@WallStreetApes@elonmusk lol the population at foundation was around 2.5 million people & now there’s over 340 million people. Who do you think is helping to ensure the machinery of government keeps turning?
If you shoot a millionaire on a sidewalk, you're a terrorist. If you let a homeless person freeze to death on a sidewalk, you're a member of Congress with a keen sense of fiscal responsibility.
If H5N1 bird flu becomes a pandemic there will be no doubt about where it started and why. No arguing over lab leaks or bats, nature or bioweapon. It will be made in America by capitalism, the dairy industry and the politicians they bribed to do nothing
This song absolutely guts me. A moving tribute of solidarity to the Palestinian people by Irish folk singer, Seth Watkins. The best in the English language, in my opinion. His catalogue is full of odes to Palestine 🇮🇪💚🇵🇸 #Paddystinian#PaddystinianAndProud
We could have spent the past 5 years improving clean indoor air infrastructure, funding Long Covid studies, embracing remote work, normalizing mass testing and masking, etc.
Instead we got "Get your shot and go back to work." And here we are staring down another pandemic.
Tonight I have seen a video I can’t share. A flaying terrified child in agony, her face almost entirely blown off - below her eyes all is a pendulum of disintegrated dangling blood and matter.
I have just vommited. And I am furious.
Our government will be held to account at the next election for their support of both Israel and the US.
Do we want to be allies to countries who do this to children? Do we want political leaders who demure from strong condemnation and strong action, which are in fact our obligations under international law?
They were:
Electricians
Firefighters
Bakers
Nurses
Tilers
Restaurateurs
Shop workers
Gardeners
Plumbers
Office temps
Builders
Prison guards
Lorry drivers
Carpenters
Technicians
Soldiers...
NEVER again can #women be told our fear of male violence is "irrational".
#GiselePelicot
“When you’re raped there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them. It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s will and determination to change society”
- Gisèle.
What an incredible woman.
51 defendants, every single one found guilty.
These men are not monsters, they are men. Men who were fathers, husbands, lorry drivers, supermarket workers, military. Men in their 20’s to their 70’s. Men from a similar location. All willing to rape an unconscious elderly woman.
Gisèle Pelicot has made a statement leaving the court:
Her voice did break at a couple of moments but she was clear and composed. Apologies for clumsy translation:
"It is with profound emotion that I speak to you today. It was a very difficult ordeal...
Does anyone have that recent study that determined all 8 billion of us could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labor output and that our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism
Because it altered my brain chemistry