Record high September gas prices. War in the Middle East. Massive food recalls. Interest rates skyrocketing, raising mortgage costs.
This is America under Trump.
Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.
Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp
If you’re a reporter interviewing a lawmaker supporting total abortion bans without exceptions, there’s a whole host of non-abortion follow up questions that should be asked. A few examples:
Remember when they were trying to figure out why there was a giant drop in crime like 30 years ago and they tried to say it was due to better policing…
And then the Freakonomics dudes figured out it’s because an entire generation wasn’t forced to give birth to unwanted kids.
From the moment of fertilization. No exceptions for rape and incest. May not travel to another state. Jailing doctors and mothers. Punishing moms for a miscarriage. This is medieval policy. Anyone telling you to chill is not paying attention, doesn’t care, or likes this stuff.
I don’t like paying higher gas prices either but it’s incredible that people will buy GOP outrage on gas that’s $5 instead of $3.50—but then excuse GOP for keeping the min wage at $7.25 instead of $15, insulin at $1200 instead of $35, & paid leave at 0 weeks instead of 12 weeks.
My “job” consists of me working at a tech company with middle aged men, but the real WORK is finding ways to encourage them to listen to Red (Taylor’s Version) and 30
I am all rage and grief today with nowhere to put it so this is my story: last year I was 18 weeks into a very wanted pregnancy when I learned that the baby I was carrying had a catastrophic, fatal diagnosis—triploidy—and I had three “options” for moving forward.
Happy day for me. Several people I care a lot about got the COVID vaccine today, overcoming some hesitancy. What do I say to my patients who are unsure about the vaccine? This: