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By Brianna Bailey, Photograph: Brianna Bailey/The Frontier, The Marshall Project, September 13, 2022 Two district attorneys have targeted mothers with child neglect felonies. NEWKIRK, OKLA. — Early in her pregnancy, Amanda Aguilar struggled with severe nausea that sometimes made it hard to eat. A doctor had previously approved a medical marijuana license for her, so she used pot to ease her morning sickness. Aguilar, 33, said she stopped using marijuana after her third month of pregnancy and...

By Cara Buckley, Photograph: Michael Starghill Jr. for The New York Times , The New York Times, September 12, 2022 The White House has pledged $60 billion to a cause Robert Bullard has championed since the late seventies. He wants guarantees that the money will end up in the right hands. HOUSTON — He’s known as the father of environmental justice, but more than half a century ago he was just Bob Bullard from Elba, a flyspeck town deep in Alabama that didn’t pave roads, install sewers or put...

By Gretchen Reynolds, Photograph: Jamal Jordan for The Washington Post, The Washington Post, September 14, 2022 Working out for 30 minutes every day “might not be enough” to counter the health issues created by prolonged sitting, said the author of a sweeping new study Are you an active couch potato? Take this two-question quiz to find out: Did you work out for 30 minutes today? Did you spend the rest of the day staring at your computer and then settle in front of the television at night? If...

By Edward Bullmore, Illustration: Elia Barbieri, The Guardian, September 12, 2022 The current false dichotomy holds back research and stigmatises patients A few months ago, I was infected by coronavirus and my first symptoms were bodily. But as the sore throat and cough receded, I was left feeling gloomy, lethargic and brain-foggy for about a week. An infection of my body had morphed into a short-lived experience of depressive and cognitive symptoms – there was no clear-cut distinction...

By David Gelles, Photograph: Natalie Behring for The New York Times, The New York Times, September 14, 2022 A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given the company away. Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzkXjQLb_M&t=21s Interview with Skip Skipper, CEO, Justice Peer Initiative Conducted by Carl Blumenthal, Peer Specialist 1. What's your recovery story and how did it lead you to your current job? 2. What are the origins of the JPI and who has been involved? 3. Since you don't want to reinvent the wheel, what are the models and who are the leaders in the field? 4. What is the mission, goals, and structure of JPI, including your fundraising efforts? 5.

Welcome to virtual Rx Healing Circles! This session serves as an opportunity for building the beloved community and fostering healing through a shared humanity perspective. We invite you to join us in sharing a connective space for people to offer compassion and experience unity. Join us Wednesday, September 28, 2022 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please register here : bit.ly/RxHealingCircle9-28

By Lesley Alderman, LCSW, Illustration: Celia Jacobs for The Washington Post, The Washington Post, September 13, 2022 Hope fatigue is the latest mental health challenge therapists are seeing Lesley Alderman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist based in Brooklyn. One of my patients showed up at her virtual psychotherapy session last week looking tired. She had always been ambitious and concerned about injustice. During this session, she sighed when talking about a meeting where her colleagues...

By Adam Morton, Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images, The Guardian, September 11, 2022 Every fraction of a degree of global heating avoided makes a difference. Here are some reasons for hope There is no shortage of things to say about what’s going wrong. The extent of damage caused at 1.2C of global heating since pre-industrial levels is proving greater than was forecast by climate scientists not that long ago. As discussed last week , the disastrous toll of the historic flooding in Pakistan...

By Kurtis Lee, Photograph: Adam Perez for The New York Times, The Washington Post, September 10, 2022 Since 2020, four dozen pilot programs have started, with Los Angeles running one of the largest to provide cash assistance. Early in the pandemic, Alondra Barajas had a temporary job for the Census Bureau, doing phone work from the two-bedroom apartment she shared with her mother and four younger siblings. When that job ended in late 2020, she struggled to find employment. But Ms. Barajas...

By Tony Leys, Photograph: Tony Leys / KHN, Kaiser Health News, September 13, 2022 GLENWOOD, Iowa — Mike Lee’s way of life has faded away in most of the United States, and it soon will vanish from southwestern Iowa. Lee, 57, has spent 44 years at the Glenwood Resource Center, a state-run institution for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. He has autism and epilepsy, and his parents decided when he was 13 that he needed the structure and constant oversight offered by a...

By Mark Keierleber, Photograph: Joshua Bay/The 74; Kel-Tec/iStock, The 74, September 12, 2022 As districts nationwide bolster police in schools, a Florida sheriff plans to equip campus cops with collapsible rifles strapped to their chests. As children in Brevard County, Florida, shopped for notebooks and pencils for the upcoming school year, Sheriff Wayne Ivey geared up to — as he called it — “win the battle.” Just two days before students returned to classes at the coastal district east of...