Revisiting @catvalente's #refrigeratormonologues. I dropped the book, picked it up, and couldn't figure out why all the text was upside down. Titles are at the bottom of the page. Like the girls, upside down. Damn. So good. How'd I miss that before?https://t.co/BRShqdh8Mm
A judge scolded right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday for lying under oath during his defamation trial in Travis County, Tex.
“You must tell the truth while you testify,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said. “This is not your show.”
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I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Six unelected individuals just denied women all over America the right to make their own health care decisions.
They did so after swearing to respect the Court’s decision in Roe.
Congress must fight this in every way we can. Or this Court will return us to the Stone Age.
Today I have fewer rights and less autonomy than a corpse.
Today my government took rights away from a specific group purely because they belong to that group, & somehow people think it’ll stop here & every other group will be fine.
Nothing will ever make this okay.
The cynicism of Republicans in Congress is breathtaking. We cannot forget that a week ago they were on the side of Putin. We cannot forget that they have done everything in their power to block economic relief to the American people.
I will start calling Covid the same as the common cold when you don’t get long-haul illnesses and permanent disability from Covid. I don’t understand why people are going with this narrative now. It’s not like a common cold. Death isn’t the only bad outcome here.