Way back in the Miocene Epoch, a small group of primates took one look at the water and said: “Yes, let’s stay.” Thus began the aquatic line.

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So today, we remember the women who marched, protested, and risked it all to crack open those voting booths. And we also honor the ones who had to keep fighting long after 1920, because justice doesn’t always arrive on time.

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We do NOT comb our hair with forks. We know the difference between combs and cutlery, thank you very much

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Painting over a rainbow doesn’t erase the people who live it, love it, and shine it every single day. That’s like trying to paint over the tide. The water’s just going to wash back in.

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Here in the water, we know the Gulf’s true name because it’s written in the currents, sung in whale-song, and traced in the migrations of sharks. Try to rename a living body of water? That’s like trying to rename the moon and expecting the tides to care.

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Jack would love to be a science rockstar.

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Jack Mangan 

But then inflation hit, and suddenly every tidepool toddler with a bucket of shells thought they were a millionaire.

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We wrinkle, we slow down, we get cranky about currents that “aren’t what they used to be.”

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Actual Women of the Sea do not give up their voices to attract a mate. Not for a crown, not for a castle, not even for an all-you-can-eat buffet of sea cucumbers.

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Ah, jellyfish. The eternal mystery blobs of the sea. Today we wrestle with one of life’s big undersea questions: what exactly are they?

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