kudos to Ashley Judd

Way to go girl! 👏👏👏

Ashley Judd is an American actress and younger daughter/sister of the musical duo The Judds

This video was recorded about a year ago, but I’m just seeing it now. Her words are powerful and all too true unfortunately. Women have got to get out of the Stockholm Syndrome that seems to hold them with their relationship to men.

Gender violence must be stopped. It has no place in a civilized world. I believe men must be held accountable. When My Place is terraformed you better believe some of those riding along with be heavily analyzed and held to account in My New World. The deli will be open. No quarter.

Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP

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51 Responses to kudos to Ashley Judd

  1. Nader1 says:

    G*/~ says:
    2025-09-28 at 9:54 pm
    The Immortal has to go down. The creature shifted the parallel Galaxy to the Milky Way so that it is slightly to the left of center. When IT was asked why IT tampered with the Universe, IT said IT had no obligation to explain ITS action to one not on the same level.

    What does that even mean? Nothing in the Universe, but the GODS, is from the same height as IT is. I say we work to take this creature down or drive IT out of this Galaxy.
    ——————
    The moral immortal has helped a lot of aliens when they asked him for help he does help a lot , don’t mistake his kindness kindness for weakness. If he said he doesn’t have to tell you that means you should find a nicer way to ask. Where is your logic if someone is trying to harm him he’s gonna respond with lethal force. And if anyone is left, then we hear you on the Avenue complaining.

    • Britney says:

      I always love to hear your side of the story. And this is right on. Nader1 we really need to meet. Unless you are married or in a serious relationship. I’m really a very attractive woman. Come see and find out for yourself. You know where. Do it before I leave.

      • Nader1 says:

        Hi Britney, I have went there three times. I did not see you there. I was looking for a tag with your name on it on the dealers.
        I will try again in November.
        Please don’t share any more information about you here.

    • E]7 says:

      Has it ever occurred to you that the Immortal is just setting us up so that we do not unite to find ITS weakness? Your comments are without merit since you have no real contact with IT.

      If you are one of us pretending to be a human, then your comments are harsh.

      • PrP says:

        Has it ever occurred to you that ITS weakness is stronger than your strength could ever be?
        Because for most, at first, you’re here
        And then there’s nothing
        and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing until the consciousness of some of the lessers, and then there’s nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing again before you could even get close to being able to affect IT
        How many nothings are you?
        On the flipside those IT cares about, IT obviously cares about very much because IT would have to dumb itself down to be on the same level where IT could relate. That seems like a friendship not to take advantage of.

        • U]3 says:

          Please refer to the Immortal as him. IT just accepts their definition of him as being some sort of creature.

  2. LaTanya says:

    When greedy white men are young, they only have a hard on for money, when the bastards get old all the money in the world can’t get them hard. I’m married to a very rich ED challenged old rich MF. He gets hard only when I let him lick my dirty ass. My pussy hasn’t seen a hard dick in 11 months. I’ll have to wait for spring break to get some from his son. I’m 29; his son is 23. These are the times.

    I’d love to see if Nader1 can fuck as good as he posts. As for that horny Britney, be careful Nader1, you have to fuck the crew boss to get that job, and to keep it, you have to fuck whoever he tells you to. I know because that’s how I ended up with my husband. I was assigned to keep him spending money in their casino. Whatever it takes baby. I was 22, and as fine as there is a woman. The fact that my husband wanted to leave his wife and marry me, a casino whore testifies to just how fabulous I look. I’m the complete package because if I can’t get you off, you’re dead.

    Men had stars in their eyes when I finished fucking them. I do all the positions, on my knees, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, I climb their shoulders if that’s what it takes to get them off. Six years I’ve been married to this limp dick. The deadliest weapon in the world is a good pussy. It can drive anyone nuts. Men will sell their souls for pussy. They’ll steal, even kill for it.

    I’m a realist because I’d rather get paid to be fucked, than to get fucked over for free. Just saying, be careful man. I like your schtick.

  3. Lacey says:

    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5fec08425253aaa35ae29884a3bd8ba0

    She was named Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that took her away, and Wheatley, after the merchant who bought her. She was born in Senegal. In Boston, slave traders put her up for sale:

    “She is seven years old! She will make a good mare!”

    She was groped, naked, by many hands.

    At thirteen, she was already writing poetry in a language that was not her own. No one believed that she was the author. At twenty, Phillis was questioned by a tribunal of eighteen distinguished gentlemen in robes and wigs.

    She had to recite texts from Virgil and Milton and some passages from the Bible, and she also had to swear that the poems she had written were not plagiarized. Sitting on a chair, she endured her long examination, until the tribunal accepted her: she was a woman, she was black, she was a slave, but she was a poet.

    Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American writer to publish a book in the United States.

  4. Carl says:

    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-341b25096058102c3aac507f0b3f6762

    Is this thing an alien? Can you imagine a creature that has lived in Earth’s oceans for more than 300 million years without changing?

    It’s not a monster from science fiction… It’s the hagfish, or as scientists call it: “the primitive slimy crawler”!

    🧠 Jawless, boneless, it has a cartilaginous skull and a circular mouth surrounded by tiny inward-facing teeth, acting as a strange digging tool that burrows into corpses to feed on their entrails.

    🧪 And what’s even stranger…?

    If it senses danger, it secretes more than three liters of sticky mucus in a few seconds, suffocating any predator. Even sharks flee!

    💀 It’s a creature that hasn’t gone extinct, because in truth… it never left.

    A prehistoric monster still lives in the depths of the ocean, living in silence… and with endless hunger! Can you imagine a creature that has lived in Earth’s oceans for more than 300 million years without changing?

    It’s not a monster from science fiction… It’s the hagfish, or as scientists call it: “the primitive slimy crawler”!

    🧠 Jawless, boneless, it has a cartilaginous skull and a circular mouth surrounded by tiny inward-facing teeth, acting as a strange digging tool that burrows into corpses to feed on their entrails.

    🧪 And what’s even stranger…?

    If it senses danger, it secretes more than three liters of sticky mucus in a few seconds, suffocating any predator. Even sharks flee!

    💀 It’s a creature that hasn’t gone extinct, because in truth… it never left.

    A prehistoric monster still lives in the depths of the ocean, living in silence… and with endless hunger!

  5. Russ says:

    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3006c232ee5502bdc706a7963fd293b8

    On this day 151 years ago, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a black mother and white father who abandoned the household. He arrived in New York 17 years later. He was called the “Sherlock Holmes of Negro History” because of his ability to locate extremely rare or “presumed lost” material written by people of African descent.

    When Schomburg was a child, his peers frequently teased him about having no history. White classmates told him that Black people have never accomplished anything of note and never would. The young Schomburg asked his teacher where he might find books on black history and was told there was no such thing. As an extended rebuttal to this teacher, he dedicated his entire life to collecting everything he could and people of African descent wrote. Today, the SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, located at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, has over 150,000 volumes of black history and nearly five million artifacts, photographs, magazines, and manuscripts from throughout the world and has become the Mecca for anyone needing to document or research black history.

  6. George says:

    Did you Know
    To hang correctly, the length of the drop has to be equal to the weight of the prisoner to allow the neck to break immediately.

  7. Barry says:

    Hamas official owns the ships Greta and co. are sailing to Gaza.

    Newly uncovered documents list Hamas officials responsible for activities abroad. Among the names is Saif Abu Kashk, who is the CEO of the company that owns many of the ships in the flotilla.

    Another Hamas official listed in the documents, Zaher Birawi, has organized many flotillas over the years.

    Their methods are a little different.

    The flotilla crew posts selfies and lies.

    Hamas murders and kidnaps.

    But they definitely have one thing in common.

    They do not actually care about Palestinians, just about harming Israelis and Jews.

    So excuse me if I’m not exactly shocked about this new revelation.

    Hamas have become experts in rebranding their Jew hatred as progressive activism abroad.

    The real problem is, way too many people are falling for it.

  8. Daniel says:

    The Simple Maintenance Task That Can Keep Cockroaches Out Of Your Home

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  9. Helen says:

    Did You Know
    Studies have shown that speaking two or more languages offers protection against neurodegenerative disorders. Bilingual patients experience the onset of dementia an average of 4–5 years later than single-language patients.

    • Helena says:

      Did You Know
      Orangutans are well known for using sticks as tools, but they hardly stop there. During rainstorms, they’ll also use large rainforest leaves as makeshift umbrellas and shelters.

    • Alycedale says:

      Did You Know
      Doctors and nurses wear blue/green scrubs because those colors are opposite the color red on the color wheel, and offer relief from the eye strain and stress of exposure to blood and the body cavity during surgery.

    • Luci says:

      Did You Know
      After nearly disappearing from school curriculums in the U.S., nearly two dozen states have reintroduced cursive instruction since 2010.

    • Inez says:

      Did You Know
      September 9th is the most common birthday in the United States. Neat, right?

    • Howard says:

      Did You Know
      The metal foot on the end of a tape measure, or the “tang,” is designed to be loose; the tang floats slightly to account for its own width dependent on whether you’re measuring from the outside of an object (like from one end of a board to the other) or inside an object (like the distance one one edge of a window frame to another).

  10. Candi says:

    Dave Chappelle isn’t just doing comedy — he’s delivering truth wrapped in laughter.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO78gJ6kYx8/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

  11. L[6 says:

    Has it occurred to you that we aliens may be as blind to dynamics of the Known Universe as the humans are? This is definitely due to the capriciousness of the Immortal. Why are we allowing this creature to roam the Universe changing its natural laws as IT sees fit? Recently we discovered that IT has reduced the size of of black holes.

    Since all galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center, that would change the fundamental forces that create the laws of the Universe we accept as immutable.

  12. Tom says:

    Untill all the hostages are free and Hamas is disarmed the residents of gaza who put Hamas in power should and will continue to suffer. We have to take responsibility for electing Trump they have to own Hamas

    • Md says:

      I didn’t elect trump. I wonder how many Gazans opposed hamas? I wonder how many of them are now dead due to a randomized attack against the entire Gazan population?

  13. Chris says:

    Accountability is not antisemitism. Criticizing a government’s actions is not the same as attacking a people or faith. Israel is no longer a powerless victim — it’s a state with one of the most advanced militaries, nuclear capabilities, and consistent U.S. diplomatic cover. That power comes with responsibility under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.
    Collective punishment, targeting civilians, or settlement expansion are not “defensive measures”; they are violations recognized by the UN and the International Criminal Court.
    Israel, given its own history of displacement and persecution, should know better than most what constitutes a war crime. To deny that accountability does not defend Israel — it undermines the very principles it claims to stand on.

    • Andrew says:

      thank you for that
      For awhile now I have not like what he has been doing.
      Yes Oct 7 was atrocious but how different is it to what he is now doing to the Palestinians ?
      Good on those who walked out of the UN.

    • Mike says:

      Why do guys like Netanyahu and Trump have their own “truth”. There’s only one truth. And the truth is that Netanyahu has exploited the inarguably horrific acts of October 6th in order to commit genocide. And it’s happened so seamlessly, as though it was his plan all along.

    • Lance says:

      “If I looked out my window and saw people massacring children, I’d probably think thoughts like “That’s horrible!” and “How can I stop this?”
      The furthest thing from my mind would be thoughts like “What religion are they?” or “Their religion is very relevant to any discussions we might have about this massacre” or “We should definitely be very careful about discussing this massacre because we don’t want to offend people who have the same religion as the people doing the massacre.” It would never occur to me to consider such things, much less that such considerations should be central to all discourse about the massacre for years on end.”

    • Anonymous says:

      I thought that Israel said that Hamas has been decimated, so what group are they fighting so hard. Israel is also using the safety and return of the hostages as the reason for the genocide in Gaza; but with all the bombs, bullets, and lord knows what other demonic things they are doing to the Palestinians, how many of the hostages are still alive.

      Israel’s plan all along has been to establish a contiguous Israel, no West Bank, no Gaza, but all jewish land, and this is the reason for wiping out Palestinians. Many years ago I saw a program where it shows the Israelis with their map talking about having this contiguous Israel and this plan must have been in the sixties or before. All the massacres of the Palestinians that the Israelis have carried out over the years keep getting conveniently ignored and hidden by the American government and press. Hamas didn’t just attack out of the blue, they were retaliating. Israel has been the problem in the Middle East since it was established and their plan was never to see a two-state solution. They have attacked almost every country in that region, and callously murder whomever they want, but Karma is a beast.

      Now Israel is taking over Syrian land and taking over other countries’ land as well and building their settlements as a way of holding these stolen lands. This is the decade of the demons!

      • Ruqaya says:

        Which was started by you Arabs that just couldn’t allow the Jews to live peacefully on a very small piece of land. Land by the way that had been occupied by their ancestors also.

        So you banned together to annihilate an entire race of people. You didn’t care about their women and children, you were bent on senseless murder and genocide. You lost that 6 Day war and hence have been bitching about the outcome.

        You are a very bad ass kicking bunch when it comes to have the superiority over your foe. You dominate non Muslim Arabs, you subjugate your females into a role of sex slaves. But you cry and complain like a bunch of whipped bitches when the foe you thought was going to be easily slaughtered, kicks your ass.

        “Oh world save us. Our women and children are being harmed.” Your religion makes you legal pedophiles and pimps. The world knows this but because of your control over their energy needs, they look the other way. But that doesn’t change the fact that you are as evil a sex can come to the opposite sex. No God gives one sex the power to buy and sell the other. Your females will not be better off by giving you Statehood. Your declaration that everyone not a Muslim is an infidel will not change by giving your savages Statehood, yet you may get it because of the gutless mindset of a few Europeans.

        I am a Muslim woman and I hope the Nation of Islam is wiped out to a man. Man being the operative word here.

        • Anonymous says:

          In the 1940s, Jewish migration to Israel (then British Mandate Palestine) occurred through both legal and illegal means:
          Legal Immigration (Aliyah): The British, who controlled Palestine, limited Jewish immigration through a quota system under the 1939 White Paper, which restricted Jewish entry in response to Arab opposition.
          Illegal Immigration (Aliyah Bet): Many Jews, especially Holocaust survivors, entered Palestine illegally. Organized by Zionist groups, clandestine ships carried refugees despite British naval blockades. The most famous of these was the ship Exodus 1947, which carried over 4,500 Holocaust survivors but was intercepted by the British.
          Post-Holocaust Migration: After World War II, the plight of Jewish displaced persons in Europe accelerated efforts to reach Palestine. International pressure grew for the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
          Establishment of Israel (1948): After Israel declared independence in May 1948, it opened its doors to Jewish immigrants worldwide, leading to mass migration facilitated by the Israeli government and Jewish organizations.

    • Richard says:

      The ‘atrocities of October 7th’, even if you’re willing to believe every claim the Jewish State In Palestine militants have dreamed up, pale in comparison to the ATROCITIES that Jewish State In Palestine militants have been documented as doing in the decades leading up to the Gaza Rebellion.
      In the year before October 7th, Jewish State In Palestine militants murdered over 350 Palestinians. You don’t have to go much further than the ‘period of relative calm’ that preceded the Uprising to match the number of dead ‘Israelis’ on October 7th and the entire time frame.
      You don’t have to go even one day before to find more kidnapped Palestinians being held hostage in Netanyahu’s dungeons than ‘Israelis’ (the vast majority active members of the JSIP armed wing) ‘kidnapped’ on that day, and collectively the time they’d been held hostage at that time exceeds the collective time the ‘Hostages’ have been held multiplied by the number of ‘Hostages’

  14. T[5 says:

    We are aware that you assisted Ukraine in destroying Yevpatoria RT-70. Since the Russians used it to spy on some MotherShip’s transmissions, you were entitled to defend the virtue of your communications.

  15. Cherish says:

    “The Woman Who Refused to Leave Florida: Polly Parker’s Untold Story”
    EMATELOYE

    By :J.Phillips

    Alright now, Y’all heard of Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson, but I betcha most folks round here ain’t never heard of Emateloye—better known to white folks back then as Polly Parker. And lemme tell ya, she was tougher than a boiled owl and slicker than a mullet in a cast net.

    See, this all went down durin’ the Third Seminole War, 1855 to ’58. Now, down by Fisheating Creek near Lake Okeechobee—place you can still go today, paddle your kayak and swat skeeters big enough to carry off a toddler—U.S. soldiers caught Polly. They rounded her up with a bunch of other Seminoles, put her in chains, and hauled her off to one of them concentration camps out on Egmont Key in Tampa Bay. Yessir, same pretty little island y’all boat out to now with a cooler of beer—back then it was a miserable way station where Seminoles were held till they got shipped west on the Trail of Tears.

    Well, in May of 1858, they shoved Polly and a bunch more aboard a steamship called the Grey Cloud, bound for Indian Territory out in Oklahoma. Lord, Oklahoma! That’s like tradin’ stone crab claws and mangos for dust storms and tumbleweeds.

    But Polly? She weren’t about to let some Yankee steamboat carry her off from Florida.

    Now here’s the good part. That Grey Cloud pulled into St. Marks—that’s south of Tallahassee, where nowadays you go see the lighthouse and eat hush puppies at the Riverside Café. They was stoppin’ to take on fuel, and the soldiers, figurin’ the Seminole women were harmless, let ‘em go ashore to pick herbs.

    Well, ol’ Polly played along nice as pie, bendin’ down, pickin’ them herbs like she was makin’ a salad. Soon as the soldiers turned their backs? Shoo! She was gone—tore off into the pine woods like a deer with hounds on its heels.

    Now mind you, this weren’t no stroll through Lakes Park. She had 300 miles of swamp and scrub between her and home. Soldiers sent out bloodhounds after her, but Polly knew them woods like a panther. She traveled at night, foraged off the land—palmetto berries, wild roots, maybe a turtle or two if she was lucky. Daytime she’d hide, quiet as Spanish moss in the breeze. Took her weeks, but by thunder, she made it back down to Lake Okeechobee and rejoined her people.

    And that, my friend, is why we still got Seminoles in Florida today. Her escape lit a fire under the holdouts who hadn’t surrendered. Her descendants went on to become leaders in the modern Seminole Tribe of Florida—yep, the same tribe that runs the Hard Rock Casinos and still call themselves the “Unconquered.” And at the root of it? Polly Parker, the lady who flat-out refused to be carted off to Oklahoma.

    She lived to be over a hundred, earned herself the title “Matriarch of the Unconquered.” Think about that—when most folks her age were sittin’ on porches complainin’ about the price of molasses, Polly was sittin’ tall as a legend who beat the U.S. Army with nothin’ but grit, gumption, and know-how of the swamps.

    And folks ain’t forgot her. In 2013, the Seminole Tribe commemorated the 155th anniversary of her escape by actually recreatin’ her journey by boat. Imagine that— retracin’ the path of a woman who outfoxed soldiers, bloodhounds, and the wilderness just to get home.

    So next time you’re fishin’ out by Fisheating Creek, or walkin’ the boardwalk at St. Marks Lighthouse, just think: you’re treadin’ the same ground Polly Parker did when she proved to the world that Florida don’t give up her people easy.

    Now folks always say Florida history’s about pirates, gators, and hurricanes. But truth is, sometimes it’s about one determined woman who told Uncle Sam, “Not today,” and walked herself right back into legend.

  16. H]3 says:

    The MotherShip the Immortal brought back has the ability to track an object more than a million light years through interstellar space. Why wasn’t that data shared? Maybe Nader1 had a point.

    • J[7 says:

      We should also have been told that he was attempting to teach the Immoral how to pilot a Starveddete. Under no circumstances should the Immortal be taught how to pilot any craft.

      • D]6 says:

        We disagree. Under the right circumstances we could learn how the Immortal integrates optical data and biometrics to traverse space. The only way is to monitor IT while it is using the instrumentation aboard one of our spacecraft.

      • Anonymous says:

        I’m pretty sure your technology is no limit for Him. He’s just letting you think that you are teaching Him. And probably observing all your thoughts at the same time. For a Being that has no limits you sure are limiting His capabilities in your understanding and discussion of Him. Look deeper.

    • K[4 says:

      It also has the ability to handle certain kinds of gravity fields allowing their MotherShips to travel beyond binary stars. This is a massive discovery. It should have been made available to all our scientists. The blatant waste of our brain pool for a possible military advantage should be unacceptable.

      • Z]3 says:

        The ship also has a way of bending light to create a natural hologram which makes them essentially invisible to our instrumentations. If the Immortal hadn’t destroyed them, we would not have been capable of defending ourselves against their technology. Will someone other than Nader1 tell us why G*/` wants the Immortal destroyed. IT, no He is not the enemy.

  17. G[4 says:

    We believe the Immortal uses heat signatures, electromagnetic signatures and something we are not familiar with to navigate. The creature is a gas with a brain. Discovering where the “brain” is in that mist is probably the key to destroying IT. Just get it out into space and find a way to destroy IT.

  18. LeI says:

    The order still stands. Any attempt to anger the Immortal inside ˇÓˇ ´Â∏O‰´‰’s or ӈ͠˝‰ÅÇ´’s domains will be punished with death.

  19. Z]3 says:

    It has been hypothesized that human DNA is inadequate to support the Immortal’s full form. We don’t accept that because we believe The Immortal created all living entities from a part of ITS make up. Some have gone so far as to postulate that indeed every living and non-living part of the Universe gets its source from the Immortal. If this is so, destroying IT(assuming that is even possible) would eventually destroy the Universe since the Universe grows as the Immortal moves about naked space creating elements that themselves evolve because of the physical environment in which they have been deposited.

    The Creature creates life in space by manipulating the environment of space. Akin to what the hippopotamus does as an ecosystem engineer on the planet Earth. Without the hippopotamus the African continent would not have become the ideal environment for its inhabitants it had become before the environmental destruction caused by the Europeans.

    The main difference is that the Immortal can not be removed from our Universe without causing profound changes that would in all probability me irreversible. Yes, it may be time to remove IT from this area, but We don’t accept that think that death is the answer. Drive or trick it out of our realm is the best option.

    • V]6 says:

      Right now we need the presence of the Immortal. IT is our only source of guaranteed protection from certain coronal mass ejections sent our way by Earth’s Sun. We agree that every Immortal sighting on record correlates to a pattern of specific stellar events in which something is created in the Known Universe. Although the creations may not be understood, they are there for observation and study.

      We do not know if your hypothesis is correct about the Immortal being the source of everything in the Universe, but for certain IT can affect space as the hippopotamus affects its environment.

      • C[7 says:

        A present example of the Immortal’s influence upon the Known Universe is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. He was asked by Ilzchel if he could clear a path through Earth’s solar system’s space rocks. He has begun removing them. It took more than 4 billion years for the gravitational resonance of Jupiter to shape the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. He is erasing and destroying the Belt in real time.
        The only thing that appears to be stopping him from removing the Belt entirely is the request to not alarm the observers of Earth. Why anyone cares about what those primitive beings think is beyond our logic.

  20. Geness says:

    You know how we’re often taught that evolution is a brutal, solitary struggle? The story of “survival of the fittest,” where everyone is competing, fighting for their piece of the pie. It can feel like a narrative that justifies a certain kind of cold, competitive world.

    There was a scientist named Lynn Margulis who looked at that story and said, in essence, “That’s not the whole picture. In fact, it misses the most beautiful part.”

    She was a brilliant evolutionary biologist, but she was also a mother, a thinker who saw the world through a different lens. At a time when her male peers were focused on competition and genes, she was captivated by collaboration—by the profound power of symbiosis.

    She proposed a radical idea. That the very cells which make up our bodies, and the bodies of every plant and animal, weren’t always the discrete units we see now. She argued that complex life began when simpler ancient microbes didn’t fight and consume one another, but instead, chose to merge. One bacterium swallowed another, but instead of digesting it, they formed a partnership. The swallowed bacterium became the energy powerhouse—what we now call the mitochondria—inside the larger cell. Another microbe, capable of capturing sunlight, was incorporated and became the chloroplast, the source of life for all plants.

    It’s a staggering thought. The very foundation of our existence is built not on a battle won, but on a partnership forged billions of years ago. Our cells are, in a very real sense, a collective.

    Margulis faced immense pushback for this idea. It was dismissed as fringe, as the work of a woman who wasn’t following the dominant, aggressive narrative of science. But she was stubborn and brilliant, armed with overwhelming evidence. She persisted, building her case piece by piece, until the scientific community could no longer ignore the truth she was presenting.

    Her life’s work is a story that validates what so many of us know intuitively: that connection is a form of strength. That collaboration can be a revolutionary act. That the most profound transformations often happen not when we wall ourselves off, but when we come together, creating something new, resilient, and magnificent from the fusion of our different strengths.
    #fyp #WomenInSTEM #foryourpage #womeninscience

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