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

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

On this day in 1973, Jeannette Rankin died. She was the first woman elected to Congress. In 1917, she told fellow suffragists: “I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.” Rankin is still the only woman to have represented Montana in Congress. #WeTheMen

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

“I like being a single person, you know, I enjoy my own company. The whole thing just works for me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

In other words, a romantic relationship, not just marriage, is stressful for women. medium.com/fourth-wave/...

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Gusts over 50mph at the Point Reyes Lighthouse today.

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Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

"Instead of getting highly effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so that they may decide if and when to have children, Title X under Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not." By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social GIFT article.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

During a recent focus group of 20 Gen Z Republicans conducted by a conservative think tank, a subset of participants were asked to share their thoughts on Hitler. Only one responded with outright criticism. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oYuJBh

Jerome Powell had every single reason to quit. He has plenty of money; & is well into his retirement years. Trump set goon squads & mobs after him. Yet he refused to step aside; the economy & millions of people’s welfare benefited from his resolve. This is service. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

Never great when the level-headed headline reads "West Braces for Critical Water Shortages After Unprecedented Snow Drought." www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

This just makes me so sad. She's in her 30s. 30s! www.vox.com/life/488424/...

"the same gender group that’s constantly complaining about how women are gold diggers who exploit them for labor and money … It turns out even they [men] can’t think of what they bring to the table other than money." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas died #OTD in 1998 at age 108. Her 1947 book, "The Everglades: River of Grass," transformed public perception of Florida's Everglades from "worthless swamp" to priceless ecosystem. Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1993. #ecosky #WomenInSTEM #histsky

There are persistent and pronounced health gaps between women racialized as White and non-White from midlife onward. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"as virility and jacked gym bodies become the ideal, men are being driven toward unrealistic, and even unhealthy, expectations." Oh, welcome to our world, dudes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/m...

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Our desire for love, intimacy, companionship, and connection doesn’t go away just because we’re older, but it can take on new forms if our expectations of what a romantic relationship “looks like” become more expansive. greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

The self-styled "father of fertility" wants to paint himself as a friend to mothers and children. But if you scratch the surface of his new moms dot gov website, you'll see that it's pure propaganda, and that it traffics in White Christian nationalist tropes. 1/🧵 www.ms.now/opinion/moms...

Later-in-life dating and partnering, while often desired, can be complicated. greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

"The divorce itself is one of the only opportunities in life where you’re very introspective. You’re forced to think about yourself, what you need, what you want.... I think that’s where the glow-up comes from. I don’t know when else you’d get to do that.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#OTD in 1978, Margaret Brewer became the first female general officer (Brigadier General) in the US Marine Corps. #USMC She had served as the Director of Women Marines (1973–1977), where she played a crucial role in integrating women more fully into the Corps & expanding their career fields.