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____________________________________________________________ How many of your state’s lawmakers are women? If you live in the Southeast, it could be just 1 in 5. ___________________________________________________________ They’re all young. They’re all...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 04:30 PM PST
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I am an elderly white male. My wife claims that I am on the spectrum. “They/ them” pronouns feel wrong. I am enough of a prude that I don’t want to hear/think about gay sex. My first wife was a medical student, and I shudder that anyone would want to...
by Styracosaurus
on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 08:15 PM PST
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UPDATE We have a new leader in the clubhouse for most antisemitic comment I mean legitimate criticism of the Israeli government: I feel like I’m in Orwell’s 1984, can’t talk about the bad guys ever or I get sent to Room 101 where Israeli rats eat my...
by hp68
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 10:33 AM PDT
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Quiet Prejudices At the Dollar General, I’m behind the counter with my coworker Dotty; a 60 year old woman who’s always complaining. A man at the counter asks if we speak Spanish. I said “no, I’m sorry” and my coworker followed with “no, I’m in America...
by Rachel Brown
on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 05:28 PM PDT
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Recent posts reminded me of part of the first chapter of a horror novel I wrote for the fun of it (It’ll never be published). It was written before Trump slithered onto the political scene. Parts of it that pertain to the rest of the story have been...
by Wolfound
on Mon Jul 10, 2023 at 12:37 PM PDT
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And what’s missing from your med recs can hurt you, too. Case study: a non-mainstream Medicaid patient with years of extensive musculoskeletal damage (among other ills), fully imaged and documented, including the surgeries involved. She struggles for...
by mettle fatigue
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 02:55 PM PDT
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As has been mentioned, anti-Semitic attacks are at an all-time high. The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks these incidents, issued a report that was elaborated upon by the Washington Post as well as by Daily Kos’s own Hunter yesterday. Donald Trump...
by novapsyche
on Fri Mar 24, 2023 at 07:32 AM PDT
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Our “special day” even though we live it 27/7/365. When the government can take away one of our rights, then they can take away all of our rights. A reminder Women’s rights are human rights! We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right...
by LaFeminista
on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 09:48 PM PST
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���� Ageism is the last permissible —even supported— prejudice on the left. But� like all bigotry, it seeds vulnerability in everyone buying into it.
���� And it doesn’t really matter whether ...
by mettle fatigue
on Thu Sep 01, 2022 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Let’s start with slavery. Conservatives like to stress the fact that America didn’t invent slavery. While it is true that slavery has existed throughout human history, all over the world. In most cases, people became slaves due to being on the losing...
by futurebird
on Tue Aug 23, 2022 at 11:21 AM PDT
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The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST.gov) March 16 release of “Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias within Artificial Intelligence” offers background and guidance [on a major source of risk relating] to the...
by mettle fatigue
on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 07:33 PM PDT
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On Presidents’ Day weekend, residents all over Colleyville, Texas woke up to hundreds of antisemitic and racist flyers in their frontyards, in plastic zip-top bags weighted with pebbles, apparently to make them easy to throw and to stay put where they...
by mettle fatigue
on Wed Feb 23, 2022 at 09:10 AM PST
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While the big news was the Supreme Court hearing on abortion rights (more on that below), a clarifying moment for me came with a different story this week. In August, Andrew Cuomo resigned as NY Governor after an investigation found evidence that he...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Dec 04, 2021 at 05:00 PM PST
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I wish I could say the failure of GOP leadership to condemn anti-Muslim rhetoric targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar was surprising. I wish I could say the disgusting remarks from Rep. Lauren Boebert that made recent headlines were unique. I wish Omar, one of...
by Lauren Sue
on Sun Nov 28, 2021 at 11:12 AM PST
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As pernicious and as common as it is, racism can also be subtle and disguised. Florida teacher Caroline Melanie Lee is charged with third degree felony child abuse for allegedly retaliating against a student who questioned the validity of her winning...
by Rule of Claw
on Sat Nov 06, 2021 at 06:05 AM PDT
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When my daughter was a very little girl, I had occasion to need teach her about the power of belief. Her father was a professional archaeologist, and of course, the scientific method was part of our basic approach to the world. She had classmates who...
by Curious therapist
on Tue Oct 12, 2021 at 11:34 AM PDT
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No introductory essay tonight, just straight to the newses after the usual boilerplate. But the footing down there remains treacherous, so please watch your step and This Week In The War On Women meets Saturday evenings, also posting & reblogging...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Oct 02, 2021 at 04:55 PM PDT
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When does it stop? You have to be proud of who you are, and where you come from. And at that time, when you were entering that education system, it was bad to be Indian. It’s evil to be Indian. They’d say, “you speak a backwards language.” You know,...
by Winter Rabbit
on Fri Sep 24, 2021 at 01:55 PM PDT
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My esophageal stricture is acting up today, resulting in inability to keep food down (I’m doing liquids), so I thought I’d start by investigating how nonfatal chronic conditions are treated. My hypothesis is that more women than men suffer from them,...
by elenacarlena
on Sat Sep 18, 2021 at 05:05 PM PDT
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On September 14th, Californians will decide whether to recall Governor Newsom. In a difficult period, this recall is another Republican effort to disrupt democracy, to blow up government. It's another manifestation of the new Civil War. The latest 538...
by bobburnett
on Sat Sep 11, 2021 at 07:24 AM PDT
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