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intheflow's JournalIt's impossible to lead a pure life in the 21st Century.
You don’t support Xitter? Fine. Are you an Amazon Prime member? Do you use PayPal? Subscribe to WaPo or NYT? Do you buy Brawny paper towels or Dixie cups? Do you watch your local news? Do you buy new clothing that doesn’t carry the Made In The USA label? Ever eat a McDonalds hamburger? Ever buy fossil fuel to power your car and then spew exhaust? If you answered yes to any of these, you really can’t criticize other people using Xitter until you get your own life in order. Because everything serves corporate overlords, Musk is just more visible than most.
I've said it before and will say it say it again:
I’ll bet she’s treated like a mindless baby machine by the men on the court and has been embraced as a sister by the women on the court. Plus, I really think the repercussions of Dobbs hadn’t occurred to her as she’d never known a world without Roe but couldn’t imagine a world where women died from lack of it. I think she gets that now.
Librarian checking in here, and this might not be nefarious.
Libraries are not archives and shelf space is finite. Nine and Counting was published in 2000. If it's not circulating, it's not going to be kept forever, no matter how well it was received upon publication or how often it was used to support academic goals in the intervening 24 years. Who are they saving it for? On the off-chance someone will check it out some day? No. Meanwhile, academic libraries have can order books through WorldCat, literally a catalog of libraries across the globe who will lend their books via interlibrary loan. If you NEED the book, it's available elsewhere, you just might have to wait a week or two.
Same with the intermediate Hebrew. I'll bet dollars to dimes it's as old or older, and has probably been replaced with an updated edition. And - on closer examination, I see it's a workbook. Libraries don't usually save workbooks, as more often than not, someone invariably will use a library copy instead of buying one, so the answers are filled in or pages are ripped out. For all we know, this was a student's workbook that was found stuffed behind a bookcase 20 years after the student stuffed it there.
Look, I know it's popular to broad brush anything Florida and FloriDUH, but really - this is almost certainly not as sinister as is speculated.
I've been here for 20 years!!!
I've had many arguments with centrist Dems over the years, and am so, so grateful to see so many of my my dearly-held progressive beliefs now embodied by... party centrists. I'm not going to claim I was right all along but...
Anyhoo, with DUers I've survived:
Kerry's swiftboating.
Cried tears of joys with other DUers when Obama and Biden won elections.
Raged against the machine when Bush and Trump were elected by the Electoral College and not the popular vote.
I've made both virtual and real life friends across the country and the world through DU. Went to several meetups in the old days - at antiwar protests in DC during Dubya's term, across the South and the country as a Hurricane Katrina volunteer coordinator, visited Alaska to stay a week with DUers, and had some fun, great meetups during the 2008 Convention in Denver.
I had to step away for a bit in 2016 as it was too stressful to be here with the infighting that happened, but had to come back to survive the Trump years.
DU has been THE online news aggregate for me, as I read reports here that I wouldn't read or hear about for days if I only relied on traditional news sources. The DUers who comb the web daily for important, interesting, and silly/heartwarming content are my heros!
Thanks to all DUers who have made my time here fun, inspiring and thought-provoking. Here's to another 20 years! 
As for the people on my ignore list: 
Question regarding Harris and trans rights
Hello, Beautiful People! I’m a cis woman (she/they) who has a white trans/queer couple as housemates. They are both 30+ years younger than me and often hear news of the LGBTQ+ world that passes my old white ass by.
One of them told me they weren’t happy with Harris because she sent trans people to prisons that corresponded to their assigned gender at birth. 😳 I have never heard anything about this!
Important to note that this housemate is an anarchist and doesn’t vote, so maybe they’re mixing up something they heard years ago? Also important to note, if it was back in 2015/16, they were a “straight, married Morman” but beginning to understand some truths about themselves, so that might have colored any recollections.
Anyway, I’m not trying to shit-stir. I’m behind Harris 100%! Just looking for outside context/perspective/reality check/etc. from DUers because it sounds so bizarre! Like, if it happened was it because of the law at the time and her hands were tied? 🤷🏼?♀️
Thanks in advance, All! 
My slim hope is that many conservative women
will vote for a woman of color after the draconian abortion bans across the country. Add in Trump’s rape conviction , and cheating on his with a porn star while his wife was home pregnant, maybe some trad wives will put their personal safety and rights above racism or party politics.
I followed the main org pushing this on Facebook.
Here’s what I learned: many of the so-called supporters looked like MAGA on their home pages. Multiple people that looked liberal complained about “not being able to vote in the primaries “ but don’t give any evidence of why they didn’t vote. Some said, “The voters are speaking!” but not one seems able to respond to my comments that I am a voter who spoke in the primaries and this movement seeks to disenfranchise my vote, which is a Repuke play. No response to any of my concerns about invalidating my primary vote except from others who agreed with me. Then I unfollowed them because who needs to see that shit in their feed?
Have you donated to Biden/Harris and/or contacted your reps in the last 24 hours?
Have you donated to Biden/Harris in the last 24 hours?
Have you contacted your elected reps to stay the course?
Just looking for a snapshot as there’s a lot of info flying around. No judgement on my part; I donate sparsely as I’m not in great financial shape and today was the first time I’ve contacted my elected officials this election cycle.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The white monied Democrats are going to cause us to lose. Just donated to Biden/Harris and sent a message to my Congress critter. My vote counts and these wealthy donors would rather throw us into more chaos than save the Constitution.
Just contacted my Democratic Senator and urged
them to advocate on behalf of the millions of people who voted for Biden in good faith. I talked about feeling disenfranchised and that the Party is subverting the Democratic process and undermining the Constitution. I hope they take heed.
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