Riya🌻

A reluctant misanthrope! Writing, travelling, photography & painting @geekygypsyoffi @msriyawrites

[Riya🌻 @MsRiyaWrites]

I wrote a deeply personal story, recounting an incident from my college days. Writing this was cathartic; it made me realise the fear and hurt is mostly gone, but the anger and humiliation I felt that day will always remain. #Metoo
https://t.co/1MtDe0wz1o

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israeli media reporting that the IDF is declaring northern Gaza effectively ethnically cleansed, not event a hint of pretense now that its election day

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This old man on a wheelchair passed away today while on the journey from Beit Lahia to Gaza City. When he and family arrived at the checkpoint, they had to stay under the sun with no water or food for hours.
Remember the Lancet medical journal report? It continues.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

The twitter enthusiasts are risking the lives of the two million Indians (mostly students) living in Canada with their jingoistic takes

[Tony Montana @9mm_Scropion]

Two random foreigners in American clear up why AnTisEmiTiSm iS oN tHe rIse.
Hope this helps.

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

i fear that when we stop hearing news of these atrocities, it will not be because they have stopped, but because all the journalists have been murdered

[Joseph Dickerson @joekaren46]

These are not fighters, these are doctors and nurses , These are the medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

[smishdesigns @smishdesigns]

Caste builds such a big wall within human to human interactions that caste Hindus even forget to feel oppressed castes’ pain almost to a dehumanising level. This is beyond sad, cannot imagine this grieving wife’s pain and humiliation.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

That look made me instantly break out in tears.
What have we done!!!

[Cardi B @iamcardib]

I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle…. PS fix my algorithm

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Why are facts so difficult to understand? 1sr@el is an occupier!

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

No cemeteries, No hospitals, No doctors, No civil defense, No ambulances. The living are under the rubble, and no one can rescue them, the situation in north Gaza gets more horrific by the minute.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Did you all see this? Please amplify.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Imagine cherishing your child and, against all odds, miraculously keeping them safe for over a year of genocide, only for some scumbag coward to snipe that child in the beautiful head that you kissed a million times.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

I'm neither Muslim nor Arab, but I understand the genuine grief and anger of Arab-Americans and others who feel betrayed by the Biden/Harris management of Israel's war in Gaza. To see the scale of suffering, image after image of dead children, the constant stream of horrific videos of dead people who look like you, who could be you, and to recognize how little it seems to matter to anyone around you must be so jarring. Reading the comments of unsympathetic partisan Democrats here and below this good @shadihamid column just reinforces their case — that there is a massive empathy gap that enables the ongoing situation, more than a year after Oct. 7, and not voting or not voting Dem is their only way of challenging the status quo. https://t.co/BwjtNmgc41

[Arjun Sethi @arjunsethi81]

Why do the Democrats think they’re entitled to the votes of Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, Lebanese, and their allies, when they insist on murdering these very same communities?

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This is ethnic cleansing not an evacuation

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

When the best of humanity was being slaughtered by the worst of humanity while being watched by the rest of humanity, remember that those that have the least gave the most to stop it.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Kind of hilarious to listen to a rabbi upset that Jewish kids took the rhetoric about human equality and justice too seriously.