Let this be a reminder to everyone: there is NO test they can perform which will reveal the use of abortion medications. NONE. They can and often will lie to you and say that they can detect them, but nope. So never never NEVER tell them you took the pills — there is nothing the pills can do which does not happen…

I don’t think RU486 is used that often anymore; its active ingredient is only one half (mifeprestone) of the miso-mife combo that is most commonly used today. Sometimes only the misoprostol is used (that’s the one that induces contractions) because it’s a lot easier to get a hold of — it’s commonly used as an ulcer…

Just going off of basic viral contagion, just because you have the virus in the system, doesn’t make you contagious. The virus has to reproduce in your body enough times to reach a viral load high enough to start spewing it out.
If your immune system is able to knock it out before it reaches that point, then you will…

So, true story. When I was in fifth grade, I wanted to take ballet lessons really, really badly, but mom said we couldn’t afford them. So I tried to teach myself using the entry on “Ballet” in a 1983 Encyclopedia Britannica.

I practiced for *months* because I had no friends and we got exactly 2.5 channels on the TV.…

When we were looking at buying our first house, I kind of brushed off the advice to get radon testing done, thought it was a waste of money because I was so so ignorant, y’all.

So we got the test done, and the radon levels were stupid high — and this house was being lived in at the time, so it wasn’t a buildup issue.…

It certainly doesn’t help when the coup flooded every single media outlet I turned to with images of men who look very much like the ones who tried to break me, looking smug and victorious as they desecrated something I didn’t know I still believed in so hard. (So there was that extra shock too — discovering that I’m…

Your point about fear stands.
I live in a state with legal no-permit concealed carry. For several years, I didn’t leave the house without my .38, usually strapped to my thigh.
I grew up around guns, and I’ve been in enough fucked up situations to know that a gun wouldn’t have saved me in any of them. It wouldn’t have…

Ah, man. Reading that was good for my soul. I’m now neck-deep in a daydream about telling my own mom that when she started in on how if I didn’t behave the social workers would come and put me in a foster home where I’d be raped every day. “I’ll take my chances, ma.” God, to see the look on her face . . . .
(In all…

THIS. Kellyanne will manipulate those sessions in the same way she manipulated the cop on the wellness check. She’s a fucking public relations professional, right? She knows how to spin. And since she gets to pick the therapist, I’ll bet money that *if* she were forced to go, she’d pick one of these bullshit Christian…

If you’re white, you can game the criminal “justice” system so very easily by invoking Jesus. Want to get out of the criminal endangerment charge for driving drunk through a school zone at 80 mph? Just give the judge big innocent eyes and tell him that you’ve been going to AA and it’s changed your life. (And you’d…

The unifying ethos of Boogaloo is a desire to foment and/or participate in a second civil war, with a helping of cop hate. (Mind you, not anti-policing beliefs, not a desire to reform or abolish policing, they just hate cops.) Many if not most are also racist fascist fucks, but it’s not a requirement, you just have to…

Damn, I’ve been trying to find a way to accurately describe that vibe and you did it succinctly. What’s kind of scary is that Guilfoyle *does* have that pro-wrestling heel energy; Lara Trump, I think, has a lot of appeal to the kind of Trumpian who has a lovely home and spends most of her days staying there telling…

I read the “documentary” bit aloud to my husband and he replied, “holy crap, it’s like someone told your mom she’s a lawyer.”

A few years ago, she was telling me about what she’d recently learned about human trafficking. “And they really want young American girls, and then they auction them off to Arabs . . . “

Ma, was…

I vote for Madison Cawthorn.  This seems in his slimy little wheelhouse, for sure.  And he’s made a big deal about how he was armed through the whole thing, like the cops *weren’t* or something?  I don’t know, but he’s a POS all around.

When I was in high school (back in the 90's) I was doing an independent research project for this regional uber-dork conference/competition, and spent about two months immersed in Holocaust research, particularly the terrifyingly mundane bureaucratic process of cataloging residents of the ghettos and then funneling…

There seems to be a genetic predisposition to being more susceptible to fungal diseases; also I’ve known a lot of folks who were bipolar and off their meds and/or addicts. When your cognition is that screwy it can be really hard to take care of yourself, and of course your immune system can’t mount an effective…

I noticed in the interview that along with stressing how scared she was while wrinkling up her cute widdle nose beneath her big round glasses, she referred to herself as a girl, and the actual minor child as a guy. “A 22-year-old girl who thought this guy stole her phone, that’s all!”

(She obviously took to that part…

Oh, I’m pretty sure if he started agitating for, say, automatic voter registration of every American citizen on their 18th birthday, the GOP would find the will to kick him out right quick like.

I was following along until she said that she usually has to have vintage dresses altered because she’s so “petite.”
Um. I’ve been thrifting antique/vintage clothing for thirty years now, and I can tell you there is no such thing as a grown woman that is “too petite” for vintage clothes unless she is a literal little…

This was such a beautiful piece. I’d just done enough work in recovery from an assault to start to like the way I look again, to not feel sick when I felt eyes on me, to not want to light myself on fire at the thought of being seen as sexy, when this shitstorm came raining down. (But damn has the mask issue done…