Gilberto Hinojosa is under fire for comments he made implying transgender Texans bear responsibility for disappointing losses by Democrats in Texas.

“You have a choice as a party,” he told KUT in Austin. “…you can support transgender rights up and down…or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support.”

BITCH, clarify which rights you think are too far for other humans please.

Edit: He already apologized.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18370067

“I extend my sincerest apologies to those I hurt with my comments today,” he wrote. “In frustration over the GOP’s lies to incite hate for trans communities, I failed to communicate my thoughts with care and clarity.”

He added: “You deserve to feel seen, valued and safe in our state and our party. My unequivocal and unwavering support for LGBTQ+ Texans remains steadfast, and I am committed to ensuring our party never abandons you, especially when you need us most.”

Edit 02: Also resigning https://www.kut.org/politics/2024-11-08/texas-democrats-chairman-resigns-transgender-immigration-election

Brian Delen, 48, of Bel Air, was convicted in Harford County Circuit Court of the lesser charges he faced, second-degree assault and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, following a trial during which his attorneys argued he acted out of fear and in self-defense when he shot Meghan Lewis last year.

Healey said in a press release that she intends to seek a sentence of 30 years, the maximum penalties allowed by law. Five of those years will be required to be without the possibility of parole, she said. A sentencing date has not been scheduled yet.

Five years, then his gofundme lawyer will get him out and he’ll write a book for all the transphobes to gobble up. Ready to be proven wrong.

Stop weather data collection in one part of the planet. That’ll stop the global warming believers. /s

Crops grow faster if you decree the weather is perfect. The best weather.

No longer letting my family member rants about [insert today’s Russian propaganda] go unchallenged.

• Crime is going up. Oh no, can you show me a chart with a source? Can’t be just something you find on the internet (they’re always ranting that you can’t trust the internet).
• You can’t trust the weather reports. They’re just using the internet to make all that stuff up. Explain how the internet allows for a 100 fold increase in sensors that can report back to a centralized meteorology facility for number crunching
• Ukraine shot first Explain a timeline of the Ukraine war
• Moon landing was faked. (I actually like this argument the best because it’s been so thoroughly debunked)

The religious fruitcakes will never get the hint that their god is trying to tell them something.

Maybe Europe will be able to pick up some of the slack. I’m hoping in 20 years we get to wonder why there’s a four year blip where America stopped winning awards for research that helps humanity.

This is a news article which summarizes a summary of project 2025.

The original summary:

https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Project-2025s-Sweeping-Anti-LGBTQ-Policies-Would-Roll-Back-The-Clock-On-LGBTQ-Equity-Advancements.pdf

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TLDR

• Acknowledge your anxiety
• Log off
• Spend time with loved ones, but…
• …set boundaries with them
• Take care of your physical health
• Repurpose moments of anxiety
• Remember what you can control, but…
• …also remember your power
• Expand your community
• Remember there’s hope, even in a “worst case scenario”

Family Guy Skin Color Chart or Family Guy Race Card refers to a series of memes using an exploitable screenshot from Family Guy showing a toll booth worker holding a “skin tone chart” up to Peter Griffin, who is wearing a fez hat, to determine if he’s white enough to pass through to the United States. The episode aired in March 2013 and the scene became the subject of memes as early as 2014, typically with users photoshopping the words on the skin tone card to change the context. The meme is often used as a reaction image on sites like Twitter to criticize perceived forms of racism.

It’s not idiocy if none of their voters won’t fact check, and if the ad was against a political opponent not the athlete specifically. Bonus points if it’s a Republican judge evaluating the defamation claim.

They’re not idiots. They’re making the reasonable gamble that no matter what happens, they and their families will end up on top. They’ve had a lot of practice saying shit like this. They only lost the Dominion case once Trump started altering the decision tree into explicit lies.

• High level government employees got vaccines from richer countries
• Rich people got their names added to the high level employees list
• Social distancing and telling everybody “good luck”
• Third world situations tend to weed out immuno-compromised humans fairly efficiently. So long as the higher humans survive, command and control below management level typically has 2-3 backup employees ready to take the chair.

Source: My brain and the random memories that survived the memory hunger games.

First past the post voting is the cheapest and fastest use of taxpayer dollars. Must we overburden our poorest districts with purchasing requirements for fancy smancy vote counting machines? /s

Thank you for the link!

Just copy pasting my notes from that link:

Fri Dec 4 14:11:30 2020 UTC - Hello. I started HRT this past Monday. Spiro and estradiol. Now, I didn’t do anything to change my diet at all. I eat moderately well, and drink 2L of water a day, on top of any coffee or tea I might have. That being said, I scared the absolute shit out of myself last night. I’m pretty positive it was a combination of too little sodium and too much water, and of course the spiro. I’m only on 100mg a day and hadn’t even taken my evening dose, but I got very lightheaded, dizzy and disoriented if I was walking snd turned my head at all, when turning my head my eyes felt sluggish, as if my focus was lagging slightly behind. I felt nauseous, and my heart rate elevated. Still feeling a little shitty this morning but definitely improved. I haven’t had any other changes recently other than starting HRT so I’m sure it was the spiro. I’m gonna call my nurse practitioner soon here and explain what happened, but I definitely think I want to discontinue spiro. I went through PP so I’ll have to find a different doctor if I want a different AA, but I’d like probably to use up my prescription of estradiol pills and then go on monotherapy with injections. I hate needles, but fuck, I’ll take them over what I went through last night. So of course I’ll see what the nurse says, but can I increase my estradiol dosage in lieu of taking an AA?

• chimaeraUndying 8 points - I did it for years and it worked fine.
• Check this out. I don’t know if they are using the term “oral estradiol” the way we might in oral versus sublingual though. I think they might just mean oral versus injections, patches, etc and swallowed or dissolved sublingually I’m unsure. “Hormonal Treatment of Transgender Women With Oral Estradiol” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5944393/Pulled from the footnotes in the “Medications” section here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy_(male-to-female)
• pseudomugil 1 point Tbh that sounds like not enough water. On spiro (and even not in spiro tbh) your blood pressure can drop if you don’t drink enough water. I tend to feel like that if I don’t drink 6-8 liters of water a day currently. I say not enough because spiro is a potassium sparing diuretic and as an effect of that, will dehydrate you and deplete your body of sodium. Dehydration then leads to low blood pressure which leads to disorientation, lightheadedness, and can even lead fainting (it’s happened to me before when I don’t drink enough). It’s possible taking some sodium pulled water into your bloodstream which would help, and sodium is a good idea generally on spiro. Still definitely talk to your NP about it, it’s something they need to know about, but there’s a decent to middling chance they’ll say you need to drink more water. It is a ton of water a day, yeah. There’s a reason you’ll see memes about peeing all the time on spiro.

Did you get tablets formulated for sublingual or did you have to dissolve oral tablets under your tongue?

In my opinion, injections are the gold standard. I just wanted to know if sublingual monotherapy was a possibility and if anybody had accomplished it.

Alex Consani and Valentina Sampaio walk the runway at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York on Tuesday.WWD; Victoria’s Secret; Getty Images

I just started HRT, Oral 2MG estradiol. I was just curious because I know that most of the sublingual meds are supposed to go directly into your blood stream and what heads to your liver should be minimal, as opposed to oral where the dose has to be high enough to pass through your liver.

I think I’m willing to pop them like tic tacs if needed.