What I read today Oct 18

• Bed-Stuy May Be Changing, but There Is Still a Line for Ribs, NY Times

• The Boy Who Loves Trains

• Meet New York’s beloved mass transit bandit, NY POst

• Is It Possible to Be an Anti-Abortion Democrat? One Woman Tried to Find Out, NY Times

• Can a Democrat Be Pro-Life?, National Review

• What Justice Ginsburg Can Learn from Justice Kavanaugh, National Review

• I’m Blacker Than Liz Warren Is Indian, American Conservative

• Intersectional Feminism Broke Her, American Conservative

• White Feminism Isn’t the Problem (but You Might Be if You Think So), Tablet
  I get what Phetasy is saying, but I don’t think diversity is harmful and to support others, you can’t always center yourself.

• Witches: The New Woke Heroines, American Conservative
  I recently had a discussion with a friend about how I find witchcraft-new-age stuff hard to believe because it feels like it comes from a point of trendiness and not a studied belief system. Pop culture / young adults are less likely to subscribe to formal religions, but don’t look at their beliefs in totality. I also saw the Catland hex on Kavanaugh and was appalled that people would want to put so much bad energy into the world, particularly those who identify as healers and their work centers on promoting the idea of consent within culture. Franklin Evans puts this into pretty succinct words in this article: “…magic used with the intention to harm is without exception antithetical to the ethic of consent”

• We “refuse to be silent any longer”: magic as self-care after Kavanaugh, Vox

• We’re a middle-class black family. Here’s why we’ve skipped our local schools for now., Chalkbeat
  Schools make me anxious