There is no justification for keeping children in poverty.
In every child there is creativity, kindness and laughter.
Why aren’t we fighting for a society where they can all unleash their imagination, pursue their dreams and reach their full potential?
US🇺🇸: *Heavily sanctions China’s chips industry with the explicit intention to cripple China’s technological development and economic prosperity*
China🇨🇳: *bans the export of the crucial rare earth metals gallium and germanium needed for semiconductor production* (China accounts for 98% of global gallium production)
US����🇸: …How could China do such a thing?!
Imperial arrogance at its most blind and self-defeating?
🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "General, I want us to examine our mindsets, and to look at specific instances where we––Hanoi and Washington––may each have been mistaken, have misunderstood each other, such as in the Tonkin Gulf episode we’ve been discussing."
🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "I don’t believe we misunderstood you. You were the enemy; you wished to defeat us––to destroy us. So we were forced to fight you––to fight a 'people’s war' to reclaim our country from your neoimperialist ally in Saigon––we used the word 'puppet,' of course, back then––and to reunify our country."
🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "General, I am interested––and my U.S. colleagues are interested––in putting a claim such as you have just made to the test at our conference. Were we––was I, was Kennedy, was Johnson—a 'neoimperialist' in the sense you are using the word? I would say absolutely not! Now, if we can agree on an agenda focused on episodes like Tonkin Gulf, where we may have misunderstood each other, then––"
🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "Excuse me, but we correctly understood you––what you were doing in the Tonkin Gulf. You were carrying out sabotage activities to create a pretext that would allow you to take over the war from the Saigon government, which was incompetent."
🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "That is totally wrong, General. I assure you: There was no such intent. None. But this is why we need to reexamine each other’s misunderstandings––for two reasons. First, we need to identify missed opportunities; and second, we need to draw lessons which will allow us to avoid such tragedies in the future."
🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "Lessons are important. I agree. However, you are wrong to call the war a 'tragedy'––to say that it came from missed opportunities. Maybe it was a tragedy for you, because yours was a war of aggression, in the neocolonialist 'style,' or fashion, of the day for the Americans. You wanted to replace the French; you failed; men died; so, yes, it was tragic, because they died for a bad cause. But for us, the war against you was a noble sacrifice. We did not want to fight the U.S. We did not. But you gave us no choice. Our people sacrificed tremendously for our cause of freedom and independence. There were no missed opportunities for us. We did what
we had to do to drive you and your 'puppets'––I apologize, Mr. McNamara, for again using the term 'puppet'––to drive you and your puppets out. So I agree that you missed opportunities and that you need to draw lessons. But us? I think we would do nothing different, under the circumstances."
🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "Well, General, I hope you’ll agree to put issues like that––our mindsets, yours and ours––on the agenda."
🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "Yes, of course. We have nothing to fear."
THIS IS GREAT!
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes tells the U.S. Supreme Court to shove it!
Here are the facts. 👇
Arizona has a law on the books — much like the Colorado law the Supreme Court struck down — that says, in simple terms, a business open to the public can’t discriminate against gay people.
After the radical right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling last week that said a web designer could refuse to design wedding websites for same-sex couples, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced she would enforce the law on the books anyway —
The Supreme Court be damned! 🔥🔥🔥
Not in Arizona, according to Mayes.
She will 'continue to enforce' Arizona's law. 👇
“Despite today’s ruling, Arizona law prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation, including discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity.
“If any Arizonan believes that they have been the victim of discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, or ancestry in a place of public accommodation, they should file a complaint with my office.
I will continue to enforce Arizona’s public accommodation law to its fullest extent.”
Smash the 💙 if you appreciate the Arizona AG for STANDING UP for Human Rights! 🏳️🌈
This is pretty much what happened to my dad, the man spent 55-60 years working day and night hardest worker you ever would meet. 12-hour days owned multiple businesses over his life. We both did hard back-breaking work breathing chemicals we shouldn't, lifting things that had to be moved, rolling around on concrete up and under trucks and equipment.
He spent his last 5 years with cancer, medical bills wiped out everything he ever worked for and he spent his last years suffering.
SCOTUS striking down Biden's student loan debt forgiveness was part of his plan. He can say he tried without any chance of upsetting his donor base.
If he really wanted to eliminate student loan debt, he can do it under the authority granted by the Higher Education Act of 1965.