Sunday Snippets: Fall adjacent

The mornings are getting cooler. Much as I love summer, I do love the anticipation of fall.

The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women

She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?

My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice

The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'

Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime

A man who held up a bank demanding his own money becomes an unlikely hero

What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars

The old Capitol stones hidden away in Rock Creek Park are being moved

How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

SERENA, THE EVOLUTIONARY

What It’s Like to Parent in Canada

Female Saudi activist gets record 34 years in prison for critical tweets

Judges who got kickbacks for sending kids to for-profit jails ordered to pay $200 million

Vance, DeSantis rally puts ‘highly unusual’ restrictions on press

History for Sale

Sunday Snippets: Washington DC

Trying to stay safe and sane this week, with white MAGA folks descending on the city, trying to overturn the legal election because they didn't like that black folks voted.

Ya know, normal stuff.

Stray Cat Knocks On Woman's Door Asking To Be Let In From The Cold

We Can’t Let Our Elections Be This Vulnerable Again

GOP leaders in Pa. Senate will refuse to seat Democrat certified by state as winner

Montreal woman reflects on her year of buying nothing new

Wintry Scenes From a Swedish Wonderland

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Charged In Flint Water Crisis

A “Prisoner of War” Story: The Life and Captivity of Lisa Montgomery—The First Woman To Be Executed by the Federal Government in 68 Years

Election sign causing controversy in Olive Branch neighborhood

Sunday Snippets: August already

I'm going to blink and it's going to be Christmas.

GOP senators block election security legislation hours after Mueller warns of Russian interference

Leaders In Baltimore And Maryland Denounce Trump Tweets Attacking Elijah Cummings

Residents Form Human Chain To Protect Neighbor From ICE Agents

ACLU says over 900 children separated from families at US border since last summer

Ex-McConnell staffers lobbied on Russian-backed Kentucky project

A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself

A Ray Of Hope For The Children Of Sex Workers

Prince George’s Co. announces new approach to juvenile offenders

Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct

Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record

Want to Change the World? Talk to Kids

The Trauma of Teen Mothers Held in Border Patrol Lockups

Sunday Snippets: This shit is exhausting

Saying that full of recognition of the privilege that I have that didn't make this exhausting before. But just....fuck.

Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed And yet crickets from the "pro-life" party.

the problem with the passive past tense Beautiful poem

On being honest about what you have the time to do

A really great perspective on straws that I hadn't considered

We All Owe Monica Lewinsky an Apology

This is super cool

Sunday Snippets: A Day Without Women

(Image credit: http://cupofjo.com/2017/02/illustration-funny-mari-andrew/)

I was so happy to see all the strikes (in all their forms-no judgement here) for International Women's Day.

Befriending Becky: On The Imperative Of Intersectional Solidarity Really good read.

Undocumented woman with brain tumor seized by federal agents at Texas hospital, family fears she will die Beyond enraging. And I bet most of these Repubs believe themselves to be Christian.

Underground network readies homes to hide undocumented immigrants It's like I'm reading the fucking prequel to The Diary of Anne Frank.

I remember being so sad when I first heard about that fire

TRUE fucking story The amount of rage and anger I've swallowed over the years....

Thank goodness

Alt universe

Young Justin Trudeau

Cause this isn't worrying at all

Sure, we'll go with that.

Jesus fucking christ

True story. Jesus was a cool dude.

Scenes from the women’s strikes and rallies taking place all over the world

Abortion Ban & Miscarriage

I was just shy of six weeks pregnant (first few weeks you aren't technically, since they base the due date on the day of your last period) when I started spotting and eventually miscarried.

Steve King put forth HR 490, which states "that an abortion provider 'who knowingly performs an abortion and thereby kills a human fetus' without determining a heartbeat, informing the patient of a heartbeat, or proceeding regardless of a heartbeat would face fines and up to five years in prison. The bill includes limited exceptions for the physical health of the pregnant person but not for 'psychological or emotional conditions.'"

The sesame seed (the size of the clump of cells I hoped would eventually yield the newest member of our family) that grew for a short while inside me would have been deemed a baby and thus protected by this sexist bill. Yes, this eventual child was very much wanted, but what about for the person who was pregnant and didn't want to be, for a variety of reasons?

People who can bear children across the US have told, wrote and shared their stories about abortions, wanted children and everything in between. But the sad fact is that many Republicans in Congress just don't care. They don't care about people who bear children being seen as people with complex lives. They are forced birthers and while Planned Parenthood does amazing, life saving work beyond abortions, I, for one, think we should stop minimizing abortions.

Abortions are safe medical procedures that many people have. I know four people in my close community that have had them. And there is nothing wrong about them. I don't give a good goddamn why someone has an abortion; if they feel incapable of caring for a child, then why do I care if they have an abortion?

Abortion without apology. It's a perfectly legitimate procedure and I'm beyond tired of seeing it demonized.

Sunday Snippets: SPRING!

Thank goodness!

Cherry Blossoms last Sunday and the weather since has just been glorious. I didn't realize how much I missed driving with the windows down.

Collection of the #rapecultureiswhen (TW)

Education System: Yup

"Different animals"

This bullshit

"Quite frankly, I would've said, 'C-section before the season starts,' " former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason said Tuesday on his daily morning radio show, Boomer and Carton, according to Today.com. "[I'd say] 'I need to be at opening day. 

Wow, what an asshole.

Beautiful. High five, Honey Maid.

Yup, because climate change is imaginary.

Ugh, Paul Ryan

Agreed, I would watch the fuck out of this movie.

#iCan't: Todd Akin Edition

This man really really really needs to stop. I'm all for free speech, but not when this man is making laws that govern my body.

Ummm....science?

Fair pay is for losers, clearly


I'm getting really tired of men making decisions that have no effect on their lives but greatly affects my life.

So, to get that taste out of your mouth...

Full of awesome

I don't even...what the fuck?

(Trigger warning for rape)

*jaw in permanently dropped position*

Also, if you have a problem with cursing, now is your cue to bow out.

First off, I'mma need the gentleman from Missouri to go sit in the corner and have a nice cold glass of shut the fuck up.

How fucking dare he?! Legitimate rape? Because there is going to be a person with a clipboard nearby checking off the bullet points to rest assured it's a legitimate rape?

And second, the female body shuts that down? Um, where did you learn science? That's really, really not how that works.

My heart and soul ache for all of the stupid, dangerous, and sexist vitriol that has come spilling out of the mouths of politicians (not just Republicans, because we can thank Joe Biden for being a racist dumbass) in this election. I don't understand how some people sleep at night.