Freda Donnelly⚓️

The secret is that I'm rooting for each and every one of you lovely people. And the unlovely ones? I'm praying for you to find Jesus. 🙏🏻🫶🏻🙏🏻

@babyfeverbabe Phenomenal work by a brilliant and gracious woman.

Have you read Hannah's Children? I'm often disappointed by parenting books but I'm intrigued.

Let's make stay-at-home motherhood affordable again.

@coulterculture I love this so much. That's hilarious and adorable.

So my dad has been calling my unborn son Saul and honestly that’s a 10/10 dad joke for a baby whose name is Paul Biblically speaking, he just hasn’t had his Damascus moment yet🫠 It’s just not Paul yet.

My pilates teacher kicked my 🍑 today. But I'm back at it!

Being a girls' girl is a lot like fight club; you can't self-identify as being part of that in-group. Others can recognize it from your overall vibe, but you can't walk around talking about it.

Congratulations to @KeenanPeachy on the upcoming release of Supervillains — Architects of America's Decline! I cannot wait to dive in and read your latest tour de force.

This is why we ask you to fill up our water bottles

If I never hear the word "donuts" again, it'll be too soon.

@SenAdamSchiff Are you dumb, or do you just think that women are? 🤔

A birth certificate AND your marriage license. If you changed your name after you got married, like the First Lady, the 'SAVE America Act' will demand you provide BOTH documents in order to prove your identity and vote in the next election if you don’t have a passport.

At family dinner… and lil dude (who’s not a great joke/story teller) just hit us with a banger Him “I went to a customer party dressed as a turtle and I was giving a piggy back ride to a girl… someone asked what I was dressed up as… I said a turtle of course… well then what’s the deal with the girl?… oh that’s Michelle” Absolutely crushed. Even sister gave props…

A rare miss from Shrier. Here’s the advice she should have given: Dear Chase, You write movingly about your mother. She showed up. She invested. She loved you in ways that were personal, attentive, and irreplaceable. You don’t speak about her as interchangeable with your father or anyone else. You speak about her as your mother—someone whose presence shaped you in a way no one else could. That matters more than you seem to realize. Because in the same letter, you position yourself as the one being denied: She wants grandchildren—but not from me. As if her hesitation is a rejection of you. But that isn’t what you’ve described. You’ve described a woman who loves her son, both as a child and as an adult, but who cannot celebrate a plan that would make her grandchild begin life without a mother. Those are not the same thing. Your mother is not withholding love from you. She is refusing to affirm what she knows would cost a child something you yourself clearly understand to be precious. You didn’t write me about your “parent” in general terms. You asked about your "mother" specifically, and then recounted glowingly how you benefited from her presence, her attention, and her affection in your life. And yet, you are asking her to bless a path that would intentionally deny that same relationship to her grandchild. This is the inconsistency at the center of your letter—one you seem unwilling to confront. You are defending, even fighting for, your relationship with your mother—while planning to create a child who will never have one. That contradiction is the central moral tension you are trying to resolve by reframing yourself as the one being hurt. But your mother is not confused about what is at stake. She understands that what you experienced as a gift—a mother’s daily, embodied, relational presence—is exactly what your child would be cut off from intentionally. You emphasize what you can offer: stability, commitment, love. Those are real goods. But your mother is focused on something different—not what you can give, but what the child will lose. And she is taking that loss seriously enough that she won’t pretend it doesn’t matter. That isn’t a rejection of you. It is a recognition that your relationship status cannot do what opposite-sex relationships can—unite a child with both of the people who made them. It is also a recognition that love, however sincere, does not erase loss. A second father does not become a mother simply because he is devoted. Some roles are not interchangeable, and some relationships cannot be replicated, no matter how much goodwill surrounds them. And here is the part you need to face directly: your sexuality does not make you the victim in this scenario. No one is depriving you of your mother. You had one. You know what that relationship is worth—so much so that you are appealing to it now, trying to preserve it, protect it, and secure its approval. And yet you are prepared to deny that same relationship to your own child—not by tragedy, but by design. Your choices make you the victimizer in this scenario. You are not the one being deprived. You are the one building deprivation into your child’s life from the start. 1/2

@Brettdasovic Feel better!

Hey Crisis Actors! No PCC today. I made the mistake of coming back too quickly yesterday, my voice is totally shot & my cough is 10x worse than before. I am hoping that good rest today will have my voice back tomorrow. I do not like the feeling of missing work. Apologies! 🙏

Two cowboys are lost in the desert. One of them sees a bacon tree, races over to it and says, "A bacon tree! We're saved!" As he runs over to it, he gets shot up with bullets. Turns out it wasn't a bacon tree, it was a ham bush.

I had a lot of fun joining @kyleegriswold on The Kylee Cast today to talk @newguardpress, The Girl’s Guide, Gen Z and more! Link dropping soon!

@allie__voss @AlexDVoss @NXatomics Congratulations!

I don’t post very many personal updates on here, but I guess this calls for an exception: we're building a nuclear company together!

I will never get tired of making a difference in the lives of founders by bringing their vision to life. 🥰

@LfPorsche Which one is it?

I am blessed by that rare thing, a good book club. But. Sometimes poor choices are made. And I refuse. If I could get it at the library I'd consider attending but I am not spending a single dollar on acquiring a book by $#@&*?! J*hn Gr**n.

@Blain_Crain Congratulations!

Won the biggest championship of my life yesterday. She said yes. 💍🏆

A woman’s destiny is to make a home for her family. 👧 👦 🐣🐣🐣🐣 God intended the woman to be in the home raising her children and encouraging her husband. I said what I said. 🎤

@therealohioash Colorblindness is predominantly in men. It's very rare for women to be colorblind. Based on this, I think women largely see more and better color versus men.

@ShesBasedBabe And then you have my husband… who is colorblind. lol

Men will say these dresses are the same color. 🤭