“Had a cyst burst inside my uterus while pregnant causing a mc. The on call doc said it's best to wait a week to see if it comes out naturally. Now I can have 0 children bc my uterus is gone.”
THIS IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO when I had mine the doctor was like "we would like to give you pills, we could give you a d&c but it won't be for days, or you can wait but we really, really, REALLY don't want you to do that."
(if any of you ever find yourself in the same situation-- I had planned to ask for the d&c but did the pills to get it over with ASAP and honestly I think it was the best solution for a fucking awful situation. Dealing with the cramping and bleeding and weekly blood tests was at least a distraction from the emotional hell, and I was able to have a successful IUI less than two months later.)
"Broeder now suffers from Afib, or atrial fibrillation, a heart condition she will have to live with for the rest of her life. She explained that if she gets too excited or upset, her heart could just stop working."
This is not how Afib works. The danger from Afib is that a clot forms in your heart and causes a stroke. It is manageable with beta blockers and mild blood thinners, and in more chronic cases, a procedure called ablation.
That said, it DOES suck to have it, and it IS life-changing.
uh, as a medical-type person I can confidently assert that one doesn't develop an autoimmune disease due to blood loss. I'm sure she's suffering but that's not the cause
My mother had rheumatoid arthritis. We don't know the cause but it is probably a combination of genetics & environment. However, regardless of the cause different environmental factors could trigger it. The cause of something and the trigger are often separate issues. A superficial awareness of English leads many of us to feel that cause and trigger have separate meanings.
Good to know that there are still a few judges, even west of the Mississippi, who are not in the Feudalist Society's pocket. North Dakota and Missouri, two of the worst red states, are not yet 100% safe for fascism, all heretofore available evidence to the contrary.
It's truly amazing what lightly moving your fingers around in a circular motion on someone's belly who has been throwing up for hours will do to calm everything down and let the sufferer drift off to much needed sleep.
I REALLY hope Biden and the military are prepared for this.
The Next January 6 Could Happen in Places Like Springfield, Ohio
"It was all emblematic of the former president’s ability to turn whole communities upside down with just a few words. For all the ways Trump has declined of late, he remains masterful at reading and cultivating his base, which wants stories about immigrants so grotesque that their xenophobic paranoias feel not only sane but righteous. Somewhat new are the droves of conservative influencers descending on Springfield and spreading viral videos of residents calling immigrants “sand monkeys.”
It’s worth remembering that we’ve seen Trump make this play before. His lies about endemic migrant crime date back to his campaign announcement in 2015 when he characterized all Mexican immigrants as “rapists.” Ahead of both the 2018 midterms and the 2020 general election, the then-president induced panic about invading migrant caravans that abruptly disappeared from his rhetoric after votes were cast. Haiti itself has made a previous appearance on Trump’s reported list of “shithole” countries whose denizens he sought to deny immigration protections.
Trump’s brand of conspiratorial lying transformed his unfounded claims of election theft in 2020 into a rabid mob that descended on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Now, the question of whether Trump’s lies lead to actual violent behavior is no longer conjectural. And as Vance helpfully articulated, the point of the lying is to capture and channel a desired mood, a rallying cause that motivates people to action.
The Republican ticket’s exploitation of that mood has now sent hundreds of Springfield children fleeing from their schools, led to the terrorization of countless city employees, reopened the psychic wounds of a grieving father, and placed a target on the backs of a migrant minority that was already regarded with suspicion. It reaffirms that Trump’s vision for returning to power will likely require an indiscriminate range of casualties. What we saw onstage on Tuesday was not merely a meltdown but a vision of the future: an angry man howling at hordes of disciples he does not see, who await his signal to spring into action."
Until we start punishing the Confederates the way they deserve?
And stop treating them like the entitled relatives of the FBI grey flannel suit guys who refuse to investigate and the grey flannel suits who refuse to prosecute them ...?
November 5th won't be anything like 1/6/21 when the National Guard wasn't ready for them. Lock and Load! And the good (and bad) thing will be, it'll be the responsibility of a REPUBLICAN Governor, not a Dem. However, he's one of the few GOP Gov's who isn't MAGA and will follow the Constitution. Eradicate these animals.
Hey, Intelligencer, How about writing true articles about how Trump and his followers are fucking MAGA terrorist racists, without all the implied speculation/admiration about/of his power to "exploit" his followers. How about describing Trump and Vance and all the MAGAs as the ignorant, terrifying, criminal terrorists they are. No speculation required. If you do your job, your guesses/speculations won't be necessary. Come on, let's do some real journalism.
Long time conservative, George Will endorses Harris. The names keep piling up. There will be more. Trump crossed a line - he is a traitor. No choice but to vote against him.
George Will is a MASSIVE asshole so I'm kind of surprised to hear this. A few months ago I remember him saying he just could never vote for a Democrat.
I'll never forget him on Meet the Press with Paul Krugman right when the Great Recession started. Krugman looked at him and said "well, George, you got everything on your conservative wish list for the past 8 years. How did that work out for you"? Will just sat there with his jaw quivering, and didn't say anything. He usually can't be shut up.
Krugman's desk was ten feet from my mom's when he was at MIT. My mom worked for Paul Samuelson, who shared a weekly oppositional column in Newsweek with that misguided right-wing asshat Milton Friedman, who, like Will, got everything wrong. I'd love to see Krugman on Press the Meat :)
Ahhhhh, that's better. Showered, shampooed, skin and hair smoothed and sleek. Shoulder even a bit improved. I just did not have it in me to start the monumental batch cooking project tonight with it in that much pain. Tomorrow, then.
What the republicans who are opposing Chump will never admit is that he is not an aberration, as they want us to believe. He is the evolutionary end stage of decades of fomenting racist grievance and outrage, and even violence. He is the final triumph of AM hate radio.
They want to blame everything on him, throw him under the bus so they don't have to change course. Don't let them, he's not the one who brought the Dobbs decision, he's not the one who picked the Supreme Court assholes, he just stamped his name on it and when to go play some golf.
Remember how lightning fast they wiped George W from their memories and the public stage? Hope to witness the same treatment for Trump until his inevitable cardiovascular event.
W was just a placeholder for tRump, proudly lowering the bar of intellectual requirements to be considered "presidential." Palin was phase 2.
If DonOld gets in again, they'll just transition him to digital AI, de-age him, kill anyone with a memory of the "before-times," and bing bang boom, immortal Big Brother is in the house, watching you through your smart TV and monitoring all your economic activity through the brand-new, all-digital dollar. Now with less voting!
For years Chimpy was their idol, and to question his right to absolute rule was to risk being denounced as a "terrorist sympathizer". By March 2009, he was down the memory hole and no longer the carrochio around which the RWNJs all rallied. He and Sith Lord Cheney were inconvenient to remember, so they were stricken from the Calendar of saints.
“Had a cyst burst inside my uterus while pregnant causing a mc. The on call doc said it's best to wait a week to see if it comes out naturally. Now I can have 0 children bc my uterus is gone.”
THIS IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO when I had mine the doctor was like "we would like to give you pills, we could give you a d&c but it won't be for days, or you can wait but we really, really, REALLY don't want you to do that."
(if any of you ever find yourself in the same situation-- I had planned to ask for the d&c but did the pills to get it over with ASAP and honestly I think it was the best solution for a fucking awful situation. Dealing with the cramping and bleeding and weekly blood tests was at least a distraction from the emotional hell, and I was able to have a successful IUI less than two months later.)
"Broeder now suffers from Afib, or atrial fibrillation, a heart condition she will have to live with for the rest of her life. She explained that if she gets too excited or upset, her heart could just stop working."
This is not how Afib works. The danger from Afib is that a clot forms in your heart and causes a stroke. It is manageable with beta blockers and mild blood thinners, and in more chronic cases, a procedure called ablation.
That said, it DOES suck to have it, and it IS life-changing.
Moorhead is literally across the river from Fargo.
That said medication abortions are legal in ND so providers can write the script.
uh, as a medical-type person I can confidently assert that one doesn't develop an autoimmune disease due to blood loss. I'm sure she's suffering but that's not the cause
My mother had rheumatoid arthritis. We don't know the cause but it is probably a combination of genetics & environment. However, regardless of the cause different environmental factors could trigger it. The cause of something and the trigger are often separate issues. A superficial awareness of English leads many of us to feel that cause and trigger have separate meanings.
Sure abortions are legal-ish. There's just nowhere to get one.
McEntee probably: 20,000? anecdotal.
Or: Paid actors, false flags, bots, fake news, women being hysterical, etc. etc.
Good to know that there are still a few judges, even west of the Mississippi, who are not in the Feudalist Society's pocket. North Dakota and Missouri, two of the worst red states, are not yet 100% safe for fascism, all heretofore available evidence to the contrary.
Deleted, wrong place.
It's truly amazing what lightly moving your fingers around in a circular motion on someone's belly who has been throwing up for hours will do to calm everything down and let the sufferer drift off to much needed sleep.
Should have done that hours ago. Duly noted.
Massage is a greatly underused medical tool.
Light touch nerve stimulation - it is a miracle.
It really is.
I'm watching the movie "The Woman In Black" for the many-th time. I've also read the book a bunch of times.
I haven't understood any of it yet once.
I REALLY hope Biden and the military are prepared for this.
The Next January 6 Could Happen in Places Like Springfield, Ohio
"It was all emblematic of the former president’s ability to turn whole communities upside down with just a few words. For all the ways Trump has declined of late, he remains masterful at reading and cultivating his base, which wants stories about immigrants so grotesque that their xenophobic paranoias feel not only sane but righteous. Somewhat new are the droves of conservative influencers descending on Springfield and spreading viral videos of residents calling immigrants “sand monkeys.”
It’s worth remembering that we’ve seen Trump make this play before. His lies about endemic migrant crime date back to his campaign announcement in 2015 when he characterized all Mexican immigrants as “rapists.” Ahead of both the 2018 midterms and the 2020 general election, the then-president induced panic about invading migrant caravans that abruptly disappeared from his rhetoric after votes were cast. Haiti itself has made a previous appearance on Trump’s reported list of “shithole” countries whose denizens he sought to deny immigration protections.
Trump’s brand of conspiratorial lying transformed his unfounded claims of election theft in 2020 into a rabid mob that descended on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Now, the question of whether Trump’s lies lead to actual violent behavior is no longer conjectural. And as Vance helpfully articulated, the point of the lying is to capture and channel a desired mood, a rallying cause that motivates people to action.
The Republican ticket’s exploitation of that mood has now sent hundreds of Springfield children fleeing from their schools, led to the terrorization of countless city employees, reopened the psychic wounds of a grieving father, and placed a target on the backs of a migrant minority that was already regarded with suspicion. It reaffirms that Trump’s vision for returning to power will likely require an indiscriminate range of casualties. What we saw onstage on Tuesday was not merely a meltdown but a vision of the future: an angry man howling at hordes of disciples he does not see, who await his signal to spring into action."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-next-january-6-could-happen-in-places-like-springfield.html
fucking nazis. do we really have to do this again?
Until we start punishing the Confederates the way they deserve?
And stop treating them like the entitled relatives of the FBI grey flannel suit guys who refuse to investigate and the grey flannel suits who refuse to prosecute them ...?
Send them in now and put them down like dirty deeply infected animals. DO YOUR JOBS!!!
do to the springfield irregulars how their daddies did to the kent state protestors.
November 5th won't be anything like 1/6/21 when the National Guard wasn't ready for them. Lock and Load! And the good (and bad) thing will be, it'll be the responsibility of a REPUBLICAN Governor, not a Dem. However, he's one of the few GOP Gov's who isn't MAGA and will follow the Constitution. Eradicate these animals.
Hey, Intelligencer, How about writing true articles about how Trump and his followers are fucking MAGA terrorist racists, without all the implied speculation/admiration about/of his power to "exploit" his followers. How about describing Trump and Vance and all the MAGAs as the ignorant, terrifying, criminal terrorists they are. No speculation required. If you do your job, your guesses/speculations won't be necessary. Come on, let's do some real journalism.
That is EXACTLY what the article is about. They're talking about how Dump/Vance are stirring up the rubes towards violence.
Terrorists, indeed!
As you should be.
We had consent decrees in place to guard against that kind of violence before John Roberts eviscerated the Voting Rights Act
Horndog PAB reads the name “Nicky Jam” and says the first thing his rapey brain can think of
* Trump: Latin music superstar Nicky Jam. Do you know Nicky? She’s hot
(Nicky Jam is a man)*
https://x.com/kamalahq/status/1834995678113599539?s=46
... and withdrew his endorsement
donold isn't beating off the gay rumors.
he may not be gay, but he sure doesn't like women
ISWYDT
like
Not listening to Nicky Jam anymore, now I know he's a MAGA.
All MAGAs are assholes.
is nicky jam like dick cheese but circumcised?
sorry, i couldn't resist
Heee heeee :)
No doubt he's still thinking about Nikki Haley, even though she's been crossed off the list. For now, anyway.
or maybe he's thinking of nancy pelosi. you never know with this guy and his swiss-cheese brain
Good point. It could be Farrah Fawcett.
Holy shit (I know he’s an asshole, but for the next fifty some days, I’ll take this.
https://x.com/dirtroadpickup/status/1835140318074675501?s=61&t=d57_wdu2mp3jUpQgi28A5Q
Long time conservative, George Will endorses Harris. The names keep piling up. There will be more. Trump crossed a line - he is a traitor. No choice but to vote against him.
He is giving boomer white ladies permission to vote for Harris, "even George Willi".
Yeah he is a troll but this is decent.
George Will hasn't been relevant since about 1986 or so. Still, glad to see him change his mind. Stopped clocks and all that.
True, but I think we should still appreciate all of these anti-Trump Repubs just the same. It'll crush Trump on November 5th.
George Will is a MASSIVE asshole so I'm kind of surprised to hear this. A few months ago I remember him saying he just could never vote for a Democrat.
I'll never forget him on Meet the Press with Paul Krugman right when the Great Recession started. Krugman looked at him and said "well, George, you got everything on your conservative wish list for the past 8 years. How did that work out for you"? Will just sat there with his jaw quivering, and didn't say anything. He usually can't be shut up.
Krugman's desk was ten feet from my mom's when he was at MIT. My mom worked for Paul Samuelson, who shared a weekly oppositional column in Newsweek with that misguided right-wing asshat Milton Friedman, who, like Will, got everything wrong. I'd love to see Krugman on Press the Meat :)
Thanks! Looking for a clip of this posthaste.
if you find it, please post :)
It looks like Krugman and Will were often part of a roundtable on the ABC show This Week. Could it have been one of those?
https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=%22George%20Will%22%20%22Paul%20Krugman%22
they're only ever for effective governance when their party is in power. even then, "effective" is in the eye of the beholder.
Ahhhhh, that's better. Showered, shampooed, skin and hair smoothed and sleek. Shoulder even a bit improved. I just did not have it in me to start the monumental batch cooking project tonight with it in that much pain. Tomorrow, then.
am currently trying to find a shoulder and upper arm brace for months long pain . The only ones I can find are really bulky
The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT.
Thanks.
What the republicans who are opposing Chump will never admit is that he is not an aberration, as they want us to believe. He is the evolutionary end stage of decades of fomenting racist grievance and outrage, and even violence. He is the final triumph of AM hate radio.
yup. he's just a puppet, barely in charge of his own bathroom schedule. like hitler. always follow the money.
They want to blame everything on him, throw him under the bus so they don't have to change course. Don't let them, he's not the one who brought the Dobbs decision, he's not the one who picked the Supreme Court assholes, he just stamped his name on it and when to go play some golf.
Remember how lightning fast they wiped George W from their memories and the public stage? Hope to witness the same treatment for Trump until his inevitable cardiovascular event.
W was just a placeholder for tRump, proudly lowering the bar of intellectual requirements to be considered "presidential." Palin was phase 2.
If DonOld gets in again, they'll just transition him to digital AI, de-age him, kill anyone with a memory of the "before-times," and bing bang boom, immortal Big Brother is in the house, watching you through your smart TV and monitoring all your economic activity through the brand-new, all-digital dollar. Now with less voting!
That is my fear of he dies offscreen.
Very much agree, although I'd argue Reagan was phase 1 in this series.
For years Chimpy was their idol, and to question his right to absolute rule was to risk being denounced as a "terrorist sympathizer". By March 2009, he was down the memory hole and no longer the carrochio around which the RWNJs all rallied. He and Sith Lord Cheney were inconvenient to remember, so they were stricken from the Calendar of saints.
Oh I'd much rather he live while his entire life crumbles around him, then for several years more, broke and abandoned.
homeless, wandering the streets of manhattan screaming at the clouds to bring him some ketchup