This medication is so important. I worked at two women's clinics as a counselor. We had one Dr. who serviced both. (30 plus women at one location in the morning, 30 more in the afternoon. What they charged before the medication was available was obscene.
"A study published Monday by the journal Nature Sustainability warns that New Orleans must immediately begin planning and gradually implementing its permanent evacuation to avert a dangerously rushed exodus later, because it has passed a “point of no return” as climate-driven sea-level rise slowly swallows the storied city.
“Louisiana is a canary in the coal mine. It is one of the rare places where we’re already clearly seeing climate-motivated depopulation combined with other social and economic factors,” said Yale School of the Environment professor and study co-author Brianna Castro.
"The authors argued that by acknowledging the inevitability of New Orleans’ underwater future, government and residents can avert a fraught rushed retreat by planning and executing a managed multigenerational relocation and set an example for other threatened coastal communities.
This is the United States. We bury our heads in the sand and the rushed emergency evacuations after a few more Katrina's hit will probably be our future.
I'm sure that the coast of the state where I live - North Carolina - will be underwater, but our Republican-controlled government keeps propping up real estate developers and doesn't even allow mentioning climate change in official state documents.
You'll likely see companies stop offering insurance in these areas that might cause some migration, but there's too much influence by developers and other business interests that make any reasonable long-term approaches impossible.
Part of the reason why we passed this point of no return is because (surprise!) our idiot governor cancelled a massive coastal restoration program because the oystermen in Plaquemines Parish (where the project was located) complained that it was killing off their livelihoods.
Guess which parish has also lost the most land to the Gulf and is basically the reason why New Orleans will be underwater a lot sooner than expected?
Three times? Seriously, no one takes a dementia test three times unless there are concerns of dementia. Beyond that, we only have his word he passed and he's a well known liar. To top it off, he's bragging about how hard they are!
Journalists just laugh along with him. The man is bragging that he's had multiple tests for dementia and that they are actually very tricky, and he happens also to have the power to end all life on earth bigger than insects.
Next step? Make birth control pills illegal. Then make IUDs illegal. The get rid of women's right to vote. Then require that married women's wages be paid to their husbands. The stop allowing women into graduate schools. Then stop allowing women into college. Then require parental permission for girls to go to high school.
Does this sound like I am being hysterical?
**Birth control pills were only approved in 1960 and did not come into widespread use until the 1970s.
**1974 banks began allowing women to get credit cards and mortgages in their own name without a husband's or father's permission
**Until about 1980 married women could not get a tubal ligation without their husband's consent. And single women were routinely denied tubal ligations. Last year, one of my young, unmarried relatives had to travel almost 100 miles for a tubal ligation because the two gynecologists in town refused to perform the procedure. She was not married yet.
** Women's wages were routinely paid to husbands or fathers through the 19th century. Some of those laws did not come off the books till after the Civil War.
**1920 was when women got the right to vote
**1979 The phone company was forced to hire women into technical positions
** Title IX was passed in 1972
** Harvard started admitting women into medical school in 1945
I used to date a single woman of childbearing age who was refused a tubal ligation a decade or so ago because she would surely change her mind about being a mother.
The day that person becomes a mother, we’re all a little worse off.
When I took my young relative to the doc who did the tubal ligation, she started crying. Poor thing walked in with talking points to convince the doc. Doc grabbed her hand and said, "hey, you're an adult. It's your body."
The Fifth Circuit trying to play pharmacist for the entire country is exactly the problem. Judges are not doctors, and “Louisiana is mad women still have options” is not a medical standard.
Mifepristone has been used safely for decades. But the cruelty lobby does not care about safety. It cares about friction. Make the door heavier. Make the appointment harder. Make the mail illegal. Make women bleed more bureaucracy before they can make their own decisions.
Can we send notes to Sam Alito and the other conservatives exhorting them to keep abortion illegal so they can make Jeffrey Epstein's dream of having a forced-birth baby farm for the rich elite come true? I'm not above sticking them with a pedo vibe.
So just curious. If we win the Senate in November couldn’t Alito and Thomas retire between that day and the day they are sworn in? Because I think they will. At least one of them
In a corporatist society, only the objections of corporations to far white laws and rulings can protect us now. We don't have to live this way, but we choose to vote for neo-liberal and neo-conservative politicians, because we have internalized their belief that only the billionaires know what's best for us. Everything else is socialist tomfoolery which imperils the bright future that austerity guarantees, off there on the ever-receding horizon. Now go get that third job and shut up.
Thinking of a worst-case scenario, Grampa Assmouth could actually expand SCOTUS before he loses power. Adding 6 or 8 more christofascists would really fuck shit up. Although if we take the Senate he will only have a narrow window…shh…
"According to reports, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are not planning to retire this year, but both are nearing that age."
What was the pillow brand Antonin Scalia was using? We should send some to Alito and Thomas.
Laura Ingraham: Apparently Canada intends to become a province of Europe.
I thought it was China. Make up your mind.
Forget "keep the ratio up." Expand and reform the courts.
This medication is so important. I worked at two women's clinics as a counselor. We had one Dr. who serviced both. (30 plus women at one location in the morning, 30 more in the afternoon. What they charged before the medication was available was obscene.
"Derby winner, Golden Tempo, refuses to visit the White House! He said, "If I wanted to see a horse's ass I would've come in 2nd".
I swear to fuck Mondays are getting worse that they used to be :/
good thing yrrrrrrrr
smoking lamp is lit nao okay!
that was a minute and a half late - FUCK!
(I am having many small things not go well today :[
am for grrrrrr and I wish I were not )
What I want to know is when Mar-A-Lago will sink to the bottom of the ocean. I'd like to be there to take pictures, lots and lots of pictures.
https://www.rawstory.com/new-orleans-must-immediately-plan-evacuation-after-terrifying-finding-experts/
"A study published Monday by the journal Nature Sustainability warns that New Orleans must immediately begin planning and gradually implementing its permanent evacuation to avert a dangerously rushed exodus later, because it has passed a “point of no return” as climate-driven sea-level rise slowly swallows the storied city.
“Louisiana is a canary in the coal mine. It is one of the rare places where we’re already clearly seeing climate-motivated depopulation combined with other social and economic factors,” said Yale School of the Environment professor and study co-author Brianna Castro.
"The authors argued that by acknowledging the inevitability of New Orleans’ underwater future, government and residents can avert a fraught rushed retreat by planning and executing a managed multigenerational relocation and set an example for other threatened coastal communities.
This is the United States. We bury our heads in the sand and the rushed emergency evacuations after a few more Katrina's hit will probably be our future.
I'm sure that the coast of the state where I live - North Carolina - will be underwater, but our Republican-controlled government keeps propping up real estate developers and doesn't even allow mentioning climate change in official state documents.
You'll likely see companies stop offering insurance in these areas that might cause some migration, but there's too much influence by developers and other business interests that make any reasonable long-term approaches impossible.
Part of the reason why we passed this point of no return is because (surprise!) our idiot governor cancelled a massive coastal restoration program because the oystermen in Plaquemines Parish (where the project was located) complained that it was killing off their livelihoods.
Guess which parish has also lost the most land to the Gulf and is basically the reason why New Orleans will be underwater a lot sooner than expected?
OT
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ml2i75mvpz23
He's bragging about his cognitive tests again.
Three times? Seriously, no one takes a dementia test three times unless there are concerns of dementia. Beyond that, we only have his word he passed and he's a well known liar. To top it off, he's bragging about how hard they are!
I wish someone would ask him which question was the most difficult.
Mary Trump Takes the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50xFvt9Sao
Journalists just laugh along with him. The man is bragging that he's had multiple tests for dementia and that they are actually very tricky, and he happens also to have the power to end all life on earth bigger than insects.
If you've had more than one in a decade...
Other presidents didn't have to take cognitive exams because they weren't demonstrably demented, you sad turdclown.
"Oh no, they're going to give me a dementia test once I'm sworn in!"
"Don't worry, William..."
"Eh?"
"Sorry, President Elect Harrison, it's not until after your first month. And I think they even delay it if you're ill."
"...hmm."
(some exceptions apply)
Those aren't the same items he said before.
I think he's lying to us about the questions.
Non compos mentis
Squirrel!
I thought the same thing... but in my head, his entire cabinet frantically ran through a doggie door when he said "squirrel".
🤪
Next step? Make birth control pills illegal. Then make IUDs illegal. The get rid of women's right to vote. Then require that married women's wages be paid to their husbands. The stop allowing women into graduate schools. Then stop allowing women into college. Then require parental permission for girls to go to high school.
Does this sound like I am being hysterical?
**Birth control pills were only approved in 1960 and did not come into widespread use until the 1970s.
**1974 banks began allowing women to get credit cards and mortgages in their own name without a husband's or father's permission
**Until about 1980 married women could not get a tubal ligation without their husband's consent. And single women were routinely denied tubal ligations. Last year, one of my young, unmarried relatives had to travel almost 100 miles for a tubal ligation because the two gynecologists in town refused to perform the procedure. She was not married yet.
** Women's wages were routinely paid to husbands or fathers through the 19th century. Some of those laws did not come off the books till after the Civil War.
**1920 was when women got the right to vote
**1979 The phone company was forced to hire women into technical positions
** Title IX was passed in 1972
** Harvard started admitting women into medical school in 1945
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I used to date a single woman of childbearing age who was refused a tubal ligation a decade or so ago because she would surely change her mind about being a mother.
The day that person becomes a mother, we’re all a little worse off.
When I took my young relative to the doc who did the tubal ligation, she started crying. Poor thing walked in with talking points to convince the doc. Doc grabbed her hand and said, "hey, you're an adult. It's your body."
If you were dating her, wasn't she not single?
Unmarried.
The Fifth Circuit trying to play pharmacist for the entire country is exactly the problem. Judges are not doctors, and “Louisiana is mad women still have options” is not a medical standard.
Mifepristone has been used safely for decades. But the cruelty lobby does not care about safety. It cares about friction. Make the door heavier. Make the appointment harder. Make the mail illegal. Make women bleed more bureaucracy before they can make their own decisions.
Can we send notes to Sam Alito and the other conservatives exhorting them to keep abortion illegal so they can make Jeffrey Epstein's dream of having a forced-birth baby farm for the rich elite come true? I'm not above sticking them with a pedo vibe.
Vote, my friends, and let's reform SCOTUS.
I'm so confused... Wasn't there a ruling from the Supreme Court a while back that said that district courts can't impose nation-wide bans anymore?
Yes. I assume that's why Alito stayed the nationwide ban.
So just curious. If we win the Senate in November couldn’t Alito and Thomas retire between that day and the day they are sworn in? Because I think they will. At least one of them
Yes.
The question is what's in it for them? Trammell ain't gonna pay for a retired SCOTUS judge!
They’ll just take money, whatcha gonna do about it? Ethics rules don’t apply to us. Whaddya gonna do, impeach me?
Bet the house on it.
It'll be an epic speed round.
Absolutely. And they’ll both be replaced by smirking little 30-year-old shits. Might as well nominate Big Balls or something.
Yep. That's the plan, methinks; they are waiting to see.
Because otherwise, as a Democratic senator, I would not vote EVER for any SC justice proposed by the Repukes.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Sept. 18, 2020. Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in October 27, 2020.
I still don't forgive RBG.
Me neither. People need to disassociate their identity from their job, and that goes for everybody.
In a corporatist society, only the objections of corporations to far white laws and rulings can protect us now. We don't have to live this way, but we choose to vote for neo-liberal and neo-conservative politicians, because we have internalized their belief that only the billionaires know what's best for us. Everything else is socialist tomfoolery which imperils the bright future that austerity guarantees, off there on the ever-receding horizon. Now go get that third job and shut up.
Thinking of a worst-case scenario, Grampa Assmouth could actually expand SCOTUS before he loses power. Adding 6 or 8 more christofascists would really fuck shit up. Although if we take the Senate he will only have a narrow window…shh…