RayeCarol Cavender

Assoc. Prof. of Retailing & Tourism Management @ the University of Kentucky. Inspired daily by fashion, art, music, & a serious case of wanderlust.

[Pitbull @pitbull]

Tonight we celebrate Dolly Parton…the living legend, or should I say the legend that lives forever.

We love you, Dolly.

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You x Wrecking Ball. Their last performance together and one of the greatest performances ever.

[#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper]

I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.

Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.

They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.

Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?

Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.

[Amunet @VintageSitcoms]

Two Black women celebrate after flying together as pilot and co-pilot on the same flight. Moments like this are extremely rare in aviation, and the pair made sure to celebrate! We love to see it.🖤

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

My name is Maryam Tahmasebi, and I am a professor of psychology and statistics at Los Angeles Pierce College—or, I was, until April 9, when my life, and my family’s lives, changed forever. On that day, I was teaching a class when my son texted me, saying that my husband hadn’t picked him up from school and wasn’t answering his phone, which is very unlike him. I picked my son up from school, came frantically back home, and called the police, thinking that something horrible must have happened to him. Even so, it never occurred to me that he could have been detained by ICE. We are legal permanent residents with valid green cards. My husband, Eissa Hashemi, is also a professor, and has dedicated his life to mentoring PhD students in the Business Psychology department of The Chicago School. The government had decided to punish my husband for being the son of a woman who was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before Eissa was even born.
My son and I have spent over 120 days in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, away from my husband, who was taken to the South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall, Texas. We have been put through hell for the past four months, and our physical and mental health have deteriorated in ways that might not be reversible for years. We are only allowed to speak with my husband for 10 minutes every two weeks, under supervision.
We are in tremendous pain and have been trapped in an unendurable, unending nightmare. I want my son to have a normal life, not spend his days in this awful detention center in Dilley. No child deserves this. No human deserves this. We are asking anyone with a conscience to help us end this nightmare. There are more things I want to say, but this is the shackled version of what I feel safe saying right now. I will end on this: If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

This is Roy Cooper, a Democrat in North Carolina and I think we need to help him. Please get this account out there and follow Roy. We did this yesterday with Abdul in MI and 92,000 people saw it. Let’s see if we can double that for Roy.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know who will care about what I’m saying, but the situation here in Gaza is literally spiraling out of control in a terrifying way.

We are living in an area that makes up no more than 30% of the entire Gaza Strip, and this area has been reduced to rubble and tents. We are besieged by land, sea, and air. There is no real way out and nowhere we can escape to. There are cranes and massive sand embankments surrounding Gaza, and people are living under constant surveillance and fear. You cannot leave, and you cannot choose where you want to go. All you can do is wait.

Water stations have almost completely stopped operating because fuel and oil have run out. The tents have been torn apart and worn down by the extreme heat, and people are living inside them in conditions that are impossible to describe. Hospitals have been extensively destroyed, with medicines and medical supplies unavailable, and even basic diagnostic and treatment equipment has become extremely scarce. Almost everything is prohibited from entering Gaza, and even what is allowed in is subject to approval and restrictions.

The entire education system has collapsed. Schools have been destroyed, children have been deprived of their education, and families are sleeping on the streets or living in tents that offer no protection from the extreme heat, cold, or any other danger.

The reality here is far worse than anything I can write. Words cannot convey the scale of what we are experiencing, and no single photograph can show what it is like to watch an entire city collapse before our eyes.

We are not living a normal life. We are simply trying to survive. Besieged from every direction, without a home, without safety, and without any clear way out.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Before her execution, she recorded a message for her mother:

"I want the world to know what is being done to me."

Reyhaneh Jabbari was 19 when a former intelligence officer tried to sexually assault her. She fought back. He died. She spent seven years in Evin Prison. The world signed petitions. Iran sharpened the rope. She was 26. Iran hanged her anyway.
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Under Sharia law in Iran, to prove rape, a woman must produce four male witnesses to the act itself.

Four. Male. Witnesses.

If she cannot, her accusation becomes a confession. She is no longer the victim. She is the criminal and faces flogging. Or prison. Or death.

This is not ancient history. This is the law that is still on the books today. The law that Abdul El-Sayed is asking Americans not to fear.

Women in Iran don't have a #MeToo movement. They have a noose.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

Entirely partisan. Can't tell me otherwise.

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

I want what's best for Kentucky. That's why I signed an executive order protecting against harmful impacts from potential data centers. It also empowers local communities to make decisions that are best for them. Every investment needs to be a win for our families and our future.

[Sophia Bush @SophiaBush]

Unforgivable. Our national parks are not the President’s property. They belong to all Americans. And he is ripping away our nation’s ability to have access to these places for future generations.

[Luís Figo @LuisFigo]

Today I join others from across our game and call for Gianni Infantino to resign as FIFA President.

Infantino has debased the office that he promised to elevate. He has lied, deceived and tried to feather his own nest at the expense of the game he is supposed to serve. 

He has lost the support of his senior staff, his closest advisers, the vast majority of people who devote their lives to this sport and even, it would seem, the FIFA Peace Prize winner. 

It is too late to save his dignity but it is not too late to save football. He should go. Now.

#Infantinout

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[Amnesty International @amnesty]

This mass funeral was held for 112 members of the Al-Hasayna and Abu Sharia families in Gaza City, killed in an Israeli strike on 23 November 2023. That strike reportedly killed over 300 Palestinians.

This is a chilling illustration of a pattern of Israeli attacks wiping out entire multi-generational families. It has taken so long for rescue teams to dig up the remains due to restrictions imposed by Israel on the entry of equipment required to remove the rubble of destroyed buildings, under which thousands of bodies remain trapped.
Israeli authorities must urgently allow UN bodies and human rights investigators to access Gaza to preserve evidence, as ordered by the International Court of Justice.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

حقيقةً .. هذا المشهد لا يستوعبه عقل.

لو كان هذا المشهد في مكانٍ آخر لهتزت له الدنيا.. ولكنها غزة

[Liana @ykidcmyluv]

la plupart des journalistes qui nous montraient en direct ce qu’il se passe à Gaza ont été tués par Isr*el alors qd vs tombez sur ne serait-ce qu’une seule vidéo c’est important de relayer au maximum !!!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If the Democrats don’t run this shit as an ad from now until 2028 they don’t deserve to win.

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

Todd Blanche told me privately that he “made a mistake” creating the MAGA slush fund.

I asked him about it under oath.

And he lied to Congress.

His willingness to casually lie under oath shows how far he will go to avoid offending his only boss: Donald Trump.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

🚨 Epstein survivors release powerful statement ahead of Todd Blanche's confirmation vote today.

Senator Tillis and Cornyn refused to sit down and meet with them.

"The message was unmistakeable: they wanted us to go away. We are not going away."