My sister & brother-in-law decided when their eldest child (of three) got to college choosing age that several states would be out of the running for their college $$$. Florida & Texas are amongst those states. This was not just because of anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ+ laws enacted in said states, but also for anti-science…

I’ve read only the first paragraph so far, and yet, on this: “I don’t even own a place right now, I’m literally staying at friends’ places,” I’m calling bullshit. He doesn’t have ‘friends’.

Having lived in a country where abortion was illegal and where women would take ‘shopping weekend’ trips to the UK, I’m flummoxed at this.

No. I had a brain fart: I was meaning his 2020 reelection campaign was registered on 20 January 2017.

What makes a person an ‘official’ candidate? Trump registered his ’24 reelection campaign on 20 January 2021.

It’s a good listen. One of the points I really liked is where she said that at age 12 she was reading a book (I think it might’ve been Enola Holmes) thinking about it as a film, and she thought ‘I probably couldn’t play this part, so I’ll just be a Producer of the film and let someone else play it’.

I’ve been shouting about Roe being in jeopardy since GWB/2000.  And the current SCOTUS bench is the GOP reaping the benefits of all those years of seeding the lower courts.

Yep. Some of my friends roll their eyes at me when I yammer on about how changes to Roe foretell changes to many other landmark cases, ’cause I’ve been doing it for so, so long.

And it’s not just Griswold they’ll come for. They’ll come for Loving, for Lawrence, for Obergefell.

“Who even calls themselves their child’s boyfriend?”

Never before have I been so sad to see a person released from hospital as I was last week. Was kinda hoping he’d be leaving via another door. Sorry (not really).

Alternately, she could take the Caroline Giuliani route. Keep her name and proudly/loudly live a life her dad & others in the GOP would find deplorable and embarrassing.

Ted Cruz doesn’t realise how much his own daughter hates him.

‘Bosnia was in the early 90s when he was a kid, so was just theoretical for someone his age.’

‘He is forgetting the ethnic cleansing that broke apart the old Yugoslavia and the current cluster fuck that is Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and those other Aegean countries.’

‘God’s not finished with me’ has strong ‘If Croesus goes to war, he will destroy a great empire’ vibes.

At work, I normally listen to BBC 6 online. I had to move over to another online source of music on Friday. I tried BBC Radio 1 Dance, it was also playing the retrospective. I wasn’t listening when BBC R1 Dance transistioned to the retrospective, but apparently it was quite abrupt, as shown here.

My PC (a Dell touch-screen that I never use the touch-screen part of (‘cause, eww fingerprints!)) allows me to use the mouse on the ‘touch-screen’ keyboard and I çan select all sörts øf characters iñ essentially the same way as it’s done on a phone.

Agreed that the end-seasons lineup was best. But Jesse L Martin was gone by the final seasons of the Mothership. The lineup was Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Sisto, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linus Roache, Alana de la Garza, Sam Waterson.