/05/soluti…

I don't know how to use this platform anymore. But I'm really excited to share what I'm working on. I'm making a whole damn documentary with some really talented Alabamians. I can't wait to share more.
showmetheline.com

UNDUE BURDEN, my book for @doubleday examining pregnancy in an America w/o Roe v. Wade, goes on sale tomorrow. Here's a link to pre-order!

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727117/u…

If you're on the fence, here are the reactions from some of my favorite journalists, writers and scholars:

Voters in several states will likely have the chance to reverse their states’ abortion bans this November — but the election results could come too late for clinics that have been forced to scale back or even shut down while those bans were in effect. 19thnews.org/2024/05/aborti…

Legend

Another large school district in the Houston suburbs has voted to censor science textbooks, removing passages on climate change, human evolution and a section on biology that failed to mention the possibility of intelligent design.

For those of you curious to learn what the heck

Outside money pouring into ads in #OR05 in recent days spurred accusations from Democrats that Republicans are meddling to ensure incumbent GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer faces a weaker opponent in November. #orpol

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/05/17/out…

Fascinating thread with Justice Alito’s direct excuse. Remarkably he admits the upside-down flag flown on his home was a direct response to his wife being mad at a neighbor’s ‘Fuck Trump’ sign—ie an explicitly partisan gesture.

70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation 19thnews.org/2024/05/brown-… via 19thnews

BREAKING

CNN has obtained footage of Diddy repeatedly beating his then girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway.

I want to note that Kimora Lee Simmons has warned people about Diddy’s conduct for years, and she has either been attacked for doing so or ignored. Diddy also

I discussed 'They Came for the Schools' with David Weigel for Semafor.

'Mike Hixenbaugh on how a Dallas suburb led a national panic over race and schools' semafor.com/article/05/17/…

Grace woke up early, talked about this on CNN and then wrote about it for 19thnews!

read it and send caffeinated thoughts her way: 19thnews.org/2024/05/house-…

Alito has always been a political being—he worked to overturn Roe for decades.
'Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?'
Pre-order YOU MUST STAND UP
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