I just want to scream or maybe just cry. I've been trying to find my daughter help for Selective Mutism and can't seem to get anywhere. She's been previously dropped by a therapist and now I can't seem to find one who can confidently help her. I've called several places who say they don't think

Happy Friday!

Enjoying this cool, drizzly day before the weather goes back to the mid 90s later this week.

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

I keep being told that I'm too young to be in perimenopause, but why tf do I keep waking up at 3am every night hot and can't sleep? Why do my ears itch? Why do I have brain fog? I haven't been myself for several months now and get told to sleep more. It's not working.

Stop voting for Republicans who give these corporations tax breaks. 🤬 They make bank while we get screwed.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

We keep checking our voter registration here in Nevada. So far so good. DHS needs to back off. Nevada is very strict about voting.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last wk.

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

Happy Friday!

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

Absolutely loving these thunderstorms. 🥰 We had a crazy downpour, so my plamts are happy. Super gross water going down the street though. Yuck.

Felt like a Disney princess as I was trimming off a couple dead branches from our tree in the front yard, and had 3 hummingbirds that kept flying around me. I love hummingbirds. 💜

Can I just get a break from medical issues? That'd be great. My shoulder is starting to feel quite a bit better(yay!), but now my Lymphatic Malformation has flared up. Wtf. Can my body just be normal for a bit? Just do what it's supposed to do. That's all I'm asking. 😢😂🤞

Happy Friday!!

Today's radical seed planting: bought an extra copy of Never Again, For Anyone - a book I really wish had existed when I was a kid - and put it in a Little Free Library.

FFS please say this isn't real. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Stay away from my medication that stops me from bleeding out. Aholes.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

Only a few days before Lee Zeldin reassured energy execs that the government would no longer prioritize protecting public health, the EPA announced a new study that would test the country’s water supply for abortion medication, contraception, and hormones used in gender-affirming care.

Yay for positive things. 1 - I finally slept through the night. The muscle relaxer helped a lot. 2 - The IRS **FINALLY** gave us our tax refund!! It took them months to verify our account. Hope to never deal with that again.

It may not be in the news often anymore, but the cruelty is still going. 💔🤬 These people are evil.

S.E. Danesti@seedanesti.bsky.social · 3w ago

Two teenage U.S. citizens were beaten and detained by ICE agents on their way to a recruiting station to enlist in the Marines.

Went to CVS minute clinic and was prescribed some muscle relaxer to take at night. I just want to be able to sleep through the night. My neck/shoulder pain has been waking me up at 3 am. I somehow hurt my trapezius muscle and it's been rough. Hoping to get rest tonight.

Monday morning

Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yesterday we went to a Mexico Independence Day celebration at a local place. Mariachi, other music, and good food. We always try to expose our kids to both cultures and I'm so glad we went. It was fun.

A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.

Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says

The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case.

washingtonpost.com

I'm having deja vu. Election day is just 2 months away and Democrats are infighting. People are refusing to vote for candidates unless they tick off every box that they want. FFS please don't. That's how we got here and I'm tired. Do we not learn?

This has been the most awful week. Between being sick and having more medical issues, I've been on the struggle bus. I'm so exhausted. I don't know what's going on with my body, but I'd really like to get back to feeling normal please.