#HappyVeteransDay

@DyDave yup. There was this one customer who sat at bar and asked me to make new shooters for him all night. Fortunately it wasn't too busy but it still pissed me off at the time.

“Attacks among Republican presidential candidates have turned personal — including during Tuesday night’s primary debate in Miami, as candidates exchanged gendered insults onstage, drawing some concerns of sexism within the Republican Party amid its struggle to appeal to more female voters.”

Republicans are the non-serious party.

MORE sexism never appealed to me.

Never. Vote. Republican.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/09/republican-debate-gender-attacks/

#MAGAisNotAmerica
#VoteBlueToStopTheStupid

Co worker: I'm super liberal! That's why I love Denver! Did you know that Denver is the only place that does mail-in voting? No other cities or states do that!

#actulworkconversations

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@Gambit_1 Correct, the SC's ruling on Roe v Wade essentially struck down the right to privacy provisions. Legal nerds have stated right to birth control and LGBTQ+/interracial marriages are the next in line.

Guns aren't the problem, it's a problem with people's HEARTS.

Mm-kay.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/06/health/firearm-injuries-children-emergency-room-pandemic/index.html

More Context here: If they’re saying it in Public they’re discussing it in Private.

IMO: Bibi suspended him because he didn’t keep his mouth shut.

https://youtu.be/VZ_ZibXeyHQ

Eminem won the best hip-hop act award for the fifth year running. Reggae artist Sean Paul took the best new act award and best video was won by Sigur Ros. An estimated one billion people in 28 countries watched the show, which was held in Edinburgh, Scotland for the first time.

https://youtu.be/MfTbHITdhEI

2005 - 50 Cent
Clear Channel agreed to remove posters with 50 Cent holding a gun in one hand and a microphone in the other in the Los Angeles area after a rally was held in protest, the company also agreed to remove 21 posters in Philadelphia. The posters were plugging the rapper’s forthcoming film 'Get Rich or Die Tryin.' "The message could be 'rob to get rich' said Bilal Qayyum, a leader of the anti violence group Men United for a Better Philadelphia.

Amongst legal nerds, it was assumed after Roe v Wade was struck down, that the conservatives would next strike out at the right to access birth control and are now starting with overturning this 40-year precedent of minors' rights.

Today the 5th circuit will hear Deanda v. Becerra. Title X allows teens to obtain birth control at federally funded health centers. However, this father is challenging this provision in Title X because he doesn't want his daughters to obtain BC without his permission. District Judge Matt Kacsmaryk ruled in favor of the father "Title X's prohibition on requiring parental consent violates . . . the plaintiff's fundamental right to *control* how his children are raised [emphasis mine]."

@Gambit_1

"You just need to focus." Yeah sure. Thanks. I never thought of that. And depressed people just need to think positively. 🙄

Too many people STILL think it's a kid's problem. Even if I had teachers who taught in such a specific and hyperspecialized way that I was able to learn, that doesn't help me as an adult. It's not like our brains say," Oh! They're 18! Turn off the ADHD so they can go to college and find a job!"

@Gambit_1

Thank you. He was a good kid (now, he is a good adult) who didn't deserve to suffer, so all I wanted to do was alleviate that as much as I could. I wish you'd gotten more support too, but as the next generation all we can do is try to be better. I'm in my 50s now. I'm so over the "debate".

@Gambit_1
Intolerance is horrible. Especially intolerance of one's self.

@MMH

It can be quite helpful for some kids to opt out of their biological sex puberty. If that's the route they and their parents agree on, I have zero issue with that. That part of it is medical.

As for ADHD, I only wish I'd gotten on meds for it as a child. School was an absolute living hell. When my son expressed his own intense struggles, I took him in to be evaluated. His request and my agreement. He didn't need to suffer the way I did.

@MMH

It's sad he felt he had to live in secret, while being a Republican. Despite there, currently, being no evidence he spoke against LGBTQ+, he supported a party who hated him and people like him. Then he was shamed and hounded to death.

THIS is why LGBTQ+ kids, especially trans kids, need *support*.