I have a friend who, upon eating anything that has even touched shellfish, will vomit repeatedly for the next couple hours and then have varying degrees of gastrointestinal distress for at least two days. This is not a life-threatening Epi-Pen allergy, but if all I need to do to help my friend not be in gut-wrenching…

This is just so upsetting. They’ve been doing this for the past few years now, using feminist language in the pro-life movement.

Even as far as being a dick goes, I feel like that poor person’s in-laws are on a level beyond your neighborhood asshole. I’ve had several roommates before who had Coeliac disease, one much more severely than the other, and the gamut of reactions from the other roommates usually ranged from supportive, to apathetic,…

“There’s your dog; your dog’s dead. But where’s the thing that made it move? It had to be something, didn’t it?”

People, even clinicians, seem determined to make a distinction between allergy and intolerance. I believe it’s only a matter of degree and location of the response. If something affects the bowels ( “I had to shit for 3 days”) it’s no less valid than erythema or some rash. The body is responding just as it does when…

I think gay men and women, Black people, muslims, and latinx people understand what it’s like to have millions of people hate you very loudly.

Would be more accurate if there was an actress named Hope E. White.

If you’ve never been to el paso it’s worth noting that it’s not just a border town but a town on both sides of the border with a giant imposing fence across it, similar to cold war era Berlin. The effects and sheer caprice of US border policy are impossible to escape every time you go outside there.

Technically the last country the people who would become the native tribes of N. America would have been in before they came to what is now the US would have been Canada as they would had to have migrated south some 10-15,000 years ago.

This man was, by every metric but legality, equally American to me. I probably still speak more Arabic than he does, and I’d describe my current Arabic level as “mostly forgotten”. Deporting him to Iraq was an intentional act of cruelty. It led directly to his death.

This is the correct answer, they just don’t care about people. They care about money and power. I now truly believe they would deport their own family members if there was some tax advantage to it.

This isn’t right in any way but it’s commoner than we thing and been happening for years. I think it there was an article on Vice about a German guy, been here his entire life, turned out his mom, a German citizen hadn’t gotten his paperwork or whatever together when he was a baby and then didn’t bother to tell him,…

It is not a stupid law because the intent of the law was to force TRE45ON to fight against it. And he is. He can no longer hide behind his BS audit scapegoat and he is actually fighting against the releasing of his tax documents.

Republicans are arguing that preventing the president from appearing on the ballot is an attempt to limit republican desires to go vote, thus spurring even more democratic control of California on the ballots (as they face off the top two vote getters in November, not just the leading dem and republican).

However, there’s not one thing in the constitution that talks about primary elections.  

It’s not healthy. I adore my daughter, and I firmly believe my life is better and richer now that she’s in it. But I was a person before she was born, and I’ll be a person after she leaves the nest. I can’t separate from who I am just because I’m her mom now.

Right? I hope she got paid really fucking well.

Angela Bassett needs to fire everyone who told her this was a good idea.

I’m a mother of a son. I do not think like this. If I did, my husband would not have married me or reproduced with me. I would not have married me.

I had a (former) friend once tell me that she was so glad she had a son, because she could “basically take someone that looks just like her husband but mold him into her perfect man.” She got really upset when I told her that sounded super creepy and incestuous, and like she was planning on dating her son once he was…