As a reminder,
The US has had 46 presidents. Among them, there have been 91 criminal felony charges indicted. Those charges are distributed among the presidents as in the following list:
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Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵
Let's debunk yet another myth:
Myth no. 3 -
"It didn’t start on October 7th, it’s 76 years of occupation”
Really?
A quick history lesson:
The Arabs started a war on November 30th 1947, after they rejected the partition plan and tried to destroy the small state of Israel that resides in the ancestral homeland of the Jews (3000 years of continuous settlement), which was declared six months later.
They lost.
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Here’s one of the most fascinating child development videos I’ve ever shared.
As your baby learns language, they begin by approximating the examples you set.
After a period of early experimentation with sound (including cries, coos and gurgles), infants begin babbling - making speech-like sounds (which often include components of conventional speech) that are - nonetheless - not yet conventionally meaningful.
This babbling phase is a precursor to the use of formal words. And it happens in all languages.
Including sign language.
This video shows an infant (who, by the way, is not hearing impaired) “babbling” to her deaf grandparents.
As they sign to her, she responds in kind, using her hands to approximate the signed communication that they are modeling.
It’s a whole serve and return conversation, just as if they were conversing verbally.
If you’ll watch carefully, you’ll note distinct turn taking.
And - interestingly - that with her grandparents she largely avoids vocalizations, in favor of gesture.
What a treat to see this rich example of bilingual language development.
This fascinating video was shared to TT by mara_mccullough.
🧵I don't know who needs to hear this but Donald Trump raped and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl from Epstein's child sex trafficking ring multiple times. Not just any 13-year-old girl, one that looked like his daughter Ivanka who was 13 years old that same year. Her name is Katie Johnson. Here is the complaint she filed in 2016. After being threatened with death, she dropped her case...just 4 days before the election. Donald Trump is a pedophile. That's why he was such good friends with a convicted pedophile. This isn't difficult to understand. Read her entire 6-page complaint. #IBelieveKatie
BREAKING: CNN just released their fact check of Donald Trump throughout the debate. It turns out Donald Trump lied on just about every answer. Retweet so all Americans see this vital fact check on Trump’s BS.
A "refugee camp" in Gaza is simply a regular town with apartment buildings, stores, shopping malls, etc. It looks like other cities.
It is called a refugee camp because much of the initial population consisted of people who arrived during the 1948 war when the local Arabs and surrounding Arab countries invaded Israel and aimed to destroy it. These "refugees" lived in what is now Israel, and the plan was for them to return to the places where they lived after Israel's defeat. Of course, things didn't go as planned. Israel won this defensive war and expanded its borders.
Since then, the "refugees" and their descendants are STILL promised that they will one day return to those places which are now part of Israel, which is why they have a refugee status despite the fact that they live in permanent settlements in Gaza like everybody else.
Calling them refugees implies that these people are indeed refugees, not permanent citizens, and that they have the right to one day return to the places they left in 1948, which Israel will never accept. If they lost their "refugee" status, they would no longer be able to claim that they have a right to enter Israel and that Israel is restricting and oppressing them.
These "refugees" are a tool used by Hamas, Iran, and others against Israel for political purposes. Acknowledging their "refugee status" or their "right of return" only prolongs this conflicts and the suffering on both sides.
This is how things work in Gaza and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Terms like "right", "return", "refugee", or "camp" are arbitrarily used with a political motive. Those around the world who are not familiar with the terminology are deceived into thinking that towns like these are large tent camps where people have been living without food and water for decades. Their misplaced compassion then supports the anti-Zionist agenda and does nothing except add fuel to the fire.
This book helped me claw my way out of the Quiet Place.
@RanaAwdish signing my copy —with underlines and margin notes I made while processing the trauma of doing CPR on a loved one—is a poignant full-circle moment.
Before I even knew her, she made me feel less alone. ❤️