@Indigo_Girls any chance of you doing "american Tune" in hershey? You babes would kill it. And, this song... now?... so good. I can't wait to be with you and everyone. So much love ❤️
@TheHersheyBears Maybe make that announcement about "no leaning forward, during play" THROUGHOUT the game? Like the beginning of each period or something?
I wish we listened (heard) the voices of the dying, more. They speak truth, while we imagine ourselves invincible. Until we're not. Love, and let them know they are loved. A simple thing, yet so hard, for whatever reason.
Thirty-five female journalists crowded into the White House Red Room that March day.
There weren't enough chairs. Many sat on the floor.
Male reporters watched from the doorway, smirking. The manager of the Associated Press said these gatherings wouldn't last six months.
Eleanor Roosevelt's strategy was brilliantly simple: If news organizations wanted access to the First Lady—if they wanted to know what was happening inside the White House—they would have to hire female reporters.
No exceptions.
At first, she covered household topics. But when Prohibition ended and reporters asked the President if beer would be served at the White House, FDR smiled and said two words:
"Ask Eleanor."
She announced the answer at her next women-only press conference.
Male reporters had to beg their female colleagues to tell them what the First Lady said.
Week after week, she made real news. She defended equal pay for equal work, low-cost housing, civil rights, and the minimum wage.
The tactic worked spectacularly.
The Associated Press brought on Bess Furman. United Press hired Ruby Black. The New York Herald Tribune sent Emma Bugbee for a few days—she stayed for months, her stories landing on the front page.
Over twelve years, Eleanor Roosevelt held 348 women-only press conferences.
Ruby Black called it "a New Deal for newswomen."
But Eleanor wasn't finished rewriting history.
After FDR's death in 1945, President Truman appointed her as a delegate to the United Nations.
Her male colleagues assigned her to a committee they considered unimportant—humanitarian and cultural concerns.
They assumed she'd do the least harm there.
They were wrong.
She was unanimously elected to chair the UN Commission on Human Rights.
For three years, she navigated Cold War politics and united 18 nations with competing interests to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly voted.
Forty-eight nations in favor. Zero opposed.
When it passed, every delegate rose to give Eleanor Roosevelt a standing ovation.
She called it "an international Magna Carta for all mankind."
She considered it her greatest achievement.
And she was right.
From a woman who sat in a parlor with female reporters on the floor—to the architect of the document that defines human dignity for all humanity.
Eleanor Roosevelt didn't just break glass ceilings.
She built ladders so others could climb up after her.
I was "corrected" in my early years that John Lennon's murder wasn't "assassination"... well, something changed in the psyche of some. No one should have their life ended. But, let's stop with the "them" vs "us" bullcrap
I always have subtitles on. The inclusion of hearing impaired, is greatly appreciated, as far as representation. But, why isn't the language interpreted in the subtitles?
So, I'm rather ignorant in this debate. If the Republicans get rid of social security, do I receive a lump sum, equal to what I paid into it (with interest), or what?
I can't imagine that They didn't borrow against it. So, ALL of the workers, since 1935, paying into a financial net, will just be screwed?
What about all these forced births, bringing on a financial burden to the mother/father who can't afford it?