Simone Biles is not a generational talent. She's so good that they had to create a new difficulty level to score her. She has multiple moves named after her. She's not a generational talent. She's the best to have ever existed. And we're all blessed to be able to witness it.
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[1] 2 days ago settlers entered the Abu Safi family compound in the Pal community of Radeem in the South Hebron Hills. They damaged their solar panels and punctured their water tank.
Settlers are trying to expel the family, as they did to the Amer family from Radeem 5 days ago
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The western press have been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to do reporting next to the middle easterners they've been lying about for generations, and discovering that a lot of those middle easterners speak English and have a few things to say.
Just saw a protest sign: “Land you have to kill for isn’t yours, Land you have to die for is” It’s a good reminder that most Israeli settlers are from the US+western countries. They’re getting airlifted out w/ 2nd passports. Palestinians won’t leave bc it’s their ancestral land
Their ancestors were the greatest mathematicians that ever walked on earth and all our technologies including your being able to ask your islamophobic 'question' is based on technologies based on mathematical science that originated from many muslim scientists and thinkers. Your ancestors' enlightenment from the dark ages, industrialisation, today's weapons systems and skewed global financial architecture were all made possible through genius mathematical ideas invented by many muslim scholars. I know, they did not teach you this in school. The few times I have visited postcolonial Britain, I interacted with British and non-British professors and professionals from various religions including muslims and I have profited immensely from much of their scholarship. Just spend time with some good books Mr. David Vance. Hopefully, you will appreciate the palimpsests of knowledge production, the role of muslim scholars as well as many similarly amazing non-muslim and non-religious scholars from Timbuktu to Beijing to Boston to Cape Town, to Nairobi, to Oxford, to Githurai, to Athens, to Yucatán, that is, basically across the global cosmopolitanisms of knowledge production. If you drop me your address, I am glad to loan you a few good books from my home library which, you should kindly return upon reading. Am glad to pay freight costs both ways. That is the little I can chip in as an attempt at answering your 'question.' But most important, stop Islamophobia packaged in your words and a distorted edited video whose content has nothing to do with prayer. We know how Muslims pray, we are not stupid. And we borrow and know our inshallahs, our mashallahs, our Alhamdullilahs and bismillahs and Allahu Akbars. And yes, though we belong to other religions, we have read the Surats of the Quran and also read about Jesus and Mary in the Quran, just as some of our Muslim friends have read the Bible and conversed with us about our - in my case African - religions. We can coexist and we must coexist and it does not matter whether we believe in any God or not whether we belong to any religion or not. Kind regards. ⚖️
Hey @AOC, will you demand the release of the 170 Palestinian children held hostage in Israeli prisons? Or the 1264 Palestinians incarcerated without charge or trial? Or the 5000+ Palestinian political prisoners? What about the 2.5 million hostages besieged in Gaza? 🤡
Imagine you’re 20 wks pregnant when your fetus is diagnosed with a lethal condition. But no one tells you that—at least, not explicitly.
Your doctor is mandated by law to tell you the condition is “potentially life-limiting,” and that your non-viable pregnancy is “pre-viable.”
this means a bomb every minute and a half. for 6 days straight. in a place with about a million people under 18. in a place with no military. how does this not make you sick to your stomach? how do you stand with israel and live with yourself?
Yes, Covid is incredibly virulent. Yes, it's everywhere. BUT: the only reason it is still around is because those in charge gave up! A single MONTH of actual mask wearing, contact tracing, paid sick time, and indoor air upgrades would fix the problem. *Actually* fix it! It's 1/?
How the fuck was everyone somehow convinced that the collective trauma experienced over the past 3+ years was due to remote work and masking and not, y'know, being abandoned to mass death and disablement in the name of unprecedented capital accumulation by the ultrawealthy?