"a growing number of researchers believe they are seeing the focus of personal life shift from the couple, & particularly the gendered, heterosexual, co-resident, family-founding couple, to a more fluid network of intimates including friends, lovers & neighbors." www.academia.edu/2116905/Frie...

The thing is, what works for one couple won't necessarily work for other couples. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

People are predicting a "hot divorcée summer." Here's what's missing from the conversation. aninjusticemag.com/people-are-c...

I think about this a lot.

"Many women today are looking for something additive – a partner who enhances an already good life rather than disrupting it." graziamagazine.com/us/articles/...

Looking for a romantic partner at midlife or later? If you're a woman, it may not be in your best interest. medium.com/fourth-wave/...

"Marriage does not save anyone, economically or psychologically. The most important predictor of whether you’re going to have a successful marriage is if you can organize a successful, satisfying personal life, where you have friends." greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

"While women often worry more about the visible signs of midlife and menopause, they are less aware of the hidden shifts ... that can silently raise the future risk for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in women worldwide." That was me—you, too? theconversation.com/beyond-hot-f...

On this day in 1890, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 Sep 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she was murdered. Her name was Irma Ehrlichová Please support @sobibor.org

Happy to share our first campaign ad!! Www.Harrydunnformd.com

"I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair." - Stevie Nicks The legendary Stephanie Lynn Nicks, singer-songwriter, solo artist & member of Fleetwood Mac, was born on this day, 1948.

No matter how states try to spin it, intentional discrimination against Black voters is still illegal — and we'll keep fighting it.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Happy 82nd birthday to Frank Oz! The voice and puppeteer behind Yoda.

"new sexuality norms exert unprecedented pressure on older adults. While their right to a sexual life is more widely recognized, it’s also accompanied by a tacit obligation to perform and a relentless pressure to stay youthful and desirable—a form of ageism." theconversation.com/baby-boomers...

A gentle reminder

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

Victims are not faceless. Tova Zarcon was deported on Jan. 20, 1944, from Drancy to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. born in Paris.

Happy 85th birthday, Bob Dylan. The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle.

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"What appears on the surface as ‘parenting’ is often, at a deeper level, an effort to soothe an old wound, master an old fear, or correct an old humiliation – all the while using the child as the medium."

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

This is Memorial Day weekend. It’s a solemn federal holiday honoring are fallen military members who died in the service of the United States. Let’s not forget what we’re fighting for our democracy and for them who gave so much. ❤️🤍💙

“The tendency to focus on sexual function and the ability to have intercourse is, for one thing, overlooking women’s desires and what women find enjoyable in sex. But it may also have consequences for how men experience sexuality in later life." medium.com/crows-feet/h...

👉 "you can have a stronger relationship if you can be an individual within your relationship and do what you love.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/w...

While marriage is promoted as a wealth generator when we’re in our 20s and 30s, it actually works against us later in life. @cassandracotton.bsky.social medium.com/fourth-wave/...

This is a real AI-generated video just posted by both Trump and the White House online.

5/22/1846 — b. Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican feminist, educator, writer, poet. Early Mexican #feminist; key contributor to the development of the first feminist mvmnt in Mexico. Wrote poetry and for newspapers & journals on #edu, justice & patriotism #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Marriage, dating or living with a man causes women stress—thoughts? medium.com/fourth-wave/...

"the struggles of many American men have created something like a game of musical chairs for women looking to get married." www.npr.org/sections/pla...

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Born 20 May 1944, Grammy-winning artist Joe Cocker is best remembered for his tracks 'You Are So Beautiful' and 'Up Where We Belong'. His chartbusting version of the Beatles song 'With a Little Help from My Friends' was the theme song of the series The Wonder Years. #JoeCocker

Belle Burden's book "Strangers" "reminds us that marriage is not always a guarantee of financial security." nwlc.org/belle-burden...

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed at least 30 cases over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed, a practice that legal experts say pushes the boundaries of the law. With @texastribune.org

California's 1969 law removed the legal barriers to exit a marriage. More than 50 years later, the right it created is under renewed political attack by conservatives. qz.com/no-fault-div...

"it’s time for the sleep-divorced to lose our shame and let the coupled, sleep-deprived masses know what they’re missing." www.huffpost.com/entry/marrie...

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

New Evidence Data Centers May Cause Hotter Weather

"there is no examination of why women are agreeing to sex with men who are so utterly—by their own expressed standards—not marriage material." Here's the explanation—women want sex, not marriage. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. ifstudies.org/blog/one-rea...

"Women aren’t rejecting marriage. They’re redefining it quietly, carefully and with spreadsheets (and hearts) wide open." www.huffpost.com/entry/women-...

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

“One in 10 children who walk through the door of primary care have a mental health need that comes up during their visit. The magnitude of these issues is surprising.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/s...

This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.

NEW: An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.

Mt St Helens May 18, 1980 I just cannot imagine what seeing this would've been like. The person who took this photo had to abandon their car and escape with the motorcycle. 📸Richard Lasher