She was full of life
Her name is Nika Shakarami. She was only 17.
Nika joined #IranProtests on Sept 20. Ten days later her family was asked to go to Kahrizak prison to get her body. The authorities didn’t allow the family to have a funeral for her while arresting her aunt & uncle
@pbump Having a dog is the best way to find relatable people, in my experience. When I lived in DC I joked about starting a dog rental service for interns to meet other people, since not many spots were pet friendly (of course I would never, because I care more about dogs than people)
More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.
A bill that would keep California’s last #nuclear plant open as the state transitions from fossil fuels was finally introduced late Sunday in Sacramento and now faces a difficult path to passage. By @MarkChediak@DavidBakerSF
https://t.co/LrjiK7Sfd6
@jefposk My plant which looks just like that has been overtaken with monarch caterpillars! The leaves have many,many munch marks but the flowers keep coming.
“He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it and, deep down, I think most Republicans know it,” Dick Cheney says in a new ad for his daughter.
Returning yet again to Ellen Willis, I found a passage I’d underlined decades ago (in her first collection Beginning to see the Light), staring me in the face and talking to the morning