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I just want to point out.... The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.

Women also died for the right to vote.

BREAKING: SOUNDS OF SILENCE — Senate hearing goes deadly quiet as Trump’s federal judicial nominees REFUSE to admit third term is illegal. . Donald Trump is nominating people to lifetime federal judgeships who won't confirm that he can't run for a third term when they come before the Senate for their approval hearings. Let that sink in. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware asked what should be the easiest constitutional law question in American history at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. He asked Trump's judicial nominees about the 22nd Amendment. The first nominee, John Marck, said that his career had been in criminal prosecution and that he hadn't had occasion to use that particular amendment. A federal judicial nominee. Unfamiliar with the 22nd Amendment. Seeking a lifetime appointment to interpret the Constitution. Another candidate eventually offered that it "deals with the two-term limitation." Correct. Gold star. Coons then asked the simple follow-up: is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028? Marck's response was a masterpiece of evasion: "Without considering all the facts and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this to me strikes as more of a hypothetical." Coons was patient. He walked Marck through it like a kindergarten teacher explaining why you can't eat paste. Has Trump been elected president twice? "President Trump has been certified the President of the United States two times." Is he eligible to run for a third term? "I would have to review the actual wording of it." A man seeking a lifetime federal judgeship needs to review the actual wording. Of the 22nd Amendment. Which is 61 words long. Coons then turned to the full panel and asked if anyone — anyone — was willing to simply state that the Constitution of the United States bars Trump from seeking a third term. A heartbreakingly long silence ensued. He asked again. Anyone willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language? More ominous silence. Nobody. Not one of Trump's judicial nominees would say out loud, under oath, in a Senate hearing, that the 22nd Amendment means what it plainly says. This isn't ignorance. These are lawyers. They know what the 22nd Amendment says. They know Trump has been talking openly about a third term. And they calculated — correctly, based on what happens to people who cross this president — that telling the constitutional truth was more dangerous than staying silent. The frightening thing is that these are the people who will be interpreting your rights for the next 30 years. Please like and share this post if you think federal judges should be willing to say the Constitution means what it says — even when the president doesn't want to hear it.

there's a burn, then there's an AOC burn

The Palace "No Experience Required" policy is actually unhinged. From Diana being a literal teenager to the press trying to gaslight us into thinking a summer deckhand gig and a decade of waiting for a ring is a remarkable resume. They do not want a woman with a voice. They want a mannequin who can be controlled by the men in grey suits. Meghan came in with a degree, a career, and actual life experience, and they had a total meltdown because she refused to be a doormat. As People Magazine tried last week, they have to inflate a thin work history into a working woman origin story because the truth is too embarrassing. It is gatekeeping for women who have zero opinions. The institution does not want a partner; it wants a puppet. If you have a voice, you are a problem. If you are a mannequin, you are royalty. #RoyalFamily #MeghanMarkle #KateMiddleton #Monarchy #Establishment

Her name was Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. She was born in 1964 in South Africa, during the cruel years of apartheid — a system that divided people by the color of their skin. As a Black Xhosa woman, her life was already filled with hardship. But Patricia refused to live small. She taught herself to type. She learned English. She chased dreams that the law said she could not have. In 1984, she gave birth to a son. His father was a white Swiss-German man. Their love was illegal under apartheid. Their child was, in the eyes of the state, a crime. She named him Trevor. To protect him, she hid him indoors for years. She walked behind lighter-skinned friends, pretending to be the maid, just so she could be near her own child in public. She raised Trevor with faith, humor, and fierce independence. She told him the world was his — no matter what anyone said. Years later, Patricia married a man named Abel Shingange. The marriage turned violent. He abused her. He abused her children. After years of suffering, she finally divorced him in 1996. She rebuilt her life. She remarried. She believed the worst was behind her. But in 2009, everything changed. That Sunday, as she returned home from church in Johannesburg, her ex-husband was waiting. He pulled out a gun. He shot her in the leg. Then he shot her in the back of the head. The bullet entered at the base of her skull. It should have killed her instantly. But something extraordinary happened. The bullet missed her spinal cord by a hair. It missed her brain. It missed every major vein, every artery, every nerve. It traveled through her head, shattered her cheekbone, and exited through her left nostril. Doctors called it a miracle. Patricia called it God. She survived. She healed. She walked out of that hospital still smiling, still believing, still ready to live. Her attacker was later convicted of attempted murder. Her son, Trevor Noah, went on to become one of the most famous comedians in the world — the host of The Daily Show, a bestselling author, and a global voice for kindness and humor. In his memoir Born a Crime, Trevor wrote about the woman who raised him. The woman who hid him. The woman who taught him to laugh when life gave him every reason to cry. He said she was his teammate. His best friend. His hero. And when people ask him where his courage comes from, he always gives the same answer. "My mother." Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah did not just survive a bullet. She survived apartheid. She survived poverty. She survived abuse. She survived a system designed to break her. And through every storm, she held on to faith — not because life was easy, but because she believed love was stronger than fear. Today, she still lives in Johannesburg. She still laughs. She still prays. She still inspires. Her life reminds us of a truth we often forget: The strongest people are not the ones who never fall. They are the ones who rise every single time. Patricia Noah rose. And because she rose, the world gained a son who makes millions laugh. Behind every extraordinary person, there is often a woman who refused to give up. Hers is that kind of story. Hers is that kind of strength. Hers is that kind of love.

The Surgeon Who Never Went to School. In 1962, a 16-year-old Ethiopian girl named Mamitu Gashe nearly died during childbirth in a rural village. The labor left her with obstetric fistula, a devastating injury that causes incontinence and, in many communities, complete social exile. She was brought to the Princess Tsehai Hospital in Addis Ababa, where Australian surgeons Catherine and Reginald Hamlin repaired her injuries. Gashe was so grateful she stayed. She started making beds, then handing instruments to the Hamlins during operations. After a few years, she began suturing. Then closing wounds. Then performing entire surgeries. She had never attended a single day of school. She could not read or write. But her hands were extraordinarily precise, and her understanding of the anatomy she studied only through observation was unmatched. By 1987, Mamitu was operating independently. In 1989, she received the Gold Medal for surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, one of the most prestigious honors in medicine. She went on to train surgeons from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, India, and aboard the mercy ship Anastasis. Nearly every obstetric fistula surgeon working in the world today was either trained by Mamitu Gashe or trained by someone she taught. She was named to the BBC's 100 Women list in 2018. Over five decades, she has repaired thousands of women whose lives were shattered by the same injury that once shattered hers. No diploma. No medical degree. Just a patient who refused to leave and became the best in the world. The most qualified person in the room never had a classroom.

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“Why would they kill me for something I didn’t do?” South Carolina executed 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. He was a Black teen wrongfully convicted and executed at the age of 14 for the murder of two white girls in 1944 in South Carolina. It took 10 minutes to convict him. He was so small they sat him on a Bible so that the electrocution cap fit. He was one of the youngest Americans to be sentenced to death. His conviction was posthumously vacated in 2014 when a court ruled that he had not received a fair trial. Of course, he didn't. Black children were and are fair game for racists. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana

For 10 years they’ve dehumanised her and driven a paid hate campaign against her, yet she still holds her head up high and lives her life unapologetically. That’s what drives the haters crazy! “I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

Hey MAGA…. Have you gotten your $5000. DOGE check yet? How about the $2,800 tariff rebate check? Are you paying less than $2.00 a gallon for gas? How about the cost of electricity, natural gas, and groceries? Fucking idiots. We warned you.

wow..nicely played sir

Here you go MAGA 👇

I am soooooo participating in this.

We need to have term limits on SCOTUS, no lifetime appointments. 😡

Make it make sense

Charles the deabeat father was paying for Camilla's security travels and expenses for decades before they were even engaged. He did the same for her children too. But didn't want his son Prince Harry and Archie to have any kind of security. Disgusting vulrures all of them. Disgusting people. They wanted Harry and Meghan dead. "Charles was previously criticised by the House of Commons public accounts committee for making deductions to cover the costs for “security guards, grooming and travel” for Camilla before the announcement of their engagement"

#Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, took a solo trip (according to People magazine) to Chicago to attend the First Communion of a college friend's son, who is her godson. I love the fact that she still has her friends, especially those from her childhood and school/college years; it says a lot about her character. ( I, myself, am the godmother of two children (two girls), so I know how special that is. The first time I was asked, I was 21 years old; I screamed and cried! 😂🤣. ) People don’t make you a godmother of their child if they didn’t love you and trust you. You are the person they choose to be their child second mother. 🥰

After being lost in the sea and reaching America thinking that it was India, Còlumbus noted in his journal that some of the native people they met there told them that Black skınned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in fold-tipped spears. Còlumbus also saw metal goods from West Africa and even got some of them directly from the native Americans. Chèmical analysis from these tips found by Columbus on spears in Amèrican shows that the gold came from Africa. The world was already connected. After the fall of Granada, thousands of Moors left Spain, which had been their home for seven hundred years to avoid living under Spanish yoke. They migrateď to Africa. Some stayed at the North African coast and improved their knowledge of navigation. That knowledge may be the one used by Emperor Abubakari II to reach America. Most ancient civilizations had already circùmnavigated the globe. They just did not make of it a big dèal claiming that they had discọvered it.