Many of the details in this story are incredibly fucked up, but others are just remarkably stupid.

The judge also wrote that the DOJ can't "use its administrative subpoena power to achieve what the Administration cannot accomplish through legislation: the elimination of medical care that Washington and other states explicitly protect.”
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...

this is the 3rd of her books that I've read and it's better than the other two & (perhaps noncoincidentally) very honest about her own shortcomings & misbehaviour. but I liked the other two enough to pick up this one on release. Her prose is pretty good imo

This is not consistently true wrt urban myths about tax. People fucking love urban myths about tax. It's like a magic wand for whatever bullshit they want.

TRUE I'm reading Micaiah Johnson rn and she is the former. just has a lot to say abt how christianity produces fucked up people & how we have to deal with that, bc it's not going away

thinking abt The Dry Season by Melissa Febos again. she's a great writer and gets so self aware about being a people pleaser & how it was ruining her sex life & rest of life. it's also a very sexy book about not having sex

why i love @today-maybe.bsky.social . It could happen today!

that's what the sickos in the groupchat are for

Half my urban neighbourhood was destroyed to build an interstate highway

sometimes it feels too much like handing the randos a loaded gun. I just don't post that much about a lot of the stuff I really deep down care about.

it's wild that the catholic church still exists and has assets. to me that just seems like proof that no one really gives a shit about child rape victims

that's just a man being delusional about women