1. Further evidence we don’t listen to one another — this has never been a secret.
Anti-choice extremists aren’t even hiding it anymore. They’re saying the quiet part out loud and trying to straight-up get the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. They’ve always been extreme, but this is truly next-level terrifying. #SCOTUS
— NARAL (@NARAL) July 24, 2021
Perhaps if the annual march to the Supreme Court for exactly that were more widely covered (before Donald Trump showed up).
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Going to get worse… https://t.co/CjhShj3AF4
— Charlie Camosy (@CCamosy) July 25, 2021
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These are WOMEN, you soft Scots totalitarians. #LiveNotByLies https://t.co/gBNrWMLv4S
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 28, 2021
Bauwens singled out an entry in the case notes that quotes the boy saying “imagination is real” and “reality is dead to me,” which she said “certainly raises concerns about this child’s ability to understand and consent to his treatment plan.”
Transgender women have advantages that make competition against females inequitable, says an American collegiate runner.
For years I was a top-ranked runner in my home state of Connecticut. Because of the transgender policy, I lost four women’s state championship titles and two all-New England awards, not to mention many other second-and third-place spots on the podium, to biologically male athletes. And I’m not alone; these two biological males bumped more than 80 female athletes out of qualifying for higher levels of competition during numerous events over three years.
6. Wesley J. Smith: At Last! Establishment Pushback Against Puberty Blocking
These hormones and substances were approved for treating pathologies in adolescence, not for preventing normal maturation. Such “off label” uses of these substances is rank experimentation conducted on children.
7. Maya T. Prabhu: Georgia’s abortion rate increases for third consecutive year
The latest figures, for 2020, were released earlier this month as Georgia continues to defend its restrictive anti-abortion law. The law would have banned the procedure in most cases when a doctor could detect fetal cardiac activity — typically about six weeks into a pregnancy.
8. Hannah Yoest: Simone Biles Isn’t Fearless. That’s A Good Thing.
By demanding robotic perfection, Biles’s detractors are denying her humanity.
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Israeli athletes next to Iranian athletes in the Olympics.
Islamic Republic of Iran wants Iranians to hate Israelis. But many ordinary Iranians & Israelis don’t care about politics.
Iranian athlete Vahid Sarlak, member of #United4Navid, together with the Israeli Olympic Team pic.twitter.com/uCHAbO2B2d
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) July 26, 2021
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Do not overlook that one of the most important apologetical defenses of Christianity right now is that it is the best explanation and defense of reality and creation order as such, as opposed to the false ideological constructs as evidenced below. https://t.co/7seHXuqv0j
— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) July 28, 2021
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Red terror in #China. Western (and #Vatican) silence.#Uyghurs https://t.co/923eMVnfbZ
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) July 28, 2021
13. After six surgeries, South Sudan bishop who was shot eager to get back
He arrived in early April and was not even yet ordained a bishop when he was shot on April 26, just after midnight, when two armed men broke into the bishop-elect’s house and shot him in the legs.
14. Archdioceses of Boston and St. Louis make masks optional for school.
15. U.S. students ended the pandemic school year 4 to 5 months behind, a new report finds.
For example, students attending schools whose student bodies were mainly Black or Hispanic ended the school year six months behind where they normally would have been in math, compared with four months behind for students in mainly white schools.
Similarly, students who attended a school where the average household income was less than $25,000 a year were seven months behind in math by the end of the term, compared with four months behind for schools where the average income was greater than $75,000.
16. Covid Misinformation Comes From the Top, Too
The C.D.C. vastly overstated the risks of outdoor spread of the virus, which (at least until the emergence of the Delta variant) appears to be closer to 0.1 percent than as high as 10 percent. Fauci lied — there’s no other word for it — about what he saw as the threshold figure for reaching herd immunity, based, as Donald McNeil reported in The Times in December, on “his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
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18. The Unfairness of the Marriage Tax Penalty
Marriage should not penalize any taxpayer under our tax laws. Congress should stop treating two married taxpayers, both earning income, as a single taxpayer. That is, in large part, what creates these built-in marriage penalties. The Biden Covid-19 relief bill does not create marriage penalties. Far from it. That bill treats individuals as individuals. Each individual making under $75,000 is entitled to a $1400 stimulus check. If you are married to someone making under $75,000 you and your spouse each get a check. You are not treated as one.
The problem of the marriage penalty is not attributable to the Biden bill. It is attributed to the tax code and it is time to fix that inequity.
19. Breaking the Habit of Outsourcing the Ongoing Catechesis of Our Children
Yes, it is a crisis for the Church who is losing members, but even more it is a crisis for those who disaffiliate because they are flitting away from the Good News that gives life.
We like to look for programs and strategies that will solve our problems. If we could “just press play” on the right thing, that would do it. For this problem, though, there are no shortcuts. We cannot outsource this responsibility. The only way to hand on a faith worth caring about is to become people who are confident in this faith and competent in passing it on.
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Were there a devil, a good plan for such would be to goad Christians into constantly, bitterly attacking each other, making it hard for any but the most credulous to believe their claimed commitments to compassion and reconciliation. Confident, self-righteous faction instead.
— Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC (@wrdcsc) July 28, 2021