😊 @PhoenixWildish 👋 Love seeing the #SmokefleetAirborne logo😍 #Smokefleet #UnitedWeStand

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

The rumors are true. We are all @theliamnissan burner accounts, aiming for as many followers as possible so he can switch seamlessly without losing reach. Cut off one head, and another will rise. You’ll have to do a lot of cutting to get rid of us! #Smokefleet #NAFO

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-…

Even if it takes me 20 years I'll follow back anybody who reposts this thread

No other president in US History has ever been this rude, insulting or ignorant! Repost if you agree

Twitter acting shocked that the Georgetown and Yale-educated son of a six-term senator, two-term VP and one-term president is intelligent, well-informed and a good communicator

Para ocultar atrocidades como esta — raptaron a Maduro & Cilia, bombardearon Irán, hundieron barcos en el Caribe, y amenazan con invadir Cuba. Ninguna de sus acciones ocultará el hecho: él es un pedófilo. 🔥💀🎯👁️ La verdad no se ahoga. 🌊🕯️ #epsteinsbestfriend

As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career Raped Cannibalized Trafficked Filmed Terrorized Tortured Murdered 13, 14, 15 year children Jeffery Epstein has every major politicians and billionaires on video doing something terrible to a child or to multiple people. THOUSANDS have been arrested for criticising Zionism. THOUSANDS have been arrested for social media posts. ZERO have been arrested for raping children. The bottom line here is the world system has become so corrupt that the time has come I think to clean the crap out of the stables and start over. I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.

Former UK government minister and investigative writer Norman Baker served as a member of the UK parliament from 1997 to 2015 and is the author of ‘Royal Mint, National Debt: The Shocking Truth About The Royals’ Finances’. He claims that, while Prince Andrew’s behavior caused an international scandal, King Charles III's use of public funds and highly dubious financial practices makes him "a bigger crook" in terms of financial self-enrichment than Andrew and is currently worth £1.8 billion (That’s 1,800 million folks and you are mostly lucky to have just one!) Yet he and William scrounge millions more from wealthy honorific chasers and dispense that to keep a benevolent image alive and well while also keeping the mob quiet bout the monarchy’s usefulness. Baker also examines the secrecy that surrounds the Duchy of Cornwall and Prince William’s stewardship of this billion pound estate. The Duchy of Cornwall is NOT a private estate as they claim. It really belongs to the people. Private estates pay capital gains tax and corporation tax, and they don’t get regulated by Acts of Parliament. Constitutional lawyers agree they aren’t private. And the Royals were legally prohibited from owning private land before 1800, so the Duchy couldn’t have been private before then, and there’s been no Act of Parliament since to make it so. What’s happened is that the crown has quietly grabbed it through a bureaucracy that chooses (or whose well-looked-after elite are persuaded) not to act, and we’ve let them get away with it. Prince William, he who owns at least seven fully cared for luxurious houses and mansions and much more besides, takes around £23 to £25 million a year from the Duchy, roughly 150 times the Prime Minister’s salary, for which he is accountable to nobody. He pays tax on it voluntarily, at a rate he declines to disclose. The exception was a convenient briefing to The Sunday Times under pressure that he paid £7m tax on it last year. This seems a very low and one-off number he suddenly discloses.. Meanwhile, he charges charities rent, the taxpayer funded Navy to refuel warships at Plymouth and charges Dartmoor Prison £1.5 million a year in rent on a building that currently has nobody in it and it is maintained by the taxpayer. He has loaded his advisory board with investment bankers and property developers, and his priority is clearly maximising his personal income from the Duchy rather than carrying out public duties. The politicians know all this and do nothing. Guess why! There hasn’t been a proper parliamentary debate on royal finances since 2011. Labour has a majority and a Public Accounts Committee inquiry already underway. If they don’t use this moment, the conclusion is obvious: no government will claims Baker. So, when you wonder about all the claptrap about helping the homeless and being passionate about this and that charity be well aware thereis only one clear cut secret objective. Charity begins at home. Keep the masses happy and that way everything stays as it is and the royals continue building their obscene wealth higher and higher and continue using the royal press to fool the general public and the taxpayer to fill their cellars and larders.

You have to visit my profile regularly if you want to see my tweets. It's the only way. Elon has me on his shit list. Retweet for visibility

For fuck sake - I wish y'all would learn real history.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by formally apologizing for the Church's role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries, calling it a "wound in Christian memory." This is truly historic and Republicans are furious... “It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord. For this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon," Leo wrote in “Magnifica Humanitas,” his much-anticipated first encyclical. While previous popes have apologized for the Christian involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, none has ever delivered such a direct apology for the broader role that the Church played in the survival of that deeply evil institution. The Vatican at times gave European monarchs express permission to colonize and enslave foreign peoples, slathering their brutal crimes against humanity in a veneer of Christian piety. In the 15th century, Pope Nicholas V went so far as to give the Portugese throne authority to subjugate and rob “Saracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ” as well as "reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.” Leo took that history on head-first— "Already in the early modern period, the Apostolic See of Rome, responding to the requests of sovereigns, intervened several times in order to regulate and legitimize forms of subjugation, and, in certain cases, including the enslavement of ‘infidels,'" he wrote. "In the development of her doctrine, the Church has gradually come to a deeper awareness of the gravity of these issues," Leo stated. "It is true that past events cannot be judged anachronistically, as though the moral criteria that matured over time had always been available. Yet neither can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery." He added that it "took eighteen centuries" for the Church to "explicitly" recognize its "full incompatibility with slavery." “This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached,” Leo added. The pronouncement has already been met with outrage from many members of the online right, who believe that the Western world should never apologize for anything it's done, not even slavery. Social media is aflurry with MAGA accusations that Leo has succumbed to "suicidal empathy" and "white guilt." These are the same people who believe that the Civil War was fought for "states' rights" and that the Confederacy was an admirable endeavor. “For descendants of enslaved persons, this is once again a much needed apology from the pope,” said Anthea Butler, senior fellow at Oxford University's Koch History Center. She added that the apology empowers Leo to “speak to the current issues of technological enslavement.” The Pope's slavery apology was part of a much lengthier document whose title translates to "Magnificent Humanity." It's largely focused on humanity's roles and responsibilities as artificial intelligence reshapes the world around us. Leo connected the topic to slavery by warning that these emergent technologies are leading to new forms of human exploitation and debasement, as neocolonialist labor practices are implemented to provide the rare minerals necessary to build AI chips. The situation in the Congo is particularly dire, with untold masses of men, women, and children being paid next to nothing — and in some cases nothing at all — to work in inhumane, unhealthy conditions mining cobalt. While so many of our world leaders are failing to confront the challenges and evils of the modern world, Pope Leo is boldly leading the way. Please ❤️ and share if you're a big fan of Pope Leo!

RT @Natasha_Brynn1: Four month ago, Alex Pretti was murdered by Donald Trump’s ICE. RETWEET to honor Pretti’s life of service ❤️ https://t…

Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy. RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

You know what to do, gang…

huffpost.com/entry/released-… “At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app. “While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was. Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500 pardons and slush fund payoffs.