Lemme give you some hopium from the trenches in NC. Source: I am the elected chair of my precinct in a purple NC county. We are seeing volunteers signing up and turning out on the ground in numbers not seen since 2008. My precinct was not organized for the past few years. In 2022 there was 6% voter outreach. As of today, we've achieved 83% and our county chair sent a shout out yesterday to say a lot of others are keeping pace. Tricia Cotham's little maneuver really pissed a lot of folks off. Not to mention Mark Robinson is a lunatic. If you want to get connected to write postcards or knock doors, hmu!

My 5yo has discovered minecraft. Do I want to listen to 12 straight minutes of wolf variants? No I do not. But I listen politely because he's sharing something that's important to him and that bond is precious to me. Vance is shit and my heart hurts for this little who's learning that's how people who love you talk to you

I straight up walked out of a date once bc someone tried to hide voting for trump

Big facts. My friend is an ob/gyn. We're in NC, on paper we don't have a total ban but in practice it amounts to one. He's currently commuting to VA to work because he doesn't want to get sued, prosecuted, or watch patients almost die before he can treat them. shakes head

6 votes!

pops a lactaid you sonofaremoved, I'm in

'EXEMPT'. there's no cap on salaried employees

My 5yo approves this message

The fact that you call them 'females' might suggest they wouldn't discuss it around you. I can assure you the women in my circles are worried sick

If he brings his gun in the bathroom does he ever sanitize it? 🤔

Planned parenthood does them cheap! Source, my ex in a red state got his done at Planned parenthood

You are a warrior my friend 🧡

I did try, they were like 'we don't have anything here' and then it was down to 'soo do you want to keep this appointment or try again next month?' And I had a sitter with the kid and had taken off work so I sucked it up. Like they always expect you to. The next time I went so far as to talk to another Dr in the practice but I kept being told over and over it wasn't done and isn't necessary. Definitely check out the podcast 'the retrievals' to learn more about how women's pain is treated in ob/gyn

Personally I've had numerous cervical biopsies (as in they cut chunks out of you with the devil's scissors) and the standard of care is no numbing agent or pain medication of any kind. The dr said to give a yell if I was going to faint bc that happens a lot. I asked why I couldn't have something and they were like, 'dunno. We just don't do that'

There was a documented case of a nurse stealing pain medication and injecting women with saline to cover for it and it took years for her to be caught because no one believed the women who said they were in pain. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/podcasts/serial-the-retrievals-yale-fertility-clinic.html&ved=2ahUKEwi1n93Yip2FAxWONlkFHStzA7wQFnoECAUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw23_e6wsBLQ7jybQBvuJOvI

He's got nice legs, tho

Take the plane!!

I'm sorry friend. We are going to wallop him with votes this fall. I've been creeped out many a time by a republican man but never by a trans woman in the bathroom

I'm sorry she deals with that. I don't get nightmares but I have trouble with concerts or seating anywhere in rows as a panic attack trigger 😅

ET CAN KEEP HIS FREAKY ASS OUT IN THE WOODS WHERE HE BELONGS (I was 5 too)

This is art!!

I need to know more

Here's to the year of the turtle 🐢

I love this!

YES.

I'll add it to the list! Kiddo is 4 so we're probably just going to go to the Korean market and see what catches their interest

Damn! I was going to say something that would make you feel bad if you don't accomplish it but the mole people situation sounds important

Hubs is making this with rice and bok choy. It's just us and our kiddo tonight https://nolimitcooking.com/2022/11/03/wedding-banquet-style-roasted-chilean-sea-bass/

People miscarry on the toilet all the time. They also labor on the toilet. Labor pains and diarrhea go together like peanut butter and jelly

Done! My husband isn't the problem here but I've officially noped out of another kid. Good job republicans!

Fellow satanist! Or whatever we call ourselves actually 🐐

The satanic temple has. Those folks are out there doing the lord's work, ironically

Sweeney doesn't want his games to be available anywhere but Epic's proprietary shit. Which is hilarious given his crusades against Apple and Google

Damn you had to come for me like that

I am not condoning keeping a man in your attic, especially if he didn't enthusiastically want to be there, but Fred sounds like he was a dick too.

Woman of childbearing age here. Lots of my friends took another child off the table when Roe fell. Being potentially forced to die and leave your existing children orphaned is a big deterrent, turns out

My friend is a DevOps engineer, she fled Texas with her wife. They're both trans

I'm still seeing so much growth in new content and communities, idk if the raw number of users is the metric we even should care about. Is it the best measure of quality?

Here's what it's like being their neighbor lol https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2023/11/03/epic-games-cary-hq-will-it-ever-happen.html

I was homeschooled. I 'graduated' without a valid diploma and had to get a GED. I don't speak to my parents and my child is currently enjoying his day at public preschool. All my church friends who were raised similarly also are in similar situations. That's about all I'll say about it.