02 September 21
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Dahlia Lithwick | There Are Two Real Ways to Answer the Texas Abortion Law
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Lithwick writes: "Thinking about a non-decision that never came down via the so-called shadow docket in the middle of the night that allowed the second-largest state in the country to overturn a 50-year-old precedent without the Supreme Court writing a word is a bit like dancing between the raindrops."
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CAPTION: President Joe Biden delivers remarks on response in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida from the White House, Sept. 2, 2021. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
'Unconstitutional Chaos': Biden Vows 'Whole-of-Government' Response After Texas Abortion Ruling
Rebecca Shabad, NBC News
Shabad writes: "President Joe Biden said Thursday he is launching a 'whole-of-government' response to try to safeguard access to abortions in Texas after the Supreme Court's decision not to block the state's near-total ban on the procedure."
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CAPTION: As the rubber bullets and teargas flew during last year's protests, an epidemic of 'less lethal' shootings inspired a network of survivors. (photo: Wil Sands/Narratively)
'Blinded by Police': My Search for Fellow Survivors of an Alarming Trend
Wil Sands, Narratively
Excerpt: "As the rubber bullets and teargas flew during last year's protests, an epidemic of 'less lethal' shootings inspired a network of survivors."
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CAPTION: Police detain a woman with a poster reading 'Freedom for Alexei Navalny' during a protest in Moscow on Aug. 14, 2021. (photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty)
Russia's Internet Censor Threatens to Fine Google, Apple Over an Opposition App
Craig Timberg, Robyn Dixon and Reed Albergotti, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Russia's Internet censor threatened Thursday to fine Google and Apple if they don't remove an app built by opposition leaders that encourages voters to cast ballots against the party of President Vladimir Putin, saying the companies are interfering in the nation's electoral processes."
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CAPTION: Inmates do a deep cleaning in a cell pod to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the San Diego County Jail in April 2020. A new study says crowded jails may have contributed to millions of COVID-19 cases across the United States. (photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty)
Crowded US Jails Drove Millions of COVID-19 Cases, a New Study Says
Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "If the U.S. had done more to reduce its incarceration rate, it could have prevented millions of COVID-19 cases."
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CAPTION: The UN says at least 100 trucks of food, non-food items and fuel must enter Tigray on a daily basis 'to sustain an adequate response.' (photo: Eduardo Soteras/AFP)
Ethiopia's Tigray Crisis 'Set to Worsen Dramatically': UN
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Nine months since the start of Ethiopia's Tigray war, the United Nations has warned that the humanitarian situation in the country's northernmost region is set to 'worsen dramatically.'"
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CAPTION: A Shell gasoline station damaged by Hurricane Ida in Lockport, Louisiana, Aug. 31, 2021. (photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg)
Hurricane Ida Makes a Mockery of Big Oil's Philanthropy
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept
Lerner writes: "As hurricane Ida wrought destruction throughout Louisiana and Mississippi this week, the companies that own the oil rigs and refineries in the storm's path - and helped fuel this and the other natural disasters now upending life in every region of the world - said very little."
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