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‘Before You’ Filmmaker Lauren Melinda Talks The Importance Of Destigmatizing Women’s Healthcare & Collaborating With Planned Parenthood Flimmaker Lauren Melinda talks to Deadline about Simbelle Productions and her latest short film 'Before You'

"Before You" is a short film (15 mins, available at link) that follows a couple dealing with the grief of ending a complicated planned pregnancy. The film has been selected by several Oscar-qualifying festivals.

"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.

Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."

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Or, you know, offset a local need? Like preventing the toxic air locked in over our Capitol city every time a cold front sits in? Weird.

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

And Gavin should get a gold jet from any of trump’s collection just for having the meeting to release the funds.

So many starfish. ⭐️

The problem isn’t religion, it’s the fundamentalists.
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"I'm havin a breakdown," says one crudely-drawn stick figure to another. "You'll be OK," says the second. The first stick figure exclaims, "AGGHHH", and collapses. His head and outstretched arms and legs spell out the letters O-K.

You’ll Be OK

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In my experience with chickens, a sole rooster will mount inanimate objects in an instinctual need to scratch that itch. I’ve seen roosters try to do their bump thing to male turkeys, so they try things.

Is that still legal?

Alas, it was not

A PBS News tweet explains how two laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with canceled programs, keeping nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries. Below the text is an image of two people—Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum—appearing in a split-screen video interview, each seated in their respective rooms.

Meet two heroes of our times.

Players at a table with the board game Ticket to Ride. The woman across the table has a tiny rooster on her out-stretched hand, and a Conure on her head.

A perfect Sunday. Board games and birds.

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild.
Moose
Porcupine
Horned toad
Eagle
Star fish

ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.

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The tiny red combed head of a smol chicken looks at the camera from a nestle of heating pad and blankets. Just beyond the the light is the head of a Great Pyrenees white dog, her head stretched out onto the armrest of a blanket convered couch.

Tiny chicken close, enormous dog farther. It’s blanket season.

I make three pies: pumpkin with ginger snap crust, chocolate cream pie with Oreo crust (served with peppermint ice cream) and blueberry w/lemon,allspice and crumble. They are delicious together…. With the whip, of course!

I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once

Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

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Got it some right, Charles of color. youtu.be/GziWfUpSigY?...

I will get Mama a new dress, Papa a new suit; I will paint the car and I will find the Frenchman, Charlie Brown.

I once spent the night in a back of a pickup truck on a plateau where freak weather conditions caused a lightning rain storm below and around us, the air electric yet we were sate on tires. It wasn’t extraterrestrial but it impressed the scope of not yet experienced events the earth has in store.

Your epidermis is showing, Charlotte. 😘

a man and a woman are dancing in front of a red wall with blue triangles on it . ALT: a man and a woman are dancing in front of a red wall with blue triangles on it .

Putin ex machina