May 5, 2020: The best thing I've read this week

This is simple, clear.  Louisa Thomas of The New Yorker spells out the case, breaks it down and adds an exclamation point. 

And, it just crushes my soul a bit. 

I have spent a little bit of time over the last few days wondering why I am taking a court ruling so personally and the answer is so obvious: This one was supposed to be for my nieces. It was supposed to say, "You can do whatever you want -- and it counts just as much." 

These little girls and their friends... oh, bless them in their Rapinoe kits and their Alex Morgan swag. They watch and cheer. They practice and play. They make their signs and they believe. 

We are going to leave them a polluted globe with rising waters, a politically divided place that is going to be harder to get by in. I genuinely thought we could give them this, an acknowledgement that they are valued.

Not yet. Not yet. 

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