Jiljam

Minneapolitan, mom of 2

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

RIP Glen Hansard 🕊️⁠ ⁠

Filmed here with Eddie Vedder playing his Oscar-winning track ‘Falling Slowly’.⁠ ⁠

The singer-songwriter has died aged 56 in a motorcycle crash in Dublin, Ireland.⁠ ⁠

#GlenHansard #EddieVedder

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Adam Lynch @AdamLynch27]

RIP Glen Hansard

A tragic loss

Here he is singing Fairytale of New York at Shane McGowans funeral which is one of the greatest videos over

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

George Lopez: “I don’t follow the Lakers anymore. Mark Walter owns detention centers, runs them for profit. Also owns the Dodgers. As soon as I found that out, I disassociated myself from the Dodgers and the Lakers. I lost two teams in one week”

[Soma - Patron Saint of Christmas @SombraMapache]

Call me woke or whatever, but I don't think it's even vaguely reasonable to expect the literal mayor of NYC to be prohibited from attending a 9/11 memorial just because a handful of folks affected by it grew up to be malignant racists.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

To confirm:

Tim Walz passed a bill in MN banning services that use AI to generate nude images of minors.

Elon Musk, through xAI, is suing to block this bill.

When we call MAGA pedophile protectors, this is what we are talking about.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Senator are you wittingly or unwittingly throwing shade at @realDonaldTrump?

[michael musto @mikeymusto]

Elliot Page is more of a man than all the guys who are mocking him.

[Amy Lynn Dark Rider🐇💀 @AmyLynnStL]

RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism

Trump: I've studied this a long time

Circumcision does not cause autism.

What is with their obsession with genitalia? These are the weirdest motherfuckers on the planet.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

See you in court, creep.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

• Union busting
• Laying off 80% of Twitter's employees
• Committing securities fraud
• Endorsing Germany's far-right party
• Giving Nazi salute
• Dismantling aid programs
• Sending racist tweets
• Hoarding $1,000,000,000
• "Doing the greatest amount of good"

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Major countries that guarantee healthcare as a human right:

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Major countries that deny that right:

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Beyond pathetic. Medicare for All NOW.

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

For the record, I'm with Team Jose Andres. ❤️@chefjoseandres

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

With the mass shooting at Seattle Center, it might be good to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by nearly half - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths more than doubled - because it’s the fucking guns.

[Lauren Southern @Lauren_Southern]

Last Andrew Tate fan discovers bots

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Does anyone remember when Elon Musk criticized MacKenzie Scott for giving away billions to help vulnerable people?

Now he's calling José André who has fed thousands of people in some of the world's worst disasters an asshole.

No, Elon.
You're the asshole.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

I was at the gym last night and one of the screens was running a repeat of CNN's Live Aid special.

Bob Geldof was one man who used the power of music to generate global support to help humans dying of famine.

The concert raised $125 million and saved thousands of lives.

It's estimated Elon Musk makes about $90 million to $140 million per day.

He could change the world, but instead chose to defund USAID.

"The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes." 🌎

[Ahmad Chamseddine @Achamsedine]

Cet automne, pour la première fois depuis 250 ans, ma famille ne récoltera pas d'olives au Liban.

Nos 600 oliviers ont été arrachés du sol par l'armée israélienne, racines comprises, et emportés. Les plus vieux avaient 500 ans !

Cette terre, mon grand-père la tenait de son arrière-grand-père. En deux siècles et demi, ma famille a acheté de la terre. Elle n'en a jamais vendu un mètre, pas un seul jour. Chez nous, on ne construit pas sur la terre. On y plante. Ces arbres ont survécu à plusieurs guerres. Ils ont survécu à tout.

Regardez les deux photos. À gauche, notre terre le 25 juin, la veille de la signature de l'accord entre le Liban et Israël. À droite, la même terre le 20 juillet.

Il ne reste rien. Et c’est justement ça, la preuve. Un incendie laisse des troncs noirs debout. Une frappe laisse des cratères. Ici, pas un tronc calciné, pas une souche, pas un débris. Une terre nue, raclée, griffée par les chenilles des engins. Déterrer un olivier de 500 ans sans le tuer demande des pelleteuses, un savoir-faire, des camions et une destination. Ce n’est pas un dégât de guerre. C’est une opération, sur une terre où il n’y avait ni armes, ni combattants, ni présence militaire. Ma famille n'a jamais été liée de près ou de loin au Hezbollah, et elle ne le sera jamais. Il n'y avait que des arbres, et des gens qui les taillent depuis huit générations.

D'après les témoignages qui nous parviennent, ces arbres auraient été emportés de l'autre côté de la frontière, vers Israël.

L'accord signé entre le Liban et Israël, censé préparer la paix, protège les biens des civils. Je demande simplement qu'il soit appliqué : que le sort des arbres déterrés soit établi, que ceux qui sont encore vivants soient rendus. Si nos arbres sont vivants quelque part, ils peuvent revenir. Je ne cherche pas une vengeance. Je cherche une adresse !

J'ai hésité à écrire ces lignes, pour ne pas provoquer des réactions d'un côté comme de l'autre. Mais je refuse de faire le deuil de ces oliviers. Dans ces arbres vit l'âme de mon grand-père, ancien général de la police libanaise, un homme qui a toujours cru dans la paix, dans les humains et dans la lumière. Il taillait ces arbres à mains nues. Il répétait : “on ne vend pas la terre, on la transmet”
Je lui dois de ne pas me taire.

[Venetia Menzies @venetiamenzies]

Judge Susan Brnovich is a Trump-appointed judge in Pheonix, where Cottrell was jailed in 2017 for a dark-web money laundering plot

He is lobbying for a presidential pardon

Brnovich said she did not stay in the penthouse, but did not explain why she was on the balcony