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“Little Lies” by Joya Bhattacharya link.medium.com/ikoQOltFqyb #mentalhealth #generationaltrauma #feminism #southasian #abusecycles

I have no words. Wtf. #ontario #racism

We’re heading into Pride Season - a time of celebration, reflection and activism - amidst a troubling surge in anti-queer and anti-trans hate. Pride organizations are worried. Community is scared. Where - beyond statements and photo ops - are 🇨🇦 governments amidst rising hate?

BREAKING: Donald Trump defies the explicit orders of the judge in his civil rape case and attacks his alleged victim E Jean Carroll despite being told not to do so. "I have to go back for a woman that made a false accusation about me, and I have a judge who is extremely hostile," Trump said of the case. Disgustingly, Trump then claimed that it's a "disgrace" that someone like Caroll is allowed to make "false accusations" against him because he's a "rich guy" and is in fact a "famous, rich and political person.” It should go without saying but money, fame, and political influence should not shield a man from credible accusations of rape even if this vile idea is one of the central tenets of the Republican Party. The judge is likely going to be absolutely furious about the remarks because he previously shredded Trump's smears of Caroll as "entirely inappropriate" and said they seemed aimed at influencing the jury. He implied that Trump could be held in contempt. Retweet to urge the judge to hold Trump in contempt!

Anyone who didn’t find out about their ADHD until after their 20s should get a free redo.

A man in Texas shot and killed his girlfriend after she traveled to Colorado to have an abortion. In a state which will allow a man charged with assault to have a gun, but won’t allow the woman he assaulted to get an abortion… sadly, this tracks.

@PierrePoilievre Not every person has a positive person who they call mother/father. Some have passed away, some have left, some were never there. One school adapts to support the children in their care and you lose your mind? Nobody is canceling anything.

@PierrePoilievre Mother’s Day is not changing or being cancelled. A school is recognizing that some students don’t have mothers and is finding a way to include those students. And Mr. Rage-a-holic has in issue with that.

At this Ontario Place presser, the Premier just said that, like so many of us, he remembers taking his sailboat over there as a kid, parking it and going to see the sites. Like so many of us. In our sailboats.

Republicans will force a 10 year old to carry her rapist’s baby to term, let a 6 year old carry a gun, permit a 12 year old to work an 8 hour shift in a meat packing plant and allow a grown man to marry a 14 year old with a Judge’s consent, all while telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender affirming care and books about Rosa Parks is because they want to ‘protect our kids.’ Bullshit.

Bethany Mandel, who went viral for not being able to define “woke” blocked me for asking her about this tweet in which she appears to call for nuking Palestinians. I know there’s little price to pay for hate speech against Palestinians but perhaps someone else can ask about this?

@NickiNeighbor @AllieIacob @Theholisticpsyc The other thing to note is that statistics matter in their context. In this case, the context is a status quo dynamic, which encompasses several archaic biases: heteronormative families, traditional & binary gender roles, and the fact that most single parents are single mothers.

@AllieIacob @Theholisticpsyc I was with you on "other confidants" and there being boundaries... Until we went off the road with needing a man for your kids to be capable of following rules. I think I rolled my eyes so hard I got dizzy

Lorelai and Rory are the classic codependent mother and daughter. Rory is parentified by her emotionally immature parent. Lorelai uses her as her sole confidant (BFF), and there are no boundaries— Lorelai is over-involved in every aspect of her life. This shows up as: control, manipulation, and withholding. Lorelai projects her own dream of going to Harvard into Rory since childhood. When Rory applies to Yale, she sulks and leaves a dinner. Rory hides things from her for fear of how she’ll react. They never openly communicate and often give each other the silent treatment during conflict. Their dramatic relationship makes for an addictive show and leaves out the true pain, dysfunction, and shame that comes from codependent relationships.

Next level dysfunction: Pretending nothing happened the next time you see the person you harmed.

How my ADHD makes friendship hard (a thread 🧵) 1/10

Yes, a minimum wage worker should be able to afford rent and groceries with their paycheck.

Ok… last thing. Can I say IM SO PROUD OF MY VOCALS!!! Like… I been working on my voice for the last couple years… some people think I’m a born singer but I’m a rapper first! I wanna thank God & my vocal coach for getting me here 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

“Why do men have to pay for everything?” Because our grandmothers legally couldn’t open a bank account so they probably told our moms to rely on men for money and our moms probably told their daughter the same thing. You’re mad at patriarchy, not women.

“It’s my job to make girls fall in love with me, we have sex I test to see if they’re quality and then get them on a webcam cuz they’ll do whatever I say bc they love me” -Andrew Tate

This is also the reason y’all don’t register repeatedly asking a woman for sex/pressuring them into sex as rape. Y’all think rape what happens with a stranger in a dark ally. When more often than not the victim knows the person. It’s not always a physical attack.

Sex Trafficking in its most rarest form is somebody snatching you off the street…more often than not it’s a family member or a partner trafficking a person. What Andrew Tate talks about “making girls fall in love so they’ll do what he wants.” That’s called the Loverboy Method