Agreed. I was living in Texas when there was talk about laws allowing for pharmacists to refrain from dispensing based on religious/moral objections went into effect. (And a quick Google search tells me they’re trying that fuckery again. Ugh.)

Unfortunately, for a lot of people there is no space free from politics these days because it’s affecting our lives on a daily basis. I’d rather support a platform that seeks to inform people on current events than one who sticks its head in the sand for the comfort of a subsection of readers.

I work in healthcare and we worried we were being a bit Chicken Little when we started a push to educate people about IUDs. I hope that will ultimately be the case, but I’m glad we did. Definitely better safe than sorry.

Seconded. I worked at an Ivy and the way the system functioned was ridiculous the rich get richer, y’all, at any cost.

It’s this “have it both ways” that bothers me. If Beyoncé wants to be at a presidential inauguration, the cost of being there is singing. If she wants to perform a flawlessly vocal at an inauguration, mail the tape in and stay at home. But don’t show up and take credit for something you kind sorta but didn’t actually…

I like the cut of your jib, sir!

I’m sorry about your grandma. Have some Internet hugs from a stranger.

“But it’s silly to pretend that her specific choices aren’t going to attract a certain type of person who is far less likely to have common decency or respect for personal boundaries.”

The Star Wars Oxygen episodes of the Rebel Force Radio podcast go quite in-depth into scores and classical music. For people who are Star Wars fan, it’s a good entry point for learning more about the genre.

I’d also add the first Transformers score and some of the music Bear McCreary wrote for Battlestar Galactica.

I have a family member who’s mentally ill and I’m often worried about him losing access to/deciding to stop taking his medication. It’s a real short jump from that to this, and that’s terrifying.

Of course it’s not free: It’s built into the cost of their insurance or university health fee. They just want to move services in-house and with something as time sensitive as a medical abortion, it’s a reasonable request to avoid the delays of entering another medical system entirely.

“Kinda sad we have to even make people of college age getting advanced degrees of an outcome like pregnancy, but people aren’t rational.”

Seconded! I don’t get menstrual migraines often, but it would nice to not have to be bleeding, feel bloated and uncomfortable, and feel like my head is going to implode while people expect me to bbe productive at work. I’m lucky in that I have adequate sick leave, but I know so many people don’t.

Ooh, thanks for the info!

To be fair, some years a George Lopez show is the only opportunity I have to see other brown people. (Where the hell do y’all hide, yo?) I’d much rather see Fluffy, though.

I usually don’t care about vocal fry, but hers was pretty noticeable. It’s still a good reading but it can be a little distracting at times.

Yes! He’s said himself that this asinine plan won’t work and yet, here we are.

I think it’s also important to consider shifting borders over time. Over time, a given spot on a map could’ve been Mexican, could’ve been American, and residents had no power over the borders that were drawn around them. Yes, we should have reasonably immigration laws in place, but I understand the frustration with…

Thanks! I haven’t tried theBalm yet (partially because their naming scheme makes no sense to me, which I know is random), but I’ll check them out. Kat Von D’s are my favorites for full on matte (looking forward to the new colors!) and the Colour Pop satins are really rad. I should probably give Ofra a try too, since…