Brad Pitt defenders love to bring up that he was "cleared" from (child) abuse, despite their victims’ rights being violated - Ignoring his affirmation of abusing Jolie.
The negligence led Angelina to advocate for alternate light sources for bruise detection on darker skin tones
She was 26 years old. An investigative journalist reporting on Colombia's armed conflict - the stories nobody else would touch. Paramilitaries intercepted her at the prison gate. What followed lasted hours. When it was over they left her on a road outside Bogotá.
She reported it. The case was stalled for over a decade. She kept reporting. Was kidnapped again in 2003. Held for five days. Released. Kept reporting. In 2011 she took Colombia to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. On October 18 2021 the court ruled. The Colombian state was responsible. The first time in history a government had been found responsible for using violence to silence a woman journalist.
She launched #NoEsHoraDeCallar - It's Not Time to Stay Silent. Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America told their stories because she told hers first. The ruling became a legal weapon for women journalists across the continent. The UN named her global ambassador against s3xual violence in conflict. Her name is Jineth Bedoya Lima.
i go to the club with my non profit and hand out plan bs. this is activism. this is community, this is meeting people where they are. this is the hoochies of houston ho!
How did a 22-year-old enslaved woman successfully escape from and evade her enslavers—George and Martha Washington—despite a years long manhunt led by the first president of the United States? Today, we celebrate freedom seeker Ona “Onley” Judge.
it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize that in 100 years historians are going to use it as shorthand to summarize the whole era you're living through right now.
Cardi B: Somebody wants to erase the history in the schools, but you got to keep these histories alive. Let me not get too political. I might get in trouble
❌️💧Meta's closed loop cooling system at a new data center in Wyoming unlawfully released a rare bacterium into a city's wastewater system, contaminating the reuse system, prompting months of cleanup, its permit revoked, and a suspension on more data center discharges. 🧵
highly recommend watching the documentary “the language you cry in” where researchers used his work to trace down the origins of a song he recorded by Amelia Dawley of coastal Georgia to a village in Sierra Leone. come to find out it was actually a funeral rites song.
As someone who always used to be excited for new tech, I am not interested anymore. Everything has gotten so greedy, addictive, expensive and exclusive. They don't solve problems, they create them, and then try to sell you the solution. We're in literal technology hell.
Remember that SpongeBob episode where King Neptune made thousands of patties at once using magic and they tasted like slop, whilst SpongeBob’s single patty tasted amazing because it was made with love and dedication?
This is a post about AI
the annual new york times tradition of publishing a vaguely conservative essay by a white gay guy about how the lgbtq movement has “gone too far” in the last week of pride month
The only thing that'll save your fandom experiences is to join adult spaces that are curated by women who are explicitly in their 40s or older and who are openly super weird freaks
so planting trees does more than just provide shade it actively lowers temperatures and they act as carbon sinks. we need to plant trees AND lower fossil fuel emissions.
I'm always for being open about mental health, but important context is that Kean, as a state rep, voted against the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act, which established 40 hours of sick leave for employees a year.
Kean just took *4 months* of paid sick leave.
The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, whose 1898 case established birthright citizenship, reacts to today's SCOTUS decision:
"He was one man, only a cook, and yet he stood up for what was right... Today's ruling shows that his victory remains as important now as it was in 1898."
Birthright citizenship is more than a law...it is a promise that if you are born here, you belong here.
On the eve of America's 250th birthday, may we always keep this promise: "We The People" means all of us.