A Phlaming Phoenix

Honestly, “corporate mainstream media sucks” is a thing most people agree on. I know a guy who voted for Trump at least once who has been turning away from that kind of politics lately, and it’s this kind of message I hear him repeating. Now, I’m sure we have different views on how to solve that and what alternative sources should be used, but if it’s something to agree on, then maybe it’s a point of leverage.

Cinnamon and sumac are two common spices that are made from grinding up tree bark.

Pepperoni, pineapple, and jalapeno.

I think it’s not state election instruction that’s under question. It’s whether it’s sound to invoke the 14th amendment.

The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all. Send like a question for scientists - biologists and sociologists and such. Seems they have achieved something like a consensus on the matter. I don’t see anything inherently political about that, except that folks of a certain political bent have made it political. It’s not a matter of “what do we do in public policy about trans people” but “fascists refuse to accept trans people in society and have decided to lambast and punish them”.

In case my position isn’t obvious, trans people are people and trans rights are human rights. If there wasn’t a group of people trying to make them into a second class group of citizens (or a group of “eradicated vermin”) we wouldn’t be having a political conversation about this at all.

Yes, it’s invalidation of feelings followed by the infliction of physical violence to make the abuser feel better.

Is that guy out of Romanian prison yet?

If she has the money to do it. Travel is expensive. Sounds like she’s already got two kids, too.

Texas also has a statute that would then open her and anyone who helped her do this to civil liabilities. iirc, anyone can sue her for like 10 grand. Not sure that’s been tested yet, but it’s at least not something I would want to open myself up to.

Texas is a fucked up place. I’m glad I got out when I did.

Yeah, this is like one of those illusions where you can’t tell if you’re looking at two people staring at each other or a vase. If you’re a leftie, you look at this and go, “Good, based Bernie.” If you only consume the mainstream narrative that the Israelis are on the right side of history here and opposition to their campaign or our support for it are heresy, this reads like “Bad Commie Bernie.”

Edit: Just read the article. It quotes Bernie heavily, seems to let him represent his own position. It juxtaposes the Israeli claim that they’re not being indiscriminate against some pretty ugly numbers about the dead and displaced. The article reads pretty pro-Bernie to me.

It takes my kid half an hour of screaming and throwing a public fit just to get within two miles of a needle, so I’ll take it.

They’re the free space on the Violent Abuser bingo card.

The character has turned their body to face the other table to their left, but has not turned their feet.

only reaching middle age and being honest with yourself can do that.

Oof. I felt that one.

The Allies

Yeah, that thing she participated in.

You gotta get with the times. This should be a modern company. Remove the E: Groomr

Not to mention our prisons are full of white supremacists who will further reinforce this worldview and further radicalize the Nazi. Prison is part of the problem, not the solution. We just saw this, actually, with Jacob Chansley’s Congressional bid following his release from prison.

The research at the time said not to ban it because it is reasonably safe for consumption and banning it would cause social unrest and distrust of the government. Check out “A Signal of Misunderstanding: The First Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse”, a report from a commission created by Richard Nixon with the passage of the 1969 Narcotics Act.

I’m civil court. I don’t think he’s testified in any criminal cases yet. Maybe I’m wrong.

Seriously. And he was never going to be personally at risk from it. To him, a wild presidency is a carnival ride. To the rest of us, it’s real hardship, oppression, and death.