Joining me is my new favorite candidate for the House: Lindsey Boylan! She moved to New York without bootstraps, scraping by the way so many of us and so few office-holders have. Called to public service, she worked her way up to the office of Economic Development for the state of New York, where, as deputy secretary, she helped make the $15 minimum wage a reality along with paid family leave.

LINDSEY! I am thrilled that you could make time to talk about not just your candidacy for Congress, but WHY you're running and the practical {admittedly wonky} side of declarations like "housing is a human right."

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SONG: "I'm Doing Fine", Normandie Wilson Is Tired of Being Nice (2015)

My take…

Seriously, take a minute to scan her Priorities Page; if she wins in her district, she goes to the House to make policy for ALL of us.

SONG: "Love Goes Right", Normandie Wilson Is Tired of Being Nice (2015)

Interviews…

JOIN Lindsey's team and/or SUPPORT from ANYWHERE

A bit of background on Rep. Jerry Nadler (NY-10)

This sort of TWEET: "…Housing is a key way we experience extreme inequality, especially in a community like mine - the most unequal in the country…."

"Op-Ed: Congressman Nadler why are you Refusing to Debate Lindsey Boylan?" via King County Politics

Tweets referenced from: @JulianCastro and @LindseyBoylan

"NY outsources jobs to process 2 million unemployment claims" via The New York Post

"Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show" via The New York Times

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"The Importance of Believing Women — Even When It's Politically Inconvenient" by Jessica Valenti

Interviews…

"See Which States Are Reopening" via The New York Times

GIVE/SUPPORT, VOLUNTEER: COVID Bail Out NYC via their website

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WATCH: "Stay At Home Comedian" and "Senior Class of Earth (Full Stand Up Special)"

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Andi lays out ways to help Indie bookstores we love on Twitter. Please share!

"The Best Thing You Can Do To Support A New Book" at lifehacker

"How City Noise is Slowly Killing You: Loud street noise is now considered the number-two threat to public health, after air pollution." (07/25/17) by Andrea Bartz, at Harper's BAZAAR

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In brief: Listener fav Tina Vasquez is back! Since her last visit, #EndICE activism has ramped up — in language and action. We chat about the use of the phrase "concentration camps" to describe borderland detention facilities for a bit and I hope that y'all will take our discussion to heart. She describes the tragic deaths of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria as they sought asylum at the doorstep to our country and why the gruesome pictures being shared widely are more than just triggering. They are dehumanizing — and to a people who are already dehumanized by our administration and its supporters.

Tina also does a fantastic (as always) job breaking down the intentionally jacked process by which US Marshals, Border Patrol, Children and Family Services, and ICE transfer, detain, and abuse migrants and refugees — a process that is currently persecuting and assaulting Rene Lopez, an indigenous gender nonconforming asylum seeker held in San Francisco.

We pack a whole lot into 40 minutes! And as always, there are action items (eg: follow/support: Annunciation House in El Paso).

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Mainly, I fly through the super important pieces of Tina's that we couldn't get to in the show. These are those links:

"In Search of Justice: How DHS PREA Standards Don't Necessarily Protect Immigrants From Assault" by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News

"In Search of Safety: An Investigation of Abuse at an Immigration Facility" by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News

"Despite Sanctuary Law, California Cops 'Bend Over Backwards' to Work With ICE: Even as California lawmakers try to protect undocumented people against the president's draconian anti-immigrant policies, state law enforcement officials are striving to be "politically aligned with Trump and ICE." by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News

"The Details of Johana Medina Leon's Detainment and Death Matter (Updated)" by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News

"Meet the Federal Agency Helping to Criminalize Pregnant Migrants: Pregnant asylum seekers in Texas are held in federal custody and must sometimes endure life-threatening circumstances, according to one advocate, because of the way the United States has chosen to criminalize those seeking asylum." by Tina Vasquez Rewire.News

"What Is 'Sanctuary' for a Black Immigrant Family in the US?: The Thompsons may be the only Black family in sanctuary, but they want you to know they are a family first and asylum seekers second." by Tina Vasquez Rewire.News

Audre Lorde self-care quote via Know Your IX: "Dealing with Activist Burn-Out and Self-Care"

Interviews…

"A Crime by Any Name: The Trump administration's commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in detention facilities inevitable." via Adam Serwer, The Atlantic

"The Image America Shouldn't Need: My perspective, as an immigration reporter, is that if you haven't been moved by now by the many reports of abuses, injustices, in-custody deaths, and bodies that have turned up in the borderlands, then you cannot be moved." by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News

Shareable thread on Rene Lopez: via Tina Vasquez's Twitter

An update: Customs and Border Patrol has announced it is launching an investigation. via ProPublica

Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Detention: "I don't know if they lose their babies for good," one doctor said. "But I do know the process is torturous for them." by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News

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In brief: Happy Frida Kahlo's birthday! For this week of the year, I've come to prefer celebrating a radical, bisexual, labor and worker's rights activist, chronically ill artist who seemed to know herself so well that her life is an inspiration more than 100 years after her birth. She was only seven years older than I am now when she died and her life was fuller than most of us could begin to dream about.

Today's episode features a chat with Ally Boguhn, a long-time media watcher and current beltway reporter for Rewire.News. GET THIS: she has good news, hope for 2020, and craftiness in the capitol as left-leaning electeds work to subvert the Tr*mp agenda!

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Interviews…

"Trump Official Grilled Over Administration's Family Planning 'Gag Rule'" via Rewire.News

"Renee Unterman Helped Bring a Near-Total Abortion Ban to Georgia. Now She's Running for Congress." via Rewire.News

"These Women Lost Their Midterm Election Bids—but They're Trying Again in 2020" via Rewire.News

"With 'Roe' on the Line, Some Democrats Seek Federal Codification of Abortion Rights: Democrats passed on making Roe federal law under Clinton and Obama. Now they say they're ready to protect abortion rights from state-level interference." via Rewire.News

"Five Ways House Democrats Are Using the Budget to Fight Anti-Choice Policy: A budget amendment from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would strike Hyde-like language banning the use of DOJ funds for abortion." via Rewire.News

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Ally Boguhn: Twitter; author page

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In brief: In our final abortion landscape deep-dive, digging into where we are and how we got here as, the brilliant Jill E. Adams of If/When/How (and SIA Legal) and I go hard at all three parts of the problematic "Safe, Legal, and Rare". I posit that we aim for Effective, Supported, and Private — but that's just my first, in-the-moment 'update', likely in need of further consideration. (And I definitely don't speak for Jill.)

She explains the breakdown in the "rational actor" theory and the disingenuous (at best) way that "objectivity" is imbued into legal educations that graduates take with them into practice — or, most dangerously and very commonly, into public office. Her take is extremely illuminating, even for long-time followers of reproductive rights and justice. I'm so excited to bring it to you!

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PLEASE SHARE: ReproLegal Helpline — 844-868-2812 via If/When/How

PLEASE SHARE: PlanC: REPORT CARD FOR ONLINE ABORTION PILL SUPPLIERS — aka, where to order medication abortion pills

Audre Lorde self-care quote via Know Your IX: "Dealing with Activist Burn-Out and Self-Care"

Interviews…

"The SIA Legal Team and If/When/How Are Merging: 'This Is Us, but Twice as Strong'" via Rewire.News

"A New Textbook Could Revolutionize the Way Law Students Learn About Reproductive Rights" via Rewire.News

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Jill E. Adams: If/When/How Twitter; If/When/How GIVE

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In brief: The three-part series with the experts at If/When/How (newly merged with SIA Legal Team) continues with the outstanding Jeryl Hayes! She breaks down the legal landscape that has allowed (and in some ways encouraged) the proliferation of the restrictions on abortion at the state-level. We talk about the problems caused by a relentless focus on Roe v. Wade — not just the over-confident expectation that this precedent was good enough to hold in perpetuity, but which people were never truly protected in a system that trades money for access to basic human rights like bodily autonomy. It's a birth justice bonanza, y'all!

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Interviews…

"Jeryl Hayes Joins If/When/How as Movement Building Director"

"Does Your Roe Anniversary Center Racial and Economic Justice?" by Jeryl Hayes, If/When/How

"Reproductive Rights at Risk With or Without Roe" via The American Prospect — Winter 2019 issue of The American Prospect magazine

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If/When/How: Twitter; Give and Get Swag!

DC Abortion Fund: Twitter; Volunteer/Give/Support

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In brief: Y'all know how I love academics and lawyer-types. Well, welcome to a three-part series with the badasses at If/When/How ("lawyering for reproductive justice") which recently merged with the awesome folx at SIA Legal. (They are quoted extensively in my writing on self-managed abortion care.) They're into every issue intersecting with reproductive health (spoiler: that's everything). So, consider this the start of a deep dive into the birth/repro justice landscape at present!

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Interviews…

"Ending the Stigma and Prosecution of Self-Administered Abortions" — by me at Truthout

"Self-Managed Abortion Care Becomes Urgent as Threats to "Roe v. Wade" Mount" — by me at Truthout

"Georgia Law Enforcement Is DNA-Testing Fetal Remains Found In Wastewater" via Slate

"A Texas bill would allow the death penalty for patients who get abortions" via Vox

Repro Legal Healthline

How to Access Medication Abortion

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Farah Diaz-Tello, JD, If/When/How: Twitter (personal); Twitter (If/When/How); website

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