Dr. Alan Braid publicly admitted that he violated the near-total ban on abortions in Texas during the first week after the law went into effect.

In an op-ed published online by The Washington Post on Saturday, Dr. Braid discussed graduating from the University of Texas medical school in 1972, before the Roe v. Wade decision.

At the hospital that year, I saw three teenagers die from illegal abortions. One I will never forget. When she came into the ER … she died a few days later from massive organ failure, caused by a septic infection,“ he explained. “In medical school in Texas, we’d been taught that abortion was an integral part of women’s health care. When the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, recognizing abortion as a constitutional right, it enabled me to do the job I was trained to do.”

I have spent the past 50 years treating and helping patients. I can’t just sit back and watch us return to 1972.“

Donate here at the Center for Reproductive Rights. They’re representing Dr. Braid and fighting the good fight. (4 star Charity Navigator charity)

This exact thing happened in the 70's/80's in this country when seatbelts were first being pushed for. Reagan literally tried to get rid of them.

There were also examples of anti-seatbelt activists dying in car crashes where they weren’t wearing seat belts like that guy that wrote an anti-seatbelt article and four months later died in a car crash where he didn’t have a seat belt on and was thrown out of the vehicle

Kid is always on my case about smoking like "dad ur gonna die" so I sort out me old vape. Now they're like "dad its too loud" bitch what! I aint going without nicotine! Pick one!

You can get the gum in gas stations and stuff, that might help

by talos this can’t be happening is a mandela effect because the actual phrase is by the gods this can’t be happening and i’ve never heard anyone say the former in game

by talos this can’t be happening

the phrase by talos this can’t be happening is actually from a rupaul roleplay blog who left their husband in a cage with no food and water for a few weeks and the husband died sorry to be the spoil sport but it does have an origin and it is a very tumblr origin in nature

Here’s the post they’re referring to for context

Oh. Skyrim husband.

Ha! I KNEW there was more to the story! Now they’re gonna think you owe them or something. But you know that already. Either way, you’ve got some good, long years left to you yet. And it won’t be a car that takes you out. So… What did we learn today, children?

“Like, you’re getting a new car, what else did you want.”

Me, face down on the dining room table. “You absolute fuckin shitheads.”

“Not a scratch, too. Ingrate.”

I am going to strangle the little red-haired shit when I get my hands on him. 

The chances I WILL get my hands on him, sadly, are 0%. Fucker is slippery. 

Yeet mistletoe at him?

has anyone checked on tony hawk recently

Holy artifacts of our lord the hawk

ok maybe this is conspiracy theory thinking, but has anyone thought about the possibility that he could be creating horcruxes? I envision some punk kid searching out lost skateboards in the wastelands of a distant future

okay but isn't this the same shit they tried to cancel lil nas x for just a couple weeks ago?

the number of people in the replies who think that outrage against satanic aesthetics is somehow justified fucking blows my mind. it’s 2021. the satanic panic is over girl.

lil nas x, a gay black man, using satanic aesthetics is an intentional choice to create social commentary. jazz and rock n roll, styles of music invented and developed by black people, were called devil music. queer people are constantly maligned as being in legion with the devil. this is exactly the kind of trope he is invoking and subverting here.

it’s also worth considering why the blood of a gay black man may be seen as more “unclean” in comparison to that of a straight white man—like perhaps gay black men were particularly at risk during the AIDS crisis.

lil nas x understands what he’s doing and he’s right to point out the double standard.

lastly: if you’re christian and you’re offended by someone utilizing satanic aesthetics in the 21st century, all i can do is laugh. your religion has dominated the globe for centuries. christians have wiped out countless indigenous belief systems and subjugated all sorts of “heathen” peoples. if the people you’ve stigmatized by calling us devil worshipers want to take your boogeyman and make him sexy or transgressive, it’s our prerogative.

Also if the argument is “satanic aesthetics” it’s worth mentioning that tony hawk did this in partnership with Liquid Death, who’s aesthetic looks like this:

And the skateboards themselves look like this:

For the record Liquid Death are actually super cool and do some cool stuff, like the charity work with these skateboards, but their Aesthetic doesn’t exactly scream “good God-fearing Christians” either, so the double standard is pretty evident

Reblogging yet again because not only does Liquid Death's style look badass, but it goes to show how much the backlash against Lil' Nas X is actually rooted in racism and bigotry masquerading as religious outrage.

Update!

A collage of baby's

So, maybe six months ago, a brown tabby started hanging around outside. Because we are weak when it comes to small furry animals, of course we fed him because he was thin and starving and looked plaintively at us like “please help me”

Since we already HAVE five cats, I was like “We are NOT keeping him.” Somewhere, at this point, Freyja and Bast laughed at me. 

Anyway he warmed up to us and lost his skittishness and put on some weight and we realized he was really a very sweet boy, and figured out he was neutered already. We managed to get him into a cat carrier and took him around to everyone in the area like “is this your cat”

“I have never seen this cat before in my life,” they all said. 

We take him in to get him checked for a microchip. Nothing. 

Well, we live in farm country and lots of people do get a cat, get bored with it, and dump them out here. It’s how we’ve gotten literally every cat we’ve ever had, really. People are awful. 

“We’re NOT keeping him,” I say again, like a liar. Bast and Freyja, who both have my number, cackle and toast each other with their mimosa glasses. 

Anyway yesterday I took him to the vet. He’s about three, very healthy, was neutered already. He got his shots and now he and Muffin are eyeing each other doubtfully from opposite sides of the couch and hissing occasionally as they work things out. 

Welcome to the house, Bud. 

Excuse me ma'am but I’m going to have to write you a ticket for the lack of pics on this post.

Sorry! Here.

It took him .0000005 seconds to find the bed.

NAME HIM SKEEKS

OOOOOOO I like that

We’ve just been calling him “Bud”

"Oh, I'll take him to the ASPCA tommorow," Kate said, lying to herself.

You named him, it's from that point you were fucked🤣

I see a lot of posts that boil down to, "hey, poor people, the middle class is your ally, not your enemy!" but I never seem to see posts that say "hey, middle class, the poor people in your city are your allies. You're never going to be rich, so stop selling out the poor in an attempt to maintain your own social standing."

Like, if I as a person living in poverty am skeptical and wary of the middle class neighborhood down the road, it's because they keep proving to me that they want to throw me and my neighbors under the fucking bus so they can pretend they'll be Bezos-rich one day.

I'm tired of seeing really condescending "the middle class is not your enemy!" posts when I never see "people living in poverty are justified in their rage, because living in poverty is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE" posts.

If me being tired of eating rice and ramen noodles for six months straight makes me vent-post about how tired I am of driving past cookie-cutter middle class houses on my way back to my 900 square foot apartment with six people living in it, I get dogpiled by people telling me that the middle class is not my enemy.

And that's fucked.

"We have to band together to fight our real enemy, the rich" is what you should be telling the middle class jackasses who keep looking at people in poverty and going "ew, icky," NOT the poor people looking at the middle class and saying, "yeah, they're parroting all the same shit that the rich are, and I don't fucking trust that they won't sell me out the second my back is turned."

man, I have very little sympathy for people who’re like “I gotta let them play in traffic, my cat WAILS and acts MISERABLE unless I let them outside!” 

because like……….so does mine? at a certain point each day Grim decides she wants out, and until that happens she a) follows me about SCREAMING, and b) sits atop whatever I’m doing and bites my hands. this is not an exageration

wanna know what I do? I take her out. either supervised in my backyard or on leash in the front

she naps in the sunlight, eats copious amounts of grass, rolls in dirt, and murders butterflies. after 15-30 minutes (equivalent to the time you’d spend on a neighbourhood dog walk) I take Grim back in, and she happily sleeps/plays/cuddles indoors for the remainder of the day

it’s legitimately low-effort

the UK literally had so many pet cats killed by cars and dismembered by wildlife between 2014 – 2018 that the country thought there was a cat serial killer on the loose.  

and that wasn’t the first time, either – the EXACT same situation played out in the UK in 1990 because so many pet cats were dying in “safe neighbourhoods”

you want more information on your “culture”? cats kill 55 million birds per year in the UK.

do you understand the significance of that? the average background extinction rate is 1 per million species year, and cats have caused SIXTY-THREE extinctions of small animals in the last century. we’re currently in the midst of a mass-extinction crisis occurring at a speed we haven’t seen on this planet before……like, Iove your cat, love your planet, or get the fuck off my post.

I do not have the spoons rn to find the sources but also its been shown that owners have no idea how far their cats travel nor how much trouble they get into or how many animals they kill. Because, shockingly, its hard to judge what your cat is doing if you can’t see the cat.

I don’t know why people in the UK like to pretend its some magical cat haven where they never get hurt and our cats are all innocent babies who would never do what their instincts dictate, but its bullshit. You’re all just lazy.

I see a lot of parents being like "oh the kid got in the biscuits again! Darn kids always sneaking food!" And I rly wish they would understand that no, kids aren't always sneaking food. Thats actually a really bad thing.

Like yes, 1 or 2 incidents with it is normal. Kids learn by doing, and sometimes you might have half a birthday cake in the fridge and that would tempt anyone, but it should not be a reccuring issue. Sneaking food is a massive red flag for disordered relationships with food, full blown eating disorders, emotional issues relating to food security and even physical health issues.

Stop hiding the biscuits and get ur kid some help (and also examine how ur parenting led to ur child sneaking food rather than asking u for it)

Nothing is sexier than the DUNE books asking you to understand crazy sci-fi jargon in the first paragraph, like bene gesserit, muad'dib, mentat, arakkis, melange, and quizat haderach and then after reading all of that shit that makes no fucking sense, you meet our main character: Paul.