The Women's Pro Baseball League has announced the identities of its four inaugural teams: the Boston Hunters, the New York Heights, the Los Angeles Queens, and the San Francisco Firebells.
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@maggielove_ I won’t share photos of friends and family here but I appreciate your enthusiasm!! And honestly I was thinking more of strangers whose phones I’m borrowing to help take photos of them. 🙂
You should study what makes you defensive. The topic you avoid, the joke that irritates you, the question that feels insulting, the feedback you instantly reject. Defensiveness is usually the guard dog sitting in front of a weakness you have not trained yourself to face.
The association of black people with inherent creative and athletic genius, as well as Asians with inherent academic genius, are prime examples of how sociological inputs n outputs are naturalized into appearing organic. Race science in essence
In the spirit of 4th of July, read this except from Nnamdi Azikiwe (the 1st President of Nigeria) reflecting on his time in America.
Opportunities in Nigeria under British colonial rule were limited. So in 1925, Azikiwe came by ship to the U.S for higher education. He was only 21 years old.
Life wasn’t easy for him in the new country. While there, he worked menial jobs to get by and pay for school. He also experienced discrimination & lived under segregation at the time.
But he gained so much too. He made lifelong friends, found mentors & discovered more of himself through public speaking, writing and taking on leadership roles at school.
When he left the U.S. 9 years later, he was moved to tears, writing, “My life is a testimonial that Americans shared life's pleasures and walked the honest road with me… I am a living witness”
These experiences shaped him & shaped Africa: He founded UNN (the first indigenous Nigerian university), modeled after the American education system. He started West African Pilot, a publication that revolutionized journalism & challenged colonial rule.
No, America wasn’t perfect, but his story reminds us that it has long been a place where people from anywhere can grow into their fullest potential through hard work & “pioneering” spirit.
America took a young man with no fortune or fame & helped shape him to someone who changed history.
As Azikiwe wrote, “It is only in the United States that any human being can live in a free environment which will give that individual full scope to develop his personality to the full, in spite of the vagaries of human life.”
To me, that's one of America's greatest strengths. For 250 years, it has never stopped re-examining itself, improving & growing. Here's to the next 250.
Happy America Day!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
I doubt many people are going to read the 55-page report "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday" put together by Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee so here's how it ends
everyone needs to be kinder to strangers because it’s fucking up the collective, a man just asked for my number because i told him to have a good day like