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she/her, demi-romantic ace, feminist, raising a transkid, adopted kid, and various foster kids, teacher, baker, blogger. Generally confused.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

The saddest part of 2016 was how many people believed the worst rumors about a woman, while ignoring the worst facts about a criminal man

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Obama: "Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I revoked Fox News' White House press credentials. Imagine if I told law firms representing those opposed to my policies: You won't be allowed in government buildings. We'll punish you economically for opposing the Affordable Care Act or the Iran nuclear deal. We'd go after students protesting my policies.

It's absurd that the same people staying silent now would have tolerated this behavior from me or many of my predecessors."

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Incredible

[Sara @SeeRedWoman1]

"Women are not a special interest group. They are half the population."

RIP Gloria Steinem, we women owe you.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Gloria Steinem, who died this week at age 92, raised awareness of the gender equity causes she helped pioneer until the very end.

"People, at my age, do ask me, you know, who am I passing the torch to? And I always say, first of all, I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much," she said in 2019 in a Brief But Spectacular take.

"I'm using it to light other torches, because everybody needs a torch; that is a way better revolutionary image than one person with a torch."

Watch more from Gloria Steinem's #briefbutspectacular take.

[emmie. ✊🏿🦝📼🕸️🧨 @emeraldappul]

this was the funniest one

[Mattie Watkins @thepeaklady]

“Mid-Century women were perfectly happy in their traditional roles!"

Actualy 1967 pharmaceutical ad:

"You can't set her free. But you can help her feel less anxious."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: What’s your reaction to the Supreme Court allowing construction of the White House ballroom?

AOC: I think the Supreme Court has demonstrated their inherent conflicts of interest with the President. This is very clearly one of the starkest examples that we have seen. There is no congressional authorization for these funds to be distributed in that way.

Congress holds the power of the purse. The finances of this matter, and how this multi-billion-dollar project was even being paid for, has never been clear from the beginning. There are enormous conflicts of interest inherent in this matter, and the Supreme Court has already ruled that they believe that the President should be able to commit crimes while he’s in office.

And I believe that they are complicit in the tearing up of many of the checks and balances that we see in the Constitution.

[Grover @Grover]

I heard that there is a monster at the end of this thread… if you stop scrolling, we will not get to it.

[Zoya @Zoyag9fc]

Someone said:

"Historically, men never provided for women, they simply restricted women from providing for themselves"

That shit hit me hard.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Pritzker: I have to worry about whether people can eat lettuce or blueberries off a grocery shelf because Trump is doing away with food inspections.

I have to track measles outbreaks because the president put a madman in charge of vaccine recommendations.

I have to monitor the movements of ICE agents because he handed guns to people who couldn’t pass a background check, frankly, to work in an animal shelter.

I have to find money that we don’t have to fight problems that didn’t exist before Donald Trump. It’s the reality of being a governor in America today. I’m not the only one.

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

For generations, Black beaches and amusement parks offered more than summer fun. Arising during the era of Jim Crow, Black-owned recreational spaces provided havens where Black people felt welcomed and secure.

Explore their history: https://t.co/1bpWB0aQ0i

[Tallow Twins | Skincare @Tallowtwins]

Now THAT is an icon.

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

They are lowering US flags to half-mast for a week, but if the government really wants to pay tribute to Dolly, they should fund education, the arts, and medical research instead of trying to eradicate them.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Misha Collins @mishacollins]

Live your life in such a way that the Empire State Building is lit in honor of the goodness you leave behind. #RIPDollyParton 🩷🦋

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

STATISTICALLY, a woman is more likely to receive a harsher sentence for killing a man than a man is for killing a woman.

It’s called “intimacy bias” and it is OVERFLOWING the prisons with women. It’s why I do what I do https://t.co/qyAZvn9Pvv

[Resistbot @resistbot]

Judge Emmet Sullivan told DOJ lawyers the Attorney General has conceded he is in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act—after DOJ withheld and redacted records, including handwritten interview notes.