Jrodge

Mom, wife, daughter, sister, auntie, friend. TV lover and sewist.

[Jrodge @jrodge9]

@kaitsversionx My daughter’s is Actually Romantic, and it would be for her so I’ll say that :) but mine’s probably Ophelia or Opalite!

[linz is so in love @losangelesliv]

I’m the opposite of a gatekeeper I want everyone and their mother to watch and fall in love with Emily Bader

[cassie 🇻🇦 @CatholicCassie]

Cardinal Zuppi read the names of every child who died in Gaza. It took him 7 hours.

[Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan]

Seven hours. All children.

[Jrodge @jrodge9]

@itsraleigh If I click on my pre-order in the shop app I now get a countdown to 7PM tonight. 😱

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

18-year-old Canadian women putting the world on notice.

Summer McIntosh last week with four gold, one bronze at the world championships.

Victoria Mboko into the National Bank Open championship this week.

Making the country proud to be sure.

[jo @notcatesbrother]

too many colleen hoover releases and not enough emily henry ones

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The vast majority of Israelis openly call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and nearly half call for total extermination. This is a wildly genocidal society and it must be stopped.

[Gail Vaz-Oxlade @GailVazOxlade]

If you do not want Trump-like policies in Canada, today is the day you prove it.

[CBC News @CBCNews]

With about a week left before election day and well over two million ballots cast so far, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre still hasn't released a costed platform outlining his vision for the country and how he'd pay for his multibillion-dollar commitments. https://t.co/Dnt1hk4FIb

[Elle ⚘️🍉 @__shiticantsay]

As far as I'm concerned, the only legal definition of a woman should be:

When Shania Twain says, "let's go girls", do you go? If so, girl.

[HoCStaffer @HoCStaffer]

We've had more requests at the office for Canada flags & Canada flag pins in the past 5 weeks than the past 5 years. 🇨🇦

[M🐝 @CakeMcJabe]

Well yeah, I don't recall...*checks Wikipedia*...Ulf Kristersson threatening to turn Canada into the...*checks Wikipedia again*....the 26th landskap

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

You know, announcing this at the same time that Trump is also massively cutting foreign aid? It doesn't exactly advance the narrative that you're not Trumpy.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Just imagine if that had happened to an American, French, not to mention Israeli pregnant woman. It would have been headline news - rightly so - everywhere. But not so when a Palestinian 8-month pregnant woman is shot dead. Then it is not newsworthy... https://t.co/oUqBcYZ01G

[Philippe J. Fournier @338Canada]

📊Léger: "Would you or would you not like Canada to become the 51st state of the United States?" (Jan. 2025)

Alberta says No.
The Prairies say No.
Le Québec dit Non.
B.C. says No.
Ontario says No.
Atlantic Canada says No.

And it's not even close. https://t.co/z38H9I4Ajn

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It only took 10 days to get to concentration camps.

[Amanda Hu @amandalhu]

Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp