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With many others, I'm an American celebrating international friendship, allies who safeguard freedom, & collaboration that respects:
π¨π¦ Canada
π¬π± Greenland
π©π° Denmark
π²π½ Mexico
π΅π¦ Panama
πͺπΊ European Union
πΊπ¦ Ukraine
πΏπ¦ South Africa
πΊπ³ United Nations
but bumped into a 2025 Atlantic interview on Gilded Age corruption:
"What did the Gilded Age build that's most worth remembering?"
"It began to build public infrastructure..."
THAT WAS WOMEN
but bumped into a 2025 Atlantic interview on Gilded Age corruption:
"What did the Gilded Age build that's most worth remembering?"
"It began to build public infrastructure..."
THAT WAS WOMEN
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As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: βTo get out of here.β
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: βTo get out of here.β
IT CAN BE DONE.
IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE.
EVEN WHEN WOMEN WERE KEPT FROM VOTING.
If confronting and de-fanging the privileged exploitation of girls and women
was possible then
when men were operating the levers of power
it is *definitely* possible now
when women vote and hold office.
IT CAN BE DONE.
IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE.
EVEN WHEN WOMEN WERE KEPT FROM VOTING.
If confronting and de-fanging the privileged exploitation of girls and women
was possible then
when men were operating the levers of power
it is *definitely* possible now
when women vote and hold office.
because it means their hearts have become brittle shards, and only the warmth of the mercy of remorse can fuse and reshape them again.
Let justice roll down, righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
because it means their hearts have become brittle shards, and only the warmth of the mercy of remorse can fuse and reshape them again.
Let justice roll down, righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Woe to those who give up hope and prod others to self-destructive nihilism.
Woe to those who give up hope and prod others to self-destructive nihilism.
like it's a fair trade-off.
Woe to those who demolish honor and call the wrecking ball good.
Woe to those who denigrate virtue and call their own assault "real masculinity."
like it's a fair trade-off.
Woe to those who demolish honor and call the wrecking ball good.
Woe to those who denigrate virtue and call their own assault "real masculinity."
Woe to those who act from self-preservation instead of neighborly kindness.
Woe to anyone who condemns others' misuse of power without searching their own hearts too: that is dangerous territory.
Woe to those who act from self-preservation instead of neighborly kindness.
Woe to anyone who condemns others' misuse of power without searching their own hearts too: that is dangerous territory.
Woe to anyone who tries to diminish the evil of their own actions in order to keep their power and money.
Woe to any man who refuses to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Woe to anyone who tries to diminish the evil of their own actions in order to keep their power and money.
Woe to any man who refuses to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Woe to those who linger, waiting to see which way the wind blows before denouncing evil.
Woe to those who harm a child and hide under philanthropy.
Woe to those who linger, waiting to see which way the wind blows before denouncing evil.
Woe to those who harm a child and hide under philanthropy.
Woe to any woman who seeks the illusory protection of predators around her over the safety of the Truth.
Woe to anyone who exploits vulnerable people.
Woe to any woman who seeks the illusory protection of predators around her over the safety of the Truth.
Woe to anyone who exploits vulnerable people.
IT CAN BE DONE.
IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE.
EVEN WHEN WOMEN WERE KEPT FROM VOTING.
If confronting and de-fanging the privileged exploitation of girls and women
was possible then
when men were operating the levers of power
it is *definitely* possible now
when women vote and hold office.
IT CAN BE DONE.
IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE.
EVEN WHEN WOMEN WERE KEPT FROM VOTING.
If confronting and de-fanging the privileged exploitation of girls and women
was possible then
when men were operating the levers of power
it is *definitely* possible now
when women vote and hold office.
but they got the legislation repealed and exposed and confronted injustice at every level.
Without ever being able to vote.
And that work was part of the foundation of educational and voting access for women.
but they got the legislation repealed and exposed and confronted injustice at every level.
Without ever being able to vote.
And that work was part of the foundation of educational and voting access for women.
All of this was before women in the UK could vote.
She and her colleagues had to travel, speak, organize, publish, and lobby - lobby an all-male parliament.
All of this was before women in the UK could vote.
She and her colleagues had to travel, speak, organize, publish, and lobby - lobby an all-male parliament.
Context: Butler spent years fighting the horrifically unjust Contagious Diseases Acts, finally repealed the year after she wrote this.
Context: Butler spent years fighting the horrifically unjust Contagious Diseases Acts, finally repealed the year after she wrote this.