Today I got my period at work with absolutely zero warning.
I did the panic walk.
Quietly asked every woman in the office if anyone had a pad.
Nothing. Not one person had anything.
At some point, one of the guys overheard me and casually said:
“Uh… I think I have some in my car.”
Turns out he keeps emergency pads there for his girlfriend.
Five minutes later, he comes back and hands me a pastry bag.
Not a grocery bag. Not just the pads.
A pastry bag.
Because he didn’t want me to feel awkward walking through the office carrying pads where everyone could see.
And somehow this man had already thought ahead enough to bring two, because:
“You’ve still got a long shift.”
Sir.
I wasn’t emotionally prepared to discover that basic kindness can hit harder than caffeine on a workday.
Sometimes the greenest flag is just someone quietly making sure your bad day feels a little less awful.
@kyouhei0608 I'm so grateful to your mother for enduring everything she did to bring you to us. 🙏
I also was born early...but I tell everyone now that I can be a little late for everything else 😂
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
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There’s an addiction destroying this country. It’s the insatiable greed of a billionaire class.
What Californians are saying is simple: At a time when millions are being thrown off health care, billionaires must start paying their fair share.
Trump didn’t fire Kristi Noem because she failed to respond to the floods in Texas which claimed the lives of at least 100 people.
He didn’t fire her because Americans were murdered by her rabid masked goons.
He didn’t fire her for posing for photos in front of human beings in cages like they were livestock.
He didn’t fire her for racially profiling Latinos, African-Americans, Arab Americans and Asian Americans.
He didn’t fire her because she was arresting legal permanent residents and US citizens and detaining them illegally.
He didn’t fire her because she was keeping children in fetid, rancid concentration camps without access to clean water, fresh food or medical care.
He didn’t fire her for turning our cities into militarized war zones.
He fired her because she made him “look bad.”
That was the red line.
None of the other things were.
Trump said, “We have the greatest economy ever in history.”
Really? What world is he living in?
60% live paycheck to paycheck.
85M are uninsured or underinsured.
800,000 are homeless.
AI could replace 100M jobs.
Just because the 1% is doing well doesn’t mean everyone else is.
“Quiet Piggy”
“You’re ugly inside and out”
“You’re a nasty woman”
“You’re so bad. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile”
These are all statements that Trump has made to female reporters.
It’s misogyny. It’s abuse. The press should refuse to cover him until he apologizes.