Lucia FriedmanⓋ

Just passing through. Book junkie. Animal softie. Real music only. Anti starstruck. Questions selective humanitarianism. Greatest achievement. ..mother of Cindy

[Lucia FriedmanⓋ @luciaf065]

@FrasierHarry I often wonder if the world would be a less violent place if all were vegan...pause to think.

[Giulietta Talevi @GTalevi]

So we wake to huge swathes of no power, our bins are still not empty and the city is a disgusting mess, some suburbs still don’t have water and we’ve all had to pay above inflation for our rate increases. Have I got it right?

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

Mongolian Girl Has a Laugh with her Camel.
The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by photographer Han Chengli, who titled it “Inner Mongolian Child”.

[Shadows of Control @shadows_control]

My abusive ex-husband never explicitly told me what I could or couldn't wear, but I ended up avoiding the clothes he didn’t like anyway. This is how coercive control works…

One day, I came to the kitchen wearing a black blouse. He screwed up his face and asked me why I was wearing black, saying I looked ugly in that blouse and that he didn’t like it. I told him that was fine, he didn’t have to wear it.

Then he brought our 5-year-old son into the room. “Mummy doesn’t look good in black, does she?” he asked our child. Looking at his father and knowing very well that it’s best to agree, he nodded. “Yes, black is not a nice color mummy,” he told me.

I told him he had no right to criticise my clothing, and especially no right to involve our child.

That's when the lecturing began.

For three hours, he ranted about how he has a right to give his views and how I am incapable of accepting criticism. Apparently, I was too sensitive, too fragile and I didn’t respect his opinions. I needed to work on my reactions if I wanted to improve myself.

When I tried to walk away, he followed me from one room to the next, continuing the onslaught.

A month later, I was choosing what to wear and I went to reach for my black blouse, but then I hesitated. Was it worth the hassle? Did I really have the energy to go through all that again? I decided I didn’t and I chose something else.

And this is exactly how coercive control works. You learn to choose the easier option just to keep the peace and avoid the negative consequences. And bit-by-bit you fall in line with how they want you to be, until eventually there is no part of you left. Everything about ‘you’ is exactly how they want it.

#CoerciveControl #DomesticAbuse #EmotionalAbuse

[DyeStat @DyeStat]

Silver for South Africa!!

🇿🇦 Leendert Koekemoer anchors the South African men's 4x400m relay squad to victory at #WorldAthleticsU20, crossing the line in 3:02.76, an African U20 record.

📸: Keith Webber

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

This is absolutely disgusting and dangerous. Republicans must denounce this blatant Islamophobia.

To Muslim communities across America: I will always stand with you.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Elon has the biggest megaphone on earth and he just told 241 million people that follow him that Hitler was a “left-wing socialist.”

That’s not edgy. That’s historically illiterate.

The Nazis hunted down, imprisoned, and murdered actual socialists and communists by the hundreds of thousands.

They banned trade unions, outlawed the Social Democrats and the Communists, and put their leaders in the first concentration camps.

Hitler’s own words called Marxism a Jewish disease he would eradicate.

The socialist in National Socialist was a marketing scam to steal working class votes while the party crushed the left and got into bed with industrialists, the military, and traditional conservatives.

You have more money and reach than almost anyone alive. You could use it to tell the truth. Instead you push a talking point that has been laughed out of serious history for decades. That’s not free speech. That’s using your platform to launder a lie.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Penguin jumped on this boat to escape a seal, so they took him to the iceberg where his friends were waiting for him.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Marco Rubio is a f^cking idiot! 🤬 Abdul El-Sayed is an American citizen who was born in Michigan 41 years ago! Perhaps he should check out Melania Trump who was an immigrant from Slovenia who only obtained her citizenship 20 years ago by lying to obtain her Eistein visa. 🤬

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is absolute cinema 🔥

🇺🇸JD Vance: "The problem with Abdul is that he claims to stand for the working people, and yet he opposed Trump's policies."

🇺🇸Abdul El-Sayed: "The problem with Trump is that he claims to stand for Americans, and yet he spent $200 billion in a war for Israel." 🔥

Abdul absolutely cooked him 🔥💪

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇺🇸 Trump: “Italy did not stand with us during this difficult time.”

🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni: “I am a woman and also a mother. I cannot stand with someone who kills innocent children.”

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Trump: "I wanted to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and call it a historic win."

🇺🇸Obama: "It’s absolute historic to open something that was never closed because of your foolish war. Nobody’s done that before."

Obama cooked him well 🤣🔥

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I’m not worried about Americans electing Muslim politicians.

I’m more worried about Americans electing pedophiles, felons and rapists.

[pinkleftygirl @pinkleftygirl]

Patriarchy is so deeply rooted that a woman sacrificing her body to give birth is treated as normal, while a man washing a few dishes is treated like a hero

[GBC @GBC_Press]

An American young man: “I’m in Japan, and when I say I’m American, people look at me with contempt and hatred. Wherever I go, people look at me with hatred. We Americans are now humiliated around the world.”

[Scrumming Flyhalf @scrumming_ten]

🚨 The Springboks record in their last 37 games:

33 wins ✅️
4 defeats ❌️
89% win record ‼️

Beaten every other tier one test nation in that period ⚠️

The most-dominant team in the most-competitive era of international rugby 🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Making of Champions @MakingOfChamps]

30 YEARS IN THE MAKING. 🇿🇦

Tumi Ramokgopa has just written herself into African athletics history, becoming the first African woman since Nigeria’s Glory Alozie in 1996 to win a World U20 medal in the 100m hurdles.

Ramokgopa clocked a brilliant 12.96s in Eugene to take silver, three decades after Alozie also finished second at the World Junior Championships.

#WorldAthleticsU20

[RealHousewifeOfMichigan @RealHousewifeMi]

I was at Walmart today, minding my own business and checking out the zucchini.

A woman walked up next to me with who I assume was her husband. She was wearing a hijab.

And then… absolutely nothing happened.

She went about her shopping. I went about mine. Her choice to wear a hijab had absolutely zero impact on my day, my freedom, or my ability to buy zucchini.

She didn’t tell me I needed to wear one.

She didn’t try to force one on me.

She didn’t hold me down and put one on my head.

I know. Crazy, right?

Almost like people can practice their own religion, wear what they choose, and live their lives without forcing everyone else to live the same way.

Wild concept.

[South Voices @SAVOICES_]

DEAR SOUTH AFRICANS, OUR SUPERSTAR CLICHED SILVER 🥈 AT THE U20 CHAMPIONSHIP ‼️ ‼️ 🚨

WE’RE PROUD OF YOU TUMI, A TRUE RISING ⭐ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

[Ferial Haffajee @ferialhaffajee]

We are heartbroken. Estelle lived to afflict the comfortable and lived more to comfort the afflicted. May we be more like you. Rest softly, sister.

Estelle Ellis, the Eastern Cape’s fiercest voice for the voiceless, has died https://t.co/51SUOgbW2F

[Cindy Poluta @CindyPoluta]

Hi there @CityofJoburgZA
On a sabbatical? Annual leave?
Just trying to figure out why I'm paying for a refuse removal service - when you're not collecting the trash for weeks now? There's a joke in there about "refusing to remove the refuse"
But we're past the laughing stage