Love thy neighbor

 

University of California Davis Resource Center Glossary

Show genitals and put those boots back on the green M&M!

 

Gabrielle Blair

@designmom

I’m a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding abortion, religious and otherwise. I've been listening to men grandstand about women's reproductive rights, and I'm convinced men actually have zero interest in stopping abortion. Here's why…

Republicans Are Furious Twitter Took Down Pics of Hunter Biden’s P***s

Chipping away at body autonomy rights

Jezebel warns us:

    Every day, a fresh hell awaits as I check to see how a state legislator is trying to one-

up the legislature the next region over. For the worst proposals this week, it’s a four-

way tie between Missouri’s attempt to stop people from leaving the state for

 abortions; Texas trying to investigate parents supporting trans children for child

 abuse; Idaho’s attempt to criminalize providing medically necessary, gender-

affirming care to minors; and Oklahoma pushing six anti-abortion bills one step

 closer to becoming law. This four-way combination managed to unseat Florida’s

 “Don’t Say Gay” bill which seeks to block discussion of sexual orientation and identity

 in state classrooms, and caused student-led protests across the state.

Republican and conservative lawmakers packed the 2022 legislative calendar to the brim with proposals aimed at cutting off access to gender affirming and medically necessary healthcare for trans kids and adults. Oh, and outlawing abortion in any possible fashion until the Supreme Court rules in June. We’re approaching the end of many state legislature sessions, meaning the fight to get every bill passed is running at a high clip.

Conservatives at all power levels are attempting to move the Overton Window—a way of gauging what’s politically possibly, created by a conservative think tank—in front of our eyes. The goal is to remove bodily autonomy from as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

Keeping count of the attacks by trans people in bathrooms

Zero

Zero

Zero.

Makes me want to shop at Target more.

The crazy let loose in Target.  Strange that they don't realize trans people have been using the bathrooms of their choice for years and no incidents have been reported.  Now the GOP has fomented this idea to give to their hysterical frothing base, perverts are being caught trying to harass women in the bathroom, because God or something... kinda.

Update 5/17, proof.

The Blame Game

Afraid of women voters.

The Girl Scouts org will accept trans girls.

I love this woman's face.

Give to the one you love.

An honest reply to the question,"Why are you liberal?"

Islam v feminism.

Saturday skittles

Melissa Harris-Perry's apology to the Steubenville rape survivor.


Peru Bans Monsanto and GMOs

The decree banning GMO foods was drafted in 2008. It not only bans GMO crops like Monsanto’s BT-Corn, but also expands on a prior law that required all foods on supermarket shelves that contain GMOs to be labeled. Those GMO containing foods will now be completely banned. After being subjected to public discussion, being amended, and finally passed in the Peruvian congress in April of 2011, the ban is finally going into effect this week. 

A study done in April of 2011 by the Peruvian Association of Consumers and Users (ASPEC) tested 13 products purchased in major supermarkets and shops in Lima, Peru. Unsurprisingly, 10 out of 13 tested positive for containing GMOs.

Pesticide Suspected in Bee Die-Offs Could Also Kill Birds

Controversial pesticides linked to catastrophic honeybee declines in North America and Europe may also kill other creatures, posing ecological threats even graver than feared, say some scientists.

According to a report by the American Bird Conservancy, the dangers of neonicotinoid pesticides to birds, and also to stream- and soil-dwelling insects accidentally exposed to the chemicals, have been underestimated by regulators and downplayed by industry.

First transgender character in comics.

4 Myths About Emergency Contraception Explained

Friday Follies

A good overview of the Steubenville rape trial.

Never forget what we did to Iraq.  Even though Donald Rumsfeld would like you to.

Transgender people speak out.

Steven Colbert about the voting rights act.

Yet another robot thing I will have to beat to death if it gets near me.

Dissolving our sea-shelled creatures.

Luke uses the force of his 9 year old self to fight off big corporations trying to take his city's water.

America's rape culture.