“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.” James Baldwin
please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded
Im not sure if many people know this but the Persian gulf is home to one of the largest populations of endangered whale shark on earth and if this war continues it's very likely that their population could just completely flatline
Probably because you’re posting video from Buenos Aires and not Venezuela where people are worried and going to stores to get extra food, water and medicine
Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery. The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.
while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves
Industrial corn agriculture is going to precipitate a Midwestern wet-bulb event that kills a ton of people & demolishes what’s left of the prairie ecosystem
Good thing we’ve got an ethanol lobbyist running the USDA
Celebrities I am begging u to stop launching beverage lines and start getting serious. Where are the railroads? The concert halls? The amassing of steel? The bribing of senators? Feels like I’m dealing with a bunch of amateurs.
“Youth are the future” is not a platitude, it is an enshrined fact, both a hope and a promise; and it is threat to monsters like HRC. This is why the IOF assassinates Palestinian children en masse and riot cops mob campuses. These people hate children, hate what lives beyond them
As the Taliban erases women from all public life, the Afghan women’s football team remains a symbol of courage and resistance for their country.
That is why I joined @khalida_popal and 100+ parliamentarians from the UK, Australia, Portugal and Italy to send a letter to FIFA asking them to push back against restrictions and allow Afghan women the freedom to play football. https://t.co/Gxp6bZapDz