Carlene

really into: leisurely adventures. being a mom. being married to @jgleman. spreadsheet formulas.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

A woman can have sex 24 hours a day every single day of her life and never get pregnant, as long as no sperm touches her. It’s not a birth control issue, it’s a sperm control issue. The person who provided the sperm should be CONSTITUTIONALLY REQUIRED to provide child support.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

The United States has cancer of the soul.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

It’s wild to me that only 5% of the entire world’s population can donate their ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL AB-type plasma through an inconvenient donation process, yet the @RedCross still makes first time donors jump through hoops versus having a simple, on-site test to make it easy.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

On a happier subject, it’s really fun to watch the revamps of my favorite kid shows with my kids. Muppet Babies absolutely holds up.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

And honestly? If you don’t want that, too, I think someone must have really hurt you to make you believe that unhappiness is better than feeling safe, loved, and happy with the people surrounding you in your community, country, and world.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

I want to see communities hanging out and helping one another with whatever needs doing, like the Amish showing up to raise barns. I want women treated as if we are more than sperm recipients. I want men to take their role as sperm providers as a sacred role, like the Aboriginals

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

Basically, I just want people to feel HAPPY. I want people to have the security of being able to pay for rent, AND buy groceries, AND still have money left over to do fun things and socialize with friends. I want people to feel safe regardless of skin color or country of origin.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

I can’t believe how angry I feel all the time. Not just right now, but for years. I love MANY individual Republicans, but as a group, that political party treats people so poorly that I can’t believe ANYONE is okay with it. Guns have more rights than Black/POC Americans or women.

[Old Head Energy @Cheamane]

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock stayed in the news cycle longer than 10 black people being slaughtered in a supermarket.

Sad.

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

What this means is a women can be the sluttliest slut in the entire world who loves having orgasms all day long and all night long and she will never find herself with an unwanted pregnancy unless a man shows up and ejaculates irresponsibly.

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

I can’t remember what the penises of men I dated for *YEARS* look like, let alone a single dick quickly flashed at me. I don’t know what scars or tattoos this fool is implying he has, but I cannot stress how quickly women forget the penises we like, let alone ones forced on us.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

The average rent in the US hit a new record high of $1,827 last month. On the federal minimum wage of $7.25 people take home $1256 a month. People aren't exaggerating when they say it's becoming unlivable here.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Malcolm X woulda been 97 today. His evergreen wisdom on “progress.”

“If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. If you take it all out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

What’s it like living in the US these days, you ask? It’s 10pm, fully nighttime, and my quiet, residential neighborhood is echoing with the sound of…well, I’ll let you pick:

1. A shotgun blast
2. A rogue, LARGE firework
3. Some other loud explosion

No big deal? Huge deal? 🤷‍♀️

[Carlene @CarleneGleeeman]

I am so heartbreakingly sick of living in fear all the time. I can’t stand having people tell me “just focus on the positive” when my fellow human beings who are Black/POC are LITERALLY HUNTED by other human beings. I’m scared to enroll my child in school bc of men w/guns. NO.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

NEW: The House has passed a bill to crack down on price gouging at gas stations by a vote of 217-207. Every single republican voted NO.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Republicans complain about high gas prices. Then they vote against cracking down on price gouging at the pump.

Republicans complain about the baby formula shortage. Then they vote against funding for baby formula.

They don’t want solutions, they want problems to campaign on.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

your reminder that if Germany can teach its children about the Holocaust, America can teach its children about racism

[Leila Sales @LeilaSalesBooks]

Give your male kids books about girls.
Give your white kids books starring POC.
Give your able-bodied kids books with disabled characters.
Don't think "these books are important for people who need to see themselves represented." These books are important for all of us.