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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

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  2. Portlaw

    the high eighties.

    Wanted to send two thank yous. One to Jan for the SCOTUS blog and all it’s updates. Hared the results but needed the quiet pend to read about them.

    The other is to Denise for reminding me to see the Kara Walker exhibit. Overwhelming on every single level. If anyone really deserved their MacArthur, she certainly is the one. Wow. For those of you who missed it, here’s Denise’s diary that sent me off to the subway

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/…

  3. DeniseVelez

    Running out to take care of a doc visit at 9:30 before the heat hits, then will stay indoors for the rest of the day through Tuesday’s Chile.

    Well the Supreme’s have now made it clear that wingnut views that birth control/contraception = abortion are a-okay.

    Something I predicted several years ago to my women’s studies students who looked at me as if I was suddenly crazy.

    Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned craft supply chain store, and Conestoga Wood Specialties Store, a Mennonite-owned wood manufacturer, had challenged the mandate on the grounds that it violates their religious freedom by requiring them to cover methods of birth control they find morally objectionable, such as emergency contraception and hormonal and copper intrauterine devices.

    The owners of those companies believe that those types of birth control are forms of abortion because they could prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus, despite the general scientific consensus that the contraceptives are not equivalent to abortion.

    Though many Americans consider pregnancy prevention a compelling enough public health justification to cover the cost of such contraceptives, the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision could also affect women who use birth control for other medical reasons.

    In 2011, the Guttmacher Institute estimated that roughly 14 percent of birth control users rely on birth control exclusively for non-contraceptive purposes. Some 1.5 million women use birth control to help with medical issues such as ovarian cancer, ovarian cysts, endometriosis and endometrial cancer.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

    I took BC pills to regulate my cycle -which was wacked till I started using them. I also had cysts.

    All I can say is we need to triple our efforts to GOTV in 2014.

  4. Diana in NoVa

    It is amazing! Denise knows more hidden history of this country than anyone I have ever encountered. Just tipped, rec’d, and shared it on Facebook. I miss a lot on weekends because of family time, so I’m glad you reposted this.

  5. anotherdemocrat

    & there’s an outdoor World Cup watch party on Auditorium Shores, I hope they have lots of water

    Eating not-sweet potato breakfast, drinking strong tea. When I wake up enough, I’ll continue research on a sane country to live in.

    I’m playing Big Girls Are Best in my head deliberately to wake myself up, so technically not an earworm, since that’s something involuntary.

  6. Diana in NoVa

    Another lovely but bone-dry morning. My shoes didn’t even get wet when I went out looking for berries for Miss Pink Cheeks’ breakfast. I think she and I will do a rain spell later today. I asked my husband to water everything, but what it really needs is a good, soaking rain.

    Very pleased to be having lunch today with an old friend. We’re meeting at my house and then driving to Vienna, Virginia, just down the road to have lunch and look at the shops.

    After being in shock yesterday from the SCOTUS decisions, I’ve cheered up a bit because someone pointed out that if we had single-payer health insurance in this country it would obviate the whole “my employer is a Spaghetti Monster worshipper and won’t cover health care for hamburger-related illnesses” thing. We need Medicare to be extended to everyone. Why did this country take such a wrong turn in 1946? Oh, wait, conservatives.

    As to the Harris decision, once again it boils down to electing a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president who will actually be able to pass laws to protect workers.

    Have signed up for a women’s writing day on Saturday, July 12, in Leesburg, run by an old friend who’s trained in the Amherst method. It should be a nice, relaxing day. Made some progress on my next short story last night; now, if I could only decide what the guy’s name is!

    Everyone in Moosylvania have a good day…

  7. princesspat

    My upset re the SOCTUS decisions was both heightened and tempered by spending the day with the grand girls yesterday. RonK took them to the park with their bikes, we enjoyed a picnic lunch on the patio and then played Sorry, and ended the day doing crafts in my sewing room. It was very nice, but thoughts of what is happening to the world around them kept intruding.

    And today we meet with the attorney to finalize our new will and medical directives…..feeling quite generational this morning!

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