50 years ago today, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106 ( 89 Stat. 531) directing the admittance of women to the service academies including my Alma Mater the United States Military Academy at West Point.
The first class had 62 women. Today there are over 6,000 West Point Women.
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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."
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Mike Johnson is like a kid with his fingers in his ears yelling βI canβt hear yoooooooβ
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Best Ranger - arguably highlighting our most βlethalβ soldiers - grades four categories - technical, tactical, physical and problem solving abilities
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New Yorker cartoons nail it again.
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This is exactly whatβs happening. Miller and Vought are in charge.
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They offered me $30
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If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if thereβs any statesβ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
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This entire administration is evidence for what happens when people are allowed to fail upward their entire lives
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This is gold
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Proud to be a Chicagoan
May we all be this brave
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A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o
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No heβs not because he doesnβt uphold any kind of honor code.
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βTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.β
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Pretty much sums up everything in the Upside Down we live in
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Whenever women tell me they just know βa transgender will assault my daughterβ I remind them that pastors are far more dangerous
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Nothing justifies this kind of treatment. Land of the free no more.
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Never forget that Russell Vought and Pete Hegseth believe they are on a mission from God. In their warped minds, that justifies anything and everything.
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Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
βIt actually doesnβt take much to be considered a difficult woman. Thatβs why there are so many of us.β
β Jane Goodall
π RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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π @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it ππ½
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They didnβt drain the swamp. They sold VIP tickets to it.
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Because the absolute lack of clapping made his neck bulge
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Someone needs to take his batteries out ffs
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Priorities.
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Swear her in.
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I spotted a difference between Donald Trump and his audience yesterday:
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Actually 171 as of Friday π«‘
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Appreciate you paving the way for the rest of us
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So true and so heartbreaking over and over and over
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