I wish we’d been getting more media coverage on how many federal judges Biden has been appointing. I hear it’s a lot of them - but how many compared to during Trump’s term? Especially coming after the Republicans put the brakes on court nominations during the Obama years to hold lots of vacancies open - how many seats…

Always maddening when the coda to the ghost story is the parents telling the child years later or the man telling the woman after the fact that, “I knew the house was haunted, I just didn’t want to scare you!” because of course there’s nothing scary AT ALL about being disbelieved when you say you’re having a problem.…

The existing standard of care for trans teens tends to be along the lines of puberty blockers and nothing with more permanent effects (such as testosterone for trans men or any kind of surgery) until age 18. Which would at least negate the competitive advantage of male puberty for those competing against cis women.

FDR nearly wound up packing the court because it kept neutering his New Deal legislation. Just the threat brought them into line. Now we’ve got a reactionary court with a majority acquired by stealing two seats, and the Republicans have suffered no consequences for this. Impeaching Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett is…

My full-on redneck born-in-Arkansas raised-in-east-Texas grandmother used the word a time or two.

What I’ve heard is that if your property gets damaged or goes missing after your car gets searched, when it comes to making a case for restitution against the police department involved, your lawyer’s hands have been tied if you gave permission for that search.

My father and stepmother #1 had a pre-nup because she was expecting a large payout on a car accident she’d been in and they wanted to make sure if my father got hit with a malpractice suit her money couldn’t be touched.

Evidently a clause for the pro-forced-birth contingent who NEED an abortion for themselves or their mistress or daughter but believe all these other women are feckless whores who should be forced to “take responsibility for the consequences of their actions.” Like the stories abortion providers collect and share of…

Why would we need to survive the mountains of Oregon when we live on the plains of Texas? Heat, drought and floods we can cope with, it’s snow and cold we have no experience or infrastructure for.

The monied class also has a tendency to view children as expensive high-maintenance pets you shouldn’t have if you can’t afford - hence the constant pressure towards adoption, so the impoverished will provide a supply for the wealthy and infertile to buy.

Depends on if you’re talking about something the cats care about. Ours absolutely understand being told it’s tine to eat and are vaguely interested in offers to let them outside.

I take comfort from the mass exodus of Californians escaping the apocalypse theme park of their home state and moving HERE. Texas is gonna turn purple within a very few election cycles...

Well, no, because a healthy newborn is worth five figures to a desperate infertile couple. A lot of the money funding pro-life organizations comes from private adoption agencies who want to maximize the number of unwanted children who get carried to term and put up for adoption. When Roe v Wade happened the number of…

Gabriel was renamed Loki Gabriel the day I walked into the kitchen to see him knocking the lid off the flour canister to eat flour. He also brought a live snake into the house last summer (a wee harmless worm-eating earth snake) and stretches way up on his hind legs to grab for my ass to get my attention when I’m…

Just got my bathroom remodelled last month, and I very deliberately did an end run around arguing with the contractor by buying the bulk of the supplies BEFORE having any discussions about what I wanted done.  “These are the tiles I want - I already bought 4 boxes of them...”  It was a lot of fun watching the dipshit…

The antibodies are disease-specific. We’re usually not testing for random antibody levels, we’re looking for whether your blood serum is reacting to a particular disease (or allergen).

Domestication mainly means any bugs in that species that CAN infect humans have had thousands of years to infect people and we've adapted to that disease. Somewhat. (Tuberculosis is suspected to have come from cows, killed a fuckton of people over the centuries, about to be a real problem again due to antibiotic…

Not a cheekswab - up the nose, painfully deep. One nurse taking specimens said she's had some patients crying afterwards.

I’ve heard other women complain about babies being held in or pushed back by nurses because they’re working with doctors who want to show up just in time to catch without spending a lot of time hanging around waiting for the mother to push the baby out, but will rip a nurse’s head off for “not calling the doctor in…

My mother’s the food stealer in the house. Get an ice cream sundae and she’d demand “a bite” and then eat half of it, or stand there eating my fries. I learned to protect my food by getting caramel on my sundae instead of chocolate (Mom hates caramel) and by eating my fries on the way home from the drive-through.