I think about this thread often, especially when on social media, because it doesn't matter how trivial or important, whatever a woman posts, men will chime in to disagree or debate. We need a term for this so I'm calling it hesisting.
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Fairy tales remind us that princesses aren’t simply waiting. They’re transforming, choosing, fighting, grieving, learning. A crown only shines because someone survived to wear it. #FairyTaleTuesday
Art: Mikhail Vrubel
Queens in folklore rarely stay still. They wander forests, cross seas, descend into underworlds. Movement is their inheritance; freedom is their true crown. #FairyTaleTuesday
Art: Rackham! :)
Fairy tales rarely tell the whole truth about queens. Behind every jeweled crown is a woman who survived politics, curses, betrayals, and expectations sharp enough to draw blood. #FairyTaleTuesday
Art: Warwick Goble
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
I've been warning Democrats about this all along. Maybe now that Mrs. Obama is saying it, people will listen. Just as Michelle says, America isn't ready for a woman president.
America was sexist before it was racist. When the bulk of women began arriving in the colonies from all over Europe, most were indentured servants just like the first Africans. Women were second class citizens from the start. They have never been equal in America.
Sexism has been a part of Western culture going back many centuries. Black men, even after being enslaved for two hundred years, were voting for fifty years before the first woman was allowed to vote in 1920.
Sexism runs deep in America and it's not just confined to the Republican party. The belief in the superiority of males over females holds a powerful grip on men.
They use it to justify their discrimination against women. People need to stop fooling themselves.
America has put forth two of the most qualified people in the country to lead the nation in Hillary and Kamala, and they couldn't get elected. Both were defeated by one of the most immoral and corrupt men in the country.
There will one day be a female president just as we finally elected an African American one. But not now. America has a lot of growing up to do.
BREAKING: 24 Epstein Victims Just sent this letter to Congress.
Only a sick person would try and cover these files up:
"Dear Esteemed Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives,
We write to you as the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and as fellow survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators. You have the ability to vote to release the Epstein files, and with it, deliver a promise the American people have awaited for far too long. We implore you to do so.
Several weeks ago, when a few brave survivors stood before you and recounted their harrowing stories, many of you were shaken to your core. We urge you, when you cast your vote, please do not forget the horror you felt that day.
There is no middle ground here. There is no hiding behind party affiliation. The testimonies you heard are just a fraction of the unimaginable suffering endured by more than a thousand victims alike.
Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes exposed a double standard of justice, where rich and powerful men and women evade repercussions. Despite years of work to bring them to justice, most of Epstein and Maxwell’s co-conspirators remain completely free, continuing to amass power and prestige, living without apparent shame.
As you gather with your family this season, remember that your primary duty is to your constituents. Look into the eyes of your children, your sisters, your mothers, and your aunts. Imagine if they had been preyed upon. Imagine if you yourself were a survivor. What would you want for them? What would you want for yourself? When you vote, we will remember your decision at the ballot box.
This last April, we lost our sister Virginia, a true American hero and a beacon of strength to survivors everywhere. Her resilience in the face of immense adversity—the threats to her life, financial ruin, and public shaming—inspired us all. Her courage brought this case to a monumental turning point, and her testimony exposed the lurid secrets of a global sex trafficking network. In doing so, she brought down a prince, and paved the way for us to come forward and fight. Virginia was failed over and over by the systems that consistently believed and supported her abusers over her. Today, we urge you not to fail another survivor and deny them justice any longer.
Embody Virginia’s courage. Be brave and stand for her, in her absence. Vote YES on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Vote for justice, accountability, and the truth.
With gratitude, respect, and resilience, from survivors and the family and friends who love them."
Schumer is a NO on the CR. Why?
Brilliant political strategy & tactics.
Schumer and Dems knows this CR is dead on arrival in House and will Divide GOP
Will be able to say: Dems compromised, GOP can't control own members and can't govern.
Schumer/Dems playing long game.
So here’s a weird one. JD Vance and Peter Thiel have been running their own little GOP think tank out of a small Ohio town since 2019. The Washington Post says the group, called the Rockbridge Network, is made up of conservative billionaires, media figures, and donors trying to build a MAGA movement that keeps going long after Trump’s gone.
Their plan is to win every election with 55% of the vote, build their own media empire, and use “strategic litigation” to tilt the laws in their favor. The group’s led by venture capitalist Chris Buskirk — who’s teamed up with Trump Jr. and calls his plan “aristopopulism,” which sounds like an SAT word for “rich populism.”
They’ve already got their eye on Vance as Trump’s heir apparent for 2028, but it’s not hard to see how this setup could get messy fast.
Via Kyle Meredith
Meanwhile, in New York, before the polls close, the millionaires and billionaires are freaking out. Maybe they will all move to Texas; New York couldn’t be so lucky. #DemsUnited
If you’re reading this and thinking you’ve got nothing left in the tank…good.
That means you’ve finally burned through the lies…because real power never shows up until you’re out of excuses.
You say you’re tired. So what? Every champion who ever lived was tired.
Every empire-builder…every mother holding a family together with duct tape and coffee…every entrepreneur crawling through their own hell..all of them hit that wall.
The difference is, they didn’t decorate it and call it home. They kicked it down.
You think the world’s stacked against you? It is. Always has been. The universe doesn’t hand out participation ribbons; it hands out problems wrapped in razor wire and dares you to solve them.
The winners aren’t the smartest or the prettiest…they’re the stubborn ones who decide, “I will outlast this storm.”
Pain isn’t your enemy; it’s the toll booth on the road to dominance. Every bruise you’ve taken has been teaching you something you couldn’t learn from a comfort zone.
Most people run from pain and end up slaves to mediocrity. You? You stand there…bleeding and breathing…because deep down you know the truth…this is the price of becoming unbreakable.
Here’s the secret nobody tells you when you’re dangling by that last thread: the rope isn’t what’s holding you up. You are.
That rope can snap tomorrow..and you’ll still be here…fists clenched..eyes forward…because the power was never in the rope…it’s in your refusal to let go.
So stop waiting for motivation. It’s a fair-weather friend. Discipline is the bulldog that drags you through the rain.
Decide what matters…and execute like your life depends on it…because it does. Your future, your family…your freedom…they all ride on what you do when no one’s clapping.
Every morning…look in the mirror and ask, “Am I the victim or the democracy warrior?” Then act accordingly. Victims whine. Democracy warriors move.
And here’s the best part…you don’t need anyone’s permission to reload.
You’re not done. You’re not broken. You’re being tempered. The heat you’re feeling right now? That’s the forge where the next version of you gets hammered into existence.
If you quit now…you’ll never meet that person.
So get up. Drink some water. Shout if you have to. But then go do one thing…just one…that proves you’re still in the fight.
Send the email. Make the call. Lift the damn weight. Do something. Momentum is medicine.
When the world pushes…push back harder. When fear whispers “give up,” snarl, “you first.”
Tie a knot at the end of that rope…bite down..and climb. Because history doesn’t remember the comfortable…it remembers the relentless.
Melani is back with a very important and beautiful message to women today.
This is the You Are Not Alone Edition.
These messages are different from her normal ones, but they are so, SO important and powerful. ❤️🙏
Please share, and pass this message on to women who need to hear it. ❤️❤️
#WDNC
WOW... JUST WOW...
In order to justify invoking the insurrection act in Portland, Oregon, trump faked a riot with professional videographers, the military and hired extras.
Sen. Jeffrey Merkley tells us what happened :
California just became the first state in America to manufacture and sell its own insulin — for $11.
No Big Pharma middlemen. No $300 price tag. Just life-saving meds, priced like a human right.
And MAGA’s mad about it. Why? Because greed is their religion.
The thing about Republicans, at least today’s Trumplicans, is that they don’t know what it means to fight for something they love — only for what they want to suppress, and against what/who they hate. They have dug themselves so deep down a rabbit hole of grievances, anger, bigotry, and that inescapable reality has forced them to quadruple down on their own misery. We will not capitulate…