Texas just tested the limits of its abortion laws—and may have gone too far.
A new filing argues HB7’s private enforcement scheme is unconstitutional and can’t target out-of-state doctors like this.
Full breakdown:
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George Carlin once said that dc politicians don’t care at all about any of us. I agree. Literally not one. Not even liberal darlings or people loved by the left wing. Completely indifferent to all of us, and see us only as a vehicle to satisfy their obsession with power, money and status.
The DOJ’s April 14 report calls the FACE Act “weaponized.”
But it ignores why the law exists: clinic bombings, blockades, and murdered doctors.
This isn’t a neutral review—it’s a case for pulling back protections.
Here’s what’s really happening:
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I’ll tell you what. When you get a bad cold and spend most of your day driving past steel mills in Clairton and Braddock, it makes the mucus thicker and coughs way worse.
It's good to hold people accountable for the things we have, but let's make sure that we're auditing where taxpayer money is going, especially when it's supposed to do things like preserve safety and keep kids out of trouble. So follow the money from police budgets to community programs too.
Urgent care centers are quietly stepping into the abortion access gap. Right now, just 2 sites—but in some regions, they’re already replacing clinics. A new model of care is emerging. The question: is this the future, or just a stopgap?
reprorights.substack.com/p/the-urgent...
Urgent care centers are quietly stepping into the abortion access gap. Right now, just 2 sites—but in some regions, they’re already replacing clinics. A new model of care is emerging. The question: Is this the future, or just a stopgap?
reprorights.substack.com/p/the-urgent...
Absolutely. There should be term limits for all public servants.
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People who stigmatized some of the things I did in Johnstown probably never set foot in that town. They didn’t see the effort to preserve history or educate people in a poor working class white city. Hell, most of them didn’t even read the book and then shaped an impression. Ignorance. Literally.
I think what I always like about rock stars, whether it was Mick Jagger or Katy Perry, was that they were wild and uninhibited. Spirit of rock and roll.
We can also free up more time to do reporting by streamlining sports profiles. Record interviews with coaches, players and teammates. Upload it to otter to transcribe, export transcript, then upload it to ChatGPT and tell it to write a profile. Then you can spend time reporting another.
We can also program and teach ChatGPT and others to do game recaps and plug in key information or even upload photos and videos for it to give exposition to the story. Then use stat boxes too.
We also have to explore new manners of doing sports journalism. High school football in western Pennsylvania is king. We need a bevy of substack writers covering all the schools. Then we need a centralized aggregator to draw attention to their work and increase their subscriber base.
City Paper also has other avenues of getting writing. They can form partnerships with existing substack writers and reprint their work free. That would help popularize those newsletters and form a community of writers and readers. It could be an aggregator.
I’m speaking from my own personal experience that it’s off-putting when I try to build bridges or treat others as leaders and acknowledge their contributions and in turn, get only indirect allusions or subtweeting. That’s partly why liberals have a 20 percent approval rating in Congress.
One thing Gen X has to do better is deal with generational biases, or ageism. Many younger people are busting their ass and have distinguished themselves. Instead of amplifying or highlighting the work they do, there’s an ostracizing response where it’s dismissed because they haven’t paid dues.
I want to see the alt-media ecosystem thrive again in Pittsburgh. So I think CP should invite stalwarts like Charlie Deitch to contribute again. But we also need to place an emphasis on discovering new voices from Gen Z that could become the next Charlie. We should pair them with freelance mentors.
I don't know how the new PG will be set up, but if there are community members on an editorial board, there should be an effort to ensure diversity in age, race, gender, and geography among its members, among other things. They shouldn't all come from the same neighborhood.
I’m glad CP is coming back. But I’m hoping that it prioritizes abortion rights coverage. We should push Josh Shapiro to sign shield laws protecting telehealth providers in Pittsburgh and Philly who send mifepristone to women in Texas and Mississippi.
I’ll support candidates of any race or background—but not if they discriminate or give preferential treatment based on race or gender. That applies in every direction, whether traditional or flipped power dynamics. Fairness has to be the standard. Transform power dynamics. And help everyone.
No long game. They’re not capable of thinking of it as a chess game, with rudimentary understanding let alone 3-D. That last election is proof of it. And they’re still paying the same consultants as they were last time. You think you’d pay someone else after that epic failure.
The biggest failure of Democrats is they never fight for young people any more. The older leaders didn’t care if they succeeded. Now they don’t care if they go to war if it helps our allies in the Middle East.
It’s sad to me that the democrats are still as unappealing as they are even with as much a catastrophe as Trump is. They’re just betting he fucks things up enough that they’ll sweep into office through no fault of their own. It’ll happen in spite of them.
More praise for the book….
"I was trying to write a local feature about something that had nearly slipped from public memory: that before Roe v. Wade, coroners in Pittsburgh performed autopsies on women who died from illegal abortions. Wecht had done so himself." —@codymcdevitt.bsky.social pghrev.com/what-the-cor...
It’s time to invoke the 25th. You can’t allow nuclear genocide against 93 million people.
Favorite coffee shop in the Burgh right now.
If I'm being honest with you guys, I think you should support any and all writers who cover reproductive rights because with so many staff layoffs and newspaper closures, there aren't many people who know how to cover it and have institutional knowledge. So buy their books and subscribe.
