Melissa Manning

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@chunguskitten @MatthewSitman Such a sad disappointment.

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

Bravo, Idaho!

[David J. Reilly 🇺🇸 @realDaveReilly]

For the first time in about a DECADE, the @IdahoGOP REJECTED a resolution supporting Israel!

The Israel Lobby has lost control of the Idaho Republican Party, and im absolutely ECSTATIC!

Heres a quick recap:

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

This is what it mean to be human. I am stunned by the depth of this young woman's understanding and faith.

[chunguskitten @chunguskitten]

Read her beautiful essay in its entirety here: https://t.co/Bsgsc5JZoE

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@tparsi Now do Gaza and the West Bank. 🙏

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@alon_mizrahi As an American, I wish we were!

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

The mass killing of children is BY FAR the most important issue on earth today. Everything is secondary to it.

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@infolibnews Their faces.

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@LionelMedia @cenkuygur @AnaKasparian Genocide changes a lot of things.

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@KarenRylander @academic_la Thank you, Karen. I had no idea. This all makes me so sad. I actually follow @afalkhatib too and appreciate his voice but hadn't seen this. I will hope for better things going forward. I'm so sorry. 😞🙏

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@WeTheBrandon Looking at all those worthless "public servants" standing behind him and saying nothing.

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@BabylonBiBi So much funnier than the @TheBabylonBee!

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@WeTheBrandon But maybe good news for metabolic health.

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@s_m_marandi I'm halfway in. It's a fantastic book. Thank you for the recommendation!

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

Beauty will save the world.

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

'For the Mothers of Gaza'

Poem by TarynZhar @TarynZhar Paired with artwork by Awni Eshtaiwe

Beneath a sky stitched with smoke,
you carry the pulse of tomorrow,
a quiet drumbeat against the roar of ruin.
Your womb, a fragile fortress,
holds life where death claws at the edges
a seed splitting stone,
a whisper louder than bombs.

The streets hum with grief,
rubble cradles memories of homes,
and yet you rise,
belly swollen with defiance,
a map of veins tracing hope
through a land bled dry.
They call it genocide,
this erasure of names,
this theft of breath
but you,
you are the answer they cannot silence.

Your hands tremble,
not from fear,
but from the weight of creation,
kneading dough over cracked earth,
singing lullabies through sirens.
The world watches,
some with eyes shut,
others with fists raised,
but you
you birth stars into this night,
each cry a spark,
each child a seed
they cannot uproot.

Oh, mothers of Gaza,
your labour is a rebellion,
your love a war they cannot win.
In the shadow of loss,
you weave light,
threading Palestine’s future
through the needle of now

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@WeTheBrandon Thank you for all your valuable insights! 🙏

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@ProfessorPape Thank you!

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@s_m_marandi My copy is arriving tomorrow. 🙌

[Melissa Manning @Melissa8Manning]

@alon_mizrahi So, so sinister. I am praying for all of them.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace