From Friday

BREAKING: One of the tipsters from the Epstein docs that DOJ pulled down and put back up has reached out to me. I'll tell you what we know on @meidastouch.com in one hour. As always, we have receipts. Link: www.youtube.com/live/xiSmcNV...

Protect Medication Abortion Telemedicine makes abortion accessible, empowering people to safely get the care they need without having to travel hundreds of miles just to pick up a pill. Tell the Department of Health and Human Services to protect Mifepristone: No new nationwide bans on abortion medication.

Anti-abortion politicians are trying to make obtaining mifepristone harder. We won't let them.

Tell the Department of Health and Human Services: Keep politics out of our health care.

Our Wins Of The Week While ICE’s reign of terror on the streets of Minneapolis has been horrific, Alex Pretti’s murder on Saturday by ICE agents has broken through in ways news stories rarely do.

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good are devastating and deeply troubling. The strong national response this week shows Americans will not let these losses be ignored or swept under the rug. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progr...

How do those 🥾s taste?

Anyone who is led back to faith by a tyrant is doing it wrong.

STOP using human suffering to spiritually bypass or clickbait. It’s abhorrent.

Apparently don't write about the 4th Amendment or administrative warrants v judicial warrants on FB

Been thinking a lot about the theme of “emotional porousness” today.

There can be some real complexity in figuring out when to let people in, and how deeply, if at all.

This seems particularly important when we meet unrefined pieces of others that might be treating in ways we’re not so keen on.

For my ex-Christian kinky girlies:

Are you ever in an intense scene where you get a similar feeling as you did during worship?

You know, that feeling of kind of losing yourself?

I’m hearing this a lot from folks.

And I’m curious AF.

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

Sex, particularly pleasure & sensation, are two of the most powerful ways to keep ourselves rooted in our bodies. One of the most effective ways fascist regimes control us is by getting us to disconnect from our bodies and our feelings.

Sex and pleasure can be acts of protest in these trying days.

We need to find people who can keep us relatively anchored so that we can survive it impact. We will need these same people to help us “unfuck” ourselves, as certain traumatic exposure will inevitably fuck us up.

We owe our communities the same care

We live in a culture that is traumatophobic (we fear trauma).

But if we constantly run from the risk of trauma we will miss the important impact it can have on us.

Know your limits. But I think we all need to watch the videos from the most recent ICE shooting. Allow yourself to be impacted.

I, too, pray for their Rapture.

(And no, Rapture theologies generally do not allow for pets to join the “saved”. All the better for their pets. 👼)

I will say this until I am blue in the face. The horror we feel from school shootings should not be turned toward marginalized groups.

The hatred must be turned into energy to create a safer society where mental health is paid attention to.

This is true regardless of the identity of the shooter

The second screenshot is titled "The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs" and explains that using the wrong terminology risks being called racist. It lists: Latinx BIPOC Allyship Intersectionality Minoritized communities The text below says Democrats may be losing support among non-White voters by overusing such terms, urging reflection and listening instead of relying on “sociology buzzwords.”

Alt text: Two screenshots of text discussing language around gender, orientation, and race. The first screenshot is titled "Gender/Orientation Correctness" and says these terms imply that traditional gender views are outdated. It lists: Birthing person/inseminated person Pregnant people Chest feeding Cisgender Deadnaming Heteronormative Patriarchy LGBTQIA+ It concludes with a note that standing up to MAGA’s attacks on gay and transgender people requires empathy and coalition-building, not shaming potential allies.

The craven reactionary centrists at Third Way are advising Democrats not to use the term LGBTQ, BIPOC, allyship, or intersectionality. They're erasing the entire language used to describe minority communities.

www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...

Horrifying. As we culturally censor our language to work around Trump policies, we really need to make sure that these linguistic shifts do not expand out past their utility.

There are a lot of right ways "to do" marriage.

If you do decide to get married, it's important your marriage structured in a way that is the right fit for your relationship.

Not the other way around.

You also don't need to have these conversations on your own.

In the next handful of months, l imagine a lot of queer couples reaching out for therapy to help them talk about marriage; wanting to explore if marriage could be a good fit for their relationship.

Hillary Clinton: Supreme Court ‘will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion’ 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she believes the Supreme Court is poised to overturn its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effec…

@hillaryclinton.bsky.social doesn't sound hopeful.

But, this doesn't mean you should immediately run out and get married tomorrow.

It does mean that you may want to start thinking about and talking about options.

Might marriage be a good fit for your relationship? 🧵

thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

There are a lot of right ways “to do” a marriage.

If you do decide to get married, it’s important the marriage structured in a way that is the right fit for your relationship.

Not the other way around

You also don’t need to have the conversation with your partner on your own.

In the next handful of months, I imagine a lot of couples reaching out for therapy to help them talk about marriage. And explore if it could be a good fit for their relationship.

Though all marriages have certain things in common, there is actually significant flexibility in terms of how each practically functions

You don’t have to ask the question “how do we make sure we are ready to get married?” You can instead ask the question “Would/could marriage be a good fit for our relationship?

It also doesn’t need to have a square focus on “getting a couple married”.

In my opinion, the best relationship therapy is not goal directed, but instead is exploration directed.

In recent years, premarital therapy has fallen out of vogue. But it’s not a bad idea. Having a space to work with your partner to figure out what you want from your relationship is still a great idea.

Premarital therapy does not need to be stuffy or religious.

May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.

a witch is laying on the ground in front of a wooden building . ALT: a witch is laying on the ground in front of a wooden building .

JAMES DOBSON DEAD AT 89!

apnews.com/article/jame...

Excellent article by Drew Atkins at @usatoday.com.

It asks some great questions about influencer relationships, and begs an additional question: When we look at the lives of influencers, do we admire their lives or do we admire the lives we believe them to have?

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If your state doesn’t already protect same-sex marriage at the state level, now’s the time to act. 🏳️‍🌈

📢 Call your state lawmakers. Tell them to pass protections now. Don’t wait until it’s too late.

Like, seriously. If you could play with your partner and come to the same important conclusion about something; wouldn’t you rather do that than fight or be stern with one another?