evidently the #BoycottWalgreens started with this INSANE story of how one pharmacist went to all sorts of schemes to deny this woman her birth control refill.
Not just *refused to personally do it* but apparently lied about medical records and etc. tiktok.com/@abigailmartii…
.@Walgreens should decide if it wants to standby a few zealous religious fanatics who should and can go into a different line of work or MILLIONS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
.@walgreens policy as of 2018. This pharmacist lied to the customer, buried the doctor's sign off, did NOT hand off task of filling Rx to other employees, and apparently defied management to deny women more-critical-now-than-ever birth control:
The United States may face the most precipitous decline of empire of any empire ever?
We're woefully behind on all metrics of health, education. We're paralyzed politically, except for becoming more minoritarian. If only we read history. motherjones.com/media/2020/03/…
Historians still debate the causes of the decline of the Roman empire, or when exactly it began. Wiggle room of a few hundred years. The US will have created, and lost, an empire in under 200 years. Maybe ~150, or less.
Which otoh, good, empires depend on the subjugation of others. Otoh, bad, in that there was always the hope/fantasy that some day an empire could repent for harms, bend toward good.
Also when they fall apart it is usually in chaos and violence.
1/ Big piece from @nlanard on Blake Masters, the Peter Thiel protege running for Senate in AZ. Thiel has put $13 MILLION into this race. They're willing to move fast and break things, like maybe democracy itself. bit.ly/3Of8e3h
2/Masters’ other influences include Curtis Yarvin, who describes himself as America’s foremost absolute monarchist blogger; Murray Rothbard, the reactionary economist; and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber (with caveats).
3/ Masters trolled his Stanford co-op by rapping while wearing supposed Native American war paint, in a video shared with @MotherJones. “I’ve got the war paint on, as you can see,” he rapped. "Who said what about cultural insensitivity?”
1/ Just a reminder that Ivana Trump accused Donald of rape in their divorcee proceedings and her account rings totally true with the man we know. newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
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3/ Now, once he was running for president, Ivana disavowed her account, kinda. But given what we know of Trump, do we have much doubt that he put enormous pressure to do so? I don't.
Been a really long time since I flew international back to US with connecting domestic flight. 3 hrs going to be enough time at JKF to collect bags, do customs?
Correction: 2 hrs, 15 min 😬🤞🏻
Ok….I may have never(!) done this. So we get off plane, get bags, go through customs, switch terminals, and have to go through security as if just arriving (our bags are small enough to be carry on…in US, which may be all that saves us) is that right?