lol to the Catholic for Catholics president on WHYY right now citing closing border as a good thing for Catholics

There’s a house my husband passes every day for work that had two big Trump banners in the front yard. We were gone for a week and then went past the house yesterday and they were gone.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Yesterday my senator posted a full-throttled defense of access to abortion, which is good, but then I spent a long time trying to figure out the context of why—and I still haven’t.

Brutal.

I would like to send a hearty fuck you to everyone who voted for this man. Miss me with the “I didn’t know he was crazy and would hurt so many people.” Yes, you did. It’s why you voted for him. His appeal is the pain he inflicts on people you don’t like. Fuck you.

Like the MTG thing from the other day…I’m…agreeing…with…Marjorie Taylor Green?

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Didn't think it would be controversial to say I am and remain anti-genocide, but whew have the last few years proved otherwise.

Maybe if historical dramas showed how disfigured people were from what are now vaccine preventable diseases we'd have fewer anti-vaxxers

If you think about how many kids have been separated from their parents, how many families split up, by the Trump-Miller mass deportation regime already, this song hits different m.youtube.com/watch?v=usZP...

Not going to show this to my livestock guard dog, who consistently demonstrates her invaluable service to us by alerting us to the foxes in the yard at 3 am and whenever a small child is riding a scooter on the sidewalk in front of the house and who also really, really wants cake.

I'm shocked that trad men don't like women. Shocked I tell you!

I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

Screenshotting so that if I ever run into him at Wegmans I can say “sir, have you seen this meme?”

Oh so Sauer is one of those looks the part appointees

Yes, remember this for next week when a whole bunch of republicans gather on a golf course after potentially paying thousands and thousands to be there.

So is the thinking in Chiles that an abortion provider who is mandated by the state to give inaccurate information about abortion would be legally protected if they *also* say “the state makes me say this, but there is actually no evidence this is true; on the contrary, multiple studies show…?”

Did anyone else watch the end of Love Story and is now watching the end of E1 of Ken Burns’s The Civil War to hear the Sullivan Ballou letter or are you normal

We went to one in a college town and it lacked college students, but had a ton of signs like that and also an “off with his head.”

Out of 7, 6 went to the University of Mississippi for law school, undergrad, or both.

I’ve been thinking about this as I read Relinquished by @gretchensisson.bsky.social. I think it goes beyond the forcing part; the whole anti-abortion movement relishes the suffering of all women.

I had my kid’s roommate going for like 2 minutes the other day when she was telling me about her Con Law class and I said “the US has a constitution?”

Hahahahaha imagine being Leonard Leo and reading that Lindy West is responsible for Dobbs and not his decades of planning

Because of the Global Gag Rule ... 👀

My husband is trying to talk me into taking the Jeopardy test but I’m hesitant because if I get it I can’t for the life of me think of the interesting fact about myself that I’d share

Listening to @theresthistory.bsky.social episodes on the KKK while I continue my deep, depressing dive into the myriad ways states work to control the right to abortion seems almost too on the nose

Suck it, Henry

So what I’d like to know is who advised his tesm on what documents to keep because we know he wasn’t sifting through them himself.

Worked out well for Marguerite of Anjou (and her son). I say we just let this thing play out.

I know someone who didn’t have a tape deck in their very old car and had an hour long commute where their brain was also completely cooked by Neal Boortz and Rush Limbaugh.

Yes to this, but, as always, abortion was the canary in the coal mine. When the Republicans took over state legislatures in 2011 the first thing they did was pass anti-abortion laws over and over and over.

This is horrific and unsurprising. When I reported sexual harassment against 2 male leaders in the field of sexual & reproductive health (supposedly pro-bodily autonomy), people went to GREAT lengths to ignore it or protect them. And they had not a fraction of the fame or accomplishments of Chavez.

the reason we dont have high speed rail or healthcare is so we can stuff money in the pockets of a few guys who were in the right place at the right time a few decades ago so they can do shit like this, this is the innovation we’re getting for funneling money to these people

I beg everyone who hasn’t yet watched or read any documentaries or books about the Vietnam War to do so as soon as you can to understand the enormity of how horribly grotesque this position is.

One thing I can 100% say about my congresswoman is that she drives a car herself because I accosted her as she was getting into it

I feel like we don’t talk enough about what a completely off the chain song All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You by Heart is. One night stand? Ok, NBD “You can imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes” Ok…still with you “I’m in love with another man…” and used your sperm to get pregnant 😳

Go to Mobile to find the leprechaun. Stay for a burger at Callaghans, an Irish bar and restaurant in the Garden District.

Elizabeth I famously spoke about her lack of desire to make windows into men’s souls.

Oh god it’s the day that celebrates the thing Mobile is most known for—more than being the birthplace of Mardi Gras or “damn the torpedoes”.

Really want to see a spinoff movie about the Choctaw vampire hunters from Sinners

Bummed, but I think the people in that room will think about SINNERS a lot more than ONE BATTLE over the next however many years.

Through #SINNERS, Ryan Coogler is giving us a masterclass in creating a legacy that outlasts you. Setting new precedents for Black directors, employing Black women and women of color, giving new and old generations opportunities to shine. May his cup runneth over for as long as he lives. #Oscars

It feels a little like late February 2020. North Americans who pay attention to other parts of the world see how much people are suffering and dying, but "Western" parts of the world haven't experienced the big changes to daily life yet and monumental supply shocks, so there's a disconnect.

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

can this be a solution?

My theory about Age of Attraction is that they gave potential participants a test to see if they could detect people’s ages, took the median test result, and then only selected people who scored two SDs below the median result. I’m not sure how you explain this otherwise.

A biological parent cannot be legally compelled to donate a kidney or bone marrow or blood to save their child’s life, but a pregnant person can be legally forced to have a c-section if a doctor tells a judge they should.

It’s currently 70* in my house because it was >80* outside yesterday, which is nice considering that it’s now icing and feels like 25*.