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Isaiah 43 🤍

[Abby💎 @Abbywillia69841]

I dropped my daughter off at a sleepover and went home to finish some work.

Around 11pm, she texted me: "Dad, did you feed the fish?"

We don't have a fish. That was our code.

"Fish" means:

"Come get me, don't ask questions here."

I grabbed my keys and drove straight over.

When I got there, I told the other parents she'd forgotten she had an early appointment tomorrow morning.

She grabbed her bag, thanked them, and got in the car.

On the way home, she told me what actually happened.

The girls had started passing around someone's older brother's Instagram messages, planning to prank call a boy from their grade and record his reaction to post online.

She didn't want to be there when it happened, and didn't want to explain that to a room full of girls who thought it was funny.

I told her: "You don't owe anyone an explanation for leaving," and she fell asleep in the car before we even got home.

Kids should always have a way out of a situation that doesn't feel right, no interrogation required, no story owed to anyone but the parent picking them up.

[sherlock💡 @itskwasi]

I wish more adults showed kids how to tie their passions to a more stable career. Can’t make it to the NBA? Why not go into sports law, sports medicine, or sports/entertainment consulting?

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Not punishing rapists in high school and/or college because of their "promising futures" is how you get a rapist for president. Twice.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.

He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.

Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.

He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.

Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.

He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.

He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.

He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.

The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.

The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.

Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.

He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.

[Nyrae @TemiXo_1]

"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers."

Let me fix that for you.

“ICE officers are raping little girls in detention centers.”

There you go.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Good question…

[heyayanda @hi_ayanda]

I love it when women have the emotional and financial resources to do this.

[vmp1re @velvtrr]

i want to live in a world where the bombs fall on pedophiles, not children.

[yas @adoomies3]

As entertaining and funny Simba was, I could never like a man who reacted to a no from Mica the way he did and the way he continued to treat her. Real scary

[ray ᥫ @papito_ray]

I’m very biased, of course I think women are objectively better than men in anything. Whatever it is, I promise you I know a woman that can do it better.

[tooflyszn @_tooflyszn]

start beliving kids man i promise no 6 year old is lying about a family member touching them, they don't even really know what it means.

[Martha Ahumuza @MarthaAhumuza]

This is exactly why you’ll find grown men glorifying their mothers’ sacrifices while having very little understanding of what those sacrifices actually cost them. I remember my aunt once telling me that leaving her job was one of the worst decisions she ever made yet her

[Mila ✧ @aip551]

Two thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women. Not because women live longer, but because estrogen protects the brain. When it’s suddenly stripped away, the brain literally shrinks. Brain fog in your 40s isn’t “just stress.” It’s a red flag. But instead of addressing hormones, women are gaslight with antidepressants or told to meditate. Fast forward 20 years and she’s in a nursing home and can’t remember her own kids. This isn’t “normal aging.” It’s medical negligence. And despite most Alzheimer’s patients being women, much of the research is still done on male mice instead of female mice. That’s not science, that’s neglect.”

[goma @soigomaa]

And then they ask "why didn't she just leave" when a woman shares her story of abuse

[🦉Hootz🐍 🇵🇸 @YngviCom]

the female body for some reason has tons of mechanisms to gain weight unrelated to consumption, the male body on the other hand has virtually none, meaning if you're fat as a man its entirely your own fault you hungry hungry hippo

[ᵍⁱˢˢᵉˡ •🍷• @goldivvy]

a ésta hermana la han arrestado más veces por defender la humanidad que a los pederastas que siguen en cargos políticos aprobando que bombardeén civiles, realmente vivimos en el infierno