Truth-telling is more than just a habit: It’s a practice; it’s a discipline; it’s a commitment; it’s a muscle that takes time to develop. Some of y’all have come into adulthood with atrophy and it’s beyond tragic.
@julian_aguon This was inevitable. No recognition of the Holocaust or Jewish right to exist. Perhaps what Hamas intended but you don't raise martyrs. If vengeance is in bred there will never be peace just a series of uneasy truces.
Read this piece by brilliant human rights lawyer @julian_aguon and check out his gorgeous book, No Country For Eight-Spot Butterflies! With a foreword by Arundhati Roy
https://t.co/Ht5f6aV01Q
It has been our firm’s immense privilege to serve as @VanuatuUN’s legal team in their campaign to seek an advisory opinion on #climatechange from the International Court of Justice. Today is a day to celebrate.
https://t.co/rq6h5p9GKQ
For you and those smaller than you who you’ll accidentally inspire by simply being yourself. You’re someone’s future paper topic, internet rabbit hole, or simple pleasure that makes life bearable for them. The world needs you. The work you do matters. Remember that.
When it’s a rough morning but the random girl who walks into the gym locker room starts harmonizing to the Rihanna song you’re playing. Life really does have its moments.
my heart is so heavy today thinking of Aunty Cinta’s radiance & the legacy of Marianas beauty that was her life. thank you for your art, your songs, your activism, your love for our islands.
what a privilege it was to know you💖
I Saina-ta un binendise gi karerå-mu
An environmental and colonial disaster is unfolding in a U.S. colony in the Pacific. Right now, on Guam, hundreds of acres of forest are being destroyed by the U.S. military for a massive live-fire training complex. 🧵
I was at the dr one day when the receptionist was explaining to a white man that Chamorus really like to stroll. “We have a word in Chamoru for this” she said, “Gallavant. It means ‘to stroll’.” I still crack up when I think about this.
When Doug Moylan thinks of addicts, he thinks of “animals”.
When I think of addicts, I think of family and friends — some of whom have made it out and others who haven’t. All of them human. All of them deserving of programs and treatment that work. #LeevinCamachoForAG
The two candidates for attorney general agree that illegal drugs are the island’s biggest problem, at the root of other crime, but they disagreed about how to address it — and about most everything else — during a debate Wednesday in Tumon Bay. https://t.co/idO6E5o5Xk
There are people selling nothing but darkness out there.
Don't buy it.
You can tell if you are because you start to hate things that have absolutely no bearing on your life.
@ micronesian twitter: nihi is casting! if you got a little cousin or funny uncle or charming nånan biha who would be great on our show plssss dm me for more info. or forward these graphics to your group chats 🌶🍋🥥🥬