Hey, remember that former Trump aide and professional jackass, John McEntee, who said he didn’t see any evidence of women being injured as a result of anti-abortion laws? Funnily enough, he has been conspicuously silent on the subject since. Instead, he’s now making “jokes” about repealing the 19th amendment. A real piece of work.

When reality starts to resemble a Futurama plot.

It’s the present in multiple states. It’s the future they want for the entire country.

I know that here in WA state last year, several county election offices were sent envelopes filled with white powder, and a few of them tested positive for trace quantities of fentanyl. It’s a somewhat nebulous threat, since nobody was actually affected, but there you go.

The bounty defines biological sex based on birth certificates, either at the time of birth or corrected if there was a clerical error.

What if you were born intersex? The story talks about the lack of provisions for disabled persons. There are so many holes in this ordinance. It is so going to get thrown out in court.

Reminder that this is the Phoenix police. The same folks that assaulted and arrested an innocent deaf black man who has cerebral palsy because he didn’t immediately respond when they yelled at him to stop.

3rd degree burns are serious business. It means the skin is completely destroyed and won’t heal, and potential deep tissue damage all the way to the bone. Treatment typically requires skin grafts taken from other parts of the body.

Technically they didn’t make a ruling. They stayed the injunction. My favorite part is that the majority offered absolutely no justification for the decision.

I saw a meme the other day that really struck home for me. I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but the gist was: “Nobody has ever killed a witch.”

Witches don’t exist. Witches are the thing you hunt for when you want someone to blame for all the things you think are wrong in the world. Because you can catch that witch. You can torture and kill it to make it pay for all the evils you think you’ve suffered. But witches don’t exist, so you have to find a person. A person just outside of normal enough that you can convince someone else they’re a witch. Once others are convinced they’ll help you come up with all kinds of justifications for why the witch needs to be punished and killed. Everyone knows that witches are evil, and everyone loves a good witch hunt, because getting rid of witches means you’re making the world a better place.

But witches don’t exist.

Roth actively supports legislation that makes it more difficult for undocumented workers to provide labor for agricultural business in his district (though he is not affected personally because of his contacts). He also opposes legislation that would make their work safer.

Garcia’s story illustrates the direct and devastating impact of the policies Roth supports.

Ugh. I cancelled my subscription about 2 years ago after being a subscriber for almost a decade. Frankly, the quality of their reporting had taken a sharp nosedive. There was more and more opinion pieces and less actual facts. Which is a shame, because the WaPo used to be a really reliable source.

The person who wrote the story doesn’t know. It’s unknown to them.

I’ve spent the last two decades training my parents to understand that I generally don’t want their hand-me-downs, and probably don’t want a lot of their belongings when they depart this world. Maybe a few items that have sentimental value, but the rest will likely be sold, assuming we can find people to buy it. And they do have a lot of stuff. Some of it valuable art and trinkets they’ve collected over the years. Very little of it resonates with me, though. They’re in their 80s now, so we’ve had discussions about plans between them and my older brother and myself. There are trusts. We have access to their accounts. I count myself lucky that they’re so practical.

I’m not sure what you think the subject matter is, but I was completely caught off guard. The main character is ostensibly in a “fish out of water” story, and that certainly creates a humorous backdrop. But the show is really all about mental health and wellbeing. People supporting each other while they learn to love themselves, deal with anxiety, trauma, and prejudice… It’s immensely beautiful, uproariously funny, and I will happily be the next person to recommend you watch it.

At this point, they aren’t even reporting the cause of death. The oven is just where they found her body.

A pretty standard hydraulic trencher. Have you ever seen one? They’re serious business, and you should absolutely, under no circumstances, step away from the controls while it is running. He shouldn’t have been using it in the first place, but even if he was, he should have been told that. Repeatedly. With great emphasis, and accompanied with graphic descriptions of what can happen if you don’t respect the machine. From the report it sounds like he got a brief overview and someone maybe watched him using it for a couple hours. Then they told him to work it by himself with no supervision the next day.

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I think @[email protected] is having difficulty with the difference between replying to a comment and replying to a thread. Presumably they’re better with a sword than a mouse 😂

Not to be that guy, but you’re actually in the wrong here by adding incorrect information. It was not an election interference case. The 34 convictions were for charges of falsified business records. There’s nothing actually illegal about paying someone to not talk to the press about something that might affect an election. The problem was how he tried to hide the payments.

This is the core philosophy of social conservatism. They don’t want to fix problems, they want to give you someone else to blame and stoke up your anger while telling you they will punish those people.