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I know this is random but have any women actually found that it seems athletic men are less likely to be sexist than men who think of themselves as “nerdy” or not athletic? Because that has been my observation so far but I want to hear other women’s experiences. I know this is kind of reductive and based on stereotypes but I was just thinking about it.

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Yes getting a little tipsy feels good and I’m not trying to stigmatize that but holy shit it’s actually nice outside where I live have you guys ever had a picnic outside and gone for a walk when the weather is nice you guys gotta try this!!!

#positivity post #seasonal depression #touch grass

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At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14

April 12-19 2024

The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.

The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.

The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.

The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.

The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.

The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.

The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.

Bonus:

President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.

#ok fair enough I guess

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Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

#why is this accurate

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You are loved.

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#please sign and share #petition #petitions #please sign this petition #please share #please sign #climate action #climate science #climate activism #we love the earth #go green #earth Day #climate crisis #climate justice

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Still thinking about a few days ago my coworkers and I were at lunch and one of them was saying her baby daddy took her 12 year old son to hooters 😡. She seemed to be ok with this for some reason??

She also said her 12 year old son was pulling a girls hair in school and my boss said “oh that means he likes her!” And I think I was the only person who didn’t agree! I just rolled my eyes and didn’t say anything because I knew if I did they would all gang up on me and mock me and bully me for being to sensitive. Or they might think I’m the stupid one who doesn’t know how boys are 🙄.

I can’t with these boomers or these misogynistic asshole adolescent boys 🙄

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You are loved

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You deserve love.

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All this while I know SEVERAL white Americans who beat the shit out of their children on a regular basis and if anyone called the cops they would just congratulate them for godly parenting. 😡

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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Men being demons.

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It is also inherently weird and unhealthy for a father to allow his son to openly do this. I always thought of being exposed to porn as a teen as the kind of thing that is generally kept secret from both parents regardless of gender. Obviously both this father and son are incredibly misogynistic and need to be SERIOUSLY held accountable!

So I just saw this reddit thread and am disgusted. A mother is upset that her son is watching rape porn, that her daughter saw it, and that the children’s father is okay with it. Most of the commenters think she’s the one in the wrong and even scold her for “kink shaming” her son.

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This also ties into diesel trucks and the meat industry and the coal mining industry being associated with masculinity, while caring about the environment is associated with “”””white””””” women.

the constant pressure women have to figure out how to be eco responsible for things like diapers, pads, tampons, condoms, birth control pills, the food they feed their kids, the soaps and laundry detergent they use...yes, it's on the table. but it's crazy that you hardly see the same pressures applied to men who most definitely have more leniency to use products for their pleasure. "do you know how many diapers are in land fills?" idk do we know how much energy is consumed by video games?? imagine a campaign around turning off your video games to save the earth or comparing the difference between the energy consumption of 2 hour board game vs 6 hours of video games. instead of focusing on moms who have to take care of their completely dependent baby or women who can't help but menstruate or w/e

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Yeah I Believe there was a court case about their programming not being legally considered reliable news and being “entertainment” instead so this isn’t far off.

Ok hear me out I don’t think that we should allow them to be called “Fox News” anymore… Like I’m not even saying that “Fox News” shouldn’t exist because free-speech sure sure sure…

But maybe we should force them to be labeled something like Fox conservative political propaganda machine, white fundie jerk fest & boomer brain rotting network. Just seems like it’s a better idea to me.