Remain Events

This is for events set up by & for proEU groups in UK and mainland Europe to help safe the UK from making the biggest mistake in modern history: Brexit! #FBPE

[Remain Events @EventsRemain]

On 19th May, Sunday b4 #EP2019 @ 3pm, Trafalgar Square we are holding a flashmob Ode to Joy in solidarity with #1EuropaFürAlle. EU #peace project #1EuropeForAll! @The4810 @csibike1 @kent4EU @snb19692 @remain_central @YorkshireFor @Mcr4EU @London4Europe @dogs4EU @wooferendum #FBPE

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Deeply saddened by what Brexit and those responsible for it unleashed. Johnson, Gove, Cummings, Farage: every hate crime and xenophobic incident is on you and the nationalist populism you nurtured.

Britain: we’re a great country; we’re better than this...
https://t.co/i6fyFG4Qwt

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

No. No. Negative. Untrue. False. Incorrect. In no way the case. No.

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

@cair_wa @NWIRP In the meantime, everyone (but especially Iranians) rn should KNOW YOUR RIGHTS when traveling: here are KYR guides in Farsi & English. BE SURE TO REPORT to @NIACouncil @ACLU or CAIR IF YOU OR FAM ARE QUESTIONED OR DETAINED this is SO important for us to mobilize FAST

[NIAC @NIACouncil]

URGENT: we are hearing credible reports of detentions at US borders, both of Iranian Americans and permanent residents. We are working to independently verify, coordinating with lawmakers & allies. If you have information please share it directly with us at [email protected]

[Remain Events @EventsRemain]

@gmai_sutton @SpanishDan1 Good luck. I had it 6 years ago. It’s brilliant but take it slowly..

[Thread Reader App @threadreaderapp]

@pediatricskc Halo!, you can read it here: Thread by @Supermansings: 1/ I’ve been to war, twice. Iraq in ‘09 and Afghanistan in 2011. I am just a fucking ER doc.… https://t.co/4GHJsjlUwG. Talk to you soon. 🤖

[John Webb @JohnWebbMD]

@Supermansings Doc, this is the burden so many have chosen to take upon their shoulders. Others will never understand the internal devastation, but your sacrifices help bring loved ones home to regain some wholeness in their circles of life. Thank you sir, keep up the fight! #freedom #Peace

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

So, the ramblings of about old man got some traction. Thanks. I don’t do SoundCloud, whatever that is, but my daughter’s voice is a balm for my soul. If you want to check out a beautiful human singing like an angel, check her out and give her a follow. https://t.co/r1bBvObcu3

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

20/
Not sure where this came from tonight. Probably the Iran thing, and all the back and forth on twitter. Makes me so damn tired. And that old pre-deployment anxiety is still fluttering down there, somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind. Thanks for reading my longest tweet.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

19/
They thank us, but they bite for war-hawks that want to put us in harms way for various, often very murky reasons. Before you get hung ho for war, consider that the human costs aren’t only tallied in death or injury but also in destroyed families and the theft of joy.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

18/
I’m hearing people clamoring for war all the time. They talk a big game, and seem to get a thrill out of the carnage that they watch from 1000s of miles away. But they forget the 19yo private, the 32 yo Sgt, the 38 year old major that are getting it done.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

17/
And this is one of the ways war changes us. It steals our joy, but somehow makes us want to come back for more. Despite it all.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

16/
but- it’s hard. You’ve been home a year, and you are already on a calendar marking your upcoming trip to do it all over again, in a distant, probably worse location. The anxiety needles at you, distracts, and pulls you further into your head, and away from your family.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

15/
And so you put your game face in and try to fake it till you make it. And occasionally even miss the place you hated, the place that changed you, the place that robbed you of feeling joy. But the routine makes sense, the work is important, and you take care of only you. But.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

14/
You’re wife wants you to pick up some slack,but has new routines doing everything the way she wants and there is friction when you don’t do it, as there is when you try and change a well set routine. You must work, which for me is still in another ER,wading through death.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

13/
And then we come home to regular life. Which is in some ways harder to adjust to than it was adjusting to over there. There is no routine. Here, you have to think about others than your own grind. People want you to smile and be happy. You’re kids want you to pay attention.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

12/
Your world has been shrunk to a 2-3 block radius. You will trudge the 2 minutes to work and back many times. Then 2 minutes to the gym tent. Then 2 minutes to the chow hall. Overandoverandoverandover. For 6-12 months. Your bed is in a plywood room that measures 7.5x7.5 feet.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

11/
No matter your job, that’s what it looked like for all of us. We tried to completely relax, but when death could come from the sky at any time, or a foreign officer could turn on his troops and shoot down anyone in his vicinity, there is no REAL relaxation.

[Steve “JAFERD,MD” Sample🇺🇸 @Supermansings]

10/
For all but a few, that’s what war is, boredom, but knowing that shit could hit the fan at any second. And that if you didn’t perform at peak when called, that someone would die. And often, they would die even despite all you did.