Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are now at the frontlines defending Ukraine and Europe.
They will celebrate Christmas and the New Year in the trenches, far from their families.
Please keep them in your thoughts this holiday season ❤️
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️
Hey its Jaden. I did a dumb ass thing and deleted my old account fo a bet. Yep I was drunk 🥴 I really regret it now what tf did I do 😫.
Hope I can find y'all that I followed before 🙏🏿
Preciate if yall could boost this so I can find y'all again.
Love Jaden ❤️
#introduction #introductions
The wife and I decided to check out a new to us Mexican restaurant called XCaret here in Winston Salem today.
Food was really good. Afterwards, we went to Bitty & Beau's for some iced coffee. The company has a really great story as to who they are.
Now, it's time to get comfy at home and just rest and relax until after Christmas.
#Food #IcedCoffee #Chips #Queso #Chorizo #Nachos #MexicanFood #XCaret #WinstonSalem #NC
I'm having a really hard time lately just *being* in a world so bent on self destruction. I think the worst part is that we're not even all in agreement around ideas like "burning down the world is insane" or "murdering children is bad".
It was easy enough to not be a part of the problem, but we know that isn't enough, and I'm powerless to do much of anything else.
So the world burns and children are murdered... and I'm watching my family put up a Christmas tree.
@johnshirley2024 here's a gift link, I have a few left
Yesterday I spoke at the Aurora City Council meeting against an anti-refugee amendment.
I pointed out the facts—that asylum is a human right, that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, demonstrably boost economies, have lower crime rates than US Citizens, higher vaccination rates than US Citizens, and strengthen our cultural beauty.
I reminded those in attendance of the horrors inflicted upon Jewish refugees seeking asylum on the S.S. St. Louis in 1939
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FDR rejected their pleas, sending 954 refugees back to Europe, where more than 250 of those Jewish refugees would be killed in the Holocaust.
I closed with the powerful wisdom of Krish Vignarajah who reminds us that, "We welcome refugees, not because they are American...But because we are American."
Let us live up to our American values of justice, humanity, and human rights. That's how we form a more perfect union.
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Kia ora e hoa mā! My feed is far too quiet for my tastes, and being on a solo instance my global feed is pretty quiet, too! I'd love to follow a few more folk, if you wouldn't mind giving this a boost or dropping me a line!
I'm a #writer and #photographer, #queer and #trans, I nerd out over #games and #tech and #webdev, I'm currently learning as much #tereo as I can, and more!
RE: https://ff.jennifilm.nz/notes/9hvezslyuojfoek8
A healthy democracy is a pendulum, with peaceful transitions of power when the swing reaches its peak. And even at its peaks, the minority rights are still protected and guaranteed.
The far right isn't interested in playing democracy. They want to break the pendulum. They want it to swing as far right as possible, then rather than transition power when they lose the support of the population, they want to instead impose permanent minority rule.
Moderates and Liberals seem to constantly be blinded by the fact that in the past there have been peaceful transitions of power, so they can simply sit back and wait for their turn.
But that's not the game that's being played these days. Leftists keep screaming about how we're in danger and we need to be throwing our full weight against the right swinging pendulum to slow and stop it before they can break it, but we keep getting called hyperbole, paranoid, or whatever.
When a fash says what they want to do, BELIEVE THEM!
I was so nervous workin out next to Kat this morning
like, at one point, I thought I was gonna fall, and then at another, I felt like I was going to pass out
the whole time I'm thinkin, she's so freakin attractive, wth would she be interested in me?
Wash Post: Israeli Government has failed to show evidence that Al Shifa was a Hamas command center
NY Times: Evidence shows Israel bombed areas where it ordered Gaza civilians to go
WSJ: Israeli military stopped doctors from treating three infants, who then died
With regards to the fighting in Gaza Biden has been doing the same thing he's been doing throughout his presidency: working quickly behind the scenes to make shit happen, even if that makes him look bad in public.
This is Biden's go-to strategy, and IT WORKS. I wish people would stop and think long enough to understand this.
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What if a decision like the one in Colorado were to lead to a terrible “backlash” – to a violent response by Trump loyalists and MAGA fanatics? That is a distinct possibility. But that doesn’t make the decision “undemocratic.” It only underlines how far down the road we already are. 13/
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric