Trump’s Supreme Court justices killed Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022 and thought our anger wouldn’t last for 2 years until the presidential election. We would forget about it, get over it. — Well, they completely forgot that the nature of our bodies reminds us every 4 weeks.

I remember calling out of work sick the day after because of despair (lived in PR at the time so I had no vote…felt totally powerless)

good luck babe! Is my #1 shower song right now because of those two I TOLD YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOs

excited for this! Still not over 22 goals, it was so good

Regular Gregor Mendel over here

The feeling of “I need to witness or I’m not being sufficiently caring” is powerful but like just doomscrolling isn’t helping anybody!

I think about this poem by Fady Joudah almost everyday. “They did not mean to kill the children. / They meant to./ Too many kids got in the way of precisely imprecise / one-ton bombs /dropped a thousand and one times / over the children’s nights.”

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"They did not mean to kill the children. / They meant to."

and millions Puerto Ricans had to leave after the storms, many to Florida, where they are now facing this horror again. Including my sister and several close friends. I am so scared.

Hurricane Maria should have been that turning point. John Morales and other meteorologists wept then too. Recovery efforts were delayed by the administration, 5000 people died and millions w/o power for over a year. Recovery is still embarrassingly slow. But out of sight and out of mind for the US.

Netflix took GLOW, the babysitters club, that one show with a boat that ended on a cliffhanger, and now this?! Netflix is so dead to me