May 2022

On Sundays, I often pass the plate for donations to help support this blog, but there are more pressing matters now: supporting local women’s reproductive health centers via the National Network of Abortion Funds. (Here’s why this is more effective than funding Planned Parenthood or NARAL.)

Thomas, Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett all, of course, lied under oath when they said they’d uphold precedent. This has been a long Republican project, completely out in the open, and every Republican voter is responsible for it. With Roe looking like it’s done and the minority party about to declare women second-class citizens,…

Alongside the narrow mouth of Coney Island Creek and the expanse of Gravesend Bay, Calvert Vaux Park is named for the English-born architect who teamed up with Frederick Law Olmsted for the designs of Central and Prospect Parks. Long overshadowed by Olmsted, whose sons carried the family name and profession of landscape architecture into the…