Most plausible reason they took it.

KBJ: So ... you'd be bringing pregnant women in for depositions" (asking how the EO denying birthright citizenship would work)

Hi @shanakn.bsky.social!

I wrote this! I’m still thinking about this comment a reader left: “It feels uniquely American to invest in amenities to distract from short staffing and overcrowding.”

the Thorn Birds. Maybe 11? Paperback in a rental house.

Trying to knock out the competition

Bringing your values to your reporting and writing - Nieman Storyboard Irin Carmon annotates her book on the lives of five pregnant women post-Dobbs. Plus: More awards and fellowship deadlines

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @irincarmon.bsky.social annotates a chapter from her book "Unbearable," plus @shorensteinctr.bsky.social @stephenrodrick.bsky.social and a new film about the Renaud brothers.

niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/06/b...

Dream come true: my book is a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award. And what company! @irincarmon.bsky.social @brian-goldstone.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social I try not to put too much stock in awards, but this one feels pretty cool.

What the Pro-Choice Movement Can Learn From Those Who Overturned “Roe” The anti-abortion movement was methodical and radical at the same time. The abortion-rights movement must be too.

In my first adapted excerpt of Killers of Roe, I reflect on @irincarmon.bsky.social's reporting on Planned Parenthood's "good-girl problem" and what the abortion rights movement can learn from history...and from its enemies.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Opinion | Liam Ramos Is Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

Liam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

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I always learn from @robinmarty.com

Thanks for sharing, David!

Kavanaugh concurrence with footnote

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.

He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

Misogyny Has Gone Mainstream. What Can be Done? | KQED We gather a panel of thinkers and leaders to talk about how misogyny has become mainstream and what can be done about it.

🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to scholar @roxanegay.bsky.social, New York magazine's @irincarmon.bsky.social and @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social's Savala Nolan about how misogyny has become mainstream and what can be done about it.

❓Do you think misogyny has become mainstream?

📻 Listen:

Incredible work.

I waited and waited for an acknowledgment of how shallow and fleeting many of these orgs’ commitments to diversity actually were

in the pit

This entire weekend

Irin Carmon on How the United States Has Made Pregnancy Unbearable An interview with the author of a new book documenting the brutalities of childbirth in the post-Dobbs era.

A really special conversation I got to have with @byreginamahone.bsky.social about my book UNBEARABLE in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I talked to student and faculty at Harvard about Larry Summers + Jeffrey Epstein — including the student who recorded (and heckled) his class nymag.com/intelligence...

WATCH: “I was told that in Me Too, men were being crushed under the boot of feminism. But this is the peak of Me Too,” says @irincarmon.bsky.social on Larry Summers' 2018 email to Epstein seeking advice over a woman he described as his mentee.

The Perils of Pregnancy in America | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC A new book explores what it means to be pregnant today in America through reporting and personal stories.

ICYMI, @irincarmon.bsky.social talks about her new book, 'Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America':

www.wnyc.org/story/the-pe...

Thank you so much, I truly appreciate that!

Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

‼️GET THIS BOOK‼️

Unbearable: 5 Women & the Perils of Pregnancy in America by @irincarmon.bsky.social

Grippingly illustrates how loss of humanity & dignity accompany pregnancy whether you want to give birth or not. Propulsive, insightful, & offering hope for the future bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...

Thank you so much for reading and yes, hear you on that!

Can’t wait to speak with @irincarmon.bsky.social about her wonderful new book

Tomorrow, Monday 11/3, I’ll be talking with @azizaahmed.bsky.social about my new book Unbearable at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Please join us.

Tonight in DC, I’ll be talking to the great @michelegoodwin.bsky.social about my book UNBEARABLE on the perils of pregnancy in America. Join us! @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social

Gaslit Nation: Unbearable: The War on Women If you or someone you know needs extra support to survive Trump’s economic warfare on the American people, to find help near you, enter your zip code in .  For decades, Christian nationalists hav...

Listen to Gaslit Nation’s interview with @irincarmon.bsky.social on the far-right’s war on women, the long history, and inspiring stories of confronting it today. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts gaslitnation.libsyn.com/unbearable-t...

“The abortion and reproductive rights sphere was the original fake news… the state was giving people misinformation at the behest of right-wing activists, and medical doctors were being conscripted into giving people false information.” - @irincarmon.bsky.social