Read this slowly.
Before her passing from stomach cancer, the iconic designer Cressida Rodriguez left behind a chilling reminder of what actually matters when the curtain falls:
"I had the most expensive cars parked in my garage, but now I move in a wheelchair."
"My closets were filled with couture and luxury, but my body is now wrapped in a standard hospital gown."
"I had millions in the bank, but not a single dollar could purchase a second of extra time."
"My home was built like a palace, yet I finish my life in a narrow hospital bed."
"I used to sign autographs for crowds, but today I only sign medical consent forms."
"I used seven personal stylists for my hair, and now I have none left to comb."
"I flew across the world on private jets, but now it takes two people just to help me reach the doorway."
"I could feast on anything on earth, yet my dinner has shrunk to two pills and a few drops of saline."
"None of the fame, the money, the cars, or the glory can comfort you in the end. There is nothing more real than life, and nothing more certain than death."
You are richer than you think if you woke up today with breath in your lungs, strength in your legs, and a quiet plate of food in front of you.
Do not wait for a diagnosis to start appreciating the ordinary. Hold your health close, cherish the people around you, and be deeply grateful for the simple gift of today.
🚨 ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY! 4 people went in for routine knee surgery in Nashville and woke up PARALYZED FROM THE CHEST DOWN. Staff injected potassium chloride directly into their spines instead of anesthesia! A "pharmacy error" destroyed these lives. "Sorry" doesn't cut it! 🇺🇸🙏
Black residents in Gary, IN have been without power for 11 days. The federal government is failing to meet the immediate needs of the people. Trump hasn’t said a word. Grocery store shelves are empty, seniors are at risk, and basic needs are not being met.
We are all Gary
Chasing Jesus and becoming a better person. When your a great person you can help other people become a great person. Always treat people with respect 💯
Walmart customers paid the additional cost of the tariffs, but Walmart gets a $2.9 billion tariff refund to pad their profits.
This is what a system designed by billionaires to benefit billionaires looks like.
An 18-year-old was accused of pointing a gun at an officer and faced an attempted murder charge. But body camera footage reportedly showed him cooperating and had his hands raised the entire time! Prosecutors dropped the charges. Imagine if that footage didn’t exist. The proper use of body cameras should be NON-NEGOTIABLE.
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler:
“Over the last 40 years, the US has been exposed to something that our biology was never intended to handle: Energy dense, highly palatable, rapidly absorbable 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 that have altered our metabolism and resulted in the greatest increase in chronic disease in our history.”
The food industry is poisoning us for profit and causing a massive spike in diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure.
They add chemicals, preservatives, and artificial colorings to our food in order to cut costs because under our capitalist system their sole priority is profit, not the people’s nutritional health.
But why would our government allow the food industry to poison us? Because our government and both parties are bought off by the corporations making our food.
This is the core problem with allowing capital to control the government. Every law, every budget, and every decision made prioritizes corporate profits over the health, safety and well-being of the people.
There’s still good in the world.
These three young men spotted and helped an elderly woman and her husband into their car.
This is what REAL MEN look like.
Congratulations to State Rep. @Justinjpearson on your primary victory.
Tennessee Republicans blindly followed Trump’s demand to rig the map and hold onto power.
Courageous leaders like you will help us crush these Jim Crow-like tactics and restore the promise of America!
You REDUCE crime by eliminating POVERTY. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
The racists in the Tennessee State House tried everything they could to stop this man.
They expelled him. And the voters sent him right back.
Then they redrew his district.
Now, voters have chosen him as their Democratic nominee for Congress. Congratulations Justin Pearson!
This is ridiculous! A father says he and his children were questioned and had the police called on them at a pool despite showing proof that they belonged there. No family should have to endure humiliation or fear while simply enjoying time together. Children should be making memories at the pool. Instead, this young boy is in tears, watching his parent explain why they belong there.
🎥: Leo Sullivan
This is huge: Under Mayor Brandon Scott and Governor Wes Moore, Baltimore just had the fewest homicides ever recorded in the month of July. Democrats are lowering crime, and delivering safer communities.
Viola Davis and Julius Tennon have invested $1.2 million to establish the Mary Alice Davis Family Engagement Center in Central Fall, the community that raised her. Named in honor of her mother, the center will expand on an existing food pantry that already serves 3,000 people monthly. They will also offer workforce development, financial literacy programs, and family support services. Viola said it best. Every person deserves to be seen.
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This girl led protests against a ban on Afro hair for Black girls at her school in South Africa... and won.
At just 13 years old, she stood up to discriminatory school policies that treated natural African hair as "unacceptable."
Black hair is beautiful. Black identity is not up for debate.
I’m asking for prayers for our 32-yr-old pregnant daughter who suffered a stroke from clots in the brain a week ago. It has been a very difficult week of ups and downs, but mostly downs.
Last night her brain was swelling again, clots were reforming and getting bigger and bleeding was increasing, so they took her in for a second surgery to remove the clots, which was a successful surgery. But then her brain started swelling too much overnight so they made the decision to remove the left half of her skull to give her brain room to expand. Now it’s a waiting game.
Our Kaylie has a 2 1/2 yr old daughter at home who loves her mommy very much. Plus, I can’t imagine life without my eldest daughter, whom I love more than words can express. We believe in the power of prayer, so please join us in asking our Heavenly Father for the brain swelling to go down, for the clots and bleeding to stop and for Kaylie to wake up and recover fully.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.