haven’t been reading so much lately because I’ve been concentrating on a full website and business plan for my birthwork.

• We Owe Everything to the Weird Early Web, AIGA Eye on Design

• Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters, NY Times

• Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill, NY Times

• 4 Women on Their Abortions After 20 Weeks, The Cut

• Let Children Get Bored Again, NY Times

• The Bad News About Helicopter Parenting: It Works, NY Times

• This Controversial Company Wants To Disrupt The Birth World, Buzzfeed News

• Young People Really, Really Want a Green New Deal, The Nation

• Sandusky, Ohio, Makes Election Day A Paid Holiday — By Swapping Out Columbus Day, NPR

• I Served in Congress Longer Than Anyone. Here’s How to Fix It., The Atlantic

• Transcript: Trump’s State of the Union, Annotated, NY Times

• How Democrats Are Using Guests to Send Messages at the State of the Union, NY Times

• Transportation Emerges as Crucial to Escaping Poverty, NY Times

• Cuddle Cot gives parents of stillborn babies more time to grieve, Sacramento Bee

• London’s Surprisingly Rich History of Transit Textile Design, City Lab

• ASKING FOR A FRIEND: WHAT IF THE KIDS WALK IN DURING SEX?, Mother Mag

• How to Be More Empathetic, NY Times

• Raising Children Without the Concept of Sin, NY Times

• Cities Aren’t Built for Parents, The Atlantic

• NYC's Inaccessible Subway System Is a Reproductive Rights Issue, Broadly

• FAVORITES AT 25 MONTHS - ART SUPPLIES, the kavanaugh report

• LISTEN: The Room of Requirement, This American Life

• What Happened When a Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall, Medium

• The Upper East Side Gets a Rap Tribute on SNL Thanks to Leslie Jones, NY Mag

• Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data, Bloomberg

• New York passes Child Victims Act, allowing child sex abuse survivors to sue their abusers, CNN

• I Tried on 'Genderless' Clothes and Was Extremely Disappointed, Broadly

• A Priceless Archive of American Architecture Publishing, City Lab

• The ‘Marie Kondo Effect’ Comes at a Weird Time for Thrift Stores, City Lab

• A Bohemian’s Guide to Greenwich Village, New York, a Century Ago, Messy Nessy Chic

• These Macabre Guillotine Earrings Were All the Rage During France’s “Reign of Terror”, Cult of Weird

• New York’s Secret Caribbean Kingdom (and its Queen), Messy nessy Chic

• Haunting Remnants of a Former NYC Orphanage Revealed at Upper East Side Construction Site, Untapped Cities

• The Tiny Blond Bible Teacher Taking on the Evangelical Political Machine, The Atlantic

• The agony of ending a wanted late-term pregnancy: three women speak out, The Guardian

• All We Did Was Survive, Desiring God
  I feel down a rabbit hole

• AFTER BEING MISIDENTIFIED IN 'VOGUE,' MUSLIM JOURNALIST, ACTIVIST AND SPEAKER NOOR TAGOURI HAS A MESSAGE, Fashionista

• Anti-Abortion Movement Rebrands as 'Pro-Science,' Despite Existing Science, Broadly

• Has the Women's March Served Its Purpose?, Broadly

• I Failed the Covington Catholic Test, The Atlantic

• Already Exhausted by a 15-Month-Old’s Behavior, janet lansbury

• Common ground, Aeon

• Speaking Up Without Tearing Down, Teaching Tolerance

• Inside the fight over the Elizabeth Street Garden, Curbed

• New York Has Finally Updated Its Archaic Abortion Law, NY Mag

• Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes, The Concourse

• Supreme court allows Trump trans military limit to be enforced, The Guardian

• Upper East Side Restaurant Nello Bans Single Women From Eating At The Bar, Guest of a Guest

• The 'Right to Repair' Movement Is Gaining Ground and Could Hit Manufacturers Hard, Fortune

• Teenage Diver Finds Tons Of Golf Balls Rotting Off California, NPR

• 8 Books On Motherhood + Feminism, The Longest Shortest Time

• Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Asking About Citizenship on Census, Colorlines

• The rise of mending: how Britain learned to repair clothes again, The Guardian

• Thousands more migrant children separated under Trump than previously known, The Guardian

• The Other Talk, The New York Times

• The New Mom Uniform of Park Slope, NY Times

• ‘It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way.’ Why Some Boys Can Keep Up With Girls in School., NY TImes

• There’s a better way to talk to your kids about sex, Quartz

• What People Actually Say Before They Die, The Atlantic

• Marie Kondo’s Haters Are Low-Key Starting to Get ‘Racist’, Next Shark

• Why new moms have scary thoughts about their babies, Today’s Parent

• Sasheer Zamata Reworked Louis C.K.’s Leaked Parkland-Kids Joke in Her Own Stand-up Set, Vulture

• Senators Were Laughably Conflicted About Whether To Share Cardi B's Video On The Government Shutdown, Buzzfeed News

• Amazon is Coming to The Bronx; Will Open a ‘Last Mile’ Warehouse in Hunts Point, Welcome 2 The Bronx
  When my Amazon Prime is up for renewal, I think I’ll cancel it. Makes me sad to give money to a company that’s so shitty to NYC but happy/apprehensive about seeking local sources for things

• When Crafts Become Activism: A More Beautiful Movement, Yes Magazine
  Flashback to my capstone project

• I’m so excited because I love mess! , The Outline

• Solar-Powered Slugs Hide Wild Secrets—But They’re Vanishing, Nat Geo

• Trump’s Gentrification Scheme to Enrich Real Estate Developers, The New Republic

• The One Issue the Left and Right Can Agree On, The New Republic

• The Exhausting Minimalism of Tidying Up, The New Republic

• What’s So Controversial About a Medieval Nun’s Teeth?, The New Republic

• WATCH: Amy Sedaris Reveals Her Magical Greenwich Village Apartment | Interior Lives

• Marie Kondo totally changed my outlook on decluttering and bringing 'joy' to our home, Motherly

• Amid Debate Over Designated Injection Sites, Dwindling ‘Safe’ Options for NYC’s Opioid Users, City Limits

• The Story Behind John Lennon's Psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V, Vintag.es

• What Reformers Learned When They Visited 1830s Brothels, JSTOR Daily

• I’M A SENIOR TRUMP OFFICIAL, AND I HOPE A LONG SHUTDOWN SMOKES OUT THE RESISTANCE, The Daily Caller

• I’m a white teacher who chose a high-poverty school for my daughter. Here’s why., Chalkbeat

• The Death of the Sick Day, NY Times

• The Instagram-Husband Revolution, The Atlantic

• Madagascar citizens demand transparency in a fishy deal with China, Global voices

• SAVING THE SEASON: LEMONS, Naturally Ella

• 2019: Our Final Year, Design Sponge

• Real Talk: Starting a New Chapter is Scary, Design Sponge

• A woman who was in a vegetative state for years gave birth. Police want DNA from men who work at the facility, CNN

• Exclusive: New Report Shows Gentrifiers Use Police to Terrorize Communities of Color—Without Even Calling 911, The Root

• As Trump visits border, Texas landowners prepare wall fight, AP News

• Journalist Pelin Ünker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation, The Guardian

• Protests against President Aleksandar Vučić spread from Belgrade to cities across Serbia, Global Voices

• The STD that keeps most contestants from competing on ‘The Bachelor’, NY POst

• Virginia Study Finds Increased School Bullying In Areas That Voted For Trump, NPR

• Amazon mails open letter to New Yorkers touting HQ2 benefits, Curbed

• Our pledge to New York City, Amazon

• Meet the Trans Midwife Changing the World's "Most Gendered Profession", The Stranger

• On the Border, Little Enthusiasm for a Wall: ‘We Have Other Problems That Need Fixing’, NY Times

• When Is a Border Just a Border? Almost Never, NY Times

• How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor, NY Times

• How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage, NY Times