You gained one though, if that helps.

Question to NPR news editors: why is the real headline buried halfway down? The one that says “Anger over leak distracts from severe abuse at heart of case”? Because the meat of this story is NOT “scandal,” it’s what the whistleblower exposed and the retaliation being inflicted on her for it.

Also joining groups, online or irl, of folks w/similar issues can really help beat feelings of isolation/aloneness. I wish you progress in your quest to manage all that life has thrown at you.

I hope you can find some kindred folks with somewhat similar experiences, hearing related and also possibly not. I used to see a therapist who was blind (lost his sight as an adult) and he was so insightful as to ability/health issues in my life.

putting a 📌 in this one for later, I heard part of the Fresh Air interview on this topic last week and this geezer is one abjectly malevolent mofo.

I feel apologetic for stating the obvious, but it felt obviously missing from this thread.

I feel compelled to comment that U.S. citizens are not inherently more worthy of concern or acknowledgement than other humans; however the discourse U.S. media, politicians & other public figures always have regarded us so, so it’s reasonable to expect more outcry than we’ve been hearing.

Let’s call it what it is, an anti-trans dogwhistle, which is right smack dab in the heart of their goddamn wheelhouse.

Of course the strikes themselves are the really egregious crime here, but the blatant ignoring of opposition Congress members is noteworthy too.

Cornered Rat Syndrome.

*snort* yeah because it’s the most _human_ among us who identify people as colors, and need lists from someone else to filter who they can interact with.

Blatant avoidance of holding a particular entity to account burns up that particular press pass, though, and I think more honest outlets should badger the hell out of the AP to explain its framing.

I’d agree but it seems to me like most folks are doing this nowadays… drives me bonkers!

Footnote: I hate this and find it irresponsible - link to the fucking thing, so I can look at it and maybe think about it and decide what I think, eh?

Fuck that dude, I wish my my hometown could exile him permanently.

ugh, went down the rabbit hole of the thread containing the quoted post, thread in which Larrrrry solidly demonstrated utter shallowness, if not absence, of character.