Having known someone who had a tank of diesel filled into his Ford Escape I know that it can cost thousands if it doesn’t total the car. As getting the car to pass smog tests afterwards involves replacing a variety of sensors for the emissions control system...

Diesel in a gas engine is nowhere near as bad as gas in a diesel engine. Drain the tank and as much of the rest of the fuel system as possible, fill it up with gas, run it until it’s happy again.

Will they make it right though? Probably not.

The case in question has already had “facts” established by the judge that bear little to no resemblance to reality; if there’s a reapproval and another case, they’ll just have that judge declare that there is no history of safe use and leave it at that.

but also, I have deep concerns about the way the FDA went about approving mifepristone 20 years ago,” he said. “I’m grateful that action is being taken in the courts to hold the FDA accountable to what the law requires in reviewing any medication.

We need to make sure people know that’s what the GOP thinks, though. It’s terrifying, and we need as many people as possible to understand that they’re looking for people to hurt, and we can’t let them get away with it. If we stay silent because we’re afraid of accidentally amplifying their message, that’s not good.

Well it clearly is though, transphobia is alarmingly common even among those who consider themselves to be opposed to conservatives

I’m glad he’s feeling better.  And I’m glad he decided his brain wasn’t helping him right then and did something about it.  Depression will lie to you and tell you that you don’t deserve help, and nothing will change anyway, and besides you’re too tired.  It’s hard to overcome that, and I’m always happy when people…

‘firmly indifferent to living’ - boy, I’ve been there so, so many times! People really need to normalise talking about this.

I’m willing to accept that an 85 year old might not know all the ins and outs of a Twitter controversy.

I’m pretty sure mass shootings have occurred before social media, but go off Professor. It’s weird you’re blaming “liberals” when you also say gun laws won’t do shit. Who is asking for them then, conservatives? Then you say, “it is what it is,” resigning yourself to accepting mass violence, offering nothing to the…

I’m being sarcastic, btw. Hard to tell with all the sad wieners who troll here.

I know right? I caught that too. Miscarriages are regrettable but happen. Abortions are filthy crimes that sluts do. We should worry that our laws are unfairly hurting the wrong people.  

I like the fact that he tried to pivot away from abortion after the interviewer already pivoted away from abortion, and onto miscarriages.

Let’s ‘Get Off the Abortion Conversation’

Jesus fucking christ. Do you need this person to come in here as a queer trans, quadruple amputee POC who was raised by a white family after being adopted in order to check all your boxes and have a fucking opinion about practicing medicine?

I appreciate your perspective on this situation and I know that docs are mandatory reporters. I do wonder about the fact that they’d had this pediatrician for a decade and why he reported them over this. There seem to be a few inconsistencies what exactly happened.

The fact that they’ve had the same pediatrician for 10 years was the bit that sounded odd to me, too.  That presumably means they already have other children and this doctor saw no reason to call CPS about them, so that seems to imply that something was different in this case...

The story mentions that some (CPS?) file lists the neighbors as the baby’s parents, who DO have a child abuse record.... so basically CPS thought they were taking the baby away from different people (?). And now the Jackson’s can’t prove THEY are the baby’s parents because they haven’t received the birth certificate.…

I’m a black pediatrician and something signficant is missing from this story. The reasons why black families choose midwives and home births are unfortunate and justified by how they are treated. And jaundice is a common condition that doesn’t require treatment...until it does. And then when it does, it needs to be…