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A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!
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The administration of President Joe Biden acted last month to mostly rescind a Trump-era Denial of Care Rule that invited health care workers to deny medical treatment and services to patients because of personal religious or moral beliefs.
Americans United applauded the move.
“We applaud the Biden administration for taking positive steps toward protecting both religious freedom and patients’ health by rescinding the Trump-era Denial of Care Rule,” said Rachel Laser, AU’s president and CEO. “No one should be denied the health care they need because of someone else’s religious beliefs.
“The Denial of Care Rule was a dangerous policy that weaponized religious freedom and put the health and lives of women, LGBTQ+ people, religious minorities and so many others in jeopardy,” Laser continued. “Today’s rule seeks to protect patients from harm and upholds the fundamental principle of church-state separation.”
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It's bad but sometimes online when people say things that are like things you probably shouldn't say to strangers I'm tempted to say "That sounds like an inside thought. It's okay to have silly or mean thoughts sometimes but you don't want to hurt people's feelings, okay?" the way you might to a preschooler.
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Make that make sense. People have to quit blaming the poor for being poor.
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POV: a cat with Alexandria’s Genesis is mending your broken leg
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so I’m just sitting here thinking about frankenstein as one does, and like. the fact that in the book the monster was designed to be beautiful. he was made up of the most perfect components victor could get his freaky little hands on. he was only horrifying once he was animated into a living person and the uncanny valley set in. which made me think about the way actors look in movies now with their impossible physiques that are actively harmful to maintain and the weird sterility of it all, and also how some sims 4 creators get so obsessed with maximizing the conventionally attractive traits of their sims that they lose all sense of what a human being looks like and end up making absolutely freakish body presets labeled as “realistic,” and idk where I’m going with this but I think a director who wasn’t a coward could probably make a real interesting adaptation of frankenstein right now
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Politics fueled by compassion but not justice are ineffective
Politics fueled by justice but not compassion are destructive
You need both.
And a lot of you conveniently forget that.
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There'll be a post like, "ableism is bad" and all the comments will be "yeah! Ableists are all sociopaths and narcissists!" "Ableists all live in their moms basements and don't contribute anything to society!"
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Head scritches
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literally my favorite type of tweet
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academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”
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A lot of sentiments I see online about "just standing up for yourself" fall apart when considering that a common consequence of "standing up for yourself" is losing a key part of your current support network. It's hard to tell someone to stop being transphobic to you when you carpool with them to work, and it'll get a lot more expensive without them. Can your budget tolerate that cost, or is it the expense that stretches you too far? It's hard to tell someone that they need to be more polite to you when they're the one who helps walk you through legalese. Can you find someone else to do it for you, or are you left floundering? It's hard to tell someone to stop being sexist to you when they're the one writing your reference letter. Do you have someone else who can be your reference, or are they the only one whose letter would be accepted?
In order to be able to stand up for yourself, you need to be able to bear the potential consequence of that person leaving. You need to either have redundancy in your network, or be able to pay for what they did for you. Safety is about more than if someone will hit you.
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watched some video about a shitty kid yesterday and caught myself thinking "my god the kids these days are out of control" and praise the Lord I immediately reflexively scolded myself like "you were exactly this stupid when you were 13, stupider probably, here's a memory of you doing and saying something so completely terrible because you were a kid and kids don't know better" you cannot let up your vigilance even for a moment, you must constantly fight against age related conservatism and never stop internally interrogating your reactions
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Why could I tell he was going to be Scottish
HoLy FuCk
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