Cecilia

Tweets mostly about politics, popular culture, social justice and anything else interesting.

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

There has never been a Christian nation...

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

Freedom of expression is not a right we are granted in perpetuity – if we neglect it, it will wither like a plant you forget to water.

Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard | Mafia | The Guardian https://t.co/PYQqsMVBBQ

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

Opinion | Jim Crow 2.0 is working https://t.co/FMY0lxpFto via @BostonGlobe

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

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[Simón B Trujillo @simonbtrujillo]

@anapau_villa Un matrimonio en el super Bowl? Pero por supuesto

Mención a Hawái? Claro

Benito lo entendió todo

[Cruzazulizmo. @Rarev_armando]

El concepto estuvo espectacular, estuvo grandioso, amé el tema latino, de ahí en fuera, no entendí cuando cantaba benito, pero gracias benito por representarnos a todos

[Rob @_ROB_29]

Fluffy wants breakfast 🤣

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

Roman's 12:21 "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Here’s why Trump is coming after me. But guess what? I won’t shut up!

I have an incurable allergy to despots.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Susie King Taylor is a name history tried to whisper, even though her life spoke loudly. Born enslaved in Georgia in 1848, she learned to read and write in secret—an act that was illegal, dangerous, and revolutionary. Literacy became her weapon. By the time the Civil War erupted, she was already teaching others, understanding that education itself was a form of resistance.

When Union forces reached the South Carolina coast, Taylor attached herself to the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized Black regiment in the Union Army. She cooked, cleaned, taught, and—most critically—nursed sick and wounded soldiers, long before the army formally recognized Black women as nurses. She worked under brutal conditions, without pay, without rank, and without protection, yet performed the same life-saving labor as officially sanctioned medical staff.

During the war, she worked alongside Clara Barton, caring for wounded soldiers at a time when medical care was improvised, understaffed, and often deadly. Their work—tending to bodies the nation was willing to use but slow to value—helped shape the moral and practical foundations of what would later become the American Red Cross. Taylor did this while facing racism not only from Confederate enemies, but within Union structures themselves.

Education never left her mission. Even while attached to the army, she taught formerly enslaved children and adults to read and write, often in makeshift classrooms with no supplies. After the war, she returned to Georgia and opened schools for Black communities during Reconstruction, pushing against violent resistance, chronic underfunding, and a nation already retreating from its promises.

In 1902, she published Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, becoming the first Black woman to write and publish a memoir of Civil War service. It was not sentimental. It was precise, observant, and unflinching—documenting Black soldiers’ courage, suffering, and neglect in their own words. For decades, historians ignored it.

© Women In World History

#archaeohistories

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

A retired Minneapolis couple had guns pointed at them by ICE agents in a church parking lot:

“They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets.”

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

Former Starbucks VP’s lawsuit claims she was fired after reporting maggots in equipment. "maggots had allegedly fallen out of the system’s milk dispenser and were flicked away by baristas to prevent customers from seeing them, according to the complaint." https://t.co/riFS5zjDcc

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

"U.S. Atty Gnl Pm Bndi wrte lttr 2 MN Gv. Tm Wlz aftr death of anthr Amrcn citzn @ hnds of fdl agnts n Mnnpls, urgng Dem. ledr 2 hnd ovr senstve data 2 Trmp admnstrtn n effrt 2 prvnt more "ntnl tragdy." In othr wrds, Wld be a shame if anythng else happnd!https://t.co/yKimcY30JB

[Dwight McGlothern Jr @nudiemcglothern]

It’s not right what’s happening in Minnesota

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

We are living in completely different worlds: Former Vikings captain says Minnesota liberal resist ICE because 'we're deporting their voters'

https://t.co/fGIdc6d28u

[J Hunter🍁 @MrJoKeR604]

The contrast between PM Carney's speech and Trump's speech in Davos was striking, it's like a PhD economist vs someone who eats paint.

[Cecilia @peanutfiles]

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

2024: Democrats throw trans people and immigrants under the bus and lose to a fascist

2025: Ezra Klein wants to abandon women in red states and run anti-choice Democrats

2026: Which vulnerable group will be cynically deserted to avoid a conversation about taxing billionaires?

[Rocket’s Bitch @Cheezydork74]

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