"We, Ukrainians, know better than anyone that a better tomorrow does not come exactly, because we defend each of our tomorrows with our own hands.
And that's why our new year will be the way we want it and make it.
Not only a New Year's miracle, but also a year-round miracle is all of you: determined, responsible, caring and effective.
Life and efforts to people who protect a free and safe future - not only their own, but the whole world."
- President Zelensky
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️
Historian Timothy Snyder asks us -- all of us -- if we understand the whirlwind we are going to reap if we sell out Ukraine. https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/23878
Everything will get worse if this happens. Everything.
It is really depressing that we are not getting much news about the horrible situation in Gaza.
Isrsel is killing every reporter who dares to expose their crimes, including their families, in surgical attacks blowing up their houses.
One by one, they are getting killed.
The internet is at less than 10% of it's previous speed.
Mobile network is cut off to non existence.
In the mean time, people dying, by the 100s, not just by bombings, but lack of medicine, lack of proper care, lack of clean water, lack of food.
Everything you can imagine, is happening in Gaza today and some more.
But we can't see it.
We can't feel their despair.
Their helplessness.
Their disappointment.
All while the whole "civilized west" is sending arms and money to help this outrageous atrocities to go on uninterrupted.
@palestine
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
"Russia has officially deployed a battalion formed of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) to the frontline in Ukraine, further confirming a myriad of apparent Russian violations of the Geneva Convention on POWs"
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-28-2023
4 years ago today, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. It went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know as #COVID19.
Days later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.”
He returned to work, contracted COVID from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020.
People were punished & died trying to keep others safe. Four years later, we still can't get people to care, mask, or protect each other.
If you’re working on completing your forms for critical #StudentLoanForgiveness (originally due December 31, 2023), and are stressed due to FSA website *constantly* going down, take a deep breath.
The deadline has been extended to April 30, 2024.
Pro tip: If you lack motivation, #coffee is sadly not the cure since it will only alert you to and, worse, focus you on that inadequacy.
However, coffee may just prevent you from killing the person who points this out to you.
The Patriot Fail site is (almost) up-to-date with over 100 unmasked Patriot Front members.
Patriot Fail aggregates identities of members of the neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front and sorts them by state.
Find local Nazis and submit research at:
The forgotten astronomer, poet, and tragic genius Rebecca Elson died at only 39 (the exact age I am now), leaving behind 56 scientific papers and a slender, sublimely beautiful book of poetry – including the loveliest New Year's poem I have ever read: https://t.co/dcbUSM0uoo https://t.co/tIW3XkhawR
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