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Flint already looks like a mini-Detroit, or worse.

I think I first read about it on Slate or wsws.org, but Rachel is to be commended for doing yeoman’s work on publicizing this tragic and outrageous story.

There’s actually a pretty big black market for Ritalin and Adderall. Abuse of them is rampant on college campuses, for example.

I don’t really condone violence either, and it should always be a last resort, but I will say that if the neocons, plutocrats, and right-wingers are permitted to implement their agenda unchecked, then there will be political violence directed at them at some point. You can bet on it. You can only attack and oppress…

This atheist says bless you, you’re doing the Lord’s work.

Ahhhh, medical fetish porn...so good...LOL

I once had a teacher tell me candidly that teachers and administrators in the schools really loathe middle school/junior high students and hardly any teachers really want to teach at that level, mostly to do with those kids going through puberty and being moody, hormonal little shits.

This horror show in Flint is a bright, shining example of the results of unchecked right-wing extremist governance. Resignations and lawsuits are not going to be enough; there had better be some prosecutions of state and local (i.e. state appointed) officials for this. Finally, as icky as it makes me to say so, the…

I grew up in the Midwest (not Michigan) and every school in my district had a nurse on staff as a matter of SOP.

Finally, back to the thread started by Brawltimore:

Moving on to a thread started by Whiskeyprayer:

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the thread started by Brawltimore:

I don’t think that Sanders supporters are “largely young misogynist dudebro men who support him because he has a penis”, I think there there are men like this supporting Bernie, but believe that they are a minority of his supporters.

Moving on to a thread started by Brawltimore:

LOL, gawd you truly are comical. I don’t think I’ve said a single thing about Clinton’s baggage and how it might harm her in the general, largely because it’s all old news, all baked into the cake, and voters have heard it all before. Any voter who wouldn’t support Clinton because of her “baggage” already feels that…

Moving on to the thread started by Orionsangel:

To which I replied:

To which PersnicketyPants replied:

Just to clarify, the decision for a woman to have an abortion is not between “a woman and the guy”. If she chooses to discuss it with her partner, fine, but it’s her body, it’s her decision.