Also notice he’s vetoing a bill that was sent from the state Senate. This man is standing up and saying “Nuh-uh, I know better” then dropping this…

Cool. Let’s have another Biden-esque presidency that just leaves Americans unsatisfied to the point where they come out en-masse and vote for Vance because “it was better under the prior administration” until they realize that, whoops! they aren’t actually better under Vance, but now it’s too late.

Voting Biden in 2020 as a transitional candidate obviously wasn’t the right move. Establishment Dems are the reason the non-political Americans get rallied against “the Left”. All that figures like Biden and Newsom do is empower “both sides” political apathy.

don’t hate saying that - it’s so abundantly absurd, and deserves to be called out. The whole video Erika took is self-centered and just plain weird. I can’t say it was a loveless marriage, but she certainly wasn’t grieving his death.

I think USAmericans gotta hit the streets, now, yelling “We won’t vote for Gruesome Newsom” just in case we do get a 2028 Election. If we don’t destroy his campaign now, he’ll be ushered to the front of the Democratic Primary like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

I had actually researched both types of genital mutilation and “corrective” mutilation of intersex folks; and totally agree with what you’re saying. I didn’t mean to justify FGM in any capacity. I can’t speak to the effects of MGM or FGM exactly, but I find the idea of mutilating the genitals of someone unable to consent for aesthetic or “religious” reasons absolutely vile. I wasn’t trying to pick favorites here. I would not want FGM to be legal, even if MGM remained legal; or vise-versa.

What you described is exactly why Equal Marriage mattered so much. Thank you for highlighting that. I think, now, there are ways to designate someone in that role (besides marriage)? I’m not 100% sure of that. If not, I’d like to see that done.

For the original topic, I’m very much of the view that love should not be tied to consumerism of any type. If I were to get married, it would certainly be a courthouse wedding, with no rings or any of that; purely for those legal benefits.

It sounds like Zohran agrees with you, in calling the Palestinian civilians seized by Israeli aggressors “Israeli hostages”.

I’m reading it that way, too. It’s unfortunate wording, but if you read past the first statement, he’s clearly discussing the attacks on Palestine by Israel. Immediately after that opening, Zohran writes “Relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians”; using “Israeli” to mean {enacted by Israel}. I’m going to go with the best and say that Zohran writing “Israeli hostages” means {hostages Israel held} and not {hostages from Israel}.

Calling them “retirements” when this administration has an entire agency dedicated to cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs; pressuring employees to take a Severance package, and firing the ones that don’t, despite their stellar performance reviews – It’s just cowardly and/or malicious. I wouldn’t expect any better from Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post. Considering him, it’s definitely malice.

and it’s Stephen Miller who’s the biggest proponent of this. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s been the one making up the lies Trump is regurgitating about Portland “burning to the ground”.

oooh~ so smart. No, I wasn’t going to vote for Trump. Nothing I said supported Trump. I specifically said I dislike this administration; yet Clearly backing Center-Right Biden and Kamala didn’t work, because it plunged us Back into fascism. Now, if you’d like to contribute something to how we could have avoided a Trump presidency, you can join me on what I’ve been spiraling on for the last year. Otherwise, keep it to yourself.

How can she be this tone deaf? No one wants to hear from you, Kamala. Not the time. We’re dealing with the fallout of your horrid campaign.

I regret my Kamala vote (moreso my faith in her leading up to the election) more every day, and I am in despair over this administration.

USAmerican here. When was Silicon Valley good? It certainly was not during my lifetime. Mark Zuckerberg was spying on us well before the Trump administration. I recall watching Zuckerberg being made to testify by a panel of representatives in 2018 for actions well before the 2016 election. Well before the Crypto bubble and modern AI bubble, there was the dot com bubble. And these other leaders mentioned in the piece – Bill Gates, Elon Musk… they were in Silicon Valley well before the 21st century. Silicon Valley corporations were among the earliest working to strip product ownership with all-encompassing legal agreements and forced arbitration. It’s not that Silicon Valley “lost its way”; it Got it’s way.

Absolutely. https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1 (second paragraph)

More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system.

The New York Times isn’t our friend, in general, of any of the common folk. Look how they covered the Israeli-Palestine conflict, or the shooting of Thomspon. Look at how they legitimized the actions of Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust up until WWII.

There’s a reason their office was trashed. Also, the journalist from The Advocate who photographed the damage then had charges pressed against them… I wonder by whom…

I find these articles so irritating. They sound so tone-deaf, throwing around clinical terms to say people are sad, while refusing to even consider any solutions.

I wish they’d stop all this “mental health” fluff that is just toxic positivity or a call for it; but if the people were talking amongst themselves instead of getting shepherded into 1-on-1 counseling, they people might go from “I’m feeling sad” to “this world makes us sad” and change things!! oohohooooo so scary!! :O

fully agreed, but I will note that “corrective” genital mutilation on intersex folks is still very much a thing.

female genital mutilation was practiced in the USA, and thankfully banned, for the same reasons male genital mutilation should be.

I’ve been trying to do what I can in this time, online and IRL. It is really disorienting living in this nation, not knowing what’s working or what’s not; or what the situation is going to look like in a week or two. So many assumptions that I had of basic protections and securities are just Gone. I genuinely do not recognize or understand the people or systems around me anymore.

At least if we’re doing something it’s changing the scenario. It’s not like things could get much worse. “rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep” ~Tipu Sultan

Absolutely agree on refusing to stay ignorant. I do not ever want to forget this time or let myself slip into that willful naivety.

For me one moment that shocked me was the overturning of Roe v. Wade (USA abortion protections) by Dobbs. When that decision leaked early, I was nauseous, and kept checking the internet to see it debunked, only to see more proofs of authenticity. Then, watching as the protests stopped, energy trickled down, and life just… continued. Afterwards, I retreated into being a hikikomori for several years. That core right had been given, then taken away, and the people around me just moved on.