Formerly @Broma07983148. "A lot of truth is said in jest..." Contrarian. Previamente Solicitor y Civil Servant! Fantasy, gaming, sci-fi. I follow chihuahuas.
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🚨NEW: The Kennedy Family, led by Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), is suing to block Trump’s triumphal arch, claiming it would cast a shadow over JFK’s grave.
RETWEET if you stand with @JoeKennedy against Donald Trump!
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In each photo, one children's writer and one author of a book about teaching. One set were called child abusers and drummed out of publishing. The others were feted and given millions of pounds. Which is which? @RooneyRach
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He's ancient, he's deaf, he has dementia, he has seizures, he doesn't know this box is a scratch box..he thinks it's a bed.
He's still with me , he still likes to feel the sun, he still purrs, he still likes treats, he still wakes me at 3am.
He's still a furry little sh!t.
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How terribly virtuous. Many bookshops refused ever to stock books by Helen Joyce, Julie Bindel, Kathleen Stock, Hannah Barnes et al, because the content made staff and customers ‘feel unsafe’. Books by Brand and Walliams were just great though 🤔
The Works and TG Jones have stopped selling David Walliams’ books entirely, while Waterstones has said it is planning to return its remaining stock to HarperCollins, following the publication of allegations against the children’s author. 👇 ebx.sh/7z7x6p
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Then he said, very quietly, "I'm so sorry. I didn't think anyone would ever pick up."
His name was Ray. His mother had passed away the winter before, and her old number was one digit off from my grandmother's. The first time, he dialed it out of habit and got June's greeting instead. He said she sounded so much like his mom, same accent, same "leave me a nice message," that he started calling every evening at the time he used to call her. He never left a message because he felt like he was intruding.
My grandmother listened to all of it and then said, "Well, Ray, it's after supper. Do you want to talk?"
They talked for an hour that night. Now he calls every Sunday at seven, and she actually answers. He came by and fixed her gutters in August. She still hasn't changed the greeting, and she told me she never will.
Has anything like this ever happened to you?
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This girl is 12 years old. Today, she went to school in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis wearing these clothes. Although she was wearing a hijab, the school administration sent her home because her clothing did not meet its requirements for full Islamic dress.
According to her mother, her teachers called her disrespectful and accused her parents of failing to raise her properly.
Her mother appealed publicly to the Ministry of Education or the organization running the school to provide the garments she cannot afford. A mother was left pleading for clothes, not to protect her daughter from the cold, but simply so she could enter a classroom.
But the problem goes beyond poverty or clothing.
This is the subjugation of Palestinian women, beginning in childhood: stripping a girl of her freedom and demanding obedience in exchange for an education. A fundamental right is being turned into a bargaining chip to control her.
What are these teachers teaching her? That authority gives them the right to humiliate her? That her dignity depends on their approval, and her parents deserve contempt for allowing her to dress differently?
Their religious convictions do not give them ownership of her body or her conscience.
Yet how many human rights organizations will speak out for this girl? How many voices that rightly defend Palestinian women against the Israeli occupation will defend her when those denying her rights are Palestinians?
I fear her story will pass almost unnoticed because it does not fit the narrative through which so many have grown accustomed to seeing us. We may speak of bombardment, hunger, and displacement. We may be mourned as victims and admired for our resilience. But when we speak of religious coercion or oppression within our own society, we are accused of weakening our cause.
Whose cause is protected by a girl’s silence? What freedom requires her to surrender her own?
The occupation is responsible for its crimes. That does not relieve us of responsibility for what we do to one another. We are human beings with different beliefs, convictions, and dreams, and our society must not be placed beyond criticism.
Giving this girl the required clothes may get her through the school gate tomorrow. It will leave intact the power that shut it in her face today.
I want her to return knowing that she has done nothing shameful, that the adults who humiliated her were wrong, and that her education is not a favor to be granted when she submits. It is her right, and it is not negotiable.
We are not struggling to free ourselves from occupation only to spend our lives under one another’s control. If we defend Palestinian women and girls against killing and hunger but remain silent when their freedom is taken away, we are defending their survival while abandoning their right to live freely.
#SurvivalTestimony
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For teachers to insist that children engage in the pretence that a male teacher is female is an abuse of power, and an abuse of the trust which the children should be able to place in the adults who have responsibilities towards them.
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We are witnessing the final days of Islam. thats why the remaining muslims have become so aggresive trying to save their dying religion.
Internet killed Islam .
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Dave Chappelle says he doesn’t mourn 9/11 ‘because a bunch of white people died’. He says ‘died’ instead of murdered because his fellow Muslims were the murderers. And the reason he cited race. when the victims were multiracial, is because he’s racist. He’s a real piece of shit.
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I’m sorry but Bruce irks the shit out of me. He commercialized the trans movement and now he wants to go back to being a man what a fucking dip shit.
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Éxito rotundo de la manifestación por la vivienda en València!
@NunezFeijoo , ya podéis ir encargando toneladas de marisco en esa IA que usáis.
📷 Ana Escobar
