Megs is researching women’s history

Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020.

Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!

The reason Trump has slapped tariffs on the entire world is not to protect American workers.

What Trump cares about is being able to get concessions out of other countries and corporations that seek exemptions.

It's all about his ability to hand out punishments and rewards.

Hours after Donald Trump did a free commercial for Tesla on the White House lawn, Elon Musk reportedly announced plans to donate $100 million to a MAGA super PAC.

Money in politics has always corrupted, but it's hardly been this brazen.

Someone in the crowd started an anti-trans rant at the Markey town hall and was immediately swarmed by a bunch of older lib women who shouted her down and chased her out, like a bunch of crows chasing away a predator.

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40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN

A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025.

Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication.

Let's go!

bro did you even absorb the sunshine and azure sky directly into your soul today or no

Happy International #WomensDay! In celebration, here are some of my favorite stories from my research on Teenage Girls Who Changed the World 👇🏼 1/🧵

Oil painting portrait of Mary Shelly, a young woman with pale skin, dark eyes, hair in a fashionable updo with curls around the face, with a draping necklace and dark black gown with a lace collar and cuffs.

Mary Shelley was 18 when she founded a new literary genre with the first-ever science fiction novel, "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus." Her father described her as "singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind...her perseverance in everything she undertakes almost invincible." 12/🧵

Black and white photograph of Claudette Colvin, a black 15-year-old Civil Rights Activist who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks' famous stand. She is looking directly at the camera, with black glasses perched on her nose and her hair swept back in an updo.

Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old civil rights activist Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the city bus. When she was 17, she testified in the Browder v. Gayle case that would go all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled bus segregation unconstitutional 11/🧵

Black and white women of two sisters, starting straight ahead at the camera, in collared blouses.

Freddie & Truus Oversteegen (1940s) were 14 & 16 when they joined the Haarlem resistance against the Nazis. Disguised as nurses, they did drive-by shootings in broad daylight, gunning down Nazis in the street. They also blew up railway lines and housed Jewish refugees. Both lived to age 92. 10/🧵

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Throughout #WomensHistoryMonth I’m sharing my research about little-known young women who made their mark on the world👇🏼🧵

Adea Eurydice (4th C BCE), a trained warrior who at fifteen made strategic moves to set herself up as the successor of Alexander the Great, mainly by marrying his brother, and soon after raised an army against Alexander’s mother and widow for control of the Macedonian Empire 9/🧵

Mary Bowser (b. 1846), who as a child escaped slavery in the south. When the Civil War broke out, at 15 years old she returned to the south as a Union spy to pose as an illiterate slave, infiltrate the confederate capitol, and secretly memorize confederate documents. 8/🧵

Hatshepsut (15th C BCE), who at sixteen successfully manipulated religious and royal tradition to remain in power despite a successor. She epitomized “fake it till you make it” and acted as pharaoh, complete with donning the pharaonic headdress and beard, until she was treated as such 7/🧵

Arwa al-Sulayhi (11th C), Yemeni princess who at 18 became the first Queen of the Muslim world to rule in her own right. She established a new capital, commissioned a new golden age of arts and culture, and led armies to crush her rivals. 6/🧵

Arsinoë IV (1st C BCE), who at ~14 led an army and laid siege to Alexandria against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, her big sister. Her successes led to Rome sending reinforcements that eventually succeeeded, ending the Ptolemaic Dynasty and establishing Hellenistic Egypt 5/🧵

Börte Üjin (12th C) who at 18 escaped captivity and established the Mongol Empire with her husband, Temüjin. She set the model of Mongol rule that established women as rulers of kingdoms while men went to battle. She advised her husband on strategy, who later became known as Genghis Khan 4/🧵

Shajara al-Durr (13th C), a captive who raised an army of conscripted slaves to overthrow the king and establish the Mamluk Dynasty, herself becoming the first and only female ruler of Islamic Egypt. She also led her army to defeat an onslaught of French crusaders and captured King Louis IX 3/🧵

Zazil-Ha (16th C), Mayan noble who campaigned across the the Yucatán Peninsula to unite against the Spanish invaders led by Hernan Cortes. She adopted Spanish battle strategies and successfully repelled their attacks for more than 20 years. Her bravery saved her people for a generation. 2/🧵

Happy International #WomensDay! In celebration, here are some of my favorite stories from my research on Teenage Girls Who Changed the World 👇🏼 1/🧵

need a scholar of mexican history to write a book about la malinche, zazil-ha, and isabel moctezuma as three young women at the center of the Spanish conquest of mexico, because i need to read that book

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

Copyright question for #litagents, if I have a niche history blog and want to write a book on the same topic, are there any copyright issues? Can I re-use what I've already written? #writingcommunity #nonfiction

Yes, millions of people will suffer but at least it's for a good cause: because one old asshole wanted to avoid going to jail for crimes he committed

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.