Twyla Tharped

[Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah]

Here is a list of people persecuted/excluded from attending Muslim mass prayers, whether at mosques or in public, in Britain:

1- Gays.
2- Women.
3- Muslims who believe Israel has the right to exist.
4- Muslims critical of barbaric practices such as misogyny and homophobia.

Here's a list of the kind of Muslims welcomed with open arms:

1- Antisemites.
2- Terrorism-supporters, enablers, and those convicted of terror offences under British laws.
3- Homophobes.
4- Wife beaters.

If you don't believe me, show me one mosque in Britain where gay couples are welcome, women lead prayers, or the Imam is gay.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Heroes all 🙌🏻

[Apranik 🇮🇷🇮🇱 @patriot_apranik]

🆘 URGENT: The Islamic Republic is planning to execute a 16-year-old child!

Mohammad Hossein Shokri is just 16. He is a street vendor who sold corn to make a living. He was abducted for simply participating in protests for freedom. Now, this child is facing the DEATH PENALTY.

The Islamic Republic targets the most vulnerable because they think no one will speak up for them. Please do not let them hang another innocent child!

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Be More Bessie! Scotland’s Youngest Suffragette 💜
Edinburgh’s Bessie Watson didn’t wait to grow up to fight for women’s rights. At just 9 years old, this piping prodigy strapped on her bagpipes and led the 1909 Votes for Women procession down Princes Street. By 11 she was heading the Scottish contingent in London marches refusing to pipe down when politicians told women to wheesht!
Her skirling pipes were a defiant soundtrack to the suffrage struggle. Deeds not words… and plenty of drone!
We’re still marching (and making noise) for sex-based rights at @WomenOScotland. The suffragette spirit is alive and piping loud!

#WomenOScotland #SexBasedRights

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Year five of Russia’s full-scale war.
A line outside the Kyiv National Art Gallery for a new exhibition.

This is Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Portugal was among the first to impose trans-affirmation by law and learned what everyone else who follows suit will also learn: it's untenable, and it has to be repealed.

Everyone else has the option of learning from Portugal's experience ahead of time and not repeating their mistake in the first place.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

"If you showed up to an emergency room after being raped in 1970, the staff would save your life. They would also, in the same efficient hour, destroy every piece of evidence that could convict your attacker—and no one would call it a scandal. They'd call it Tuesday."

Imagine walking into a hospital after the worst night of your life. You're bleeding, shaking, barely able to speak. The staff surrounds you with urgency and competence. They cut away your clothes—the ones with the stranger's fibers still caught in the fabric. They wash the blood from your skin—along with the trace evidence that could place him at the scene. They clean your wounds, comb debris from your hair, suture what needs suturing, stabilize what needs stabilizing. They save your life. And when police arrive hours later, there's nothing left but a traumatized woman and a report that will quietly die in a filing cabinet. No one intended harm. Hospitals were designed to heal, not to investigate. But intention doesn't change outcome. The system was accidentally destroying cases, and survivors were paying for it with their justice.

Virginia Lynch was a nurse who noticed what everyone else had normalized. Born in 1941, she grew up in a culture that treated sexual violence as shameful and private. In ER, she watched same pattern repeat: a woman arrived assaulted, staff did exactly what they were trained to do, and by morning there was no case. Prosecutors declined. Defense attorneys dismantled what little documentation existed. Survivors absorbed the quiet message: if it can't be proven, maybe it didn't really happen. Lynch saw something radical: hospitals weren't neutral. They were the first crossroads between trauma and accountability. If evidence vanished there, justice rarely followed.

When she started asking why nurses weren't trained to preserve forensic evidence, the resistance was immediate. Doctors said nursing was about care, not crime. Law enforcement questioned whether nurses could handle chain of custody. Administrators worried about lawsuits. And beneath all of it was a deeper discomfort: taking sexual assault seriously would require admitting how common it was. But Lynch kept pushing. She understood something her colleagues didn't: nurses were already there first. They saw injuries before they faded. They heard the story before it hardened into a deposition. They had the trust of patients in moments when uniformed officers might not. If nurses were trained properly, they could protect both the body and the truth of what happened to it.

Out of that insistence came a new field: forensic nursing. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner—SANE—was formalized. These nurses learned evidence collection, trauma-informed interviewing, courtroom testimony, and meticulous documentation. They became bridge between medicine and legal system. Hospitals that adopted these programs saw measurable change: evidence preserved, cases strengthened, convictions increased. Survivors reported feeling believed instead of processed. Difference wasn't dramatic technology—it was intention, structure, and training. By 1990s, forensic nursing was recognized as a legitimate specialty. What had once been dismissed became the standard of care.

Virginia Lynch didn't become a household name. Her work happens quietly at three in the morning when someone walks into an exam room shaking and ashamed. It happens in careful documentation that may not be used for months but will matter deeply if it is. It happens when a nurse says calmly, "You have options," and means it. She interrupted a system that unintentionally retraumatized survivors. She refused to accept that good intentions excused bad outcomes. She insisted that healing and accountability were not opposing forces but inseparable ones.

"Sometimes the most radical act isn't a protest or a speech. It's refusing to let care erase truth—and building a bridge between a woman's pain and her justice, one protocol at a time."

#archaeohistories

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

'Open Doors with Metronome,' (1980) by Charles Hardaker has the historical resonance of so many illusionistic works by Vilhelm Hammershøi; the doors principally help to introduce a dimension of reality.

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

In red and purple areas, we know the plan. Idaho Democrats definitely know the plan. Run candidates everywhere, at every level. Invest in those candidates who can flip seats. And focus our message on the real things affecting people, like the ballot initiative that, if passed, will save women's lives across Idaho and inspire other red states to protect women's health.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A meeting with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and Chief of the General Staff Andrii Hnatov. This week, we have observed attempts by the Russians to intensify their offensive efforts, taking advantage of more favorable weather conditions. As a result, the only tangible outcome for the Russian army has been an increase in their losses – more than 8,000 killed and seriously wounded Russian soldiers in just these seven days. We also have information that the Russian command has finally managed to figure out where their units are actually located on the frontline and how this differs from the official reports submitted up the chain of command. Some of their brigade-level commanders have already been replaced as punishment for false reporting. However, this will not help the occupier.

In the Donetsk region, our positions have not significantly changed over the past week. In the Kharkiv region and in border communities of the Sumy region, we are observing attempts by the occupier to advance from the border – Russian units carrying out these attempts are being destroyed. In the Oleksandrivskyi direction, active operations by our assault and airborne units continue – I thank every warrior. We also specifically noted the accuracy of our deep strikes and outlined the framework for future action. I approved a number of new operations. Glory to Ukraine!

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

@Pontifex One of the worst days humanity has seen is the day the Pope said nothing of a terrorist regime massacring 30k+ people protesting for freedom, then condemns the war on the regime that killed them.

Be against war, but the Pope’s silence on the worst atrocity of our time? haunting

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

They buried a 19-year-old wrestler here, an athlete hanged by Iran's regime for protesting.
Saleh Mohammadi was one of Iran's valuable assets, part of the human infrastructure of its future but Islamic Republic destroyed that future.
It is painful and powerful to see people gathering to stand with his family, clapping for their hero.

[APADRA 🇮🇷 @DGascoign3]

There is an empty chair at a dinner table tonight. A school desk is vacant. A bedroom is cold. Mahsa Saril, just 14 years old, has been stolen from her family by the IRGC. For the "crime" of asking for a future, she now faces execution. She is a child. SHE IS A CHILD. Say her name until she is home #IranMassacre‌

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Evil. Hamas are evil, no question. But this is also evil.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

The world's greatest botanist died of starvation in a Soviet prison.

His crime: refusing to say plants worked the way Stalin needed them to. 🧵

[Twyla Tharped @Schnayflowkin]

@cavakaggyreborn Will regret penectomy and orchiectomy if he goes that far. I hope he doesn't, for his sake.

[Alan Burnett @ABFixby]

When I was young, my Auntie Annie would tell me tales of her cousin Ivy, who played in an all-women's band. I never met Ivy, and her side of the family remained a mythical branch located far away on the other side of the Pennines. A few years ago, I received a box of old family photographs from someone who traced me through Ancestry, and there amongst them was a picture of Ivy (second from left) and her Celebrity Ladies Orchestra.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

The Islamic regime in Iran has confirmed the death sentence of 18-year-old Melika Azizi.
Melika was arrested in January 2026 during nationwide protests for setting fire to regime symbols and was charged with “moharebeh” (waging war against God).
In court, Melika told the judge: “You are letting so many young people bleed. How can I stay silent? I don’t care. Just kill me.”
Please, be her voice.
It could save her life.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This young lady was called Phillis because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, the name of the merchant who bought her. She was born in Senegal 🇸🇳.

In Boston, the slave traders put her up for sale: “She's 7 years old! She will be a good mare!”

She was felt naked by many hands.

At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that was not her own. No one believed that she was the author. At twenty, Phillis was questioned by a court of eighteen so-called enlightened White men in robes and wigs.

She had to recite passages from Virgil and Milton and verses from the Bible, and vow that the poems she composed were not copied.

From a chair, she underwent her lengthy examination until the court approved her: she was a woman, she was Black, she was enslaved, but she was a poet.

Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American writer to publish a book in the United States 🇺🇸

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Stop repeating the narrative of the Islamic Republic in the West about this brave Iranian wrestling champion who was executed by hanging in Iran. Watch this video.

Saleh Mohammadi just wanted to be a champion.

He had no lawyer, no fair trial, no free media coverage, no access to his family, not even a chance to say goodbye. What did he have? A forced confession after torture.

To those saying “if you kill a police officer in America, they will shoot you” , you are helping the regime justify more executions. You are making their job easier in the West. Because this 19 year old wrestler He was not a criminal. His only crime was protesting and demanding freedom.

You are putting the lives of other protesters at risk by repeating their narrative.

Listen to his story. We have been in contact with his family. Many Iranian athletes and journalists have spoken to them. He was innocent.

#IranMassacre