Republicans want women and children to die from diseases.

If bigoted American voters can't be honest about how we got here? We're staying here. Because of them.

The situation in Lebanon is truly bleak, Israel effectively occupying the south, regular strikes into civilian areas of Beirut, half a million people displaced and even if the strikes on Iran slow down or cease this is likely to persist. It's horrific the news continues to fail like this.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

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Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.

"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

I feel this SO STRONGLY, it is so frustrating!!

@nschwalbe.bsky.social is the best option here!!

Grandmothers: nurse, teacher.

Pilot (wwii then commercial); odd jobs and ended up as manager of a musical instrument store.

You will never regret opposing a war Because wars destroy human beings, and we are meant for more than destruction

I don't hate this war because it wasn't "authorized properly," or because I am not a fan of the specific President waging it. I hate this war because it is a war.

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We are moving outside the US soon and I explained to my kids where we’re going there aren’t lockdown drills in schools and they genuinely do not believe me. 😞😞😞

(I mean successful in the sense of their stated goal of regime change)

Right but also the Maduro regime is still in power just without Maduro. It’s not as if Venezuela was entirely successful??

This movie was very influential for me as a 19 year old who had grown up in a certain type of household. If helped me question prevailing narratives in a way I hadnt before! Really important film.

You were 18F! Amazing! 💔 hope you’ve landed on your feet somewhere.

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I lay all of this at the feet of the people with power who did not act. So many people tried. The USAID effort turned into aidonthehill.org. Tho it’s still all volunteer run.

romance explored working class or disability etc” I’m like oh no, Balogh was the OG. (And Pamela Morsi- have you ever read her?? Her books give me similar just devastating draw my heart out feels like Balogh)

YES! I think the Bedwyn series is great but like the prologues and books around the series better than the core ones! Ha! Tho Alleyne’s book is great, I love how positively she presents sex workers in her books! And like, from the 90s and early 2000s! When people are like “only recently has historic

We did get congress to recommit to funding aid in the 2026 spending bill. But 800,000 people died because the people with power didn’t act because they were afraid of losing their seats. I feel comfort tho that they cannot plead ignorance, they knew- we told them daily for months what was happening.

I and hundreds of fired USAIDstaff were on Capitol Hill meeting with staffers and members everyday from February 2025 onwards, sounding the alarm. We wrote op-eds, collected constituent letters etc etc. It wasn’t enough for 2025, to reverse what happened in the moment. But we really did all we could

Ahhhh how to choose?? “Simply Love” devastates me. I love the survivors club series, and her stand-alones “Longing,” and “Secret Pearl.” Precious Jewel is up there too tho!

YES. Damn. Balogh!!!!! She is unmatched

I really do not enjoy the newer historic romances where the hero’s only main feature is adoration of the heroine! It’s so boring and not compelling! And it’s seemingly everywhere!

THIS BOOK. So good

Balogh excels at the hero redemption arc! She writes many real complex people. I adore her

There was a whole 30 rock episode about this. It’s not a secret!

She hasn’t visited Ms J!!?? I couldn’t believe it.

Okay this whole Wikipedia page is fascinating. At skim some of these regions had water that was green as often it was blue, but the idea that “terms for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue” is a mindfuck

We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery.

We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings.

"We" are both.

Cannot get more clear given that he stole the funding for food and medicine leading to 800,000 deaths. It is so deeply immoral cruel (and illegal!)