@Biff@KeepTakingTheSoma Yeah, about 99%. I check her school work pretty regularly and see everything that comes home. While the state allows boys in locker rooms (pissed about this still), gender identity lessons are left up to the districts and there was a local to do over it. I also talked to parents of older kids.
I talked to her more about it and she thinks maybe it’s because they learned about sea horses this year during an ocean animals unit that he thought boys could have babies. :blobfacepalm: That being said I am constantly fighting sexist bullshit about what boys and girls can do at home.
@KeepTakingTheSoma I’m realizing after the fact that I missed a word in your sentence. I was referring to them not being taught gender identity in sex ed because they haven’t had sex ed yet (we live in an GI state). I’ve actually had a few talks with her about puberty and how babies are made here and there as she asks questions, but clearly it’s more interesting to chat with her friend.
@LaylaAlexandrovna@polarisera@djsumdog Trump seems to care more about keeping the tax cuts than anything else. The bill had that in it, so he’s happy with it. Individual Republican representatives added things based on their own constituents and companies in their districts. There is spending that is obligatory. They agreed (mostly) on rather large cuts to Medicaid over the next few years, which is actually a big ask for them to pass and they will probably pay for it next year in elections since republican districts tend to have more people on Medicaid. They always add tons to the department of defense, which imo needs a fucking audit instead since we’re talking about waste/fraud/abuse. And then apparently no one read the bill.
Besides which, Congress was never going to go along with all of the spending cuts that Trump and Doge came up with and Congress is the one who controls the budget per Constitution. The President has no control over the budget himself, but he can ask and work with Congress to implement what he wanted. Doge’s ‘cuts’ were mostly a show for the media I think.
Additionally, the Senate is already refusing to vote for the bill as is and they’re rewriting it. It’ll probably take a good portion of the summer before anything gets passed. The senate generally moves slower than the house.
The shenanigans over passing it were for the media, which has been criticizing Mike Johnson for over a year now for not passing a budget since he became the Speaker if I remember correctly.
@HebrideanHecate And that was five years ago… I reported them all as offensive. But yes, advertising online is absolutely mad. I’ve since changed how I allow my data to be used and changed browsers, etc…
I do assume it hits American women differently since we have like no ad protections at all.
@HebrideanHecate It’s so bad. It reminds me how days after my second baby was born FB hit me with a number of ads for becoming a surrogate or giving my baby up for adoption. It was creepy how everything went from happy baby ads to…. Sell your baby and your body.