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Finding balance in routine and falling into the steps of adulthood is tricky! I share a chunk of my experience here in my new post.

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Remember when we said NY AG Letitia James had the power to investigate Trump tariff-related stock market manipulation and insider trading?

IT'S HAPPENING.

James just confirmed an investigation has been opened.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but EVERY FUCKING RETAILER needs to show the tariffs next to the price -- not just Amazon.

Walmart, Target (where I do not shop), ALL OF THEM. It's a fucking tax, why shouldn't we see it?

I want to know exactly how much trump's tariffs are jacking my prices up. DON'T YOU?

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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period

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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.

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VERY unpopular opinion:

Humans were never meant to be this busy that’s why everybody is anxious and depressed.

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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.

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I'm not concerned about the undocumented immigrant with some parking and speeding tickets. I'm concerned about the American citizen with 34 felony convictions who is driving America right into a fucking ditch.

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Deconstructing the LGBTQ+ Backlash

Great article though I'd disagree that the movement was spawned only by Stomewall.

One thing you wrote:

LGBTQ+ activists also fail to recognize that the cavalcade of gender identities has brought an aspect to advocacy efforts not previously part of the LGB movement: an emphasis on educating children about sexual orientation and gender.

When I was a child, my anxiety about being gay and the questions from children about me and my husband (25th anniversary; married in Holland) have been not how we have sex, or sexual orientation, it was marriage. That's what children first see - the two parent household and the expectation they will be in one. I thought I would only be married if I became a girl.

A six year old daughter of a Dutch colleqgue who asks - "Are A and B married?" "Yes". "But they're boys". "Men and Women can marry; men can also marry men, and women can marry women". "Oh OK. What's for lunch".

No sex or gender, just a reassurance of facts at the level that makes sense. For gay boys and lesbian girls, I suspect that feeling they will find the right boy or girl is all the reassurance they need to feel belonging, and not isolated. Anything else is disorientatig because teaching children the mechanics of sex (not reproduction) is for the most part not something they can comprehend until puberty.

A friend of mine who is an Anthropologist of note feels the TQ+ side is a wedge issue which will be used increasingly attack the GLB side; she certainly has experienced it as a feminist for decades. I have to agree with her.

In the US we need a parade June 26 to celebrate the ruling on federal decriminalization of gay and lesbian sex (2003), federal recognition of marriage (2013), and same-sex marriage as a right (2015) - all of which occured on the same day; full civil rights as any other citizen.

That's all by, for, and about GLB freedom, and needs no month, week, or day of festivities.

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It’s a huge myth that the parents are the ones disowning their “trans kids” 🏳️‍⚧️

In the vast majority of cases, it’s the “trans kids” 🏳️‍⚧️ disowning their parents for refusing to believe that they were “born in the wrong body.”

Like all things, there’s more to the story. Should I write about it?

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Does gender self-ID threaten women’s rights? The answer is yes. And here, I explain why.

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Maia Poet's avatar

American culture is so weird.

Kids get no independence because “the world is too dangerous to let them play outside” so parents lock them in their rooms to surf the internet, which is full of predators who convince their kids to cut their body parts off because they’re sad.