A List of Weird Stuff the Right Connected to the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

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Early Tuesday morning, a massive cargo ship struck a structural pillar of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing the 1.6-mile-long bridge into the Patapsco River. The stunning collapse shut down the Port of Baltimore, one of the country’s busiest, and launched a search for at least six construction workers believed to be missing.  Amid the […]
Arianna Coghill

Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause “Very Serious Harm”

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Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the biggest abortion case since Dobbs“—may cause “very serious harm.” But there’s just one problem: more than 100 scientific studies show that abortion pills […]
Julianne McShane

Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Roll Back Access to Medication Abortion

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its most consequential abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. This time, the question facing the justices was whether to significantly restrict access to mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medication abortions. Though the Republican-appointed majority clearly does not approve of abortion, most of […]
Pema Levy