The voters didn't elect GWB OR Donald Trump. They voted for Kerry & Clinton.
He really should have educated the public that the US Supreme Court gave the Presidency to GWB, & the Electoral College is why we have Trump. Not the voters.
I have the strong impression that the people who are running the Democratic party are committing electoral malpractice on a number of different levels. I began to panic when they decided to dump the entirety of our legislative political capital on infrastructure instead of voting rights.
@inthehands 😂 love it! that's a pun I actually enjoyed! I read the Beastologist series with my kiddo and I feel like he'll get a kick out of this too :) thank you for the wholesome care 💗
I got sucked back into Twitter by peer pressure (aka chat group following Gaza news).
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
There are a lot of people There whose expertise I miss & benefit from; however, the whole place is a horror show & the ratio of people Here vs. There, who give a shit & inform themselves & remain human is astronomically higher & I missed you. Twitter relapse is legit soul crushing.
Honestly it's unreal that no major networks are covering. This is a HUGE story. Meir Kahane's groups have been on terrorist lists in the US & Israel & internationally for decades. For good reason. See the details in Wikipedia @Wikipedia to start.
"israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny #gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years"
Graph of Aid worker deaths showing more than 70% of all the aid worker deaths in 2023 were in #Gaza. Even more in 2024 - roughly 75-80%
All 161 deaths of Palestinian aid workers in 2023 were after Oct. 7
Data is as of April 1, 2024. The data from 2024 & some incidents from 2023 are provisional
Again, we owe it to these 7 #WCK volunteers to watch The #Gatekeepers, a documentary by an Israeli filmmaker who managed to interview 6 former directors of #ShinBet.
A *month* ???!! No. Come on. That’s ridiculous. How many people are going to starve to death in a month. They should be required to respond in a week or less.
I think The Color Purple (1985) is a feminist movie, but at the time it didn't offer me any relief from the sexism...Its portrayal of everyday male violence did make me feel seen; however it also made me feel very much imprisoned. Ditto for Thelma & Louise (1991).
Maybe Fried Green Tomatoes.
There's kind of whole a female heist/getaway genre that definitely works for me.
A recent version I really liked was Deidra & Laney Rob a Train.
I remembered another early one: Housekeeping (1987, Bill Forsyth), which is based on Marilynne Robinson's fantastic book. This just an incredible, sweet, humane, fascinating movie, & broke w/sexist conventions by making the key relationships in the movie, all between women, staying true to the book in this way. Christine Lahti is *amazing*, as is Sara Walker as Ruth.
I Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema) was also that same year. I was a little too young to appreciate it fully.
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