🌹 Clara Rose Thornton 🍉

Anti-empire 🌐 / Debut book, MOTION SICKNESS; Green Writers Press '26 📕 / Author, documentarist / ALM, @Harvard; Journalism '28 👩🏽‍🎓 / InkBlot Complex ✊🏽

[🌹 Clara Rose Thornton 🍉 @ClaraRose]

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[sarah @sahouraxo]

This isn’t a post-apocalyptic movie scene.

This is what Israel is doing to South Lebanon.

Burning homes, shops, businesses and civilian infrastructure.

Not military targets.

Just deliberate destruction. Pure terror.

This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie:

“Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors — instant peace.”

“Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.”

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American education system does not teach empire.

This is not an accident.

It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning.

It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler.

It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of.

It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations.

It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil.

It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present.

It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention.

The ignorance is load-bearing.

Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable.

They know this.

The curriculum is not an oversight.

The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it.

The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier.

It is the history class.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

to whomever made this: thank you from the wells of history and farthest echoes of indigenous screams for justice for this labor of love and justice.
their terror will not be whitewashed.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Israel tied up children and babies, KILLED them, then buried them in mass graves.

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs

EuroMedHR: Inside the mass graves, they found children & babies with their hands bound with zip ties

This photo is from 2 mass graves discovered at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, in April During the genocide, the EuroMedHR documented over 130 mass graves of victims of the Israeli genocide

[🌹 Clara Rose Thornton 🍉 @ClaraRose]

Zeitgeist. 🌈❤️‍🔥

[OnlyGoodGames™ @OGG1993]

@factpostnews Are you fucking serious

[#TheResistance @BoneKnightmare]

@factpostnews Impeccable timing.
https://t.co/Y9gG9uLNHW

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Just days after scientists found that bee venom can kill cancer cells, the Trump administration is set to close the nation’s primary bee research laboratory.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Wikileaks released footage of a very similar incident perpetrated by US soldiers in 2010. The footage triggered global outrage at the highest levels. Now Israel perpetrates this crime over and over again, with total impunity. Zionism is hollowing out humanity and must be ended.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Colonos sionistas instalaron pantallas en una plaza para celebrar la limpieza étnica en el sur del Líbano, como si fuese un partido de fútbol, vitorean cada bomba que explota contra casas de familias libanesas.

Es como si en la Alemania nazi pusieran pantallas en las plazas viendo como exterminaban a prisioneros en los campos de concentración en los años 40 del siglo pasado.

La psicología debe integrar a "Israel" como un nuevo estudio de la maldad humana, esta ostentación del genocidio no es normal.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The debt system is the cleanest version of the whole operation because it requires no soldiers.

A country gets a loan from the IMF or World Bank, usually in a moment of crisis, often a crisis produced or deepened by prior colonial extraction.

The loan comes with conditions.

Structural adjustment programs.

Privatize your public utilities.
Cut your social spending.
Open your markets to foreign competition.
Devalue your currency.
Remove subsidies on food and fuel.

The local economy, already fragile, is further destabilized by the conditions of its own rescue.

The country cannot repay.

The country gets more loans with more conditions.

The debt grows.

The conditions deepen.

The government, unable to deliver services to its population, faces protests.

The protests are called "instability."

The instability is cited as evidence that the country cannot "manage itself."

"External oversight" is recommended.

More conditions are attached.

The country was never in debt to the bank.

The bank was in debt to the country, for centuries of extracted resources and suppressed development, and found a mechanism to make the creditor pay the debtor.

And called it "aid."

And called it "development."

And called it, with a straight face, "civilization."

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is what the civilizing mission actually produced, by the numbers:

Africa in 1800: hundreds of independent kingdoms, confederacies, city-states, trade empires. Diverse, complex, self-governing political entities.

Africa in 1914: 90 percent of the continent under European colonial control, reorganized into administrative units designed for extraction, their borders cutting through ethnic and linguistic communities with the casual brutality of a pen on a map drawn in Berlin.

Africa in 2026: fifty-five nations, many of them still following the extractive economic logic installed by colonialism, still paying debt to former colonial powers and their financial institutions, still governed in many cases by elites trained to administer on behalf of external interests rather than internal populations, still watching their resources leave the continent as raw materials and return as finished goods at a markup.

The "development" that colonialism promised is now, more than six decades after formal independence, still being promised.

By the same institutions.

Using the same language.

Attaching the same conditions.

This is not a coincidence.

This is not a failure of the civilizing mission.

This is the civilizing mission, running exactly as designed, having successfully converted "we are taking your resources by force" into "we are helping you develop."

The mission was never to raise you up.

The mission was to make sure you stayed down, and believed, while staying down, that you were being helped.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Wow…I had no idea..

UNRWA smuggled the Palestinian memory archive from its headquarters in Gaza, meaning the record of every Palestinian who became a refugee after the 1948 Nakba, to preserve their legitimate right to return and compensation in the event of a settlement..
@Rana_Sabbagh has the full story

[Tyrus Morton @mrtraemaine]

@itsmubashi You’re not behind, you’re becoming. Growth often feels like confusion and letting go before it feels like progress. Not everything falling apart needs fixing some things are leaving so you can move forward.

[🌹 Clara Rose Thornton 🍉 @ClaraRose]

Tackling the same subject, of reigniting pop stardom after trauma, “Mother Mary” is to the supernatural female gaze what “The Idol” is to recorded boys’ locker room chat.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Capitalism has ruined people's perception of the world and made them think it's normal to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn't. It's not natural to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare simply because they have no money. It's disturbing.

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't.

Meet Mia Heller.

A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.

That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%.

Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills.
The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop.

The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it.

So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way.

She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries.

She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink.

The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia.

Source: Smithsonian Magazine