They are effectively ending the program because they fired almost everyone who can process applications so people will starve before they get re-enrolled.

(there are of course also warped-at-another-level predators for whom the predatory behavior IS the desired form of fulfillment and who don’t WANT to be loved or wanted, Epstein is one but it seems like Summers is just a miserable lonely little man who can’t see that he’s his own worst problem)

WHERE IT IS PROBLEMATIC

Is when this dynamic is taken into meatspace, it's not just their fun bedroom fantasies...

and it's tied to things like purity, the age of her eggs, taking advantage of someone who has no life exp comparatively and is at severe economic disadvantage, yadda yadda

Like a lot of people in the movement don’t really think through how women of color are uniquely vulnerable to harassment and exploitation *because* of white supremacy

They are just opportunists who want power for themselves, and don't care what they have to do to acquire it. As such, they'll betray anyone who becomes inconvenient to that goal.

And, honestly, if they aren't making an attempt (like, in the case of an member of congress, doing the bare minimum and caucusing with the Democrats) they don't want to be in the tent; they want their OWN tent with themselves as the ringmaster.

Love to, but I just won't META. Love your work - Read every bit. Keep on!

The alt-text has a typo. This image was from 1996, not 1906.

Isn't she still clinging to the xenophobic racism of 'America First' policy in the same breath that she's denouncing Trump's betrayal of her and her constituency?

Even so, if we open the tent at all to these people who were so wrong before, they need to come in at the bottom, stripped of all power.

My son is a Field Mktg Mgr for a large California area brand. He says the #1 reason for sales of edibles there is pain management, & the #2 reason is sleep management. Votes in the midterms can wipe out the ban & overcome any veto of a correction by Congress of it.