Davers Excelsior

Carpenter by trade, roughly trilingual, anti-imperialist, here in the state of PA.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

The 1989 Tiananmen Documentary you will never see in the West.
Rioters hijacking APCs, torching military trucks, dragging unarmed PLA soldiers out, beating them to death, lynching, stripping, burning alive.
Charred bodies hanging from buses like trophies.
Pure mob savagery on Beijing streets.
This wasn’t “peaceful democracy students” — that was the hijacked narrative for the cameras.
Legitimate grievances got turned into the first big Colour Revolution prototype.
Foreign hands, chaos, English banners, the works.
China saw the full picture: soldiers murdered, order collapsing. Chose stability over collapse.

The West only shows one side every June 4th.

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

“[equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis] would be the end of the state of Israel and I support Israel” - Bernie Sanders

[birds' hell @saturnalreturn]

the greatest man who ever lived

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This story is immensely touching and is going massively viral in China. It's also a pretty good soft signal that China is taking warming ties with the U.S. sincerely.

This lady 👇 is called Yin Yuzhen (殷玉珍) and she lives in a place called Jǐngbèitáng (井背塘) in Inner Mongolia - deep in the heart of the Mu Us (毛乌素) Desert, a place whose name literally translates from Mongolian as "bad (lacking) water".

In 1985, aged 19, she and her husband were really desperate by the encroaching desert: sandstorms would seal their door shut overnight and literally threaten to bury them alive. She was crying every day and considered ending her life.

However, her defiant spirit prevailed and she decided to fight the desert, saying she'd "rather die planting trees than let the sand bully me to death" (宁可种树累死，也不让沙子欺负死)

In 1986, they traded the family's most valuable possession - a sheep - for 600 tree seedlings. Fewer than 10 survived, but they saw hope. Her husband Bái Wànxiáng (白万祥) took manual labor jobs and asked for tree seedlings instead of wages.

In 1999, Yin Yuzhen's story made it into national news on CCTV. An American named Ronald Sakolsky - originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - who was teaching English as a foreign instructor at Luoyang Foreign Language School (洛阳外国语学校) in Henan province, was deeply moved. He immediately started sending emails to multiple American organizations to raise $5,000 for her.

The $5,000 was sent through a Beijing-based foundation. In the video 👇, Yin Yuzhen recalls receiving it: "I had never seen that much money in my life - it scared me half to death." She spent every cent on higher-quality seedlings than she'd ever been able to afford.

Shortly after, Sakolsky traveled to the Mu Us desert in person. He found her out in the sand, planting. Seeing green where he'd expected only desert, he kept saying "impossible, impossible."

With Sakolsky's $5,000 alone, Yin Yuzhen planted 50,000 seedlings which have now become a forest. Over her entire life, since the 1980s, her life's work stands at over two million trees planted, transforming almost 50 km² (roughly 80% of Manhattan) of desert into green land.

Yin Yuzhen was awarded the 全国劳模 (National Model Worker), one of China's highest civilian honors.

Seeing her video titled 寻找赛考斯 ("Searching for Sakolsky") and the incredible impact it was having on Chinese social media, journalists from Inner Mongolia's Benteng Media (奔腾融媒) tracked Sakolsky down by going to the Luoyang No. 2 Foreign Language Academy and finding the Headmaster Bai Fan, who was Sakolsky's former colleague.

Bai Fan connected with Sakolsky by phone on the spot, shot on video by the journalists (my 2nd video 👇), inviting him back to China to see what his $5,000 became.

This was 2 days ago on May 17th so you can bet that a Sakolsky visit to China will be arranged soon and that this will be one of the biggest pieces of US-China public diplomacy this year.

Now this story coming out and being amplified right after Trump's visit is of course no coincidence, we shouldn't be naive: what better way to translate the warmth from the visit than letting a desert grandmother in a red headscarf tell the internet she's looking for her American friend?

That doesn't make the story any less real or any less touching. In fact this story is the perfect reminder that countries don't have friends, but people do. And when countries remember this, deserts turn green.

[Davers Excelsior @MediocreWrench]

@hasanthehun Quit being reactionary. You can't make a moral stance against one part of the duopoly, allowing the other side to skate by.

[julia @eathedocument]

i absolutely hate today being remembered as the “star wars day” instead of the anniversary of the kent state shooting. four innocent students massacred with no accountability, no justice was ever served. the more you learn about it the worse it gets.

[Davers Excelsior @MediocreWrench]

Powerful statement

[Clare Hinchcliffe @Subversivite]

I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this.

My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on.

This is what she said 🧵 1/

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone.

He ordered ten times more drone strikes than Bush and even joked "I'm really good at killing people."

[Davers Excelsior @MediocreWrench]

@Poohgy_kt789 @YingPatthara Hamas gets funds from Israel. I dont take money from israel.

[Davers Excelsior @MediocreWrench]

@novaramedia This is liberal great man theory schlock usually reserved for the Atlantic.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel operates the most well-documented torture & rape dungeon in the world:

A 42-year-old woman from north Gaza, former Sde Teiman innmate said:

"She was bound naked to a metal table and repeatedly raped by two masked soldiers over the course of two days.

She recalled that she was left shackled, naked and bleeding throughout the night before the soldiers returned the next day to continue raping her.

Throughout her ordeal, she was filmed. Soldiers later showed her the footage while she was hung by her wrists under interrogation, threatening to publish the videos if she did not "cooperate".

Amir, a 35-year-old Palestinian man also held at Sde Teiman, recounted how soldiers forced him to strip naked, before their dogs urinated on him and raped him.

He described how the dog "penetrated my anus in a trained manner while I was being beaten".

"This continued for several minutes. I felt profoundly humiliated and violated."

...a soldier in Sde Teiman inserted a fire extinguisher nozzle into a Palestinian prisoner’s anus and then discharged its contents into his body, resulting in severe internal injuries and intense pain."

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

THIS IS THE GUY WHO BROUGHT THE BLACK HAWK HELIS DOWN? And his lil hijabi daughter followed him out to cheer him on, disobeying his commands because she wanted to see the Minab school girls avenged?! Holy shit

[Davers Excelsior @MediocreWrench]

@TheCradleMedia @peimansalehi_ I read the whole Dia report as linked in the blue text of the word Saberin. It would've been good to indicate this layered approach as distinct from the impression given by the dia report.

[ODAY || 🇵🇸 @oday_jabour]

I fix medical devices by day.
I study them by night.

No one told me to.
But lives depend on it.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

All this bloodshed is
because the West won't accept Palestinian as equal human beings.

[Davers Excelsior @MediocreWrench]

@brett_mcgurk @kaitlancollins This man has the blood of millions on his hands, and he continues to talk

[MondoAB @MondoABx]

👇🎯

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour.

MAKE ME PAY.

James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Recently, Israeli forces subjected a one-year-old child to abuse to pressure his father into giving confessions east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, according to local and family sources.

The child's father, Osama Abu Nassar, suffered psychological trauma after the death of a horse he used for income. While taking his child to buy supplies a few days ago, he was caught in gunfire near his home and forced by soldiers to leave his 18-month-old son on the ground and approach the Israeli checkpoint, where he was stripped of his clothes.

According to witnesses, the army then took the child and interrogated the father at the checkpoint. The forces tortured the child in front of his father, including burning with cigarettes on his leg, pricking, and inserting a metal nail into his leg, as confirmed by a medical report.

The child, Karim, was released after 10 hours and handed over to his family through the International Red Cross, while the father remains in detention.

📷 Osama Al-Kahlout