Mariana Swann

Author - First book Pachamama available November 2016

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel killed two UNICEF drivers trying to get WATER to families in Gaza. Is this story going to get any coverage?

Or is the ongoing genocide not newsworthy?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This should have been headline news in every major media outlet today. But they want you to forget Gaza, so it gets zero coverage.

[Helma🇾🇪🇵🇸🍉 @HelmaSanaa]

Pass it on, as much as you can.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It's not just Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.

In the West Bank since October 2023, Israeli soldiers and settlers have:

Killed 1,071 Palestinians
Demolished 6,000+ homes
Built 200+ illegal outposts

No more U.S. military aid to Israel.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.

Pass it on.

#ActOnClimate

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

African inventor makes biodegradable plastic using an invasive plant. In the process, he reduces malaria and provides green jobs for the community.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They took the gold.

They took the diamonds.

They took the rubber.

They took the ivory.

They took the palm oil.

They took the copper.

They took the uranium, including the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which came from the Belgian Congo.

They took the labor, for centuries, in chains, across an ocean, in the largest forced migration in human history.

They took the land.

They took the governance structures and replaced them with administrative systems designed to serve extraction.

They took the educated class and either exiled, imprisoned, or assassinated those who resisted.

They took Patrice Lumumba and had him killed.

They took Thomas Sankara and had him killed.

They took the future these men represented and replaced it with regimes that served the extraction.

And then they looked at what remained and called it proof that Africa could not govern itself.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

We are spending at least $500 million a day to bomb Iran.

Imagine how many teachers we could hire, how many public housing units we could build, how many bridges and roads we could fix, if we spent that kind of money on improving life for working people?

[De Disco @ArcasDeDisco]

No matter what the predator class tells you, lets make something very clear:

Universal health care is not extremist
A living wage is not extremist
Affordable housing is not extremist
Basic human rights is not extremist
Equality for ALL is not extremist

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Billionaires do not create jobs. Stop saying it.

Without billionaires, we would still build things, design things, teach things, sell things, buy things.

Billionaires capitalise profits. That's it.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.

British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.

Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.

It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The Myth of Zionism & End of Israel @pularjs

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

🚨 Things that are illegal under international law:

➡️ Attacking a sovereign state
➡️ Killing civilians in their homes
➡️ Torturing detainees
➡️ Punishing an entire population for the acts of a few
➡️ Starving families as a weapon of war
➡️ Bombing hospitals and places of refuge
➡️ Attacking humanitarian workers trying to save lives
➡️ Forcing people from their homes at gunpoint
➡️ Bombarding densely populated neighbourhoods
➡️ Destroying water, power and basic civilian infrastructure
➡️ Blocking food, medicine and aid from reaching civilians

International law was created to place boundaries on war, cruelty and domination.

When those limits collapse, so does our humanity. ⚖️

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

"𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵. 𝗪𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱.

On the front table, there was a man waiting to be served. When he was served, I said to one of my soldiers: go and ask that gentleman to join us. The soldier went and conveyed my invitation to him. The man got up, took his plate and 𝘀𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲.

While he ate his 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 and he did not lift his head from his food. When we finished, he said goodbye without looking at me, I shook his hand and he left.

The soldier told me:

Madiba that man 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗹𝗹, seeing as his hands didn't stop shaking while he ate.-

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼! 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

Then I told him:

That man was the warden of the prison where I stayed. After he tortured me, I screamed and cried asking for some water and he came humiliated me, laughed at me and instead of giving me water, he urinated in my head.

He is not sick, he was afraid that I, now president of South Africa, would send him to prison and do to him what he did to me. But I'm not like that, this conduct is not part of my character, nor of my ethics.

′′𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. Walking out the door to my freedom, I knew that if I didn't leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind me, I would still be a prisoner."

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I don't have "deep insights" about Americans as a species.

I have memory.

And I have pattern recognition sharpened by what it means to live under the consequences of decisions Americans call "foreign policy."

You grow up Vietnamese, you learn early that there are two parallel realities:

The one you live through.

And the one narrated about you on American television, in speeches, in films, in history books.

My family lived through the moment when American abstractions like "credibility" and "containing communism" stopped sounding strategic and became physical:

Bomb craters. Refugee boats. Bodies.

You watch villages renamed "collateral."

You watch coups renamed "restoring democracy."

You watch blockades renamed "pressure for reform."

You watch your dead filed away as "tragedy" so that no one has to call them what they were: crimes.

After a while, you stop getting angry at every sentence.

You start studying the grammar.

Who gets to remain human in the story.

Who gets turned into an adjective.

Whose violence is "regrettable," and whose resistance is "terrorism."

Which lives are allowed complexity, and which lives are flattened into body counts, talking points, and background noise.

Then you hear Americans speak about entirely different places, entirely different wars, entirely different enemies, and the same grammar is still there:

"Intervention" instead of invasion.

"Stability" instead of control.

"Responsibility" instead of domination.

"Sanctions" instead of siege.

If you grow up with that long enough, you learn that what empire calls "responsibility" usually means someone far away is about to bleed.

That's where my "insight" comes from.

From watching the same software run on different hardware.

From listening closely to the metaphors they don't even notice they're using anymore.

From realizing that, for a lot of good, ordinary people, this isn't malice. It's the water they were raised in.

The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater.

So when I write about American exceptionalism, I'm not claiming mystical access to "your people."

I am describing the hallucination I've been forced to survive under since I was born.

And once you see the pattern from outside the blast radius, it becomes almost impossible not to see it everywhere.

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

I landed in Havana today. Trump’s fuel blockade is choking the life out of this city. Havana is near silent, empty streets, empty markets. Not because there’s no food, but because farmers can’t get fuel to deliver it. Trump is trying to starve 11 million people into submission. This is a crime against humanity, unfolding in plain sight. Night falls and the city struggles to keep lights on, in total defiance after 66 years of economic war. The world must stop looking away. Let Cuba live!

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

I don’t think you understand how catastrophic the oil refinery bombing in Tehran is.

Burning petroleum releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides that mix with rain to form sulfuric and nitric acid, essentially turning rainfall toxic.

When Saddam burned Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991, the fallout contributed to what became known as Gulf War Syndrome, with veterans developing chronic illness and cancer decades later.

The difference now: this isn’t a desert battlefield, it’s a city of 10 million people, most of which women and children.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

Today at the UN, I spoke about a hard truth: True justice does not defend the humanity of children in one place and ignore it in another.

I am devastated for families in Iran whose daughters left for school and did not return home. For parents in Gaza who buried their children beneath the rubble of their classrooms. For Afghan girls living under the brutal Taliban regime for nearly five years.

The Taliban have built a system that removes women and girls from education, work and public life. This is gender apartheid, and it is time for the world to recognise it and act to end it.

Speeches do not protect girls. But law, accountability and political courage can.

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[ELM22.0 @ELMAGAIN]

Just over 5700 Native Women went missing last year. There was zero national media coverage, no FBI Taskforce, no 24hr round the clock updates, and only the families shed tears:

Indigenous women make up less than 1% of our nations population.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics in 2024 (latest year of compiled verifiable numbers)
....Native American women made up 16% of all female homicide victims, nation wide.
....Native American women made up 11% of all reported cases of missing women, nation wide.
....Native American juvenile females made up 13.5% of all missing juveniles of either sex nationwide.
....Native American females (adult & children) made up 42% of all rescued or recovered (deceased) victims of Sex Trafficking/Sexual Slavery nation wide.
....Statistically, 78% of all Native American women will be sexually assaulted by a non-native adult male at least once before she is 18 years old.
....Statistically, 57% of all Native American women will be sexually assaulted at least twice before they are 35 years old.

THIS HAS GOT TO BE ADDRESSED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.

#MMIW... #NoMoreStolenSisters