Martha Renner 🇺🇦

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@jimstewartson Lol. Newsome?? 🙄

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@BAlhabel @MADDEEE13 Such a beautiful family💓💓💓

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@Jvnior Wth??

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@GavinNewsom Private police?? As in Gestapo??

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@Acyn Omg. His own mother said he was dumb.

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@LexiMurica @BernieSanders Bernie is Jewish you AI troll. And socialism is not communism or fascism. It is the Dump regime that has made concentration camps, not the people trying to take care of the citizens.

[UnHerd @unherd]

David Hockney: On deafness

'I never liked background music. Music for me has to be in the foreground. I never play music when I paint or draw. I did enjoy going to concerts and the opera because it had a non-electronic sound. I used to play music in my car, the last one having eight speakers, but if passengers wanted to talk, I turned it off. The drive from London to Bridlington takes about four hours and we would play a Georg Solti recording of “Tannhäuser” — marvellous for going 80 miles an hour on the motorway. I can recommend it.

The one good thing about my deafness is it has made me perceive space quite differently. A blind man gets around with his hearing and so why shouldn’t a deaf person perceive space differently. Of course you might only detect this if you are an artist. And since I am deeply interested in perception and depiction, of course I’ve noticed this...'

Read his piece on noise, hearing aids and solitude: https://t.co/AlO6qnOxVZ

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@ufcontnt Are these fighters famous? I know nothing about this sport. Just curious.

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@Mollyploofkins Yes

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

Yessss!!!

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 Just a little more than a year into his first term and the world is already making songs praising Canada, and Carney's leadership. 🙂
#CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

🎶 "See what a real leader looks like
Not a bully not a coward, not a hype
Canada strong, elbows up, never forget
The world is watching Carney and they ain't done yet
Bold, confident and kind
That's the Canadian Way" 🎶

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

Right on

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 Just a little more than a year into his first term and the world is already making songs praising Canada, and Carney's leadership. 🙂
#CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

🎶 "See what a real leader looks like
Not a bully not a coward, not a hype
Canada strong, elbows up, never forget
The world is watching Carney and they ain't done yet
Bold, confident and kind
That's the Canadian Way" 🎶

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

💔

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A young boy in northern Afghanistan wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt, photographed in 2002.

The global secondhand clothing trade moves millions of used garments from North America and Europe to markets throughout Africa, Asia, and the Middle East each year. By the time many of these items reach their final destination, the original cultural, historical, or political significance of the designs they carry is often unknown to the people wearing them.

In 2002, Afghanistan was emerging from decades of upheaval, including the Soviet-Afghan War, years of civil conflict, and Taliban rule. Imported and donated goods played an important role in the economy, and secondhand clothing was commonly sold in local markets.

The Confederate battle flag originated during the American Civil War (1861–1865) as a military banner used by several Confederate Army units. In the years that followed, it became linked to Southern identity, but it was also adopted by segregationist movements during the 20th century, making it one of the most controversial symbols in American history.

The scale of the secondhand clothing industry is immense. The United States exports hundreds of millions of pounds of used clothing every year, with many garments passing through multiple countries and distributors before eventually being purchased by consumers thousands of miles from where they were first sold.

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

So beautiful💓

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Antoni Gaudi died 100 years ago today.

He was 73 and spent over 40 years working on La Sagrada Familia (completing 1/4th of entire basilica).

Gaudi’s method for designing it was genius: he hung movable weights on strings and let gravity do the work of showing the proper angles and force vectors for his nature-inspired look.

He then flipped the model upside down to see how to build the columns and arches.

Also inspired by forests and sea life, the legendary architect once said, “there are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature.”

In the final years of his life, Gaudi’s was solely focussed on the project. His diet was lettuce leafs dipped in milk. Lived inside the Basilica and barely slept on a simple cot.

He died after getting hit by a tram while walking aroudn Barcelona. His clothes was so ratty — underwear held together with safety pins — that passerbys thought he was homeless.

The city held a massive funeral for him with 30,000 people packing the streets.

While 3/4 of La Sagrada Familia was undone, Gaudi left enough plans (models, drawings) for future generations.

La Sagrada Familia was largely dormant for a few decades 1930s-1960s (Spanish Civil War, World War II, early Cold War).

Some of Gaudi’s designs were so ahead his time that it would require the development of aeronautical design software to complete his vision.

Gaudi once remarked that “my client” — referring to God — “is not in a hurry”.

There is still work to be done but a major milestone was completed in February: workers installed a cross on top of La Sagrada Familia, making it the tallest church in the world (172.5 meters or 566 feet).

It’s also the tallest structure in Barcelona. But Gaudi intentionally capped the height because “human creation should not pass God’s work.”

The Montjuïc Hill in the southwestern part of Barcelona is ~570 feet.

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Video link: https://t.co/LmmquC3dlT

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

Beautiful. So bright and so full of hope for the silenced voices.💓💓💓

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut in 1978. When she was two years old, the Lebanese Civil War forced her family to flee. They settled in England with very little, and she grew up watching her parents rebuild a life from scratch.
She studied law at Oxford and New York University. She passed the New York bar, then the bar of England and Wales. She practiced at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She worked as a prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon — the country her family had escaped.
Then she began representing the people the world is usually too uncomfortable to defend.
She has acted for Yazidi women who survived ISIS captivity, helping secure the first genocide convictions of ISIS members anywhere in the world. She has acted for journalists imprisoned for their reporting in countries where the press is treated as a threat. She has represented former heads of state, exiled dissidents, and families seeking accountability for atrocities most governments would prefer to forget.
Two of her clients have gone on to win the Nobel Peace Prize: Nadia Murad and Maria Ressa.
In 2024, the Legal 500 — one of the legal profession's most rigorous industry rankings — named her International Lawyer of the Year. The Chambers & Partners directory describes her as "in a league of her own at the Bar" and "amazing with vulnerable witnesses," which is the quietest sentence and the most important one.
She teaches international law at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. She co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice, now the largest legal aid provider for women and journalists in the world, operating in more than forty countries. In 2025, she co-founded the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice to use artificial intelligence to widen access to legal help for people who cannot afford it.
The girl whose family fled a war became the lawyer whose work has helped survivors of war get heard.
That arc is rare. It should be told plainly.

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

The only good side of this is that maybe it will finally get us all off of g and o and all of the wars etc. that have come from this fight over it.

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

The US is bombing Iran and calling it “self-defense”.

Yet the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf hug Iran’s coastline and is thousands of miles away from the US.

Notice also how neither China nor any other country with respect for international law would utter such absurdity.

The US empire is lawless, and its military adventurism a ball and chain on humanity.

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@MorganC000 @JoshDehaas Did I say that? Read back.

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@jimstewartson (!!)

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@jimstewartson Similar in content to “they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs”..

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

@jimstewartson Yes

[Martha Renner 🇺🇦 @mrenner_schultz]

It’s amazing to me how everyone is suddenly the expert on everything. Let’s take a deep breath. And scrutinize, yes, but Idk, the world is definitely different in the last 20 years. Our laws do need to catch up to the new techno age we find ourselves in.

[Not So Nice Canadian @Cdhd123]

🚨Parents and Grandparents — this is a serious warning.
Canada’s new “Safe Social Media Act” is mostly theater. Social media companies are pushing back hard, not because they care about your kids, but because it threatens their profits from keeping children addicted and scrolling for hours.
Even if the bill passes, keeping kids off the internet is basically impossible. VPNs, fake ages, borrowed phones, secret apps, and private groups make it ridiculously easy to get around any “ban.”
The real intent of this bill is NOT protecting children.
It’s about creating the infrastructure for mandatory age verification, digital IDs, government surveillance, and more control over what everyone — adults included — can see and say online.
If you allow your children to stay on these platforms thinking “the government will protect them,” you are making a dangerous mistake. These apps are designed to be addictive. They damage mental health, self-esteem, sleep, and attention spans. No law in Ottawa will fix that.
You are the only real protection your kids have.
Monitor their devices, set strict rules, talk to them openly, and limit screen time at home. Do NOT rely on Big Tech or politicians to do it for you.
This bill won’t save your kids — it will just give the government more power while the addiction machine keeps running.
Stay vigilant. Your children’s future depends on it.