I live in Kansas. This is my second or third new doctor after the first few refused to believe that a woman my age didn’t want to be ready to make the babies RIGHT NOW.

My IUD is good for three more years, but I’ll likely be fertile longer. Insurance won’t pay for a replacement while it’s still functional, so I’d asked my doctor if it was possible the IUD had slipped and needed to be replaced.

He said no, which I expected, but then tried to reassure me it was no big deal because they…

The sooner people realize McCarthy is in the top 5 of the funniest people who ever lived ever the better off we’ll all be.

This is correct, just adding a cite. Trump repeated this lie (at best a very misleading statement) multiple times during the campaign. And this is what Trump does with his constant barrage of lies - you’re constantly bogged down in all of them trying to figure out if there’s any truth to any of them.

It’s absolutely goddamn disgusting—but then everything about this is. May Trump and all his fascist friends rot in hell.

Other than calling your officials and donating to the ACLU, what can we do? Anyone have any ideas?

I’m honestly convinced that Bannon is pulling the strings. Trump has an ego and no attention span. So stroke the ego and make him mad enough to sign anything against the people who don’t like him...check. This is what terrifies me. Bannon is not a friend to democracy.

I’d love to see the ACLU jump right in the middle of this.

Anyone who says this isn’t straight up fascism, is a straight up fascist themselves. Our right to peacefully assemble, which means anything short of actually smashing shit up, is guaranteed by our 1st amendment constitutional rights. Don’t think for a second that this law will not be used by a federal agency at some…

one of my favourite signs today was just south of Dundas and held by a man standing on the sidelines. it said in huge letters: PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP. My girlfriend and I just squeezed each others hands and talked about how nice it was to see the allyship.

HAHAHAHAAHAHAH ahem. You know we shouldn’t reall--heheh, we shouldn’t encourage vio--heeheehee aaaahhhem. We should rise above--hehehehehhahahaahah AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!

The thesis of this article is that using the term “fake news” to describe a hoax, it give viability to hoax articles because hoax is explicitly defined but “fake news” is a fledgling term that has a malleable definition. So people are using the term “fake news” to describe bad reporting as well as hoaxes, allowing…

Sarah Kendzior wrote something similar a few months ago. It hasn’t gotten any easier to read or relevant with time...

Masha Gessen’s remarkable composure when she discusses impending doom makes her case all the more terrifying. Her interview with Sam Bee was scary, but her writing is downright paralyzing (and vital):

She has been so over having a period for like ten-fifteen years. The hospital wouldn’t tie her tubes (Catholic) but she and my dad had all the kids they wanted so it’s become an annoyance for her at this point. And she’ll stop having one for like... six months... and then ALL OF A SUDDEN it’ll come back. I always…

Here is my girl. She had a rough week. Surgery on Tuesday to remove a mast cell tumor from her foreleg, and a suspicious growth on her back (which turned out to be a cyst). This is her 4th mast cell tumor in 3 years. This last one emerged before the fur grew back completely from the old one. She is starting to look…

Amy has some sweaters and she’s not really an outdoorsy dog, even though I do drag her outside for a walk every day.

How is everyone’s periods today? Mine has been awful! Looks like a Michael Bay movie, only with blood instead of explosions.