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This is really good news.“The panel of experts followed their unanimous vote with strong statements to the FDA that Opill’s switch to OTC would be safe, effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies,...
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Justice Thomas’s awful Bruen decision marches on. Now a judge in the Fourth Circuit has ruled that laws keeping 18–20 year olds from buying guns are unconstitutional. His reasoning? 18 year olds were...
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It’s insanity to tie the constitutionality of gun laws today to the gun laws that existed 250 years ago. Semiautomatic weapons didn’t come into widespread use until Colt’s revolver in 1836. Muzzle...
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“John Amanchukwu, another of the anti-abortion speakers, said in an interview, ‘We love the people who disagree with us. You know, that’s what scripture tells us to do. … We love everyone that’s over...
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“There’s one job that no one else can do for us, which is to vote,” Blumenthal said. “And she’s been doing that job in the last few days, and so far as I can tell, she’s been doing...
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I finished reading _Gender Queer_ by Maia Kobabe. It was 2022’s most banned book. I decided to read it, after hearing how often it was banned, but not being able to find any descriptions of what the...
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Page 61, Maia talks about the first time e imagined having a penis and uses grass to simulate what holding one might be like. Page 168 depicts an unsatisfying sexual experience that involved one person...
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_Gender Queer_ is entirely appropriate for high schoolers and I’d let my middle schooler read it if she wanted to. It’s not a roadmap to conversion, it’s not proselytization, it’s not grooming. It’s a...
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Florida becomes a more terrible place to live or visit.As of July 1, transgender people in Florida cannot use the bathroom that fits their identity, in most public buildings. That includes prisons,...
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This creates a dilemma for me. My brother-in-law and his family live in Florida. We want to see them, for Christmas. I also feel increasingly sick at the idea of visiting the state and spending tourist...
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(A personal reflection.)Listening to my Apple Music “Favorites” playlist. Rodney Atkins’ song “Cleaning This Gun” comes on. I used to enjoy it. Now…Let’s ignore the immediate problem of glorifying gun...
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This isn’t my story, but it rhymes.“To the Bealls, who truly knew what it was like to learn through the lens of ideology, concerns about kids being brainwashed in public schools were...
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The “cut the deficit” debt ceiling bill *raises* military spending by 3%.Less money for hungry poor people, less money to audit the taxes of obscenely rich people, more money for guns and bullets and...
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What if we celebrated #Juneteenth by giving Black folks a discount and White folks a surcharge? An apropos way to celebrate, no?#SystemicRacism#antiracism#racism
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“Tensions came to a head this week, when Rutte demanded support for a proposal to limit entrance of children of war refugees who are already in the Netherlands and to make families wait at least two...
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From JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE:“[evangelicals] were primed to respond to those fears by looking to a strong man to rescue them from danger, a man who embodied a God-given, testosterone-driven masculinity....
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There’s something innately hilarious about evangelicals and Jeffress representing a strong, tough, manly, Wayne-esque Christianity, wanting a tough son-of-a-bitch to protect them, but lacking the...
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Matthew 24:10–13, 23–25Revelation 13:3–5Blind. The self-proclaimed followers of Jesus are blind and blindly follow a charlatan.
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Trump is a misogynistic dickwad. JD Vance has a very prominent patriarchy beard. Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt off at the RNC. It’s clear what the moment demands:
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