Sad Sleepy Nerd

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Also, folks who think fleeing the country is a solution should pay attention to how the chaos in US govt is wreaking havoc on the world

[Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle]

ron howard rn:

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

Folks, the slaughter of Palestinians is a race issue. The notion that Biden is better on race than anyone is complete nonsense. Honest people know that you could not starve, bomb, torture and murder a white people like what we are seeing in Gaza. Why do folks want to avoid this?

[Steve C @SC_my_3_sons]

More enshittification for a penny more of corporate profits, just tragic. Every media organization should have a C-suite level corporate archivist who has a say on these ridiculous decisions.

@doctorow any thoughts?

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I don’t understand people expressing surprise and confusion at this.
This is *exactly* how these laws are supposed to work. People worked really hard to make sure this happened.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[Mikki Kendall @Karnythia]

I did fight back and almost got arrested. Lots of victims that fight back end up punished by the state. Jails are full of women who saved themselves from abuse.

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

I also unrelatedly think there should be more of a conversation about being forced to work with or be around predatory, violent, dangerous men as a serious labor issue

[should be writing not scrolling @itsjacksonbbz]

I fear we're regressing culturally re fatphobia and it's probably in some way related to fascism being very back

[Trans Wizard Harriet Porber @MxVivianWulf]

The regret rate for Harry Potter tattoos is 1000% the regret rate for transition.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Republicans can’t get the most votes, so they want to make sure other people can’t vote, their vote doesn’t count, or the election doesn’t work right. It’s calculated and corrupt and exactly in line with who the party’s become.

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

Just got word that the last of my remaining family members in Gaza have made it to Egypt after more than 6 months sheltering in a church in the north. I am glad for their safety but it is also tragic: my last familial link to Palestine gone, an exile that began in 1948 complete

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

doomed whaling voyage

[STIRGUS SACCHETTI @stirgussa]

"The washed-up actor Johnny Depp, who in 2020 was found to have abused his ex-wife by a British court, went on to successfully sue her for defamation in a US trial. His victim and target, the actor Amber Heard, had already had to seek a restraining order against him"

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

“The truth is that the #MeToo movement did not end the impunity of rapists and abusers so much as highlight how entrenched and tenacious the social forces that create that impunity really are.” I wrote about the overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction.https://t.co/e6PsnCqbrb

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

How many children and infants does the IDF need to kill for it to go from "trope" to "fact"?

[flglmn @flglmn]

this routine is especially odd when it comes from people like seinfeld or john cleese, whose career-defining work has mostly aged perfectly well and has never really been cancelled or controversial

[Aaron H. Aceves @aaronhaceves]

Oh there are police in sight alright lol