“As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

-- Isaiah 66:13
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you."

-- Isaiah 49:15
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"For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant."

-- Isaiah 42:14 (speaking as God)
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"But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me."

-- Psalm 131:2

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8 Jun
Thinking this morning of all the PE teachers and school coaches who I saw throughout my childhood call boys and young men "ladies" and "girls" as a way of, uh, "motivating" them and now claim that using the correct pronouns for trans kids goes against their religion.
Well, shit, Bob, you sure didn't care about your religion when you were misgendering cis boys under your care because you wanted them to win in sports.
If you ask grown men who are like this for their reasoning, they have none. There's no logic. They'll get upset and angry that they have to explain why calling a boy a "girl" is necessary punishment because no one ever actually challenges their misogynistic bullshit.
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30 May
The Vice President's "long weekend" tweet doesn't bother me because I'm a reasonable adult who understands "enjoy the long weekend" is something that even service members and veterans often say to each other at the start of Memorial Day weekend. This is ridiculous. (thread)
Now, would I have flagged the draft of that tweet if I were on her comms team? Yes, because it's the kind of thing egregiously taken out of context on this hellsite by people who engage in bad faith by default. But not because I find it offensive.
I find it not a bit surprising that the people complaining about Vice President Kamala Harris' tweet probably have no plans at all to honor our fallen service members tomorrow while the VP will spend tomorrow doing exactly that.
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24 May
Example #8357 of people infantilizing women's sports.

"But there also may be a fear that Biles is so good that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot, or dare not, attempt."

nytimes.com/2021/05/24/spo…
We don't do this shit to dominant male athletes.

When it's Michael Phelps or Roger Federer, the commentary is in awe of them.

But when a woman dominates like Simone Biles? It's somehow bad for women's sports.
Remember Alex Morgan doing her tea cup celebration during the World Cup and people saying that was unsportsmanlike?

Women athletes are so often treated as fragile. It's fucking ridiculous.

They're competing. Treat them like the competitors and professionals they are.
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12 May
Today, Rep. Liz Cheney will be voted out of leadership by her Republican House colleagues for refusing to back down in a condemnation of Trump and his role in the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. A few quick thoughts on this.
Rep. Cheney is absolutely in the right, and yes, her speech last night was powerful. But it is critically important that we all acknowledge something: she was elected to this leadership position in the first place because of lies, disinformation, and an abdication of ethics.
Rep. Cheney bears a great deal of responsibility along with the other leaders among her GOP colleagues in fostering the conditions for what led to the Jan. 6th attack. We need to acknowledge this. More importantly: she needs to acknowledge it.
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11 May
Because I'm a masochist, I will live-tweet Anderson Cooper's interview with Caitlyn Jenner this evening, so that you don't have to watch it. Follow along here. 🙃
Part of the challenge of live-tweeting a discussion with Jenner is that she rambles like someone who doesn't know what she's talking about. Because she doesn't. I'll do my best to cover all I can.
Dana Bash: "What kind of training do you have to be Governor of California?"

Jenner responds that she's an entrepreneur. Sigh.
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10 May
I've been posting a lot about anti-trans stuff lately, which can be a huge bummer for many reasons, partly for the way it overshadows wonderful moments of trans people just being treated like anyone else. So, I have a nice memory for you this morning... (thread)
A few years ago, my friend @rpbp was at GW Hospital (she's recovered nicely now), and I went to visit most days during my lunch break. The entrance is next to the Metro and GW campus, so it's not unusual to see folks selling merch or generally hanging out.
Maybe the second or third day I went to visit her, I noticed five or six older gentlemen had a chess table set up and were playing each other, smoking, having a good time. And I love playing chess, so...
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