Doc: Are you sure? You look young. Maybe it was your appendix?
Me: I know the difference between my appendix and my WOMB.
Doc: Orders pregnancy test anyways
We really need to discuss how AFAB patients get treated by many doctors. If you need to do a pregnancy test on everyone as a matter of course - then just do the test. But don’t waste time arguing with me about whether I know the difference between an appendix and my LITERAL womb when I’m having a life threatening cardiac emergency.
"Under the revised final regulation expected to be made public as soon as next month, the EPA will slow the pace of its proposed yearly #emissions requirements through 2030. The new pace is expected to result in #EVs accounting for less than 60% of total vehicles produced by 2030, the sources said."
"#Ohio’s bill labeling gas as “green” appears to be more of a public relations stunt than anything. #Tennessee’s new law, on the other hand, has a specific, anti-#climate policy intent. It doesn’t just vaguely say that “#gas is #CleanEnergy;” it says that local governments attempting to set “clean energy” standards must include gas in that definition.
Three of the Tennessee bill’s co-sponsors are #ALEC members"
Wanna confirm your worst fears? Here's a reddit thread of residents showing unbelievable contempt for patients w certain diagnoses: https://reddit.com/r/Residency/s/AbReVlD4FO
Hey allies:
This is what your loved ones have to deal with. Go w them to doc appts to help advocate!
9-5-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Summer’s End with Digby
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Heather "Digby" Parton joins me on the show today as summer is unofficially over. Congress returns to work, though in this world that's not necessarily a good thing... Here we go!
What if mass shootings were reported the way vehicular manslaughter is reported?
Headline: 13 People Dead and 4 Injured After They Collided With Bullets.
Story: According to police 13 people died and 4 were taken to the hospital after they collided with bullets at a café on Main Street.
A 22 year old male was walking past the café and his gun began to fire bullets at the café. Several bullets hit the café damaging a coffee machine before more bullets hit some of the diners in the café. According to the police, none of the diners were wearing bulletproof vests or military body armor when they ran into the bullets.
Of the 13 dead, 9 died at the scene and 4 died later at the hospital. The 4 injured diners were treated for non-fatal wounds and released from the hospital.
The 22 year old male gun owner is uninjured and returned to his home very shaken by the incident.
Don’t believe it. The title in the Economist does not bear up to the text. A few select individuals may have contributed, most are in their bunkers shrieking ‘no no no’
UK #Labour party's retconning of their #Gaza position is truly awe inspiring (if an observer of #gaslighting) To hear David Lammy tell it, he & #starmer have been supporters of, what normal people at least, call a #Ceasefire
The #Guardian trotted out a piece on duplicitous Lisa Nandy. Apparently, according to Nandy, LP had issues with #snp motions lack of political timeline.
Well, it's so much more important to get the 'finer' points sorted as hundreds a day are being slaughtered, right?
Nachdem ich das Kapitel über den Holocaust im DDR-Lehrbuch Geschichte Klasse 9 durchgearbeitet habe, was ich extra dafür gekauft habe, weil ich inzwischen selber wissen wollte, ob ich mir meine Vergangenheit zusammen halluziniere, fühle ich mich, als würde hier eine epische #Gaslighting-Story laufen.
Ich habe wirklich angefangen, an mir selber zu zweifeln, dabei ist die Sachlage überwältigend.
Two men kept the children chained up in the basement. The Monster liked to use his fists. The Monster's Keeper liked to use candy.
...Do we need to debate which one is "worse"?
No. Hell no.
That's a meaningless, awful, despicable, gutwrenching question with no real answer, and there's no point wasting the time or energy-- much less sanity-- contemplating it. Just typing it made me queasy.
Both are kidnappers and rapists. Both are monsters. There is no "lesser" evil here. What matters is stopping them BOTH, and getting the kids OUT of that damned basement. Period.
...I've been asked if I have permission to relate this story.
Yes. I do.
Not only that, but my friend brought it up himself, while I was ranting about the plutocratic duopoly's game of Good Cop / Bad Cop. I repeat: it was during a political discussion that I learned about this chapter of my friend's past, when HE volunteered the comparison.
It is not a comparison made lightly.
I'm going to keep saying it: voting in fear is not democracy. It's a hostage situation.
Billions of lives are at stake. Climate change is already hammering us like the fist of an angry god. More than half a century has already been squandered while we politely wait for incremental change and the monsters in charge spend our last best chances at a habitable future betting instead on round after round of musical deck chairs. The Nobel prize was awarded to a deranged economist who calls 3C global temperature increase "optimal"-- even though that's halfway to the opposite of an ice age. The world will be unrecognizable. The scale of the destruction and suffering that's coming-- that has already started-- is unimaginable. The people who got us into this mess are not going to save us.
All our rulers care about is jockeying for power, competing with each other for money and control to see who secures the best bunkers and yachts and private armies while the world burns. They will say anything to shut us up, and toss us only just enough scraps to keep us pacified and complacent-- they've already written us off for dead, and they're already looting our corpses. They'll go on promising incremental change, promising they'll send help, while they crank the gilded doors on the bunker shut and lock it behind them. They'll smile and wave and give us a reassuring thumbs-up while we burn.
We think Democrats and Republicans are enemies. They fight over us the same way predators fight over the entrails of their prey. Just because one hyena brushes their teeth more often and has better breath than another, doesn't mean we should crawl obligingly into their jaws looking for salvation. The enemy of our enemy is just another enemy-- but they'll spend a lot of time and effort assuring us our only real hope is to curry their favor.
The "good" cop smiles and promises to protect us from the bad cop-- IF we behave. This does not make the "good" cop good. It does not make him our friend. It does not make giving him what he wants a good idea. They may not get along, they may not like each other much, but they collect their paychecks from the same banks, vote to fund the same war machine, sip the same champagne and nibble the same caviar while riding the same yachts and the same private jets to the same sex islands, and ALL OF THEM MUST BE STOPPED.
The right fist punches, until being strangled by the left fist feels like a blessed relief. The bad cop softens us up so we'll capitulate to the good cop. Both of them are laughing at us.
We are prisoners, trapped and brainwashed and exploited.
Some of us have come to identify with our oppressors, fawning on them for survival.
Like trusting, desperate children, we are too frightened to face the fact that BOTH of our parents are abusive. It's far easier to blame our siblings for misbehaving.
Don't you DARE say anything bad about Momma. She's the one who wipes our tears and tells us she loves us (before locking us back in the basement). Vote blue no matter who, kids, or else we get the orange hose again. This basement is the only world we can ever hope to know, so we have to be good and make the best of it. Don't talk back.
I hate to break it to you, but Momma is part of the problem. Momma is not going to do anything real to put a stop to the violence in this house.
This house which, by the way, is flooding AND on fire.
We don't have time for this shit. We have to stop this nightmare and get out of this trap.
Our captors will not help us.
....Not even the "nice" one who smiles and promises candy.
Deze slogan is echt de ultieme definitie van #gaslighting. Nadat de VVD nu al 13 jaar lang overduidelijk aantoont, en nu met alle bezuinigingen in haar programma wéér laat zien, dat dit "jouw" enkel ondernemers, miljonairs, huisjesmelkers en fossiele CEO's omvat!
"the Gallup survey of more than 5,000 adults ... indicates that depression ... among children amid COVID-19 shutdowns and social media use, is much more widespread.” In particular, “depression rates have sharply risen among women and Black and Hispanic people.”
The ATTRIBUTION OF CAUSATION to brief shutdowns -- as opposed to DEATH, DISABILITY, DISEASE, STRAINED INEQUITY, LATE STAGE CAPITALISM, LOSS OF AUTONOMY -- is appalling.
Trump's team is more focused so far on building a sprawling network of "#ElectionIntegrity" #lawyers & #PollWatchers than on rounding up organizers & door knockers to reach voters.
It's a sign that 5 months before Election Day, the legal battle is underway —& that Trump PLANS to cry "rigged" if he loses, as it did after the #2020election & his #felony#convictions.
OK, I've had just about enough of #CommanderMikeJohnson (R-Gilead). Last week, he tanked the bipartisan border security and foreign aid bill at the direction of #Trump. He claimed that he wanted clean, independent bills for every issue. But now he's rejecting a clean foreign aid bill because it doesn't include border security! Am I taking crazy pills, or is this one of the biggest cases of #gaslighting in recent history?
While we don’t discount our feelings, being fully led by them can be a slippery slope. You may feel sad that you have to walk away from a relationship. However, if staying is unsafe, allowing that feeling of sadness to cause you to stay is not wise. Sometimes, we just need to be reminded that we deserve relationships that are mutually respectful and safe. ❤️