Petra von Schalien

Israel kidnapping Greta Thunberg, the Academy-Award winning co-director of the documentary No Other Land, and declaring Ms. Rachel an anti-semite for not wanting Palestinian kids to die.

Yup, this is how you win the world.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

How do we just… normalise all this shit when we have the capacity to be human? To make the world better? To fix so much shit instead of making more trauma and darkness. 💔

Terrifying on every level.

F***ing finally

When anyone says "Keep politics out of [thing]!" they're just saying that they liked it when it was only their politics in [thing] and they should be called crybabies and weirdos at every opportunity.

You protest. You inspire others to use voices they forgot they had in isolation, because it’s so easy to think “I’m just one person, what can I do” and forget that the answer is “everything” because we are the masses, and those elected into power work for us.

Belated but as it was UK Mothers Day yday… May I suggest tuning into #Nightbitch by 🎬 Marielle Heller (on Disney atm) for a feral and relevant conversation around motherhood (especially in societies without policies to support them). 💕🍼🎥

So everything abt this is terrifying, and a reminder of how fast democracies can unravel when completely false wild click bait claims aren’t held to account and give some deeply problematic people who care only abt profit and not humans far too much unchecked power.

The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.

Gets rid of books, education and checks and balances… but yeah sure what was the issue again, her laugh? Okay then. 💔😩🙄

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

Horrifying

Social services need to be checking in on those kids 💔

Is anyone gonna… like… do it.

The way - as with so much - so many remain fully willing to look the other way to profit off what the PR machine has sold, with no care that the cost is a complete lack of basic human rights. 💔

This is now an authoritarian country. No guardrails. Trump defies judges. No checks and balances.

Yes okay fabulous the Tesla reactions are happening, because of course economic boycotts of companies impacts… but you’re telling me the signs weren’t clear enough… until now? He wasn’t subtle a year or two ago…? This isn’t a badge to have waited until it was generalised to speak up.

Can you all see it now? Is the quiet part being said loud enough? Now that it’s too late and real lives are being impacted irreversibly daily?

The level of authoritarian dictator vibes this is all giving… like guys. Wtf.

We need to have some really uncomfortable convos with a significant amount of men (and women) in our lives because waaaaay more of them than we might like to admit were always totes cool with these 🍇guys

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The actress facing 74 lashes in Iran for her Oscar-nominated film Instead of attending the glitzy Hollywood ceremony, Soheila Golestani is on trial by the Revolutionary Court for her part in The Seed of the Sacred Fig

In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

When the richest person in history uses “empathy is overrated” as his excuse for picking Lex Luthor over doing literally ANY good… well.

No Other Land still has no distribution.

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Cannot state enough how much of a must-see this documentary is, from both a human and filmmaking pov. The kind of raw, honest, hopeful in darkness and impactful storytelling docs and journalism is all about.

FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."

"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”

EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

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