I finally did get Covid after being vaxxed and boosted, and my only symptom was I lost my voice for a few days. I was lucky. Did that make me booster complacent? Nope!!! Luck only takes you so far, so I had my bivalent booster as soon as it was available to me! I just enjoy breathing too much, I guess 😄

There are several states that won't accept religious exemptions for public school. The only exemption is medical (IL and CA come to mind) There will never be a federal law, not with the shitbags on this court. They threw away a woman's right to her body and red states ran with it. Blue states will continue to use common sense and protect people and red states will spend money they don't have investigating womens' reproductive cycles and passing laws to ensure their children don't learn.... why would they care if a bunch of kids die from preventable diseases along the way?

I check the ALA list of banned books regularly and buy them for my kids. We are lucky to be in a blue state in a blue area and no one is storming our school boards (not to say it'll never happen, but we were lucky to have some choice in where we live and this is a big part of our selection!) While FL, TX, AL, etc stop educating their children to win a culture war (just like dying instead of taking a vaccine), the world is moving on. The rest of the world (and country) is educating their children. All these people are doing is ensuring their kids have less opportunity. This time they're "refusing the jab" so to speak on behalf of the their children, who have no say on the matter. It's despicable.

I'll never understand storming a school board meeting to denounce CRT (which isn't being taught at elementary schools anyway) and feeling "victorious" that they won't teach the thing that they WEREN'T TEACHING ANYWAY all while ignoring the fact that your school is lacking basic resources for your children. Republicans sure love the ignorant.... have Tucker make something up for their base to be mad about, give them victory over the imaginary problem, and they won't bother advocating for what their children actually need.

Fox News is slowly shifting their very gullible supporters to DeSantis. I think he's worse, unfortunately.

This is always the reaction when progress is made for non white straight men. The evangelicals had no problem with Roe until in the early 80s when it looked like the right over reproductive health was opening up a few too many doors for women. Suddenly Roe became very important to overturn. Jim Crow was the response to black freed slaves getting access to education and succeeding in the same areas white people were. Can't have that! And it's no accident that the panic over CRT went into overdrive to coincide with George Floyd protests making an impact. Great replacement theory, make America great again..... this is all about straight white men that feel entitled to more than they have and are angry and want someone to blame. Angry white men have always been the biggest threat, and now they're not interested in hiding it. They're threatening outright and attacking us with increasing impunity.

That is EXACTLY what needs to happen. A non Christian prayer needs to be said under the same circumstances. I'll see if I can find it, but there's a great video of a guy saying a satanic prayer during a town hall bc they decided they would start each session with a prayer. Needless to say, they dropped the prayers immediately after that!

My dad had eye sight issues and isn't tech savvy (he owns a flip phone, kid you not) and I bought him a basic Amazon reading Kindle. You can pre download any book he might like and you can make the print very large. I'm so sorry, and I wish your dad a speedy recovery.

Please note that most of the Christian religions had no problem with Roe until they decided to use it for votes. Now that it's done, they're clearly priming their idiots for the LGBTQ community. Imagine what type of person you have to be to require an old white man to tell you what to do from a pulpit on Sunday mornings. No ability to understand right from wrong until you're told, and they'll reverse course as soon as this all goes to hell in the red states. Just wait, the same religious leaders will suddenly find religious passages supporting abortion. Unfortunately, it will have already ruined and taken lives.

@Disgusted once again Ginni Thomas having never given birth is a small gift to the world. Pubes McCoke Can spawning once is awful enough.

@SadButTrue Rural AND uneducated.... the uneducated part is KEY to the Republican platform. Critical thinking does not lend itself to the conservative agenda.

@jvraines They've made it clear the next stop is the LGBTQ community.

And the states with the strictest bans will also offer sub par education, zero healthcare, no assistance with child care, and I could go on. Women should start suing the state and the men that impregnate them for emotional distress, physical harm, etc.

We need to go after the tax exempt status! How are all of these religious leaders getting away with this???

I can't stand Lauren Boebert, but I simply can't firmly believe in a woman's right to choose and celebrate the shaming of a woman for exercising her right to choose. This has to be framed differently. Highlight the importance of abortion for ALL women, even (and maybe especially) for women that, for whatever reason (religion, community, etc), feel pressure to publically condemn abortion, but need access all the same. Shaming her will backfire, and it's wrong. There are PLENTY of things to attack her on from a political standpoint.

@Norman D. Plume Your wife sounds pretty incredible! Hoping she has minimal reaction to any future boosters!