Becky Ray

"I enjoy enjoying things, especially things that are enjoyable."
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[Becky Ray @beckyray]

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[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Becky Ray @beckyray]

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[Becky Ray @beckyray]

This entire album is 💕

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

David Lynch reflecting on life and the idea of death is every bit as thoughtful, curious, and profound as you’d expect.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Geddy Lee of Rush donated 600 baseballs signed by Negro League players to the Negro League museum in Kansas City

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Tootsie Roll’s recipe from 1896 requires that a batch of the previous day be incorporated into the new batch. This means that each piece has a trace of the original 1896 Tootsie Roll....

Tootsie Roll was introduced in 1896 by Austrian immigrant Leo Hirschfield and became one of the first individually wrapped penny candies in the United States. Its chewy texture and resistance to melting helped make it especially popular for mass distribution, military rations, and movie theater sales during the 20th century.

A long-circulated claim about the candy states that each new batch incorporates a portion of the previous batch, creating a continuous production chain stretching back to the original recipe. Similar “mother batch” methods have historically been used in foods such as sourdough bread, whiskey, and yogurt cultures to maintain consistency in flavor and texture over time.

Tootsie Rolls became deeply associated with American candy culture and wartime history, particularly during World War II when they were included in military field rations because of their durability and long shelf life.

The company’s mascot, the “Tootsie Roll Pop Owl,” became one of America’s most recognizable candy advertising characters after the famous “How many licks?” commercial debuted in 1969.

© History Pictures

#drthehistories

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Leaving your cat alone for an entire day is now against the law in Sweden.

According to 2026 regulations from the Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket), owners must ensure their pets' social and emotional needs are met alongside physical care.

Owners are legally required to check on and interact with their cats at least twice a day.

[cats with powerful impression 🐾 @catshealdeprsn]

No matter how much you worked, you'll never be as tired as a cat that did nothing all day.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

She didn’t sit on a throne. She didn’t pass laws. But every single day, she decided who would eat—and who would not.

For most of human history, power didn’t just live in palaces. It lived in kitchens, in rough hands kneading dough before sunrise, in women who turned raw grain into survival. Bread wasn’t just food. It was control.

In ancient Egypt, bread functioned as currency—used to pay the laborers who built empires. In Rome, entire populations were kept calm with grain handouts. When bread disappeared, governments fell. Revolutions didn’t begin with speeches. They began with hunger.

And inside the home, that power often belonged to women.

The word “lady” comes from hlaf-dige—the “giver of bread.” Not symbolic. Literal. She controlled the storehouse. She rationed flour through winter. She decided how long supplies would stretch, who would be fed first, and what was saved for tomorrow. Quiet authority, but absolute.

When crisis hit, that authority became even sharper.

During wars, shortages, and economic collapse, women turned scarcity into survival. They stretched flour with whatever they had. They baked for neighbors. They created entire support systems out of ovens and shared recipes. No titles. No recognition. But communities lived or died by what they could produce.

Even today, that legacy hasn’t disappeared—it’s just evolved. Women running micro-bakeries, feeding neighborhoods, building income from their kitchens, creating networks that look small… but carry the same ancient truth:

If you control the bread, you control survival.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Julie Goldman 🌴🥥 @MrJulieGoldman]

Dear @billmaher and anyone else who needs to hear it.

[Becky Ray @beckyray]

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[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

For decades Greenland was our peaceful ally.

Well now it's PAYBACK TIME!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is AWESOME: Greenlanders are mocking trump with "Make America Go Away" merch and saying they want NOTHING to do with the orange jackass.

trump is a global disgrace.

[Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦 @BlackHC]

A timely Soviet joke:

A man comes to a newsstand every day, scans the front page, and leaves disappointed.

One day the vendor asks what he's looking for. The man says an obituary.

"But, Comrade, the obituaries are at the back." The man replies, "Not the one I’m looking for."

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

MAGA cowards always forget the second amendment doesn't only apply to them.