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@susanrinkunas.com Mike Flood was the pusher of the very first 20 week ban, back in NE in 2010

I mean my daughter and I had some VERY long discussions about the role of women in the movie, but she's probably not into that at 6 yet ;)

Tradition

Should be fine with fantastic four - I don't remember any of the violence being very graphic.

Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back."

Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

Box divided in two, top half black with white printing reads "Meet our Medical Director" Bottom white with Black print reading "Dr. Jasper Kennedy, MD." in the center of the box is a large picture of Dr. Kennedy, a white person with short blond hair and glasses wearing a light blue short sleeve dress shirt over a black tshirt, with a super jaunty light and dark blue print necktie. While Dr. Kennedy has the sweet face of someone who is posing for their senior picture, I promise they are in fact a licensed medical professional and old enough to have completed residency and NOT a Doogie Howser.

Finally! Welcome to Dr. Jasper Kennedy, MD (he/they), our newest provider! An Alabama native, Dr. Kennedy has returned to the state to provide care to underserved patients - especially our gender non-conforming ones.

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Accurate history is "divisive" if you are deeply insecure and/or your love of country is a half inch deep.

I was living in Northeast at the time, but was in Detroit for Netroots Nation when we heard. It was during that "Minnesota Monitor" news site period and one of our reporters was from the Somali community and I remember they had a massive loss in that catastrophe. He was doing press all day...

The fact that I don't know why the whole sky is talking about men getting laid is because I went offline to have a quickie with my husband is my moment of joy today...

I mean and also - "men should be able to get laid by other men or others if that's their jam," which is definitely not what would happen if the far right is filling their "vacuum."

I don't want a ballroom in The White House. I want healthcare.

I bet you are SHOCKED to hear the first building on campus was their church, before they did any housing.

Tuscaloosa orgs say “6000 foster kids in the state” to justify massive payouts to these groups despite the local population being 2% of that. And they’ll do it while decimating the local schools, cutting off health care and snap and refusing anything but faith based support. And call it Prolife.

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Alabama receives tens of millions in reimbursement for foster care - and these are the orgs they give it to. Rather than build programs that would help these families keep their children and resource them at home whenever possible.

Tuscaloosa Angels non profit welcomes new hub NORTHPORT, Ala. — The Tuscaloosa Angels Center opened its doors today, marking a significant step forward in providing essential support to foster families in W

The thing is, we are spending massive amounts of money in and around Tuscaloosa to support fostering organizations.

Meanwhile, there are only 150 kinds in foster care here, and most are fostering with their own family members. abc3340.com/news/local/t...

Tuscaloosa Angels ​MISSION  ​STATEMENT: ​ The Tuscaloosa mission is to walk alongside children, youth, and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving,...

Or the amount of city resources going into this org, which just serves as a training place for foster families yet somehow there still aren’t enough. www.tuscaloosaangels.org

What are the “fixes” being offered? How about “freedom farm,” the new campus that will house foster kids in homes with foster parents already caring for up to 4 of their own children? www.freedomfarmal.org/about

One told me about a teen who was sent for a visitation and had a mental health episode. He ended up in the hospital and was just kept there until he turned 18 because at least it was a bed.

The stories I hear from lawyers helping kids in Tuscaloosa are horrendous. I’ve learned that often the kids who are announced as missing runaways are actually kids in the system who just walk out rather than stay.

Lawsuit: Alabama teens abused, forced to fight each other at state-funded youth camp Lawsuits describe Camp SAYLA as a “house of horrors” where children suffered brutal abuse, including being beaten and forced into a staff-created “bounty system.”

Since the Dobbs decision, the only real changes in Alabama has been to make it easier to dissolve parental rights and to make it easier and have less oversight over foster care and adoption. All contracts go through the state. Last week a contractor left a toddler in a car and killed him. Now this.

Well now I'm clearly going to have to make it a party...

We had someone contact the clinic to ask if they can schedule an appointment for their 19th birthday - because that is the day it becomes legal for someone in Alabama to get gender affirming hormones.

Their birthday is months away.

Don't tell me hormones aren't lifesaving, essential care...

I've seen a number of folks talking about grants they/colleagues had cut & lists of those going around - plz share this effort by @brindabee.bsky.social & @realdoctormike.bsky.social to gather stories of cancelled research grants and clip these into a media campaign
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Just got served an ad that there will be a “who’s line is it anyway” show in Birmingham and now I’m trying to decide if it’s worth the drive to go see @gregproops.bsky.social

I have some super Alabama youth football feelings to share....

Some people, including some pro-lifers, have downplayed the impact of these Planned Parenthood closures. That is because fewer women are obtaining abortions in abortion facilities and more women are obtaining abortions via telehealth. The recent report issued by the Society of Family Planning indicates that approximately 25 percent of all abortions are done by telehealth. However, I would argue that these closures are still a positive development for pro-lifers. Even Planned Parenthood facilities that do not perform abortions still do abortion referrals. Furthermore, when a Planned Parenthood closes, fewer people work for the abortion industry. Finally, Planned Parenthood’s contraception and sex education programs create a more promiscuous culture that results in more abortions.

reminder that they are totally coming for birth control...

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I was in middle school and I remember going to the theater with my mom and grandma to see it and I was drooling over River Phoenix while my mom was Ford and my Grandma Connery and it was the perfect multigenerational movie :)

Wasn’t expecting the entirety of the “First they came for…” to get run through in the first year of his term..

Once had a vm from Kathleen Turner (long story) and I kept that thing for years and cried when I got a new phone and it somehow erased…