“America’s children deserve the stronger protections” 

You touched on the part of this that is so insane. Without knowing anything about the statistics, I would suppose that the majority of unwanted pregnancies would be terminated well before 20 weeks, and anything after that is probably going to be a regular pregnancy where something went sideways.

This is terrifying to me. My wife and I are trying to have a baby and I’m really scared a law will pass, something will come up on the 20 week scan and I’ll have to carry a non-viable fetus or one with extensive disabilities to term. It’s horrific.

“The bill will likely pass the Republican-majority house for a second time—it was last passed in 2015, though it was ultimately blocked in the Senate. This time, it will require 60 votes to pass that chamber, though Republicans hold only 52 seats and most Democrats oppose the bill, The Hill reports.” — Why do people…

Never said any group was perfect or didn’t need to change, simply pointing out the contradictory messages in your comment.

Yeah because the “straight white men are the source of all the worlds woes” narrative, has had no hand in cultivating the far-rightmare. Also thanks for proving my point. “If you don’t fully agree with me you’re not actually helping.” With such warm community building I can’t imagine why the left has such a problem…

You can either call for a truce or you can try to get people to admit they are wrong.

Well you’re off to a great start! “Let’s unite! But first, fuck that specific group, they should change to be more to my liking.”

Hey, we elected a man who openly bragged about committing sexual assault while trashing a woman because she was kind of a bitch who did the equivalent of stealing a pen from work.

And if you read the court transcripts, he is told multiple times that he is not promised any particular sentence and that jail time is a possibility, and acknowledges that he understands this. The fact that he’s acting like he’s a big old victim because he didn’t get away with only serving 40-odd days for child rape…

Right? SHE’S the one I feel sorry for. Every time this jerk’s face shows up in the news, count on the fact that 67 journalists are calling her three seconds later for “more quotes”. I have no doubt she’d love for it to be over, this situation that he exacerbated by going on the lam. It would be a whole lot more “over”…

I watch syndicated Gray’s Anatomy episodes while I’m at the gym, and it’s weird knowing Katherine Heigl was reduced to doing cat litter commercials ‘cause she was kind of a bitch.

I’m going to defer to Calvin Trillin here.

This is bananas shit to throw at a nonviolent public action, however you feel about independence movements. I’m in Scotland and I’m really worried that Westminster may be taking notes. 2014 was peaceful but contentious and it’s hard not to envision that the post-Brexit, Trumpian decline in civility isn’t going to…

That is the most frustrating thing, the shrugging. The arms race, the “the other schools at our level all charge this much tuition and pay this little to teaching staff, so what can we do?” It’s such bullshit. And the wide-eyed fundraising, the pitch that they really need your donation, when you’re still paying off…

As a reminder, these are people teaching a roomful of students that pay well over the average income of a family to be at college. At $3K per course, teaching 10 students, the teacher is bringing in $30K per class per term for the university. If they teach two classes per term, that’s $120K per year. They’re seeing…

Two things: Da Vinci was pretty gay, and artists don’t paint nudes because they’re horny or prefer people with their clothes off. Although I’m sure that was the reason for some artists, it’s certainly not why figure painting is a tradition for students and masters alike.

eta: yes, both points are super nitpicky. I…

I think he’s implying that murders wearing clown costumes are perceived as worse; such as Pennywise and AHS’s Twisty. And he’s saying Pennywise or not, murders are all bad.

“Any murder’s horrific. It doesn’t matter whether you’re wearing a clown costume or not,”

Most of them are “non-profit”, but just look a little deeper at the salaries and bonuses of the top administrators. They’re non-profit because they take it all before taxes.