HAPPY WARRIORS: Elect Harris-Walz and give them a Congress that'll work with them: Vote Democratic all the way across, up & down, both sides of the ballot.
@jtrebach
Rushed orange 10-month-old to pediatrician fearing jaundice.
Dr.: Does she eat a lot of pureed carrots?
Us: Oh, yes! It's her favorite food! It's pretty much all she eee—*realization dawning*
Dr.: Why don't you cut back on carrots for a while?
(We did. She turned pink again.)
@LauraAnnSTL
The OB/GYN failed your friend. The nurses who were in the examining room with her failed your friend. You had neither standing nor expertise to override their decisions.
YOU DID NOT FAIL YOUR FRIEND.
By being her daughter’s advocate, you are giving her the greatest gift you can
@JanuaryDoNoHarm
When my daughter was 15 I asked her if she wanted me to leave during her physical. I didn’t want her to hide anything from her doctor. She said no.
That’s how trust works.
@ask_aubry
Hospitals usually can't wait to send us home right after giving birth. Keeping her for 2 weeks = something went badly wrong. She definitely needed rest and sleep. And Sir Galahad here patiently waited a whole 3 weeks before insisting on sex?
No wonder she left.
Good for her!
@RonFilipkowski
"You are who you are," says the guy with the world's most bizarre combover, the unblended bronzer, the plastic girdle and the lifts in his shoes.
(How is standing on a box cheating, DonOLD?)
@cooltxchick
His parents both have rap sheets.
They let their kids run wild and threatened neighbors who complained.
It would be a miracle of he hadn't turned out like this.
It's on him now to decide where to go from here. I wish him good luck—with such terrible role models, he'll need it.
@LqLana
The thing I fixate on is: They only gave her misoprostol, which induces labor. Misoprostol is usually given with mifepristone, which shuts down pregnancy hormones.
Using misoprostol alone basically started a war inside her body: pregnancy hormones fighting to maintain the
@acnewsitics
Wow: Only halfway through the speech, and right before he claimed, "WE ACHIEVED MORE THAN ANY ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY* THERE'S NEVER BEEN A PERIOD OF TIME LIKE WE HAD FOR FOUR YEARS** THERE'S NEVER BEEN AND THEN WE HAD COVID AND WE GOT RID OF IT***
* He
@ask_aubry
Female here!
Why don't 13-year-old boys hold their noctural emissions in?
No one needs their sperm yet. Why do they push it out anyway? Why can't they wait to have wet dreams until they're 18?
@MikeSington
All she did was read his words back to him, and he either forgot he said them or didn't realize how stupid they sounded until he heard them.
@MichaelSteele
Also, my anger is with those trying to override the plainly explicit wishes of Democratic voters, more than 90% of whom voted for Joe Biden in the primaries.
Letting rich donors choose presidential candidates is a Trump Party thing, not a Democratic practice. I don't know
@TheWeightSaint
I enjoyed Richard's workout videos because he so clearly cared about all of the people exercising with him. No matter what size they were when they came to him, he just knew they could be their best selves when they left. It was so motivating!
@clhubes
It should go without saying, but I guess it needs to be said:
THE VAST MAJORITY OF KIDNAPPINGS ARE DONE BY NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS, WHO ARE TAKING THEIR OWN CHILDREN FROM THE PARENT WITH CUSTODY.
@jonstewart
Please. Try. Just try. TRY to view the debate thru the eyes of an apolitical American. What do you see?
An elderly POTUS with a cold, who answered questions accurately—
—and a seething, red-faced shouter who didn’t (couldn’t?) give a single straight answer.
You think the
@UnrealBluegrass
😬
So, his name was everywhere when I was a kid. But that was half a century ago. This is the first time I've seen it in ... decades, probably.
Benjamin Franklin never spoke truer words than when he observed, wryly, to Thomas Jefferson that "Getting old sucks."
@mmpadellan
VOTE THEM ALL OUT.
ALL OF THEM. National, federal, state, local.
Today's Republicans don't govern.
They occupy political office to enrich themselves and the underwriters of their campaigns.
And too damned many of them seem smitten with a Russian—and a Hungarian!—dictator.
@txsalth2o
To: The people saying "You should've told her she could have alfredo sauce"
Baby Girl learned that there are better ways of getting what she needs than throwing a tantrum and eating paper. The lesson will stay with her, helping her in 1000 different situations as she grows up.
@OurShallowState
Trump looked angry and frustrated during the gap. Whatever the problem was, it was clear there WAS a problem, not a pause for dramatic effect.
He wasn't able to complete a part of his speech that he's made countless times, that he ought to be able to recite in his sleep.
@ask_aubry
You 👏🏼 Don't 👏🏼 Cure 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 Porn 👏🏼 Addiction 👏🏼 By 👏🏼 Collecting 👏🏼 Underage 👏🏼 Porn!!!
Leave 👏🏼 NOW.
And take your little sister with you.
@ask_aubry
Good god no. It's pretty clear who the asshole is here: Mr. Fix-It and his only tool.
"So soon after having a baby" is not at all a bad time to make a break. Baby won't remember the worst parts, and he's pretty checked out already anyway. You have a right to a happier life.
@OurShallowState
I really, REALLY wanted to study this speech.
But. I. Just. Couldn't. Had to stop it right there.
That monotone. The nasality. The endless, absurd lies.
Thank you for watching him so we don't have to.
@BidenHQ
@SusanStayner
Ooo! Ooo! I have a question about abortion for Jason:
What should a state do about a man who causes a woman to abort a child he doesn’t want—like putting abortion pills in a smoothie, for example?
@OurShallowState
Just one rally on his schedule: May 11, Wildwood, NJ. At 5 p.m.—pre-sundowning?
It looks like he got a decent turnout in Michigan yesterday, so maybe they'll step up the calendar.
Trump never debated. He interrupted, talked over, insulted and never directly answered a single
@danielsgoldman
The idea that antisemitism caused Kamala Harris, wife of a Jewish man, stepmom to his Jewish children, to pass on Josh Shapiro is peak lunacy on the part of the Party Formerly Known As Republican.
Remember Bobby Jindal's warning that the GOP was becoming "the party of stupid"?
@gtconway3d
@ConnieCassidy67
Martina and Ana Navarro are the best possible hedge against red-baiting. They listen to Trump and his army of morons, laugh rudely and say “THAT’S not Communism! Let me tell you about Communism … “
@BlueHogReport
WHAT? They want HAND-OUTS now?
Hand-outs from the GOVERNMENT? The same government they claim can’t do anything right? The government they want to get out of their faces?
Lawd a-mercy what has become of us?
@Acyn
Yeah. There were MAGAs there. Proving they are fully as obnoxious as Dear Leader, they tried to get into the ballroom ahead of the delegates and had to be ordered out of seats in the front row.
So the actual Libertarians were in a mood even before Trump came on stage.
@gtconway3d
You know, the same can be said about private health insurance: Costs through the roof. Premiums up. Deductibles up. Can’t see the doctors you want to see. Claims are being denied.
Maybe the problem isn't the ACA.
Maybe the problem is the way America does healthcare.
@OurShallowState
Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson reminisces about the time he mentioned that Trump was a billionaire to a NYC hedge fund manager, who scoffed: "Donald Trump is not a billionaire. Donald Trump is a clown, living on credit."
@BlackKnight10k
"I'm angry at Joe"
Please don't be. This must've broken his heart. He deserved that second term. Nothing would've made him stop except a clear signal that he didn't have the support he needed to go on.
@jennycohn1
What if—hear me out—what if we made a deal with these guys: We'll give you a whole state, where you and your bros can live together and pose together and interview each other. NO GIRLS ALLOWED.
And no one is allowed to say how gay you all look.
But we'll sure be thinkin' it.
@kylegriffin1
This is going in my "Representation Matters" collection.
These things matter so much. When I was that age, there were two (2) women in the US Senate, and the idea that the POTUS could be anything but a white man was laughable.
@OurShallowState
SEVEN thousand?
The permit was for 3500. And I doubt they even got that many—in a city of 8 million!
No, this wasn't before or after the rally. Look at who's on the stage.
@ERnurse86
One thing I learned working counter at McDs: There are a lot of people out there who feel the whole world is dumping on them, and they cannot WAIT to find someone below them on the pecking order to unload on.
@tribelaw
I like this observation:
"The presidency isn’t a solo mission. Not even close. It’s a team effort, and the administration that a president puts together matters much, much more than his brawn or his brio."
And this, writing about Biden's team versus Trump's:
@ask_aubry
I wish a team with a period simulator could magically appear every time someone downplayed period pain.
Strap it right on and turn it up to FIVE—that's about as high as I've ever seen a man go without screaming.
@lisamurkowski
What damage, Lisa?
Serious question. What damage has President Biden done to Alaska?
I'm sick of Republicans throwing out statements like that. You've been doing it since Obama and never backing it up.
So I repeat: What's the beef with Alaska and POTUS?
@pesach_lattin
@MELANIATRUMP
Interesting.
So the American Eva Braun is Jewish, just like the American Goebbels.
Donald better watch his step. He's never had a woman like her before. There's no breaking up with the Loomers of the world if they don't want to break up.
@meiselasb
I can't think of a worse way to woo Libertarians at their own convention than trying to shut out the actual delegates by having MAGAs butt ahead of them in line:
@marlene4719
Listen to him self-soothe. What a loser.
I wish every time he spoke about POTUS meeting with Putin, he was forced to look at this.
Whose bitch?
Putin's bitch!
@AngryBlackLady
Hell: Don’t take ANY medication from strangers on the Internet!
A lot of “pro-lifers” want the death penalty for women who have abortions—you think it wouldn’t cross their minds to punish a woman who wants one w/o the nuisance of arrest/trial/sentencing?
@eve_ettinger
As a reporter I once covered a talk by Kurt Vonnegut. We didn't interact, but I sat in the front row, obviously very pregnant, and he reminisced about the days when a pregnant lady could write a short story, a magazine would accept it and the check would cover nursery furniture.
@ElyKreimendahl
We lived for the evenings when Dad couldn't be home for dinner. Popcorn and milkshakes in the living room in front of the TV, baby!
Mom called them Silly Suppers. They were awesome!
@ask_aubry
Right.
It couldn't possibly be the case that your relentless whining makes people reluctant to share space with you.
My husband changed schools constantly as a kid. He's the friendliest guy you ever met. Makes new buddies effortlessly.
He's not a whiner.
@LqLana
Be sure to add that he energetically marketed Trump U to veterans and veterans' survivors in order to get at their education benefits.
Imagine that: He deliberately ripped off military personnel, widows and orphans.
In any race to the bottom, Trump is the winner going away.
@MarkHarrisNYC
An episode of Cheers, where Rebecca reconnects with an old friend and decides He's The One! not realizing he's gay, has one of my favorite scenes:
Rebecca: So we both like men.
Friend: Yeah.
Rebecca: Boy, are we stupid.
@BadMedicalTakes
40 children after clitorectomy? which is known for causing rectal fistulas (holes from vagina to rectum), recurrent infections, difficulty urinating/passing menstrual flow, chronic pain, development of cysts, an inability to get pregnant and complications during childbirth?
40?
@itsJeffTiedrich
" ... every one of them knows what it’s like to be confronted by a man pressuring her to have sex."
*grimly*
You know it, Neddy.
I believe Donald Trump used his title, height and weight to coerce Stormy Daniels into bed. It was all about HIS pleasure (cf, no condom, even tho
@DogginTrump
@Jenpetrine
I never felt constrained by that saying. The Obamas HAD to go high—showing even mild frustration opened up racist attacks on them. I used my white-lady privilege to say whatever I thought about the opposition.
@mehdirhasan
Really.
Please explain. The Israel/Palestinian issue has been burning in the background of my life for 66 years, and I fail to see how the American president has ever been able to end it.
So do educate me—and President Biden. He'd probably be glad to hear it.
@ask_aubry
My aunt's husband did this when their first baby was born. They passed the kid around like a rag doll even after he transitioned from crying to screaming.
My mom swooped in and took the baby to a quiet room. My aunt crying, thanked her. Her in-laws hated Mom but she didn't care.
@joshtpm
It was bad enough when
@nytimes
refused to call Trump's falsehoods "lies."
Now it seems they believe everything he says.
SO glad we unsubscribed.
@MikeSington
"The hardship facing the defendant is no different than any other criminal defendant charged with a crime"
Wouldn't you love to have seen Meadows' face when he read this? 60+ years of white male privilege, DENIED.
@ProjectLincoln
Okay.
Now he's talking the way my mother did in early summer 2017. That's how I knew she could no longer live alone, drive a car or handle her own financial and healthcare affairs.
LehTEEshah Jones? Her name is LaTISHah JAMES, Donald. I'd expect that name to be branded on your
@joeolivermd
I hate masks. I can't stand the pressure on my face. My glasses fog up.
I wear them because it's important.
But why oh why are we still stuck with the same mask "technology"? Why can't we have a national competition to design better masks? Masks that don't fog glasses. ...
@smalls2672
It’s not the fact that they get things wrong. Everyone does, from time to time.
It’s their refusal to entertain the possibility that they’re wrong—then DOUBLE DOWN ON THE ERROR—that causes the headaches. 😵💫
@harris_wins
I would bet my house that the following is the truth: Trump's campaign called all the families of the 13 soldiers who died that day. Two or three accepted.
The campaign made all the arrangements.
Trump has since blamed the families for the PR disaster that ensued.
Trump's
@lawofruby
"Blanche just painted David Pecker as a truth teller"
Good lord. Pecker's whole testimony was one long account of how hard he worked to prevent his readers from learning truths about Trump!
@patriottakes
Fellow Dems: Remember this when another red state governor refuses to feed school kids.
Republicans want to ban abortion and birth control, but they don’t want to feed the children that result from their policies.
That’s not weird, it’s appalling.
@BidenHQ
Here's Andy Clyde (R-GA) yelling "IT'S NO BIG DEAL!" at the Democrats who think January 6 was scary.
Here's Elise Stefanik (R-NY). She appears to be cowering, but actually she dropped her breath mint and it rolled under her seat. The other people are helping her find it.
@notcapnamerica
Oh dear.
TFW your child demonstrates that they took to heart all your talk about thinking for themselves and speaking truth to power, only they're using it against YOU, and you are caught between overwhelming pride and something like a stiff, maternal, "How DARE you!"
@TrueFactsStated
Photo of Trump looking even more clueless than usual:
"A mind is a terrible thing to lose."
I know it's eight words, but half of them are small.