This and the “western style liberalism” response highlights yet again the absolute and utter failure of the media for failing repeatedly to ask this fucking brain dead moron basic questions about government, governance, and basic civics shit a 4th grader should know. He literally knows nothing about a single aspect of…

If you bought property in New York and can’t make a profit you’re an idiot.

I predict a basement full of guns, tactical gear, smashed Keurigs and Yeti coolers.

Same thing happens with supplements and vitamins. Half of what you take is usually sawdust/cellulose, because there’s no oversight or regulation. And sometimes there’s even unapproved drugs snuck into them!

A colleague of mine did his PhD research on e-cigs and their brethren. The most significant data he found (other than generally it’s pretty bad for you) was that there is no consistency, at all, in the number and types of ingredients used in these shit products because they are not regulated in any significant way.

I’m a nurse and I’ve taken care of venous stasis ulcers on many patients. They are awful, they smell terrible, and very difficult to heal. Nobody wants that, but that’s exactly where chronic nicotine users are headed. I worry that vaping might put some people at even greater risk for venous insufficiency and other…

I quit when the Dr told me I would lose my leg in under a year. And my other one soon after. And that warning after I got 8 stents in my iliac artery and one in my heart. I haven’t smoked since. and I’m doing incredibly well but I still deal with claudication, angina, and I have the charmingly named “Widowmaker”.…

Ugh I had to carpool with my young cousin on a six hour roadtrip to a wedding a few months ago and she vaped the whole time. It was so obnoxious but also I couldn’t be so uncool as to ask her to like stop for two seconds. (And she did it during the ceremony!!)

Love her, hate this story, hate that product. Nicotine dependency is no laughing matter. I’m 12 years off smoking and I try very hard not to be that person. And honestly, I never did a deep dive into any of the e-cigs but from what I understand they’re just as addicting as regular cigarette. And I don’t think the lack…

Every time these “pro-life” nutjobs attack fetal tissue research, I see the prospect of a cure for my contidion receed further into the future. Meanwhile, I become steadily more reliant on my wheelchair and my horizons progressively shrink.

My brother has two life threatening diseases - one is autoimmune and the other is genetic. He’s currently on a kidney transplant list and we’re hoping like crazy that he gets a kidney in time. However, he’s been told that because of the autoimmune disorder and the toll that’s taken on his health, as well as the…

For a lot of people, living in a State that bans it is equivalent to living in a country that bans it. Texas is fucking enormous. Georgia’s not small. Abortion is time-sensitive and many Americans have precarious employment that severely limits their flexibility to take time off to travel several hours away, complete…

Even before they’re born; how many American women can’t access prenatal care? How many American women don’t have a day off to go for a scan? How many American women are losing wanted pregnancies for want of healthcare, paid leave, access to decent nutrition, etc? 

They outlaw abortions, yet America has an abysmal Maternal Mortality rate for a developed country.

This is what always enrages me. They say they care about these clumps of cells ... I mean babies. But do nothing for them once they’re born, punishing both them and their mothers.

Today is 20 years since my rape. I did not need this shit today. I was mostly fine. Then I got this notification from WaPo and collapsed into tears in my front yard. I’m just done with this planet. 

Kavanaugh was the final nail, with hin they locked up the majority with a hardcore misogynist so this has been inevitable, sadly it is where I live that is taking the lead.

Roe v. Wade is all but dead now. This is the nail. It’ll go all the way up, and the Psychotic with a capital P arch-right wing that now loves overturning legal precedent, will strike it down.

They will outlaw abortions, but leave newborns to die if their parents can’t pay hospital bills.

Somehow my post got published without my even knowing it and before I could finish my thought. I meant to say that if challenges to any of these laws end up in front of SCOTUS, we may be waving goodbye to Roe v. Wade, given the current makeup of the court.