Rose Foreman

Author of The Scarred King Trilogy, I'm glad to meet you. Mom of five, one with severe autism, grandmother of six. Love Rwanda.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

I hope they all make it back to the nest.

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

巣作りに必要な葉の主脈を上手に剥ぎ取り、持ち帰るために尻尾に収納する鳥

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@kaorukazama How wonderful.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@Yoda4ever Bet that croc stays away now.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@realMaalouf WHAT???????

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@Am_hailey Amen.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@a_rin_ur Have a merry birthday!

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@kunoichi_jp_ I remember those.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@EliAfriatISR May she have a long and happy life.

[The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ @AramaicWire]

An emotional moment. An Assyro-Chaldean priest from Australia visits a Church that has been sacked in Zakho, Iraq. He then sings in Aramaic: "Tell me o Church, where do you wish me to build you?". Ancient Churches are regularly looted in Iraq.

[ASSYRIA TODAY ܐܬܼܘܪ ܝܘܡܢܐ @TodayAssyria]

💔✝️ This short video documents the brutal attacks carried out by Islamist extremists against Assyrian Christian churches and their sacred symbols in the Nineveh Plains of Assyria, Iraq — in Mesopotamia, the ancient homeland of the Assyrian people.

🕯️ For decades, Assyrian Christians (also known as Syriac & Chaldean Christians) across the Middle East have faced systematic persecution. Thousands of churches have been destroyed, and in Iraq alone, more than 160 churches have been attacked or damaged since 2003. ⛪💔

📉 In 2003, Iraq was home to approximately 1.5 million Assyrian Christians. Today, only around 150,000 remain. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, persecuted, or forced to flee the land their ancestors have inhabited for thousands of years. 💔🥀

⛪ Churches bombed.
📜 Ancient manuscripts burned.
🕊️ Entire communities uprooted.
💔 Unbelievable — all of this happened in the 21st century.
Everything shown in this video occurred after the year 2000. This is not ancient history. These crimes took place in our own time, before the eyes of the world.

This video represents only a small fraction of a much larger tragedy — one example among thousands of acts of terror and destruction. 💔

Extremists have viewed Assyrian Christians as unbelievers, demanding that they convert, pay the jizya tax, or face violence, expulsion, and death.

⚠️ This is not merely religious persecution.

💔 It is the systematic destruction of one of the world's oldest Christian communities.

🏛️ The Assyrians are one of the world's oldest surviving indigenous peoples, heirs to a civilization that flourished thousands of years before Christ. Ancient Assyria gave rise to some of humanity's earliest cities, libraries, art, and monumental architecture.

⚒️ Alongside churches and Christian symbols, ancient Assyrian heritage has also been deliberately targeted. Lamassu statues, ancient reliefs, archaeological sites, and priceless artifacts dating back centuries and even millennia before Christ have been vandalized, looted, and destroyed. 💔

This is not only an attack on a people and their faith — it is an attack on human history itself.

Many scholars, survivors, and organizations consider these crimes genocide.

🌍 We call upon the international community, UNESCO, the United Nations, and human rights organizations to take stronger and concrete action to protect Assyrian Christians, preserve their heritage, and hold those responsible accountable.

❗The world cannot say it did not know.
🕯️ Remember the victims.
✝️ Preserve the faith.
🏛️ Protect the heritage.
💔 Never forget.

#Assyrians #AssyrianChristians #AncientAssyria #NinevehPlains #Mesopotamia #SaveAssyrians #ChristianPersecution #ReligiousFreedom #ProtectHeritage #HumanRights #GenocideAwareness #NeverForget #MiddleEast #IndigenousPeoples 💔✝️🏛️

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@japan_nobunaga Though I don't have a gun, it is important to me that people who aren't criminals or mentally ill have access to guns. My brothers like to hunt deer. Lots of people need instant self-defense. As a kid, I had lots of fun trying to hit cans in quarries with a BB gun. Never hit one.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

And saying baited breath instead of bated breath always drives me nuts. Such an icky image I instantly see.

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@japan_nobunaga I don’t own a gun.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

Important information.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 2009, dozens of cedar waxwings dropped dead in a Georgia yard. A lab opened them up and found their stomachs packed with one thing: bright red berries picked off the shrub by the porch.

That shrub was nandina, sold all over the South as "heavenly bamboo."

It's not bamboo, but an Asian barberry relative, and its berries contain cyanide compounds. A bird that eats a few is usually fine. But cedar waxwings don't eat a few. They descend in flocks and strip plants bare, and in late winter, when those berries are one of the few foods left hanging, a whole flock can swallow a deadly dose in minutes.

The Georgia birds were found dead beneath the shrubs they had been feeding on. It's happened since, including more cedar waxwings found dead at UNC Chapel Hill.

The berries are also how the plant spreads. Birds eat the fruit and scatter the seeds. Nandina has escaped gardens into woods across much of the South, from Virginia to Texas.

It tolerates deep shade, which means it doesn't stop at the trail edge. It can establish in intact forests and crowd out native plants. State after state lists it as invasive. It's still sitting on the shelf at the big-box nursery.

It's easy to recognize. An upright evergreen shrub three to eight feet tall, with lacy leaves that turn red in cold weather, clusters of white flowers in spring, and bunches of glossy red berries that hang on all winter.

So yank it. Get the roots, because it resprouts. If you can't remove the whole thing this year, at least cut off every berry cluster before the birds find it.

Then plant something that actually feeds them: winterberry, American beautyberry, chokeberry, or native hollies.

The birds deserve better.

[𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt @WHLeavitt]

The historic 101-year-old St. Gabriel Church in Telata Chef, Ethiopia, was burned to the ground by Islamists.

Dozens of innocent Christians were murdered.

Woke Pope, leftists & media stay silent.

Pray for Christians worldwide?

A. Yes 🙏
B. No

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@DanBurmawy Interesting thought.

[Rose Foreman @RoseForeman111]

@mshurtleffwrite If you like chalk, go ahead and enjoy your Red Delicious.

[aka @akafaceUS]

When an engineer has a mosquito problem.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

In a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire larkspur is grown for London florists along with cornflowers & Nigella. It’s quite a sight just now-some floral dopamine for you 🌿:

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Dr. ALVEDA KING just said it PERFECTLY on Capitol Hill

"I still have a dream. I dream that one day we will move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD'S power and human dignity!"

"I reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as THREATS or TERRORISTS simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought!" 🙏🏻

"I dream that Americans will one day see each other, not as enemies, but as neighbors. I dream that we will hear each other, see each other, and recognize that every human life has value from the womb to the tomb and beyond."

"We are as scripture teaches, one blood, one human race. And if we remember that truth, we can build a future worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us."

"We must speak out for truth and against the forces that would manufacture hate, fear, division, and violence simply to line their pockets and further their political ambitions."

"God bless America, God bless you!"

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