Just saw Barbie. It was fantastic!! I feel bad for conservatives who didn't understand it. If you thought that movie was making fun of men, I'm sorry, but you really didn't get it. It's a shockingly smart movie. It's not just about female empowerment, it's an ode to humanity.
@freelancelawmom I have been working in federal court for 17 years and the abuse of power and just demeaning treatment of staff by judges is staggering.
In any event, there are at least three *must read* pieces today that I am working my way through.
First up: @michaelharriot read all 216 pages of Florida's critical white theory curriculum and highlighted the worst bits.
https://t.co/LbqHOjXv4Q
@FOXSoccer@FOXSports Y’all just want to be mad to be mad. Doesn’t matter. You weren’t going to watch anyway. And they’re gonna still rack up record viewership. Have fun in your pathetic hate spiral.
One of the earliest photos of a surfer at Waikiki Beach, carrying an alaia board in 1898.
While reading about the history of surfing, I came across this passage in a travelogue called "Roughing It" by Mark Twain, which was published in 1872. Apparently, Twain was one of the earliest writers to have witnessed surfing in the Hawaiian Kingdom. He writes:
"In one place, we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment, he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express-train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed.
I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too, but missed the connection myself. The board struck the shore in three-quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me. None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly."
Fans at a mall in the Philippines respond to Women's National Team's first-ever World Cup goal—which proved to be match-winner—in tournament debut. World Cup's ability to trigger these moments of shared, spontaneous joy always something to behold. 🇵🇭🙌❤️
https://t.co/Uh8OOn02ak
"An obvious lesson from the gargantuan success of both “Barbie” and the Eras Tour is that there is a huge, underserved market for entertainment that takes the feelings of girls and women seriously." https://t.co/1E1mtYMoVX