If the literal pope had to semi-regularly take time out from his schedule to announce that my theology in particular was fucked up it might make me more cautious about making statements like this

This was EXACTLY what happened after Hellerstedt (SCOTUS striking down strict regulations for abortion clinics in Texas) and Dobbs was literally six years later.

The center held the bonded slave for the sake of industry. Center held the bloodied hand of the execution man…

Well, hiking the Appalachian Trail is obviously not a plausible excuse

My college kid is working retail this summer, which is a great life lesson and experience that I’m glad they’re getting. But also, what the everliving fuck is wrong with some people

Waiting for the Supreme Court to tell us what scraps of the Constitution we get to keep is such a degrading ritual

I planted some tiny, tiny stalks of milkweed about a month ago and now I check their growth more regularly and with more precision than I observed my own children’s (one appeared to die but has offshoots that are green! The other has some offshoots!).

As a former gifted child and eldest daughter, I hate the quiz at the end of NYT’s The Hunt. How was I supposed to know they were outbid on one house or that another had a leaky basement so they didn’t want to buy it?

this is why I try to both disclose and inquire about vasectomy status during the initial firm handshake

People. Do we know what women did to avoid pregnancy before contraception? They didn’t have sex. Or if they did, and they got pregnant, they begged for abortions, died from sticking objects in their uteruses, died by suicide, died in childbirth, or died of exhaustion.

So…two of ACB’s daughters were adopted from Haiti. If nothing else, some therapist is going to have one of those wow, I wish I could tell you about my day moments someday.

When I worked in abortion in VA in 2006/07, there was a rep who proposed a law that would require people who’d experienced a fetal death to report it to the police. When it was pointed out to him that that would affect people who’d had a miscarriage, he withdrew the bill.

Can you see this, Delaware lawmakers???

As a general rule for myself, I avoid DC, but this may be worth the beltway traffic to see in person…

I mean, Henry VIII lost a ton of kids to fetal and infant mortality-related causes and of the wives he didn’t murder, half died of complications related to childbirth. And that was just one guy!

Meanwhile, my 19 year old is over here musing about how hot Ossoff is.

In a society that actually cares about people, someone who's even believed to be stealing diapers would be met with assistance, resources, and money to make sure they would never again feel like they must steal for their basic needs. In the U.S., we respond by sending government sanctioned killers.

In case inventing charges and using them to murder two of his wives wasn’t enough of a reason to hate this awful, awful man

I couldn’t find the words, but Susan did

If you’re on Accutane (I don’t know the numbers, but I assume the % of Accutane users who are females of reproductive age is high), you have to do this every month no matter where you are because it’s under a federal REMS program.

Man, Stephen Miller would have been so mad

And how many non-Americans had heard of, IDK, Auburn, Alabama, before last week?

not a criticism of the OP or article, just wanted to note @susanrinkunas.com and @garnethenderson.com have been reporting on this comstock act legal strategy for years now, long before anyone else cared to take it seriously. good reporters to follow!

As a reminder: Digital pregnancy tests read the paper pee strips you can buy and the dollar store—and they don’t even do it as well as your own eyes. Buy the cheap tests!

My husband, who grew up in a tiny town in east Georgia, got 25.

Some of us have been loyal viewers since way before the scaffolding was high enough…

Me when we’d get to the combo portion of barre class

Getting rid of the Howard Dean 50 state strategy was a catastrophe

This is not the level of the pope, obviously, and Episcopalians don’t have quite the relationship to clergy Catholics do, but my husband is a priest and I know many priests, so it’s often hard to take them seriously in their vocation.

The only way to get out from under all this shit is court reform. It’s literally more important than anything else right now because any laws or rights that the chucklefucks in Congress deign to give people of color or queer people can (and will) be undone by the Supreme Court.

Love it

I used an Apple Music “for you” playlist to work out to, and while I’m not sure Boyz 2 Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You” sets an ideal workout pace, as a 45-year old, I’m not objecting.

Vanessa Carlton, A Thousand Miles. I can smell the mall and feel the air conditioning on my skin.

Just like we know most crimes are committed by mothers because of the way the crime rate is consistently lower on Mother’s Day.

Yesterday I was looking at the obituary of one of the veterans featured prominently in The War by Ken Burns. He had a particularly compelling story and I wanted to see what became of him. He co-founded a Tea Party branch in 2009. I just…cannot.

Once I got yelled at by the attorney who argued the case—Catherine Rorabach, the first woman to argue in front of SCOTUS—and even though I’ve had research cited by SCOTUS since, that remains my coolest repro story. (She wasn’t yelling b/c of me; she was yelling about inaction on climate change 🫠)

On this 82nd Anniversary of #DDay, I’d like to remember the late Medgar Evers, he and other Black soldiers who were there. He served to protect the freedom & democracy that we have today, only to get murdered by a KKK sniper in Mississippi for wanting & fighting for equal & voting rights.

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

I have the historical interests of a Boomer dad, so I’m of course watching the Omaha Beach scene from Saving Private Ryan. I will never not be moved thinking about what these—mostly kids!—went through on D-Day and after. He was D-Day plus a few and is 21 in this discharge photo.

Local Costco ran out of gas today, so that’s something fun to look forward to next week.

I feel like so much of his rationale for staying has to do with his own narcissism, yes, but also likely a belief that voters will ignore the Totenkopf, the harassment, the abuse, etc, because voters have demonstrated they’re willing to ignore it. We’ll see if that applies to Democratic voters.

The fact that Platner and his team are still trying to stay in this race is enough to disqualify him at this point. Anyone who was actually prioritizing the future of this country would step aside. It's about his personal glory.

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That said, politicians who want to talk about what comes "after" need to have a plan for Black women workers who were targeted and purged from the federal workforce

What somehow feels more significant to me at this moment is that for so long so many wanted to believe that a lot of MAGA folks *aren’t* white supremacists, even when considering evidence that has always pointed that way.

Yup

Poor Tiffany, always the ignored kid

I was talking about Bush v Gore with my 18 year old last night and even as I was describing it as it happened, it sounded unbelievable. No wonder the Roberts Court thinks anything that advances the majority’s ideology is constitutional—the Rehnquist Court paved its path.

Omg I turned on this YouTube video to see something work related and there’s a whole soap opera-like ad for Coursiv about someone who learned how to use AI so he wasn’t fired (it’s also all AI). I’ve watched the whole stupid think because it is so ridiculous.