this is one massive massive problem that no one in the government seems willing to address - the insane inflation of medical costs that seems to have happened over the last couple of decades. my parents will go on and on about only needing catastrophic insurance when we (their children) were little because doctors’…

i don’t intend this comment to be an attack in any way, but - is it possible your son was allergic to eggs already (which are present in some vaccines, and one of the very very few pediatrician-recommended reasons for discontinuation of vaccines is the child’s allergy to one or more components of the vaccine itself)…

this is 100% how they operate, and they’re aided and abetted by Fox News

i get where you’re coming from - both sides of my family are Catholic, my dad and all of his siblings went to Catholic schools growing up, i went to a Jesuit undergrad, etc. i think the difference between Catholics and “Christians” (the ones rabidly fighting access to any kind of reproductive healthcare) is that…

i did a quick Google and it looks like the issue of abortion in surrogates has mostly come up in cases where the surrogate DOESN’T want one - multiple embryos work and the parent(s) ask the surrogate to undergo selective abortion (which is something that is available to women who undergo any kind of IVF, not just in…

this exactly! i took my on-the-spectrum brother to a music festival last year and my mom was so nervous someone would give him drugs as a joke

he also ran against a woman who, along with her husband, has been the focus of a decades-long Republican smear campaign. she was blamed for her husband having an affair and shamed for doing HER JOB as a public defender DECADES ago. she had a 30-year record of actual public statements and positions on issues that were…

this is exactly what they want. they want enough time between passing the thing and when all the shit starts to hit the fan so they can rally the troops and put together the talking points to blame the Democrats.

also! Mississippi was the only state in the union that did not allow for any kind of religious/belief system exemption for vaccines, so the only kids going unvaccinated were the ones who medically could not receive them - so, how herd immunity is supposed to work

yeah this exactly. when he first tweeted about the wiretaps in Trump Tower i immediately was like “yeah duh they’re monitoring Manafort’s apartment” and figured he was going to be technically right

see also: the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting/standoff guy rambling about “baby parts” after Carly Fiorina got on stage at a Republican primary and made up some bullshit about that exact topic

oh my FUCKING god

when i was in high school i was a last-minute fill-in for our school’s delegation to Model UN. i had done literally zero research and knew nothing about anything. i was supposed to be North Korea’s representative to the Nuclear Arms & Armaments Committee and all i did was sit in the back and text a cute boy from a…

yeah this exactly. i’m in connecticut too (southwest corner) and i definitely take for granted the state’s mostly-functional legislature - decently progressive and, as far as i know, doesn’t waste too much time and money trying to turn the calendar back to 1954

so generally what happens is this - when the admissions office has made a decision on an applicant, they’ll inform the financial aid office that Student X has been admitted and will need a preliminary aid award. some schools will send out acceptance letters and the financial aid award letters in the same envelope,…

then the kid has to take out private loans to cover the gap or has to choose not to attend that school

no no no. nope. this is not something that gets fudged. no.

it’ll take Fox News turning against Trump for him to lose any meaningful support. these people literally get different news. they do not know how much this administration is fucking everything up, because the people telling them about it are spinning it to sound like a good thing

i don’t think they care.