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My pandemic baby won. Gold Medalist in the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award - one author - English. I’ve know for a minute but still can’t believe it. Thank you Latino book awards and everyone who has supported my poetry.
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I feel claustrophobic and panicked just watching this. Israeli men targeting frightened little girls again. Bullies, brutes, and racist to the core of their cowardly and rotten souls.
Israeli soldiers closed a checkpoint in Hebron, trapping Palestinian schoolchildren inside.
The terrified children were prevented from leaving and forced to wait until they were released.🤬👿
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If you’re wondering how hard it is to get a rape conviction, it took six women, all of whom
testified against him, to get the jury to believe he raped only one of them. Now imagine how hard it is when a woman on her own is trying to get justice against her rapist.
testified against him, to get the jury to believe he raped only one of them. Now imagine how hard it is when a woman on her own is trying to get justice against her rapist.
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If she reports immediately, she's accused of trying to ruin a famous man's career.
If she waits, she's accused of inventing it years later.
If she tells nobody, she's accused of having no corroboration.
If she tells friends, she's accused of spreading rumours.
If she continues working in the same industry, she's accused of not being sufficiently traumatised.
If she leaves the industry, she's accused of being bitter about her failed career.
If she liked the man, she's accused of regretting consensual sex.
And if she disliked him, she's accused of having a grudge.
You CANNOT win.
If she waits, she's accused of inventing it years later.
If she tells nobody, she's accused of having no corroboration.
If she tells friends, she's accused of spreading rumours.
If she continues working in the same industry, she's accused of not being sufficiently traumatised.
If she leaves the industry, she's accused of being bitter about her failed career.
If she liked the man, she's accused of regretting consensual sex.
And if she disliked him, she's accused of having a grudge.
You CANNOT win.
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Kosovo a 97% muslim country just voted a catholic woman as their President. How many female presidents did the USA have?
In Islamic countries, Christians cannot run for elective position. But in US and other Christian nations Muslims can run for elective position. Why?
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If journalists like Courtney weren’t reporting from Lebanon we wouldn’t know that Israel is still killing people and demolishing homes.
Because legacy media doesn’t care.
Because legacy media doesn’t care.
Report from Qantara, where Israeli forces are continuing demolitions of civilian homes and infrastructure.
On Wednesday a man documenting the destruction was murdered by an Israeli drone strike.
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parasites is too kind a word for these cockroaches. look how they delight in having terrorized Palestinian families into leaving so they could steal their homes, complete with furniture, appliances, and even kitchenware. No one who legitimately sells their home leaves in such haste.
Israeli settlers have seized eight Palestinian homes in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank.
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I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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I just can’t imagine how demented your soul has to be to gleefully take someone’s home like that and just continue on living like it’s all normal
A group of Israeli settlers have seized eight Palestinian homes on Wednesday in Jericho, located in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian sources reported that the settlers, accompanied by their families, stormed the eight homes, which were empty at the time of the raid
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I can’t help but be cynical. I’ve seen this “blue wave” before. As recently as 21018 & 2020. How many “blue waves”do they need and what are they gonna do differently this time? Representation doesn’t move me anymore, actions do. I need to see action before I celebrate anything.
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They do biiiich
@jvgraz Israel doesn’t steal organs lol
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Never forgive and never forget that the Democratic Party is responsible for the genocide in Gaza, as Refaat Alareer reminded us before Israel killed him.
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Israeli occupation forces assault and humiliate a Palestinian ka’ak (bread) vendor during their raid on central Jenin in the occupied West Bank this morning.
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On this day, 26 years ago, 14 year-old Faris Odeh was killed by israelis days after this photo: they shot him in the neck | via @DaniMayakovski
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American journalist @infinite_jaz has tirelessly documented Israeli terror against Palestinians on the West Bank. So of course now the Israeli occupation army turns its brutality on him:
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“I no longer feel proud to be Israeli… We are occupiers, yes… wait, i thought we were on commercial break!”
Amazing — Israeli actress Chelli Goldenberg accidentally tells the truth when she doesn’t realize she’s live on the air. (H/T @MintPressNews)
More: israelnationalnews.com/news/435190
Amazing — Israeli actress Chelli Goldenberg accidentally tells the truth when she doesn’t realize she’s live on the air. (H/T @MintPressNews)
More: israelnationalnews.com/news/435190
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Your friendly reminder Apartheid Israel is STILL perpetrating genocidal acts in Lebanon.
🔴Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on October 26, 2024:
🟠 Airstrikes:
Outskirts of Bani Hayyan
🟠 Artillery shelling:
Al-Mansouri
Wadi al-Hujair
Wadi al-Salouqi
Khiam
Al-Qantara
Outskirts of Baraachit
Outskirts of Mifdoun
Beit Yahoun
Hadatha
Wadi Zibqin
Shebaa
Zawtar al-Sharqiya
🟠 Demolitions:
Zawtar al-Sharqiya
🟠 Illumination flares:
Zawtar al-Sharqiya
🟠 Sound grenades:
Nabatieh al-Fawqa
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