Every instance of child marriage forecloses a world of possibilities for a young girl—and every year, 12 million girls are married before their 18th birthdays. These girls are robbed of the opportunity to grow up safe and healthy and to pursue an education. In turn, the world loses their participation, their talents, and their ideas.
I am so grateful to @FirstLadyBio for her work to champion today's adopted U.N. resolution to establish an International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage. As First Lady of Sierra Leone, she has led her country to push for change alongside Cape Verde, Costa Rica, and Morocco.
Child marriage remains one of the most urgent, preventable violations of girls’ rights. Today's resolution is an important step in the fight to recognize the right of girls and young women to freely and boldly decide their own futures.
We need even more resources and more political will to tackle this scourge. Everyone who sees this message can become a part of ending child marriage.
A great place to start is by reading @ColumbiaIGP’s report on Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage, which I was proud to collaborate on with Dr. Maada Bio and @sherylsandberg earlier this year. Find it here: https://t.co/XTR45y8DGi
Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You x Wrecking Ball. Their last performance together and one of the greatest performances ever.
When Dolly Parton lost the Oscar to Three Six Mafia, she sent them a letter congratulating them and saying she was proud they brought it home to Tennessee.
One of one. Never to be equaled.
Dolly Parton on supporting the LGBTQ+ community (2016): “I do not believe we should criticize and judge other people. If you’re the fine Christian you think you are, why are you judging people? I just think we should be more loving, more caring. We are who we are. If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight. You should be allowed to be how you are and who you are”
There are 0 trans athletes in the WNBA but there are a bunch of women who were assaulted by Epstein and his buddies and the president is covering it up.
Sounds like a bigger issue, no?
Don't be silly. Since the IOC has created a rule for trans athletes to compete in 2003, over 81,000 people have become Olympians. Out of those 81,000 Olympians a total of 2 have been trans women & one came dead last the other came 37th out of 42.
There isn’t a single trans or intersex woman dominating her sport.
There are more active Ku Klux Klan chapters than trans athletes in America.
There are more states where child marriage is legal than trans athletes in America.
There have already been more school shootings in 2026 than trans athletes in America.
There are more antigovernment extremist groups in almost every single state than trans athletes in America.
George Lopez: “I don’t follow the Lakers anymore. Mark Walter owns detention centers, runs them for profit. Also owns the Dodgers. As soon as I found that out, I disassociated myself from the Dodgers and the Lakers. I lost two teams in one week”
Jiang: There is a difference though an existential difference between criticizing the press and trying to undermine it. One is healthy and it makes all of us better. The other is exactly what the founders hoped to prevent.
ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say. https://t.co/Kwt8CdMwRf
Psaki: Now, in order to put on this celebration, Trump is using $68 million of taxpayer money. At least some of that money is being paid to a company called Event Strategies Incorporated. It's run by a group of Trump allies. We don't know how responsible they are for the 68 million of your tax dollars going towards this event. But so far, that money has paid for a janky ferris wheel plagued by power outages, a couple of tents with chairs in them, a temu version of Trump's planned arch, which appears to be falling apart and seems like it's being held together with a slapdash sealant job and, of course, some bizarre entertainment, half of which seems to just be Trump officials sitting on stage, basically filling the time. So how much of that $68 million actually went to the state fair, and how much to Event Strategies Incorporated did they get to keep for themselves?