There is no legitimate reason for any school in the US to have a single covid “mitigation” in place this school year other than “stay home when you’re sick.”
You can buy your hair if it won't grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the make-up that MAC can make
But if you can't look inside you
Find out who am I to
Be in the position to make me feel so
Damn unpretty
I'll make you feel unpretty too.
Fin.
This message is being subverted today. Today’s girls aren’t being told they are beautiful… no matter what they say… words can’t bring you down.
Nope. Instead, today’s girls are being told their discomfort, their confusion, means they are not girls or women after all.
Video by India Arie keeps popping up on my Spotify. It’s not a coincidence. It’s a reminder of the female empowerment messages that got me through my own awkward, chubby teen years. Discomfort and lumps and bumps and (unwanted?) attention and uncertainty.
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When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me
Every freckle on my face is where it's supposed to be
And I know my creator didn't make no mistakes on me
My feet, my thighs, my lips, my eyes, I'm loving what I see, yeah
On internalized antisemitism: 10/2021, Jonah “Hill” begins filming #youpeople, a film that white-washes Jewish history and identity, downplays the Holocaust and promotes antisemitic tropes and conspiracies. 11/2022, Hill legally petitions to drop his real surname, Feldstein.
So far in 2023, I’ve been called in to assess suicide risk on elementary school students multiple times.
Let that sink in. I was called by another clinician to assess risk of suicide in a child under the age of 11, more than once.
The mid-elementary school group is struggling
“You pay for Twitter!!!”
Is that supposed to insult me? Okay let me try one!
“You don’t have the balls to put your name behind your Twitter account!”
Am I doing this right?
I’ve never been called a “Muslim-hater” before, for the obvious reason that I have no animus whatsoever towards muslims. But while it’s on my mind, let me use this opportunity to plug a memoir I just read by a muslim woman. I loved it (sent a copy to MIL for her book club too).
Let’s examine one of the GOP’s arguments yesterday: that criticism of US/Israeli gov’s role in the Palestinian human rights crisis, which orgs from @hrw to @amnesty are sounding the alarm on, is equivalent to antisemitism.
It’s a dangerous conflation, and we must recognize that.
I was quiet here for a few weeks. Then, on the same day, I spoke with one friend whose 18yo daughter’s entire future was derailed by school closures, and another friend whose first-grader’s classmate got covid and was locked in his room by himself for a week.
Do all of you understand? When Palestinians and their supporters chant “Free Palestine from the river to the sea” they advocate destroying the entire state of Israel, which exists within that land. They don’t favor a two-state solution. They favor ending Israel and its Jews.
Look how this conflates wearing a mask while you’re sick (coughing/sneezy/snotty) with wearing a mask while perfectly healthy. These are two totally different things.
Anyway, I signal respect for others’ well-being by smiling & saying hi.
I didn't have my "cut off" nor is there a "gaping hole" there. Penises & vaginas are pretty much the same thing. 1 is an inny 1 is an outy. 93% of the original organ was used to create a flawless & functional neo vagina. I have 0 regrets & I'm beyond happy with my beautiful
I left the left when I understood:
1. The government is not our friend. Expanding their power won't make things better
2. Identity politics keeps us divided by focusing on unimportant differences
3. No one can change reality. Prioritizing feelings over facts ends in misery
🚨Quebec becomes the first Canadian🇨🇦 province to (indirectly) acknowledge existence of natural immunity and age-stratified risk of SARSCoV2
Today, Quebec announced it is no longer recommending covid vac boosters for healthy ppl <60yo or for previously covid-infected ppl >60yo
Dear former friends who stopped talking to me because I said masks don’t work and nobody should be forced to wear them: I was right, and you were wrong. I won’t gloat (beyond this), and I accept apologies in the form of pinot. You know where to find me. 🍷
This is a dangerous argument that members must reject.
We can’t go down this road.
No member of Congress should be removed from committee because of accusations of undermining a relationship with a foreign country.
Members must maintain their independence on policy issues. twitter.com/VanityFair/sta…
when I think about sex-segregated bathrooms, I think about my 1st job at an amusement park when I was 15, when this random 30 year old man who worked in water quality knew I was planning to play in the park after work and asked if he could go with me. I didn't know how to say no.
This is a lie. The CDC says as of today there are 1,460 children with Covid listed anywhere on their death certificate, and for about a third of those, Covid is not listed as the underlying cause of death. https://cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm…
2,000 dead kids, and 10s of 1000s hospitalized, was clearly not enough for a lot of folks in this country who would have preferred no protections whatsoever for our kids. twitter.com/benshapiro/sta…
Massive new peer-reviewed study on mask efficacy, based on 78 randomized control trials with over 600,000 participants, concludes that masks made “little to no difference” in preventing infection with COVID or flu.
https://zerohedge.com/political/massive-mask-study-shows-little-no-difference-preventing-covid-flu-infection…
Funny how the “expert” crowd that screamed about “anti-vaxxers” and “grandma killers” completely change their tune about moral failing when they get sick and have no idea how it could happen because they “did everything right”. 🤷♂️
The “ugh shut up about covid” crowd are all up in my mentions telling me not to blame myself & that getting COVID is not a moral failing.
So let’s be clear: I don’t blame any individual for getting an infectious disease *ever*. Disease is *never* a moral failing. Full stop. twitter.com/EpiEllie/statu…
"Social-justice aristocrats want you to believe that the only inequality that matters is based on immutable characteristics like skin color to distract you from questioning the inequality in wealth that exists within our country." -
Every single federal bureaucrat who participated in censoring the speech of Americans during the pandemic did tremendous harm to public health and to science.
Changed my summer vacation plans from Florida to Hawaii this year due to Ron DeSatan attack on Black history being taught. I can gladly take my money elsewhere where our history is not under assault. Tuning in now to Unbossed with Nina Turner!