Extremely disappointed in this vote. You could have issued the statement condemning political violence without voting for this resolution honoring a misogynistic, racist, anti-LGBTQ bigot like Charlie Kirk.
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Extremely disappointed in this vote. You could have issued the statement condemning political violence without voting for this resolution honoring a misogynistic, racist, anti-LGBTQ bigot like Charlie Kirk.
I don't even have words for how gross this is. Have we lost all human decency?
For the same reason Hitler hated Jewish people...they were a convenient minority to attack and scapegoat to unify his supporters.
How does "pregnant people" delete anyone? Are women not included in "people"? It is inclusive of all people with uteruses, those who do identify as women and those who do not, while referring to all pregnant people as women is exclusive of trans men and non-binary people - *that's* deleting.
I took my nephew and his friend to the Maryland Renn Fest this afternoon and had such a nice time!
Thank you! I have lived 53 years without being either. But I am a daughter, and a sister, and an aunt, and a friend, and I have a career, and those matter too!
Washington was right when he spoke about the dangers of political parties. The next best thing to getting rid of them would be a multi-party system like other western countries have so they have to work together to get anything done.
Yes, but they share the blame with those who actually voted for this disaster.
30 years! Happy anniversary, Xena.
Yeah, the kids didn't vote for anything, and these diseases aren't going to make sick or kill only the kids whose adult family members voted for DeSantis/Trump, even if that made it better. Idiot.
No, let's not, it's still shitty and sizeist.
Or about trans health care.
Same after my two trips to Europe.
It's better to prevent future infections than have infected people who then have to take a complicated lifelong regimen of meds to stay alive and avoid infecting more people.
We will never defeat Trumpism in this country so long as we accept the idea that some kinds of people are not as good as others. It's liberty and justice for all, all the way, for everyone, without a single asterisk.
I love the OT, but if I have to name one thing, right now it might be Rebels.
Or until you go from not having done it for five years to having to start doing it again.
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
I think most American men would disagree with that.
Viagra enables/enhances sexual performance, which is absolutely considered a significant part of a masculine identity in our culture. Androgel is testosterone - there's nothing more associated with being "manly." Absolutely gender-affirming.
Of course it's gender-affirming care, it's just for cis people so that makes it OK 🙄.
If you cannot wrestle with the bad things your country has done (and this goes for every country), you aren't a patriot, you aren't interested in history. You only want a fantasy.
Well, it means a little more than that. Some states will continue to allow same-sex marriages, and the states that don't will still have to recognize couples that get legally married in one of those states as married. They just won't have to allow gay couples to get legally married in their state.
Yeah, that line is from Margaret, the brace is Deenie. She wrote so many great books it's easy to confuse them!
Think you might be conflating two different Blume books, Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret, and Deenie. Deenie is the one about a girl who wears a brace.
And by the way, yes, SCOTUS can overturn a law passed by Congress, it's kind of their job.
Wrong. That law says the federal government will recognize same-sex marriages entered into in states where it is legal, and that other states must recognize those marriages. States decide what marriages they allow, and the federal statute does nothing to require they allow same-sex marriages.
This is not just a distraction to gay couples. We can talk about more than one horrible thing at a time.
It requires the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages and - I believe - requires states to recognize same-sex marriages entered into in other states where they are legal. It does nothing to require states to legally allow same-sex marriage themselves.
I know it's unpopular to say but Trump's authoritarian consolidation is succeeding, mostly because of cowardly institutions. We're effectively past the point of no return and life will increasingly become dictated by Trump and the federal government. Democracy is lost for at least a generation.
Except maybe there were things his audience would have liked but he didn't because personal taste. And because of his biases as a white man, how much did he never even look at or consider what an audience outside other white men might have liked?
Except it becomes everyone's business when that disease is contagious and everyone can't be vaccinated.
They want to have their cake and eat it too - no trans women in "women's spaces" because they don't have the right "equipment" despite looking like women, but no trans men because they look like men despite having the right "equipment."
Yeah, as a white, southern person, I'm not proud of that history.
Unfortunately, yes. And I was a huge Lois and Clark fan. Sigh.
Happy to see my state (MD) here!
The people who actively voted for him are primarily at fault, but yes, the people who didn't vote for Harris when they could have have some responsibility too. Both can be true!
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.
Yeah, I think a lot of 3-year-olds have more empathy and concern for fairness than Trumpers do.
And nobody's opinion but the person whose piercing it is matters.
Empathy is good, actually, and the absence of it is unnatural and destructive. {she said, hoping it wasn't too controversial}
If I wanted to see crap like that I would still be on that other site.
Have you read the Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal?
And the students who will have spent nearly their entire time at Harvard without those sources of support after those three years?
"single mass killing"
Yes! And will help small businesses retain good employees who they now lose if they can't afford to offer health insurance. Ask me how I know.
How are we supposed to celebrate Independence Day after passing a bill that strips healthcare, security, and dignity from millions? What are we celebrating… Cowardice in Congress? Right-wing lies? Billionaires? Sick kids? Hospital closures? This isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment.
I have so much to be joyful and grateful about and it's hard to even think about any of it while we have our representatives laughing about torture and racism and ableism and anti-science and anti-knowledge and imprisoning people who protest for their rights. Dark fucking times.
You're wrong, and use of that word as an insult is an instant block. Bye!
Nobody claims that minors aren't being given puberty-blockers or hormones; those are proven safe and medically necessary treatments for some minors, both cis and trans (I am a cis woman and was given estrogen replacement for a medical condition from the age of 11).
Scheduling meetings and the most efficient business travel, maybe. The rest of these, fuck no. I want to schedule my vacation the way I want it, my clothing is self-expression, and I don't even know where to start with the job thing.
Yep.
Heck, most of my aunts and uncles used their middle names instead of the first names on their birth certificates, as does my mother, and my grandfather used a nickname not related to his first or middle name. But a chosen name suddenly shouldn't be respected if it's chosen by a trans/NB person. 🙄
Except everyone can't just up and move to a different state, even "gradually" or "eventually."
If you wouldn't feel the need to explain to a child why a man is attracted to a woman, then you don't need to explain it for a same-sex couple either.
Yep. If a three-year-old is old enough to understand that a man and a woman can be a couple, they're also old enough to understand that two men or two women can be. That’s all they need to understand at that age, not the details of everything being a couple means.
Calling them that is part of the problem she's talking about.
I'd bet many women if not a majority don't know they're pregnant by 6 weeks, regardless of weight.
Hard to pick just one, but if I must, maybe Daniel? Has special meaning for me because my late father was named Daniel and my nephew is named after him.
Fuck off bigot.
Agree with the sentiment, but this case isn't about who anybody loves, it's about who they are.
Has to be The Avengers for me - I love every performance and every word of that script!
I don’t know how else to explain this…if you’re cheering for someone else’s rights to be taken away, you’re cheering for your own to disappear too. This isn’t cake. You don’t get more by refusing to share. Either everyone has rights, or no one really does. Thats it. It’s simple.
To the extent "owning you" means they can put reasonable conditions on your continued at-will employment that include/involve your actions outside of work, such as not using drugs, yes, they do.
Does anyone who's dealt with caring for an elderly parent or relative have advice on medical alert devices/monitoring systems, that kind of thing? Looking for my mom and not sure what type of setup is best.
Corporate America doesn't have to give a fig about the First Amendment as it applies to their employees, the First Amendment only protects you from the government suppressing your speech, not from your private company employer deciding to fire you for it.
Separate but equal has been tried. And in most sporting events, the trans competitor would be competing alone in a "transgender category."
This is the way.
I'm watching the new Librarians spinoff and the new season of Leverage: Redemption!
Agreed, I am so sad to see him go after so few episodes. But that regeneration scene - 🤯
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
Good point, yes, a year as a cis woman would be helpful too. Just thinking a year of the financial limitations, although theoretically doable unlike the other ideas, wouldn't actually fix *everything* that's wrong with their politics, unfortunately.
Can I use it against both spam calls and spam email?
No, rational, competent medical professionals do not have differing opinions, they understand the science and the safety and importance of vaccines.
It would help, but I think they would then need to spend a year as a black person, then a year as an immigrant, then a year as a trans person...
You can’t KPI your way out of a crisis. 🎯
My grandmother, who grew up poor in the mountains of east Tennessee, also used to tell me to get an education because no one could take that away from me.
So excited to finally see this! #TheOldGuard2
No, the MCU began with The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man in 2008.
Federal employee here - I just found out the name of my small division has been changed to something with an acronym of DOOM. So I can officially say I work for Doom!
Amen. Capitalism and Sesame Street should be miles, if not continents, apart at all times.
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Then buy them online. They are legion.
It also involves them filling the plane with bugs and listening to everything anyone says on board, though.
Happy Mother's Day to all for whom it is a day to celebrate, and compassion and love for all whom it is not. I have no kids, both by choice and not, but a single mom friend whose son calls me Aunt Dana sent me a lovely message this morning about today also being for "aunties," and it meant a lot.
1 person who thinks democracy’s failed and there should be a god-king: your local nutjob. 1 million people who believe democracy’s failed and there should be a god-king: a fringe political party. 1 billionaire who believes democracy’s failed and HE should be god-king: everybody’s fucking problem.
And segregating bathrooms by sex and not gender makes that even easier for them.
May the Fourth be with you!
The point was that if people can be discriminated against because of their sexuality or gender identity, that means cishet people can be too. That happens a few times and they'll rethink this crap.
A friendly informal warning from someone above me.
So they'll call all the cis men "she" and the cis women "he" rather than use their preferred pronouns? Cool!
So did I, and was warned I should take them out if I didn't want to get added to a list.
Imagine if people said “Judaism is a mental illness,” or bemoaned “Jewish ideology, or scaremongered the “Jewish agenda,” or warned about “Jews in your kid’s school.” You’d easily recognize that as Nazi shit, right? Everyone would. So, why is it so hard to see when they say trans instead of Jewish?
Because the *way* he used the word stupid was the problem...
The answer is simple. You impeach him again because he is acting criminally and unconstitutionally, and impeachment is what the rule of law demands in such circumstances. You do it because it is the right thing to do. But that's too simple for the pundit-brain class.
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Because the Republicans have made it one as their chosen minority to scapegoat and demonize.
Use the terms g***y or r****d.
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