SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for September 2nd-8th, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/via Getty Images)

Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment, and make sure you did not miss anything. There are also several links within each snippet to give you more detail from credible and free sources if you want to dive deeper on any issue.

Although Donald Trump continues to try and distance himself publicly from his own custom-made Project 2025 Agenda, he has continued for months at his rallies to make dog whistle promises that include the main tenants of this conservative manifesto. The basis of Project 2025 policy, which seeks to overhaul the government workforce by hiring only Trump loyalists and deliver major wins for the conservative agenda by gutting federal agencies entirely and rolling back Civil Rights protections, is extremely dangerous, so please be sure to send out this article to everyone you know: Trump Can't Disavow Project 2025.

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Gun Violence This Week

There were 14 separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where 15 people were killed and 56 were injured. Here at SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. 

1. Sunday, September 1, 2024: Bullard, Texas

2. Sunday, September 1, 2024: Milford, Delaware

3. Sunday, September 1, 2024: Cleveland, Ohio

4. Sunday, September 1, 2024: Dayton, Ohio

5. Monday, September 2, 2024: Antioch, Tennessee

6. Monday, September 2, 2024: Birmingham, Alabama

7. Monday, September 2, 2024: Bessemer, Alabama

8. Monday, September 2, 2024: Brooklyn, New York

9. Monday, September 2, 2024: Forest Park, Illinois

10. Monday September 2, 2024: Federal Way, Washington

11. Wednesday, September 4, 2024: Winder, Georgia

12. Friday, September 6, 2024: District of Columbia

13. Saturday, September 7, 2024: East Bernstadt, Kentucky

14. Saturday, September 7, 2024: Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

• Construction is now underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states with major restrictions on abortion, such as Texas and Oklahoma.

• An Associated Press analysis of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data shows that staffers have not returned to roughly 2,000 pharmaceutical manufacturing firms to conduct inspections since before the pandemic, raising the risks of contamination in drugs used by millions.

• It was revealed this week that Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, privately heaped praise on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court — efforts sparked, in large part, by her husband’s lack of ethics.

• Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts in hospitals because of a new Louisiana law reclassifying Misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance.