If the Trump hush money trial is still in progress on June 14th, perhaps somebody will deliver a birthday cake to Trump in the courtroom with 78 candles on it. 🎂

In court we're seeing more of the real Trump without his daily 12-pack of Diet Coke® to guzzle.

Trump fans ignore the fact that their god is just 3.5 years younger than Biden. His highly caffeinated (and often incoherent) ramblings give followers the impression that he's vigorous when, in fact, he's just having a chemically induced oral convulsion.

It's ironic that this trial may improve Trump's physical health a bit. The extra sleep and the lack of personal histrionics can't be bad for his blood pressure.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Ernest Hemingway, from A Moveable Feast, 1964

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My sweet, let us see whether the rose...

My sweet, let us see whether the rose

which this morning had openend

its purple dress in the sun

has retained this evening

the folds of its purple dress,

and its complexion so akin to yours.

Alas! See in how little time,

my sweet, it let fall, alas,

its beauty on the ground!

Oh, nature, cruel mother,

for such a flower only lasts

from dawn until dusk!

So, if you trust my words, my sweet,

as your age is blooming

in the prime of its youth,

pick, pick your youthfullness.

Just like for this flower, old age

will tarnish your beauty.

Mignonne allons voir si la rose , Pierre de Ronsard

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Some proof that there ARE elected officials out there, like Vice Mayor Sean Cummings in Oklahoma, who are standing up for LGBTQ+ youth like Nex Benedict and calling out the fact that our words and rhetoric DO matter.

[Context: In this video, Sean Cummings is seen speaking to Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters referring to the death of student Nex Benedict].

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GOING BACK IN TIME #poem #poetry #nostalgia #youthfulness

there is a certain silence beneath the noise buzzing inside my brain to get there is a long complicated journey something like one step forward and two steps back eventually you’ll be young once again where silence doesn’t exist and the noise was something you sought from the time you rose from the dead it is never definable and if it ever was you would never be able to give it any kind of…

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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

They went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

Leo Tolstoy, from War and Peace, 1869

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Protect Queer and Trans Kids ⚡️

Digital art of a queer nonbinary teen with glasses and a beanie wearing a rainbow shirt with their back to us. They have a striped long sleeve on and red pants with a star patch. Text reads, ‘schools should be a safe place for queer and trans kids.’

How To Erase the Years: Natural Remedies for Reclaiming Youthfulness

The desire for youthful and vibrant skin is universal, and nature offers a treasure trove of natural remedies to help achieve this goal. There are a variety of natural herbal remedies, lifestyle changes, and skincare practices that can slow down the aging process and keep your skin looking healthy and youthful. Natural Herbal Remedies for Youthful Skin 1. Aloe Vera Aloe vera is known for its…

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Unpopular opinion but the reason being a teenager sucks is less to do with hormones and social cliques and more to do with the fact adults fucking hate teenagers. The fact that adults expect teenagers to be able to take on adult responsibilities yet don't deserve rights of an adult. They don't see teenagers as human beings and they aren't prepared to see kids with their own formed identities and humanity. Teenagers are so sexualized and seen as needing to take on more and more adult responsibilities. Yet when they want rights and humanity they are denied. The years your brain spends wanting nothing more than to form an identity are being taken away from you. Teenagers are essentially being kicked out of social spaces unless they have an extra 40 dollars lying around anytime they want to go out. Teenagers being kicked out of the mall just for existing or groomed into the school to prison pipeline. And now creating legislation to keep them off the Internet. Our society hates teenagers. And does everything we can to hurt them. The fact that anyone makes it out of their teenage years without trauma is a fucking miracle frankly.