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If Trump wanted NATO to go to war with him in Iran, maybe he shouldn't have threatened to invade and annex one ally, joked about making another 51st state, or irrationally slapped tariffs on them. He also should have asked for NATO's support before launching his war, not after.
In 1920s, young women were hired to paint watch dials with radium. It was delicate work. It paid well. And they were told it was harmless. To keep their brushes sharp, they were instructed to lick the tips. Day after day, they swallowed poison - unknowingly.
At first, they loved the job. Their skin glowed when they went home. They laughed about it. They felt lucky. Chosen.Then their teeth began to fall out. Their jaws disintegrated. Their bones softened. Some couldn't stand. Some couldn't eat. Some couldn't survive.
The companies knew exactly what radium did. They stayed silent. These women - sick, dismissed, and dying - refused to disappear quietly. They took their employers to court. They told the truth when no one wanted to hear it. Their bodies paid the price. But because they fought, worker safety laws were rewritten forever. They didn't just glow in the dark. They exposed the truth - and changed history with their lives.
Jesus said “blessed are the peacemakers.”
Not the warmongers.
Not the authoritarians.
Not those who see their religion as a battle against “the world.”
Jesus said “blessed are the peacemakers.”
Wherever peace is chosen instead of violence, there are the children of God.
Trump is a terrorist. The news from Tehran is that highways running north from the city of 10 million have had traffic patterns changed so all lanes—on both sides of the road—let innocents flee north to avoid Trump's Reign of Terror. Think of all the kids being traumatized today.
Marine Vlahovic, 39, was found dead in her home in Marseille while working on a documentary uncovering Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians at the end of 2024.
There was never a criminal investigation and no cause of death has ever been released.
My patient told me : When I was 14 I told my therapist that my step father had been abusing me physically and sexually.
My very next session, I walked in and he was in the room waiting.
My therapist told him everything I said, then made me sit there and listen while she explained how every instance I had trusted her with was just one misunderstanding after the next.
If this wasnt bad enough, I was then made to apologize and go home with him.
In case you wonder why women and girls dont come forward.
Members of Iran’s Jewish community standing in the rubble of their synagogue in Tehran.
Bombed by Israel.
On Passover.
Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. They have lived there for 2,700 years.
This is who Israel bombed on the holiest night of the Jewish calendar.
Ever fucking day. And yet many are more concerned about Ukraine bombing the Russian energy infrastructure that funds its war of aggression and murders Ukrainian children.
The same assholes who attacked President Biden relentlessly with false claims of him being mentally unfit such as propagandist Jake Tapper are now ignoring the actual deranged madman pedophile psychopathic felon who is literally unraveling.
#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “I mean, look at how they are treating deploying troops…Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank…is 23 years old…he enlisted at 18, he’s been in the military for five years. He has already had deployments to the Middle East and Europe…Before this next deployment, happily this past month, Staff Sergeant Blank got married. Big wedding in Texas…Last week he and his wife had their appointment…to get her her military spouse ID. Instead, when they showed up…ICE agents handcuffed her and took her to an immigrant prison.”🤦♀️
If president of Iran threatened that the entire US will die tonight, you’d call it Terrorism
The US president threatened that the whole Iranian civilization will die tonight, why do you call it PEACE?
This’s the first time in history a president announcing war crimes in advance
It is hard to name the kind of grief you feel as you watch the Christian movement that raised you continually justify the most vile things, all for the sake of power, influence, and money.
It’s hard to name the grief of knowing that there is nothing so vile they won’t justify.
When the Titanic sank in 1912, survivors were located in part because of signal flares fired from lifeboats-flares invented by a woman who had been dead for eight years and whose name appeared nowhere in the rescue reports. Martha Coston spent a decade perfecting the technology that would save thousands of lives at sea. The U.S. Navy used her invention to win battles during the Civil War. Then they refused to pay her over $2.1 million in today's money that they owed her...
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