Kamala Harris’ campaign has attacked Donald Trump over a new Louisiana law that classifies two abortion-inducing drugs with other clinical uses as dangerous controlled substances. “Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is the reason Louisiana women who are suffering from miscarriages or bleeding out after birth can no longer receive the critical care they would have received before (Roe v. Wade was overturned),” Sarafina Chikita, a Harris campaign spokesperson, said in a statement. “Because of Trump,...

Sen. J.D. Vance's campaign rally on Wednesday faced swirling questions over his choice of location: an Arizona mega-church with an "extremist" pastor. called the Ohio Republican's choice of venue "disturbing." Ryan Visconti "literally 'Christians can’t vote Democrat,'" recalled Jones in a piece on Thursday. Charlie Kirk, the founder of the far-right Turning Point USA, co-hosted the event. Jones cited Visconti's biggest hits, like his anti-LGBTQ "venom" that appears on social media. His 2022...

Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil outlined his plans to support Social Security and Medicare in his first reelection campaign ad and during a town hall meeting Wednesday, even as Democrats remain unconvinced of his sincerity. “Social security and Medicare are promises that we have made to our seniors, promises we need to keep,” Steil told a caller during the telephone-conducted town hall meeting. Steil said that in order to keep the programs running for future generations, it is essential to grow the...

The CEO of Steward Health Care told a Senate panel he won’t testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the company’s bankruptcy, in defiance of a subpoena. Ralph de la Torre told senators it would be inappropriate for him to testify on matters related to Steward’s bankruptcy while those proceedings are ongoing. They asked for a postponement until the proceedings are resolved. “Members of this Committee continue to cast aspersions on Dr. de la Torre and appear determined to...

The groundwork for an American fascist mass movement one day was centuries in the making. Recent historical efforts picked up after President Johnson recognized the civil rights movement and pushed legislation through the Congress. After that many whites fled in droves to the Republican Party, and their race baiting efforts took 60 years to explode. It was not created by Donald Trump, but by right planners backed by segments of the elite and by mega-millions in funding. Since then, Republicans...

Hunter Biden pled guilty on Thursday to an armload of federal tax crimes. But when will the Internal Revenue Service plead guilty to stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden? The coverup of Hunter’s tax crimes probably changed the result of the 2020 presidential election and perhaps tampered with 2022 congressional election results. Hunter’s guilty plea destroys the credibility of IRS bosses, federal prosecutors, and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Hunter Biden pleaded guilty Thursday to all nine federal tax charges he faced, staving off his second criminal trial this year just before it was set to begin, according to The Associated Press. In a stunning and last-minute twist, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi accepted the plea change on the same day jury selection was scheduled to get underway in Los Angeles federal court. Biden admitted to withholding at least $1.4 million in taxes over four years in the throes of his...

"Run the dishwasher twice" might sound like strange mental health advice, but a viral post is proving that it's actually quite helpful. Danielle Wunker, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor, shared a story on her Facebook page that is resonating with people who struggle with mental health issues. It originally came from an answer from Katie Scott on Quora to the question "Has a therapist ever told you something completely unexpected?" It reads: "When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by. I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say. 'What are you struggling with?' he asked. I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.' Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?' man sitting on chair covering his eyes Photo by christopher lemercier on Unsplash I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial. Something more profound. But I didn't. So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.' I felt like an idiot even saying it. What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes? But he nodded in understanding and then said: 'Run the dishwasher twice.' File:Dishwasher with dishes.JPG - Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me. 'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.' It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express. That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times. I felt like I had conquered a dragon. The next day, I took a shower lying down. A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit. There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again. Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry. But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson: There are no rules. Run the dishwasher twice." Anyone who has been in a mental or emotional place where even just the most basic, mundane tasks seem overwhelming understands the wisdom in this lesson. Dishes might seem like such a minor detail of life, but those kinds of minor details can be the straw that breaks the camel's back mentally. If you've never stared at a basket of laundry that would take three minutes to fold and thought, "Nope, can't do it. Not now. Maybe not ever..." then you may not need this lesson, but there are millions of people who appreciate the express permission to let go of the rules in our heads about how things have to be done. Adjusting expectations and arbitrary ideas about how something works is incredibly freeing and can provide a seemingly temporary fix for a seemingly insurmountable problem. Oddly enough, though, that temporary fix can be the necessary bridge that gets someone from unable-to-cope-with-daily-life-things to functioning on a somewhat normal level. Mental health is such a tricky thing to manage, and many of the tools for managing it run counter to what we might expect. That's what therapists are for—to help us step outside the box of our own brains, adjust our thoughts and behaviors to create greater possibilities for ourselves, and give us permission to reject the negative voices in our head try to keep us locked in unhelpful or unhealthy patterns. Even when that unhelpful pattern is as simple as letting the dishes pile up instead of running the dishwasher twice. This article originally appeared on 11.20.20

Some couples are just meant to be together. Sarah, 38, and Jenni Barret, 37, have gone through some major changes as a couple and after 15 years of marriage, have managed to find themselves happier than ever.Jenni and Sarah both met through a friend at Arizona State University in 2004. But back then Sarah was called Sean. Jenni identified as a straight woman and Sean, a straight man."I knew he was The One as soon as he gave me a killer head massage that same night," Jenni told The Daily Mail. The couple tied the knot in December of 2005.At the time, Jenni didn't know about her fiance's gender issues, but she thought it was a little unique that she took such an interest in their wedding plans. "I didn't clock it at the time, but looking back at the wedding, Sarah was a bit of a bridezilla," Jenni says. "I was happy to elope and get married just us two, but she organized every part of the big day, from tableware to the venue - all I did was try on the dress and turn up." via JenniBerr / InstagramThe couple would go on to have two boys, Morgan in 2007 and Toby in 2009.After the birth of their second child, Jenni began to notice that Sarah would buy clothing traditionally meant for women."She started buying a lot of clothes like that, which were on the edge of what is seen as male or female," Jenni says. "She would wear a nightie to bed and on date nights she'd be wearing countless layers of clothes with a bra underneath, so no one could see. I noticed something going on, but it wasn't hurting anybody so I left it."However, the couple's suspicions that their eldest son, Morgan, may be gay brought the issue to the forefront in their relationship."We'd suspected Morgan was gay since he was about two," Jenni says. "He just can't hide it — not that we would ever want him to. He was born singing theme tunes and being over the top." See on Instagram The discussions about Morgan's sexuality pushed Sarah to put a mirror up to herself and have a tough conversation with Jenni."Sarah rolled over one evening in bed in 2016 and told me, 'I really need to talk to you - I think I'm trans.' I'd come to realize why I'd always been so drawn to her, it was because of who she was on the inside — a woman — and not her shell," Jenni said."I turned around and said, 'That's ok, I think I'm gay.'"What began as a heterosexual relationship had transformed into a loving lesbian marriage. The next job was explaining the situation to their children."We explained that Daddy had a girl's brain and that it was in the wrong body — but doctors would fix it," Jenni says. "Now, we're both Jewish, the boys call Sarah 'Eema' — Hebrew for Mother."Sean changed her name to Sarah and began to take a combination of of testosterone blockers and estrogen every day. The couple set up an Instagram account to celebrate their unique family."We're so proud of our LGBT family, although we do always say that, after Morgan came out in 2018, Toby must feel left out," Jenni says."He jokes that he's going to have to come out as bisexual to fit in!" See on Instagram This article originally appeared on 9.4.20

Recently, Upworthy shared a tweet thread by author A.R. Moxon who created a brilliant metaphor to help men understand the constant anxiety that potential sexual abuse causes women. He did so by equating sexual assault to something that men have a deep-seeded fear of: being kicked in the testicles. Hi, guys. Imagine if one day you got kicked in the nuts, really hard, on purpose. You doubled over. Felt the pain. Nearly passed out. Nearly puked. Then you got kicked again. And again. — A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018 Imagine that later your father explained that women just wanted to kick men in the nuts, so as a boy you had to be careful. Imagine he had very detailed practical advice on this. Imagine you started spending your life planning on avoiding being kicked in the nuts. — A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018 Imagine there were laws that said that if a wife kicked her husband in the nuts it wasn't assault. Imagine you heard about men with ruptured testicles who had to pay for their own forensic reports Imagine you saw statistics showing only 1% of kickings resulted in conviction. — A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat) (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018 An anonymous man in England who goes by the Twitter handle @manwhohasitall has found a brilliantly simple way of illustrating how we condescend to women by speaking to men the same way. My friend is a history teacher. She's compiling a list of great historical figures and she needs a male to add to the list. Suggestions? — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) September 1, 2017 To all smart men. Don't act dumb around women! It's OKAY to be a man and be smart. Some women actually find it attractive — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 22, 2019 ALL MEN! Kickstart the summer with a super-healthy salad, barely-there legs, invisible pores, a transculent face, a tiny voice and the waist of a wasp* (* a very thin wasp). — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 22, 2019 TODAY'S FACT: Some boys pretend to be into STEM, some boys believe in unicorns. My empowering new range celebrates 5 additional types of men. https://t.co/IW6nhn8iwA pic.twitter.com/HioRkr4JHP — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 20, 2019 TODAY'S DEBATE: How can men dress for summer in a way which is neither too conservative nor too revealing? Is it even possible? — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 20, 2019 My friend is chairing a 3-day computer science conference next week. There are two men on the registration desk and one of the 63 speakers is male. Is this enough, or should she look for another male speaker? — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 20, 2019 "I'm very uncomfortable interacting with men at work in case I accidentally comment on their hair, face or weight. It's a nightmare, you have to be so careful. Increasingly I think the only solution is to stop employing them." Claire, CEO — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 18, 2019 Why do men have to make everything about gender?https://t.co/lKS2E6vvFX pic.twitter.com/ts1nqlJvxG — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 17, 2019 Callum, age 22, sales, "I manage to feel great at the same time as answering the phones by using a gentle testicle mist." — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 16, 2019 "I'm not hung up on the term 'everywoman' because I know it refers to both women and men." Tim, age 44, very much an everywoman himself. — manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) July 14, 2019 ManWhoHasItAll also highlights society's ridiculous need to label the women who participate in male-dominated fields. We can't just say that Amy Schumer is a comedian. She has to be known as a "funny female" or a "female comic." No one ever feels the need to point out the fact that Chris Rock is male. When we qualify women for their professions, whether in science and technology or entertainment, it diminishes their involvement and makes them appear instead to be a token of someone who has earned their position. Comedian Jen Kirkman has a perfect response to the question: What's it like to be a female comedian? "This question is the hardest part – it's yet again another opportunity for guys to say that I'm complaining or to retread the same old stories. There is sexism in the world so of course it bleeds into every single area of life. I don't answer this particular question anymore," she said. "Getting put on pink flyers. Being asked to do shows that are marketed in such groundbreaking ways as 'Chicks Are Funny Too,' 'Broads, Beer, and Belly Laughs.' Being introduced as 'a lovely lady,'" she continued. ManWhoHasItAll has found a brilliant way to spread his message by creating a collection of T-shirts that condescend to men by labeling them "Male Scientist," "Male Lawyer," and "Male Programmer." These shirts highlight the idea that we can be more inclusive by accepting women in these positions without the need to use a gender qualifier. Here are some of the shirts you can find at ManWhoHasItAll's website. via ManWhoHasItAll via ManWhoHasItAll via ManWhoHasItAll via ManWhoHasItAll via ManWhoHasItAll This article originally appeared on 7.22.19