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A person considered too mentally unstable to be in charge of their own checkbook can buy a gun but you can’t get a therapist visit covered by insurance.

Your rapist can buy a gun but you won’t be able to get insured care after being raped.

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“A trip to the mound for Donald J. Trump in the near future would be anything but ceremonial. It would mark the first time our president, who ran on the platform of American Toughness, showed his face in public since his inauguration. Over the last three months, Trump has been safely chauffeured from the White House to one of his hotels to his campaign rallies to his private club and back again, insulated by a gauzy cocoon of yes-men who tell him that any polls that show him to be unpopular are fake, and any people protesting against his agenda are paid.”

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another day, another executive order

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President Donald Trump is still holding campaign rallies and Trump’s supporters are still regularly flock to them. To try and experience the vibe at the Trump speeches, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper visited one in Nashville and talked to supporters on the ground.

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Excellent analysis of Trumpcare by conservative NYT columnist David Brooks: "This bill takes the most vicious progressive stereotypes about conservatives and validates them."

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I got loads of questions tbh but yeah let’s start here.

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RESIST BOT!

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YES!

"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the life of 100 extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world. Each woman's story is written in the style of a fairy tale. Each story has a full page, full color portrait that captures the spirit of the portrayed hero.

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Seems fair.

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People keep wondering if the latest Trump outburst is a clever ploy to distract the country from whatever piece of bad news is currently vexing the administration. But the one who’s easily distractible is the president himself, and then he in turn distracts his staff and congressional allies. Just look at what’s happening with his accusation that President Barack Obama tapped his phones. On impulse, after reading an article on a white nationalist website, Trump levels a ludicrous and baseless charge, then everyone in the White House has to pretend that it’s serious and legitimate, and they’re forced to answer questions about it for weeks. All that time could be spent advancing an affirmative agenda.     Because he can never admit that he was wrong, Trump drags the issue out endlessly, just as he did with earlier iterations of this pattern, about the size of his inaugural crowd or the millions of phantom illegal votes that led to his popular vote loss (I’d encourage you to read the transcript of his Wednesday interview with Tucker Carlson and marvel at the fact that this man is actually president of the United States). That then makes life difficult for Republicans in Congress, who are put in the awkward position of either defending the latest bit of stupidity issuing from the Oval Office or being honest about how ridiculous it is, which they know would win them the president’s ire.

An Impulsive, Distracted President (via wilwheaton)

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Budgets are values made real.

FYI.

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Librarians have a Posse! The latest public service stickers have arrived and they look fantastic. Now they just need good homes. Yours. They need to come and live with you.