This is sad yet inspiring.

It must be so difficult to be dealing with triggered PTSD while in the middle of an already-stressful book tour. I am glad Union has a good support system in place for taking care of herself through that. Also, she seems like an incredibly generous person, to be helping others in this way when it takes such a…

I think a lot of us are feeling pretty drained and exhausted with the current endless cycle of assault and harassment stories churning through every single source of media we consume. I am glad it is out in the open now, but I am getting so tired from it. It is really great of Union to let herself be a sounding board…

I appreciate that she is allowing herself to be an outlet for other women’s trauma, but I heard an interview with Roxanne Gay on Pop Culture Happy Hour (podcast) this weekend where she shared that her friend has an opposite take. When she was on book tour after her best friend died, everyone was wanting to share their…

“Who are we to tell Mother Earth what temperature she should be? Are we so arrogant..!”

GAVE a 6hr speech? Nancy is still going. TBH this deserves its own story.

Pruitt is probing to try to find a way to overturn the EPA’s endangerment finding on CO2. He knows that there’s no way to take the angle that CO2 doesn’t cause temperature increases, so he’s gonna try the “but climate change isn’t all bad!” angle. The problem with this angle is the fact that there are quite literally…

That’s a worst-case scenario.

“Paint me like one of your French military parades”

Please, fellow progressives, I’m begging you: Ignore this. Just ignore it. That is the one thing Trump doesn’t want here.

But there is no time, money, or interest to go towards protecting our elections from Russian manipulation. Okay. Let’s fire cannons so the angry toddler can clap his tiny hands together in glee.

I would say that our President Dotard has a Mussolini on the balcony quality, but he lacks Benito’s good looks, wit or charm.

um, what?

There isn’t. We just have a gigantic problem with alcohol consumption in this country that nobody wants to address. Count all of the “my mom/grandmother totally drank during pregnancy and we all turned out juuuuussst fine” comments. It’s gross.

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, the medical community should tell people the preliminary results on things like “how alcohol probably hurts your baby” before they have every piece of data you think they need? Because I sure as hell would rather scientists come out with it as soon as they know there’s an issue,…

It didn’t come off as condescending to me. The resistance to science is real. I get it, I just had a baby, I was annoyed as hell at all the rules. Sure, there’s no way to completely protect yourself and sure, most lunch meat doesn’t have listeria. But shit, if we KNOW there is a risk, why not advise against it?!

Oh lord. You really have not an idea what you’re talking about here.

They can’t do a study because it would be unethical to put pregnant ladies in a drinking and non-drinking group. And the full NYT article talks about how gathering evidence after the fact is difficult because moms don’t want to participate and self-report their levels/times of drinking. So the CDC has to err on the…

The full NYT article goes into why they can’t ethically do those studies and why even trying to study after the fact is difficult (because mom’s don’t want to participate). So the CDC has to err on the side of caution.

I really don’t understand the resistance to science here. Alcohol reaches your baby and their developing liver at the same concentration that it reaches your brain. If you are buzzed, your baby is trying to metabolize it with their tiny organs.