Foster kids hold a special place in my heart and this story is my favorite of the day. They don't get many victories and even less recognition for their successes , so I had to share this with you all💙 .

Actually, yeah, I am tired of “winning.”

I’m making a list of all the ways that things are better today than they were two years ago. It’s alphabetical for your convenience, and will be updated as needed.

"For women between the ages of 11-50, the state requires pregnancy tests every 30 days..." I'm sorry, but the phrase "11 year old women" is stirring something dark in me. They are attempting to *legally* redefine children as adults.

When I warned this would happen years ago, I was told I was being hyperbolic. I really wish I had been wrong. @DoomScroling @Dumfukdetector @jacqui683 @ponygirl923 @PeonyPrincess27 @rePro_Truth @uranoutofluck @Kissmyazz24 @LyssAnthrope @_celia_bedelia_

Obama was never able to get the reflecting pool this green.

So, we paid to blow it up, and now we will pay to build it back?

She was 57 years old. White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject. She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home. The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene. Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it. The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her. Most people would have gone quiet. Mary Beard went further in. She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation. And she found it had always been there. In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men. She goes. Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately. Not as ancient history. As a pattern. In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts. In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches. Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country. The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life. Mary Beard had found something important. In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening. Her argument was precise and devastating. The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years. The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like. She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it. The threats continued. But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked. They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them. The room had been designed without them in mind. That is not a personal failing. That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision. And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it. Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men. He was wrong then. He is still wrong now. And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it. via The Inspireist #FeministFriday #HERstory

Community Notes remains undefeated.

In the nick of time for the celebratory weekend in the USA, here's "Trumpy Doodle" - our 250th anniversary version of "Yankee Doodle" that you can also download as a song on Bandcamp, with the lyrics: themarshfamily.bandcamp.com/… #nokings #america250 🎶🚫👑✊

Girls,as young as 13,who were pregnant & taken to TX to deny them access to comprehensive care are missing A former official claims the girls were "probably deported to their home country or a 3rd world country with their US citizen babies",but no one knows where these girls are

Where is the party that protects women and children?!?!? Anyone heard from the "pro-life" dickheads?!? This is the horrific shit that happens when you allow concentration camps to operate 🚨 REPUBLICANS DONT CARE ABOUT WOMEN AND GIRLS, WAKE THE FVCK UP .

You can fund care healthcare and armies and lots of other things when you raise enough tax and spend it wisely. This either or thing is a lie being petalled to you by rich people who don’t want to pay taxes and have no empathy for the society they live in.

This is the MAGA Dream!

Dumfuk of the day 🎖 Courtesy of @kpopnquarantine

It is abhorrent that in the wealthiest nation in the world people are forced to forgo or delay treatments for conditions like cancer, not because there are no treatments available, but because of the predatory health insurance industry & lack of access to medicaid.

The United States of America is absolutely NOT the greatest nation on earth

Guess what’s back….. DOTW TELL YOUR FRIENDS

I loan it out in June.