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🚨 Do you understand what SCOTUS is about to decide? in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans... even those born free on American soil.. could never be citizens.. it was called the Dred Scott decision.. one of the most shameful rulings in legal history.. it took a Civil War and 360,000 Union deaths to fix it.. in 1868, Congress passed the 14th Amendment.. "all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens".. no exceptions.. no asterisks.. they wrote it that way on purpose.. so no government could ever again decide who counts as American on this soil.. it has stood for 156 years.. Trump signed an executive order trying to end it.. not a constitutional amendment.. not an act of Congress.. an executive order.. and SCOTUS is about to decide if that's allowed.. here's what nobody's saying out loud.. this isn't about immigration.. if a president can override the 14th Amendment with an executive order.. there is no amendment a president cannot override with an executive order.. one executive order just did what the Confederacy couldn't.

The most exhausting double standard for men in relationships is the absolute asymmetry of accountability when someone is unhappy. ​If a woman is unhappy, feeling neglected, or her needs aren't being met, modern therapy-speak immediately puts the man on trial. Society asks: What is he doing wrong? Why isn't he listening to her? Why isn't he holding space for her emotions? Her unhappiness is universally viewed as a failure of his leadership and care. ​But if the roles are reversed, and a man is quietly starving for affection, physical intimacy, or just basic peace in his own home? Society STILL puts him on trial. Instead of asking what the woman is doing wrong, the internet tells him: You probably aren't doing enough chores to put her in the mood. You aren't communicating properly. You aren't romancing her enough. The brutal double standard is that a woman’s pain is always framed as something the man inflicted, but a man’s pain is always framed as a result of his own failure to perform. He is held 100% accountable for both her happiness and his own misery.

Millennial Timeline Cleanse

Bro: How r u so focused even under pressure? Meanwhile me in 2004:

This is the political violence they don’t want to talk about

He cut pediatric cancer research and meals on wheels

This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong

no wars ended cost of living still high economy imploding unlimited money to israel trumps in epstein files workers getting kidnapped everywhere at least he banned trans athletes! at least he’s canceling kimmel! you’re an easily tricked adult and a fucking loser

“There’s no easy solution to homelessness. It sucks.” Real deep thinker here folks.

Dude on first date next to me at coffee shop, very clearly coked out, really an amazing conversation. A thread:

“There are still so many homeless people in Kensington. It sucks. Just disgusting.”

“Do you have a car?” Her: …yeah I do “Nice, I’m definitely going to get one someday, all the ones I have my eye on are just out of my price range rn.” Then proceeded to neg her car and where she parks.

“One of the guys at my gym went to NYU, and we get along really great socially, I’m really leaning on him to get me in, should work out.”

“There was a private equity firm where I was locked in, I went through all the interviews, but then I had like stuff come up and when they found out I used to be a marine, they just clearly lost interest and I put too much pressure on them.”

“I want to live over here, but the apartment I want is like $12,000 per month”

The woman is super professional, clearly successful, very well dressed and obviously this is like a tinder first meet. She’s being a real sport. More quotes:

And he goes “no, I work at a gym but all those guys come in and I know more about it than them and they literally take my advice, it’s crazy. It’s what I’m meant to do.”

Talking about how he wants to break into venture capital so bad and how private equity is such a difficult field, girl says “oh is that what you do?”

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