one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.
personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud
It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.
I'm honestly baffled that Nolans movie got an R rating when all its violence and sex is as neutered as a Marvel movie. Baffled.
Fully believed it was PG 13 for DAYS after seeing it.
i have been noticing recently that people younger than me are too sensitive, while people older than me are not sensitive enough. which, if i'm correct, should be taken as a sign that the total reality penetration vortex is operating as intended -- within as few as five or six generations we may very well be producing babies who can directly perceive the wound at the heart of the world
Serious question, why do TERFs spend 20 hours a day trying to find trans people to argue with? It has to be some sort of addiction. For people who insist that trans identity is dangerous and that trans people are delusional, they sure seem to display a clinically unhealthy obsession with us. I do not seek out people who have a worldview that is detrimental to me and massively different to my own, I block them if their posts are suggested. TERFs revel in scrolling through trans people’s blogs and mocking them and replying to things trying to get them to argue with them. That is 4chan lolcow forum behavior and in no way a form of social justice.
The way Ken Paxton’s office has handled the case is highly unusual, according to several attorneys who spoke with HuffPost.
Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:
Texas provided no evidence that Houston-based midwife Maria Rojas violated the state’s abortion ban, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The state’s Fifteenth Court of Appeals reversed a temporary injunction order shutting down three clinics in the Northwest Houston area that the midwife owned and operated. The injunction was part of a March 2025 civil lawsuit brought by Ken Paxton, the state attorney general and a leading anti-abortion advocate, over allegations that Rojas violated the state’s near-total abortion ban. Paxton is now the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, facing Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in a close race.
“This is a real win because the state — for nearly a year and a half now — has been able to make these allegations, argue that this woman who has dedicated her life to caring for mothers and families has done something wrong,” Jenna Hudson, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, told HuffPost.
Paxton’s office also brought criminal charges against Rojas last year, shortly after the attorney general announced his Senate bid. Rojas was the first person to be arrested and charged for allegedly violating the state’s near-total abortion ban, with Paxton accusing the midwife of providing illegal abortions and practicing without a medical license. Both the civil and criminal cases are ongoing, despite the injunction reversal.
The way Paxton’s office has handled the case is highly unusual, according to Hudson and several other attorneys who spoke with HuffPost. Rojas’ criminal attorneys told HuffPost last year there is little evidence against Rojas other than the 30-page affidavit filed by Paxton’s office at the time of her arrest. Rojas was arrested and held in jail for 10 days on an exorbitant $1.4 million bail. Although she was arrested in March, she wasn’t indicted for another three months. She was also held in jail at the time of her injunction hearing for her civil suit.
“It’s incredibly unusual. This is not the way that it’s supposed to work,” Hudson said. “That is one of the many reasons that it’s clear to us this is just part of a political attack. The state is so desperate to find someone to accuse of having violated the abortion ban that it conducted a shoddy investigation, and it targeted this trusted community midwife without any evidence.”
A spokesperson for Paxton’s office told HuffPost on Friday that the attorney general’s office will seek review of the appellate court ruling from the Texas Supreme Court.
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Even with this victory, Hudson said it will be nearly impossible for Rojas to reopen the three clinics that were shut down due to the injunction. Rojas’ midwifery license has been suspended pending the outcome of her criminal case, and her movements are restricted because she is court-ordered to wear an ankle monitor. She also had to give up the leases on the clinics because she couldn’t afford to pay them while not working.
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Despite the fact that both criminal and civil cases will continue, Hudson underscored that this is still a victory for Rojas and other providers in the state. “This moment where an appellate court has definitively said that the state has not presented any evidence that she did something wrong, and therefore improperly received this order that shut down her clinics is a real moment to be celebrated,” Hudson said.
Ken Paxton handed an L by the Texas 15th Court of Appeals.
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