Toni Morrison once said “the very serious function of racism is distraction”

BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first Pulitzer Center StoryReach article for Louisiana Illuminator lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/lou…

50 doctors signed a letter to the Louisiana Department of Health and Surgeon General Ralph Abraham asking for additional guidance, specifically “how to ensure [misoprostol] will be readily and quickly available in commonly used obstetric hemorrhage carts.”

“We’re trying to fix something that is not broken and that is absolutely safe,” said Dr. Stacey Holman, calling the law "an unnecessary barrier"

One OB-GYN I spoke with said it's been preemptively pulled off some postpartum carts already, and that there's "confusion and angst" among doctors worried about how this will affect inpatient care

A rural physician I spoke with hadn't even heard misoprostol was being reclassified. "What? That's death!" she said when I told her about the cart removal. She said pharmacies have already been "pushing back" when she prescribed the medication for miscarriages

A reminder that doctors sounded the alarm about the reclassification of misoprostol and mifepristone back before the bill became law: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

More than 200 doctors signed a letter begging lawmakers to reconsider: jezebel.com/louisiana-doct…

By the time the bill got to the state senate it had national attention, with VP Kamala Harris weighing in: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

As the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says her appointment to the court "demonstrates progress." "I'm the first Black woman ... but not the first Black woman who could have done this job," she tells Geoff Bennett.

“Southern” is code for Black here and I am confused by the question.

What some in the Republican Party want is for the Harris team to engage in multiple convos on race/gender. B/c if they can make the convo about that then voters will find themselves distracted by something that has nothing to do with who is more fit to sit in the Oval Office.

Seems like a good time to remind everyone Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) and I went across the country speaking to Black women for our special - “Black Women in America: Road to 2024” Mark your calendars for September 29th at 9pm eastern!

A visibly shaken Doug Emhoff at vigil for Israeli hostages in Washington talks about his call with @vp and Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents: “We tried to use words to express our condolences, but those words were just not enough.”

"As the president has said time and time again, 'This is not normal.' This is not normal. Students and teachers deserve to know that their schools are safe." White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addresses the deadly shooting at a Georgia high school.

“This is just a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies.” VP Kamala Harris condemns the shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia this morning.

I’m sick for every student, teacher, parent and family that endured the unimaginable tragedy of a school shooting today. Devastating.

A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn’t recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media. It turns out they are distant cousins. apnews.com/article/2f2e29…

Liz Cheney: “I don't believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates names…As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this...I'll be voting for Kamala Harris” #RepublicansForHarris

This is not a coherent thought. Like seriously no spin…what is going on?