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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.

Apparently like every day.

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships.

There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

You’re Not Too Strong, Smart, or Pretty to Be Raped: A Survivor’s No-BS Guide to Ending Gender-Based Violence  ~ L.A. TACO "We must acknowledge that [society] works by promoting perpetual war against girls, women, and femmes," writer and survivor Myriam Gurba says. "Your job is to decide which side of the war you’re on an...

I wrote this as a call to care and a call to arms. 💚

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“While I’m often tempted to kill rapists, I make art instead.” If you truly care about all the survivors in your midst (we’re here, we’re everywhere), read this and act on it.

Should be part of his next test.

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

Hear hear

Teach them tic tac toe

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Benefits from DEI:

NASA’s first crewed mission around the Moon in 50+ years included…

✅Christina Koch (first woman on a lunar mission)
✅Victor Glover (first Black astronaut on a lunar mission)
✅Reid Wiseman (single Dad)
✅Jeremy Hansen (first Canadian headed to the Moon).

Not “woke,” PROGRESS.👇

Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center

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Hard to beat the bass run Jaco comes up with at the end of this youtu.be/JnpyCEUESEw?...

Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

Just a gentle reminder: you don’t have to read fast, finish the longest book or have the prettiest shelf, if reading bring you peace, you’re doing it right.

I’ve given Bert the day off! I’m here until 4pm - Sally

Happy birthday to my dear friend @daltondeschain.com, a brilliant storyteller but more importantly a really good human being. I think about this little compassion exercise a lot. Happy to know you, bud.

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As a boomer myself, I’d say that sounds about right.

April 1945: In the final days of World War II, the Führer obsesses over absurdly large monuments for his reimagined Berlin, focusing on an idealized future rather than the reality of his collapsing Reich.

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

All time fave

She’s a cat

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇