Oh man. Do I have a story to tell you. Buckle up.
This happened several years ago while I was on a business trip to Austin, Texas. I thought it was just your average continuing legal education seminar, but little did I know everything was going to change after that trip.
Cis men, if you were to walk into a public restroom and see menstrual products near the soap dispensers, how would it negatively affect your life?
Please provide specific examples.
"NO!" I screamed, but deep inside, I knew that the tampon spoke only truth. I was not the cubit by which all bathroom needs were measured, and never, ever would be again.
only for the chilled ice grip of fear to lock me in place. A small, quiet voice sounded in my head, piping up from within the cheap plastic folds of the tampon. "You're not the fucking main character," it said, "and we don't stock bathrooms according to your unique needs."
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I have a trans nephew that grew up trans and it wasn’t because of anything he learned in school. If you think my nephew doesn’t have the right to exist in the body he feels comfortable in, fuck off into the sun.
The scratching got closer. Ever closer. I could practically feel the tight-packed gauze against my bare skin. I could hardly breathe for the tension.
I opened my eyes. There, on the pillow opposite , was a small, individually-wrapped tampon. I gasped, tried to pull back…
In between sessions on preserving error in civil appeals and a Supreme Court caselaw update, I had to excuse myself to the little litigator's room, which at the Four Seasons in Austin was quite nice! But as I approached the sink, I noticed a woven basket filled with cotton...
And wouldn't you know it, as I stepped into the elevator, standing up in the back right corner opposite the door of the elevator, was a single, individually-wrapped tampon. I stood on the opposite side and glanced nervously around as the elevator slid up to my floor.
hand towels, packs of Kleenex, and individually-wrapped tampons. "What are those doing there?" I wondered, thinking perhaps I had misread the signs and entered the women's room by mistake. But no, I checked, and there were urinals along one wall. This was the men's room!
As I lay my head down on the pillow, as I closed my eyes to seek the wall of sleep, I heard a slight rustle, as if soft plastic were scooting inch by slow inch across the bed sheets. I shut my eyes tight, my breath constricting in my chest.
I decided to have lunch at the hotel restaurant, which was delicious. Except, when my waitress came by to leave me the check, atop my bill was a single, individually-wrapped tampon. "Excuse me, miss," I said, handing her the tray back, "I think you left something here."
I looked for the attendant, but he was elsewhere in the closet arranging his supplies. I hastily dried my hands, delicately avoiding touching the tampons, until I was back in my seat and prepared to hear the update.
I thought no more of it until near the end of the lecture...
"No sir," she said, sweetly. "That's all for you."
I paid my bill and went back to my CLE, but the individually-wrapped tampon was no longer at my table. I went about my day, until after the last lecture, I was so tired, I went straight to the elevator and my room.
when, at the end of my row, I spotted a single, individually wrapped tampon sitting at the end of my table, unaccompanied, just by itself. "Weird," I thought, as I packed up my laptop and left for lunch.
When the door dinged on my floor, I hurried out, nearly dashing down the hall. I fumbled with my keycard, sighing in relief as I heard the slight electronic chime that let me know I was now safely back in my room. I stripped down to my nightclothes...
and washed face and brushed my teeth in the chintzy hotel bathroom sink, drying my face on their scratchy white towel. I pulled the shutters closed against the evening gloom and set my alarm for a few hours. "Only a small nap," I told myself. Then I would be right as rain.
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You presume I grant you this has only an objective, analytic dimension. I reject any such philosophy that doesn’t center the human. My family experience is as important, if not more important, than all your statistics.
If my friend is such an insecure baby man that he thinks this behavior is respectful, he and I are going to have a long, long talk about why he needs therapy.
@CerberusXt
Also, the French government official responsible for prosecuting the burning is "Mehdi Benbouzid," who plans to enhance the charge due to the religious nature of the property. Seems like the "multicultural" child of immigrants is the one actually defending France.
There’s a recorded police call from a witness who saw immigrants capturing geese for food in Springfield. Citizens testified to City Council.
These people would be competent witnesses in court.
Why does the media find a carefully worded City Hall press release better evidence?
Some people have asked why my last name is Stellmaker here instead of the more familiar Haygood.
I will tell you.
It’s because when I was born, I was born Lane Andrew Stellmaker.
Don't miss sleep, people. You will DIE.
After 24 hours, your mental faculties are like someone with a .10 BAC, well over the legal limit.
At 36 hours, your sleep-wake cycle is off and your hormones will become imbalanced.
Tim Pool says he didn’t know Tenet was a Russian operation, says he’s a “victim.” A commentator in the indictment who appears to be Pool made $100k per episode for Tenet.
This is the dumbest complaint.
You know all those wonderful media messages don’t simply exist on YOUR devices, right? They exist on hundreds of connected devices you voluntarily chose to use to send them.
Finally read the full indictment involving Tenet Media. The most important point that no one seems to talk about.
The DOJ got all their evidence from emails, phone records, IP addresses, Discord messages and google searches without having the physical devices.
Meaning they
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My brother, I have been with the same woman for 22 years, and let me tell you, when she gets together with her girlfriends, they dress like demonic queens of the night, not "conservatively."
@KathrynTewson
@dieworkwear
You’re not intellectually serious, are you?
Case in point: women wear uniforms and dress conservatively when men aren’t around. Girls night in, nurses, etc. Or the case of women dressing matronly and cutting hair after getting married.
Well established behavior.
@mokhwaj
@SmarterMomNews
You say he’s abused but he’s alive and happy and in college now. Which is way better than where he’d be if you’d made him wake up every day and out on girl clothes he didn’t want to wear.
The ancient Mediterranean was so nuts for silphium (a form of fennel useful as both contraceptive and abortifacient) that they used to to extinction and collapsed the entire economy of the Phoenician city state of Cyrene, which harvested the best silphium.
they had abortion 150 years ago. 250 years ago. 1000 years ago. soranus of ephesus recommended silphium as an abortifacient nearly 2000 years ago. they knew
Megyn that's just accurately reporting court verdicts.
And weren't you all just haranguing people about calling JD Vance a couchfucker? So calling someone a bitch is OK, but suggesting they fuck loveseats is uncouth? C'mon now, let's all agree we can talk shit about the other.
Trump: The wind is ruining everything, killing all your birds, destroying the fields, all these gorgeous fields, you got windmills all over the place and you have birds. You want to see a bird cemetery, just go under a windmill. The bald eagle. These windmills knock them out like
@tjamesosborne
@williamtmyers1
Do they also get upset by extra stalls or sinks or hand dryers? “If I can’t use it, it’s wasteful!” is an odd choice of hill on which to die.
See the fact that you, a nominal American, use the terms "scion" and "heir" like they should have any meaning in our politics, makes me deeply question whether you got the point of this country.
The RFK Jr endorsement is the most significant cross-party endorsement in modern history. The scion and heir to the Kennedy family and Kennedy political legacy. Earthshaking.
Because of this, right-wing propagandists will be out in full force with made-up screenshots, out-of-context photos, and even supposed claims by family members to support their narrative. They are not beholden to the truth and play by no rules. Do not engage; only mock.
people are far too trusting to the social norm that no one will beat the shit out of them for things like this
I encourage you, if you see some incel dork acting like this in public, throw him to the ground and kick him until he coughs up blood
the world will thank you
I am a radical leftist and… getting the fuck out of your little fashy state. I’ll be taking my commie bullshit to Washington. Along with my law practice, my tax money, my education, and all the good I’ve done for my community.
If you’re a radical progressive Democrat - don’t let the door hit you on your way fully out of Texas. If you’re sane and staying elsewhere in Texas… you’re welcome provided you leave that commie bullsh*t behind.
What, and I mean this with all seriousness, is wrong with you? Like, really. I want you to list out what makes you uncomfortable about a man and his daughter hugging.
Like, I'm autistic af, and I generally hate touching other people, and I can't see anything weird.
Men. You go to your friends house to meet him. When you get there he’s out at the store but will return home soon. His wife answers the door and invites you in. Do you enter, or wait in the car until he returns?
I know just about every time I've done something really stupid in my life, it's been because I've been thinking with my dick and trying to prove something to someone.
Finally watching Season 2 of Elf Show and struck again by what a disconnect there is between the viewers/book purists and the spirit of the show.
I have to think Tolkien would have approved of the themes and overall storytelling.
@AriCohn
@JohnHRuiz
So can we officially say without fear of sanction that John H. Ruiz, fraudster and terrible attorney, is a giant fucking cunt of a loser?
@DanKellyFreedom
@morallawwithin
I don’t think you understand how probability works. 20 heads in a row with 50% probability means that over the course of the next 20 or 100 flips, you will get more tails than heads. In fact, 20 heads in a row is so unlikely that the next one is almost certainly tails
And so when I made this account, I wanted it to be a signal that I had embraced my true name, my true family, wholly and completely.
Maybe one day I will legally change it back. And divest myself of a family legacy I never wanted and a family that never wanted me.
Hitler tried again, going on the radio to broadcast a call for peace directly to the British people. He would give back the parts of Poland that were not majority German, and would work with the other powers to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem. He was ignored.
You may notice an increase in chudliness regarding me. I am asking you, please do not engage the chuds. Just ignore them. They are having a little tantrum and it will soon fizzle out, like everything else they've attempted in their sad little lives.
"Oh no these people came in and the vacant buildings and shops now have tenants and are doing business, but they speak French and don't look like me so I'm a-scared."
The same people who are telling us it's wrong to make fun of 17-year-old Gus Walz have been viciously attacking Barron Trump since he was a 10-year-old.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
@FaceTheNation
@JDVance
JD Vance owes his entire political career to CIA cutout Palantir's CEO, a fed.
He hates Trump and claimed Trump is like Hitler (in a bad way).
Vance should bow out and allow Trump to pick a different VP.
But he pointed out that I had made a name for myself in the legal world under my fake name. And I had gotten married under that name. And that no matter what name I used, I was his son and nothing ever changed that.
And that's why we have laws against a repossession person breaching the peace in repossession. I hope this repo company's insurance has fun paying for every car damaged by his recklessness. If someone protests, just put the car back down. It's not worth it.
What is the funniest Saturday Night Live sketch?
I have a few favorites but the more cowbell sketch, the baby shower with the secrets of becoming a mom, and the Christmas candle song are all probably at the top.
Yes. They have. They're the same small-minded bullies who acted this way in fucking middle school. They never grew up. And they abuse/teach their own kids this same shit while sitting in a pew every Sunday talking about grace and mercy.
I am appalled at the ridicule directed at Gus Walz, especially by those calling themselves Christians.
Have people been so co-opted by toxic masculinity and partisan politics that they can't even watch a young man shed tears of love and embrace his father without mocking him?
I’m sorry, if the Democrats stopped arms sales to Israel, the chattering heads would call them antisemitic terrorists. Now that they don’t, the same people call them Zionist murderers. The point is no matter what Dems do, they’re damned by the media. They’re whipping boys.
The picture on the left is of a US athlete who medaled in shot put in Tokyo. The picture on the right is of a Norwegian minor who has never competed at an Olympic Games.
Imagine failing so hard at being a racist you revealed you're a fucking pedophile to the world.
America no longer exists in 2024.
The country is an embarrassment.
No pride or respect in nation.
Look at this disgusting thing we send to represent our country on the world stage. A twerking degenerate savage.
Meanwhile, from Norway…
If you look at the history of Haiti, it’s been Western nations (including the US) shitting on then time and time again, not forgiving centuries-old debt owed by past governments, and in general doing all we can to just ruin the poor place.
In 2010 after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, US-based Monsanto tried sending Haitian farmers 475 tons of patented hybrid corn & vegetable seeds that would not produce viable seeds that for replanting in an attempt to force farmers to buy new Monsanto seeds every harvest
@ASFleischman
CONSERVATIVES: “we are going to cut taxes and repeal stifling regulations!”
PEOPLE: “yay!”
CONSERVATIVES: “then we are going to reduce worker protections and increase criminal prosecutions, with longer sentences!”
PEOPLE: “uhm, hold on…”
He convinced me not to change my name professionally or publicly. But privately, on social media, I began to use Haygood less and less, and Stellmaker more. I’m getting more comfortable thinking of myself as Lane Stellmaker.
🚨 JUST IN: A resident of Springfield, Ohio told a reporter he witnessed Haitians in a van CAPTURING CATS and claiming they were going to EAT them
“A van pulled over and it had over 100 cats in it with the Haitians,” the man said.
“They said they was eating them.”
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Once again, all fascism is built on the notion that second- and third-class men will get to have families and wives because the fascist government will make them.
@JonWilsonAuthor
@HereforElon101
@esjesjesj
They know they're lying. They think we're stupid enough to believe them. There's only one thing to do with them and that is loudly denounce their bullshit wherever it pops up.
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Maybe this applied to wealthy white women in the 19th century. Maybe.
To literally anyone else? NO
before feminism came around women were literally treated like princesses, doors held open, no financial worries, no exhausting jobs & seen as too delicate to do tough work. Now women are expected to be just as tough and do all the hard work that should be reserved for men smh.
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JD Vance said "we’ve got fentanyl in our marijuana bags that our teenagers are using"—adding he's "certain" that "one day, one of my kids is going to take something…that I don’t want them to take. But I don’t want that mistake to ruin their life."