Elizabeth.Ann.tifa

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Sarcasm intended. Otherwise known as @iamelizabethadd on the bird app. I joined there to scream into the wind and laugh so I don’t cry. Maybe I’ll do less screaming and more laughing here. #politics #adhd 🌊
Simultaneously gross how much NRA money some politicians get and also very embarrassing how little they get in exchange for their soul

Hi, all! I am soon to be more active here. You’ll have to show me around…

In the meantime, 100,000 words into trying to be a writer, I wrote about stepping to the edge of the cliff.

We oughta make lives of leaping.

When I was younger, I had a chance to but didn’t.

This time, possible me and physical me were in synch.

Full post at https://therealhoarse.substack.com/p/swsr-notes-from-midair

SWSR: Notes from Midair

Short Writes, Short Reads

Hoarse Whisperings
America Is Sacrificing Its Children at the Altar of the Gun
 
Mass shootings are a political problem. A democracy problem. A uniquely American problem.
 
New Democracy Americana – a reaction to what just happened in Nashville: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/america-is-sacrificing-its-children
America Is Sacrificing Its Children at the Altar of the Gun

Mass shootings are a political problem. A democracy problem. A uniquely American problem.

Democracy Americana
New in Public Notice: The GOP's gun obsession goes deeper than campaign donations https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/covenant-shooting-nashville-nra-donations
The GOP's gun obsession goes deeper than campaign donations

Republicans aren't posing for AR-15 family photos because of money.

Public Notice
Where are all the BuT tHe CoNsTiTuTiOn people at?
Hey good people of Texas — revenge porn is a Felony in your state and Ted Cruz is guilt AF.

ꜱᴇʟᴇᴄᴛ * ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇᴛ @Author_PCorrell

Me: No serial killer would ever lure me into their murder van. I'm too smart for that.

Murderer:

Why don’t you do this thing like I (a neurotypical person) would do it?
I don’t know maybe because I’m not neurotypical?
#ADHD

A woman was arrested for "chemical endangerment" for using drugs while pregnant. The problem: She wasn't pregnant. So officers released her, but told her if she gets pregnant in the next few month she will be re-arrested.

The people who told us we were overreacting when Roe was overturned were never arguing in good faith and also they were very wrong.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/alabama-case-over-mistaken-pregnancy-highlights-risks-post-roe-world-2022-12-01/

Alabama case over mistaken pregnancy highlights risks in a post-Roe world

An ongoing lawsuit in Alabama typifies the far-reaching criminalization of women enabled by some anti-abortion ideology and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent <a href="/world/us/us-supreme-court-overturns-abortion-rights-landmark-2022-06-24/">ruling</a> overturning Roe v. Wade.

Reuters

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.