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Reblong to give someone an ice cream sanditch.

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maybe this is the end of everything but also, maybe this is the beginning. maybe in 1000 years people are gonna look back and go 'oh what archaic times. they were so mean to each other.' what if there IS a future without war, without oppression. what if there's a gentler world out there waiting for us to catch up. what if --oh God-- what if the meek DO inherit the earth? what if everything changes? what if we heal?

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harvard has fallen

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It's easy to think you'd be able to do something when you know that you'd never have to actually do it.

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I thought I was late to my appointment at the ADHD clinic but the ADHD clinic knows their clients well and the appointment reminded me to be here at 1:30 when my appointment was actually at 2:00.

Me: oh good I'm actually on time! :)

Me, realizing why and being overcome by the mortifying ordeal of being known: >:/

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go executive branch go

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A French publisher who was arrested in London on terrorism charges has been awarded “substantial” damages by the Metropolitan police, as new figures reveal thousands of foreign nationals have been stopped at UK ports under anti-terror laws. Ernest Moret, 29, a foreign rights manager for Éditions la Fabrique, was detained at St Pancras station in April last year on his way to the London book fair. He was held under section 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and questioned by counter-terrorist officers about whether he had taken part in anti-government demonstrations in France and if he backed the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Moret’s mobile phone and laptop were also confiscated for several weeks, before being returned to him after police decided to take no further action. The police also admitted downloading Moret’s sim card before returning his phone.

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The figures have deepened concerns that police are using counter-terrorism powers to target political activists. Kevin Blowe, campaigns coordinator at the police monitoring group Netpol, said the figures were “genuinely alarming”. He said: “We know these powers are used for purposes other than investigating terrorism, including the targeting of political activists visiting Britain. “The data does suggest that EU states are seeking the active help of British police to target their own citizens too, although state surveillance is so lacking in transparency and accountability that this is almost impossible to confirm. “Schedule 7 is discriminatory and draconian, it undermines civil rights and criminalises communities and political dissent. Like so many other counter-terrorism powers put in place a decade ago by the last Labour government, it is something that we would all be better off without.”

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i’m gay but i’m always gonna choose the well developed straight ship over the 2 bland and incompatible white dudes that have 500,000 fanfics written about them. you guys just hate women.

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At least do the sky puppies right.

#Hes right about the dolphins

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AUUUUGGHHHHH

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AUGH!!

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If your regular everyday clothes* were put on a mannequin, and placed in a group of other mannequins that are dressed in regular street clothes of your region, could the people who know you spot the mannequin who is "you" from clothes alone?

*if you are of an unusual size or build, assume for the sake of this thought experiment that they've found clothing items that are otherwise identical to yours, but able to fit to a standard mannequin

#Yes #Ive been customizing my street clothes so theyre not exactly hard to pick out of crowd

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realizing cis women also struggle with “passing” a lot of times and has a lot of the same issues with dysphoria trans women have (issues with putting on/losing weight, dissatisfied with bust size, not feeling “feminine” enough, etc.) has done a lot to combat dysphoria for me, cause it’s like, wow, we really have a lot more in common than we have in difference huh

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Prior to the Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturning Roe v. Wade, state abortion laws were constitutionally required to contain both a health and life exception. Accordingly, they were effectively in sync with EMTALA’s health stabilization requirement.

However, in the wake of Dobbs, while most abortion-restrictive states have preserved the health exception, a handful of ban states, including Idaho, no longer permit abortions needed to protect a pregnant person’s health. The U.S. government charges this lack of exception in the law is in direct conflict with EMTALA’s health stabilization mandate—since for “some pregnant women suffering tragic emergency complications, the only care that can prevent grave harm to their health is termination of the pregnancy.”

Incorrectly, Idaho Solicitor General Joshua Turner claimed during oral arguments that “nothing in EMTALA requires doctors to … offer medical treatments that violate state law” by insisting they provide abortions needed to preserve pregnant person’s health.

When pressed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Turner admitted there was “daylight” between EMTALA and the Defense of Life Act; however, he nonetheless claimed there was no conflict between them, because as long as a physician performed an abortion based on a “good faith” belief it was necessary to save a patient’s life, they were protected from prosecution.

In turn, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar eloquently encapsulated what Justice Sotomayor referred to as the “big daylight” between the two laws:

“In Idaho, doctors have to shut their eyes to everything except death—whereas, under EMTALA, you’re supposed to be thinking about things like: Is she about to lose her fertility? Is her uterus going to become incredibly scarred because of the bleeding? Is she about to undergo the possibility of kidney failure?”

This on-the-ground reality was highlighted by the amicus brief submitted by Idaho-based St. Luke’s Medical Center, which provides a firsthand accounting of the Hobson’s choice faced by emergency departments when treating pregnant patients presenting with a medical emergency.

In short, emergency room physicians are faced with the choice to “terminate a pregnancy where necessary to prevent serious jeopardy to a patient’s health, but they may risk criminal prosecution and revocation of their licenses,” or instead wait until the “risks to the patients’ health become life-threatening.”

Dr. Jim Souza, chief physician at St. Luke’s, captured the quandary of trying to determine when intervention no longer carries the risk of up to five years in prison:

“Is she sick enough? Is she bleeding enough? Is she septic enough for me to do this abortion and not risk going to jail and losing my license? When the guessing game gets too uncomfortable, we transfer the patients out at a very high cost to another state where the doctors are allowed to practice medicine.”

These costs include “delaying care while transport is arranged, and distancing patients from their support networks, including the medical providers they know and trust.”

According to Souza, in the three months since the initial injunction on the application of Idaho’s criminal abortion ban to emergency cases was lifted, six patients were airlifted out of state, compared to only one patient in 2023.

Underscoring the grim reality on the ground, some Idaho physicians are now advising pregnant patients or those trying to become pregnant that it might be advisable to “purchase memberships with companies like Life Flight Network or Air St. Luke’s … to avoid potentially significant costs if they need air transport in an emergency.”

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