Scheherezade

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[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

Lindsey Isaacs, a 23-year-old from Palm Coast, Florida, testified about being thrown into solitary confinement for more than three days after a Flock license-plate camera wrongly tied her Dodge Durango to a deadly I-4 crash.

Jail staff told her she had to stay isolated because of how serious the charges were. The cell door stayed locked for about 86 hours.

She said she was terrified she would spend the rest of her life in prison for a wreck she knew she hadn’t caused.

At her lowest point she didn’t want to live. She spent nearly two weeks in maximum-security jail before prosecutors dropped the charges.

Flock should be sued out of existence for this.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to have selfish, ignorant leaders.”

— George Carlin

[ODAY || 🇵🇸 @oday_jabour]

While I’m fighting to leave Gaza and hold onto my dreams, I can’t leave my family without shelter.

6 days of trying, and we’re still £600 short of what we need to start rebuilding our tent before winter.

Can we finish this for my family? Please donate or repost. 🇵🇸❤️

[The Associated Press @AP]

Skid Row's talent show was organized by Rev. Gary Carr, who saw that the community had more to offer than what one of the largest U.S. homeless encampments has come to represent.

Many sang or rapped songs they had written themselves about their struggles, hoping to inspire others.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Sunday, 27 September, marks the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. My thoughts go out to migrants and refugees, especially minors compelled to leave their homeland. Children and teenagers are the most vulnerable. They often endure unspeakable suffering, violence, torture, exploitation, and traumatic conditions. It is not uncommon for them to lose their lives along migration routes. I appeal to everyone’s sense of responsibility: may we all feel a sense of involvement in the lives of these young people, who must always be protected and supported.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here."

—James Baldwin

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

I interviewed Bernard about how, at 11, he walked 130 kilometres across the Arctic tundra to escape residential school. His two best friends didn’t make it home.

I stood with Barry in a field of 751 unmarked graves as he remembered being five, dragged from his mother’s arms by a priest, a police officer and an Indian agent. At eight, he was forced to help bury a child from his own school, a small body wrapped in white cloth beside a fresh grave.

I sat with Ursuline as she spoke for the first time about waking up beside her cousin’s lifeless body in a dorm at Marieval.

I walked the halls of Blue Quills with Alsena, who spent 11 years there and came out unable to read, known only as number 11, then number 39.

These are just four of the countless survivors I’ve interviewed over my career. I carry every one of their stories. They walked through hell to tell this country the truth.
Now denialism is surging. Survivors are being called liars online. And in less than a year, the testimonies of 38,000 survivors are set to be destroyed.

In one week, Canada marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Wear your orange shirt, but please don’t stop there.

Now is the time more than ever to stand for reconciliation. My new piece is live on Indigenous Insider. 🧡 Link below.
#EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay #NDTR

https://t.co/KWyQ630hAF

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Join me won’t you, in sending an abundance of strength and spiritual support to the Navajo Nation Reservation.

[Scheherezade @abramelingroup]

@maximumpain333 Speaking truth!! And he is so beautiful in that regalia. A messenger from heaven

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

We are not separate from the Earth.
We ARE the Earth.

The rivers flow through us.
The trees breathe with us.
The wind carries our breath.
The fire reminds us of our spirit.

When we hurt the Earth, we hurt ourselves.
When we heal her, we heal ourselves.

It is time to listen again to the wisdom of the elders, to the forest, to the rivers, and to our hearts.

Not as a teacher, but as a bridge.
So that we may remember where we truly belong.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

This is a long one, but the Venezuelan oil follow the money was way more than I ever expected. From how much is unaccounted for to who is getting rich (hint, it’s going to men charged in money laundering and foreign bribery charges, and who are in the Epstein files, of course). Congress, you should really look into this….

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

At the UN General Assembly, the Emir of Qatar declared: “What has transpired in Gaza is genocide in every sense of the word and a stain of shame on the conscience of humanity as a whole.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

Here are the 4 ways Trump violated the United Nations Charter when he spoke today at the U.N. General Assembly.

The U.S. President brazenly violated multiple Articles as he threatened violence against countries like Iran and Cuba, and bragged about attacks on Venezuela and boats in the Caribbean.

1.
🇺🇸 Trump said: “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”

🇺🇳🌐 U.N. Charter: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state” [Article 2(4)] This statement also violates Article 2(3) on peaceful settlement of disputes, and Article 1(1) on the purpose of the UN to maintain international peace.

2.
🇺🇸 Trump said: “My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba... It's failing like never before, and it will fall.”

🇺🇳🌐 U.N. Charter: "The Purposes of the United Nations are to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples” [Article 1(2)] This statement also violates Article 2(1) on sovereign equality of all members; Article 2(4) which prohibits the use of threat and force, as well as the principle of non-intervention.

3.
🇺🇸 Trump said: “I designated the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and unleashed the United States Armed Forces to eliminate them. The cartels are the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere... They should be killed, exiled, or detained as enemy combatants without the possibility of release... The United States has carried out dozens of strikes on cartel drug boats.”

🇺🇳🌐 U.N. Charter: “All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.” [Article 2(3)]

4.
🇺🇸 Trump said: “The United States military conducted a massive military operation penetrating deep into the Venezuelan capital... Last month, we signed the largest oil deal in history, covering 65 billion barrels of oil... It was a war, but it's perhaps the biggest deal ever made.
To the victor belong the spoils.

🇺🇳🌐 U.N. Charter: “The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members” [Article 2(1)] This statement also violates Article 2(4) which prohibits the use of threat and force, as well as the principle of non-intervention.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: An employee for Flock told a reporter that if he wants privacy, he can "opt out of society."

So that reporter filmed a Flock worker installing a Flock cam on a public road next to his house...

...so Flock called 3 POLICE OFFICERS to pull over THE REPORTER for following them

Yep, you read that right... the surveillance camera company called the cops because someone was surveilling them install surveillance.

The reporter's name is Brendan Keefe.

He's a national investigative reporter who has been digging into Flock and police abuse of its surveillance network since January.

Flock happened to be upgrading a camera about a mile from Keefe's own house, so he parked at a distance, put out his press placard, put on a yellow vest, and pulled out a news camera.

The Flock installer saw him, packed up his ladder, jumped in his vehicle, and took off.

Keefe followed several cars back to document the next installation.

The Flock employee picked up the phone and called 911.

"I work with Flock Safety, and I'm getting followed, harassed pretty much, taking videos and pictures."

Next thing Brenden sees are THREE Georgia police cars with their lights on behind him.

"The reason why I'm stopping you is because there is a vehicle that says that you have been following them."

He was released with no charges.
Because he did nothing wrong.

Filming in public is legal in all 50 states.

[Scheherezade @abramelingroup]

@GryffindorJenny Prayers for healing and strength 🙏🏽❤️

[The Associated Press @AP]

"I have to carve my own path": Melissa Barrera has started a production company to support pro-Palestinian creatives. She was dropped from the "Scream" franchise in 2023 for social media posts criticizing Israel.

#MelissaBarrera

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

James Talarico: “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires”

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

September 22 - Bilbo and Frodo's birthday - and the special days around the autumnal equinox play a key role in Tolkien's works. Here's a talk I gave last year on Tolkien and the history of the equinox, light-bearers, star myths and journeys into the dark https://t.co/XEipXzRsBi