MJ OLEGARIO

[MJ OLEGARIO @IRONACORN]

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[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Brooklyn, 1952. Judith Love Cohen, 19, asks her high school counselor about math classes.
The counselor smiles like she’s talking to a child. “Honey, nice girls go to finishing school. Learn to pour tea.”

Judith enrolls in Brooklyn College. Engineering.
Hundreds in the lecture hall. Women: one. Her.
“Boys laughed when I raised my hand,” she said. “So I raised it higher.”

She transfers to USC. Finishes bachelor’s + master’s. Never sees another female engineering student.
Graduates 1957. Class of 800. Women: 8.
America’s engineers: 0.05% women. She’s one of them.

Then NASA calls.

1960s. Apollo needs brains. Gender? Secondary. Competence? Everything.

Judith joins the team building the Abort-Guidance System for the Lunar Module. The AGS. The “oh crap” button. If the main computer dies, this box flies you home. Or you don’t come home.

“It had to work,” she said. “Because if you needed it, you were already dying.”

Orbital mechanics. Electrical chaos. Code that can’t glitch. She lives in equations for months.

August 1968. Nine months pregnant. Still at her desk.
Coworkers: “Go home, Judith.”
Judith: “The math isn’t due. I am.”

Morning contractions start. She grabs her printouts — pages of trajectories, circuits, logic — and drives to work.
Contractions get real. Team: “HOSPITAL. NOW.”
Judith: “Fine.” Takes the printouts.

Hospital bed. Nurses walk in. She’s between contractions, scribbling on computer sheets. “Ma’am, you’re in labor.”
“I’m in math,” she says.

Then it clicks. The final bug in the AGS. Solved.
Then she pushes. Baby boy: Thomas Jacob. You know him as Jack Black.

Next day she calls her boss. “I fixed the guidance problem.” Pause. “Oh. And the baby came too.”

April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. BOOM.

Apollo 13. Oxygen tank explodes. Command Module dying. Three men crawl into the Lunar Module — built for 2 people, 1 day. They need it for 3 people, 4 days.

Primary computer stutters.
Backup comes alive.
Judith’s AGS.

It holds. Calculates burns. Aligns spacecraft. Verifies they’re not flying into deep space forever. “Without AGS, we don’t come home,” said Jim Lovell later.

April 17, 1970. Splashdown. Alive.
The world cheers the astronauts.
Inside NASA, engineers hug. “The backup worked.”
Judith’s backup.

Apollo 13 crew visits TRW to say thanks. Judith shakes their hands. No speech. Back to work.

She keeps going.

Hubble Space Telescope systems. TDRS satellites — ran 40 years. Papers. Patents. Mentors girls. Writes kids’ books: You Can Be a Woman Engineer. “Girls need to see it to be it,” she said. “TV gave them lawyers. I’ll give them astronauts.”

Raised four kids. Danced ballet with the Met Opera while doing engineering school. “My first loves,” her son Neil wrote, “were dancing and equations.”

July 25, 2016. Age 82. She’s gone.
Son Jack Black posts 2019: Photo of Mom, 1959, next to a Pioneer spacecraft. “My mom literally helped save Apollo 13. Finished the problem IN LABOR WITH ME. How do you top that?”

The counselor said “finishing school.”
Judith chose “finishing equations.”
Three astronauts owe their lives to that choice.

“They said I didn’t belong,” Judith said once. “So I built something that belonged in space. And brought them home.”

She never flew. But she made sure others could.
From a hospital bed. Between contractions. With a pencil.

[Ottawa Police @OttawaPolice]

We’re asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect following a sexual assault on Colonel By Drive, near the Mackenzie King Bridge, late Saturday night.

Dash cam footage or witness information could be critical.

🔗 Full details: https://t.co/R0W8lsi8lw
📞 Ref: Case #26-81161
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[Ottawa Police @OttawaPolice]

🚨 Hit-and-run involving a school crossing guard

Yesterday around 8:20 a.m., a crossing guard was struck near Cedarview Rd & Kennevale Dr and taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

The driver fled the scene. We are looking for a dark-coloured Ford F-150.

If you were involved, do the right thing and contact police immediately.

If you witnessed this or have dash cam/video, call 613-236-1222 ext. 2345.

https://t.co/DXfPoiCoRO
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[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

I stand with the US women’s hockey team‼️
WOMEN OF AMERICA GOLD MEDAL CHAMPIONS WILL ALWAYS BE CELEBRATED BY THE TRUE AMERICAN PEOPLE‼️

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request by the family of Jesse Jackson for the civil rights hero to lie in honor in the United States Capitol rotunda.

RETWEET if you stand with Jackson's family against Johnson!

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

May her soul rest in perfect peace 🕊️

[Am Yisrael Chai 🇨🇦 🇮🇱 @kyg_best]

🇨🇦 Update from the mother of young Maya Edmond, shooting survivor who sustained serious gunshot wounds to her head and neck:

"Day....

6?.
Idk.
I think the gravity of what's happened has finally sunk in... ive been staring at my sweet maya moon for the past 6 days.

I think I had a glimmer of hope that she might open her eyes... maybe she would recognize me..

My baby is in there.. but how much is left.
Time will only tell.

My sweet Maya.

I miss you.

To the moon, and all the stars in the sky..."

#prayformaya #tumblerstrong #mayastrong

Keep praying for Maya! 🙏

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET to honor Civil Rights Hero Jesse Jackson ❤️

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

WOW! the First Amendment Troop staged a "ResistDance" to honor Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and in front of the Kennedy Center yesterday.

Via: underthedesknews(IG)

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Apparently @elonmusk hates this Banksy.

Would be awful if we kept sharing it...

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Law enforcement threatened to kill an unarmed 17-year-old as he was leaving an anti-ICE protest in Indianapolis.

In the video, police officers stop a 17-year-old and order him out of his car.

He calmly asks why.

Instead of answering, an officer opens the car door, grabs his arm, and says:

“I will fucking kill you.”

An armed officer told an unarmed child he would kill him… with zero justification.

The teen looks visibly shocked and gets out of the car.

Officers then shove him against the vehicle and begin searching him.

After threatening his life, the officer tries to justify it by saying,

“He was reaching for a gun.”

The teen responds, “Who was reaching for a gun?!?”

They find no gun… because he never had a gun, and never reached for anything.

This police officer illegally threatened to use lethal force against a minor who committed no crime.

Which is exactly what happens when a government excuses, defends, and normalizes law enforcement aggression.

When officers know they won’t be held accountable, the threats get louder, the lies get sloppier, and the violence escalates.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: on this Super Bowl Sunday, Epstein Survivors have just released this PSA:

“Stand with us.  Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH”

Please share everywhere!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media, calling him a “real loser” for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE.

RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump!

[BlackBird444🇺🇸 @BlkBird444]

So Gainesville Middle School is okay with white students being racist towards Black students. FAFO! Let’s make this piece of ish school go viral.

[OPPA (OPP Association) @OPPAssociation]

Thank you to all the police officers, paramedics, firefighters, military, and community members lining bridges today on the Highway of Heroes to pay respect to Canadian Armed Forces Gunner Sebastian Halmagean. Video recorded at the Coroners Office beside Toronto OPP Detachment. #HighwayOfHeroes

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

The Russian army has just destroyed a maternity hospital in Zaporizhia.

I no longer know what other war crime Russia still needs to commit against Ukraine for the world to see what kind of monster Ukrainians have been standing up to for years in order to save their country.

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