I'm reaching out to let you know about a GoFundMe for Melissa, who's been in a tough custody battle for her son, Zach, and it's drained all her resources. Every bit helps, so if you can donate or even just share the link, it would mean the world to her. https://t.co/raPsgFBIdh
For the first time, this is what a Master’s degree looks like.
Today, my daughter #RachelHandlin became the 1st person with #Downsyndrome to earn a graduate degree.
In the world.
Ever.
Rachel says: “I won’t be the last.”
@CalArts BFA 2020.
@PrattInstitute MFA 2024.
Legend.
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The number of patients on trolleys in #UHL today. Patients who are sick or injured and don't even have a bed in a hospital. This has to stop. @DonnellyStephen @SimonHarrisTD@MichealMartinTD@HSELive@roinnslainte#HSE
Not 1 application for our pup Halle who was hoping for a forever or foster home but plenty for the Yorkie who did go to foster and then an owner got in touch so she has gone home
Poor Halle is not coping well in our kennels since her sister got a home.
https://t.co/MeZz8GMPwE
💔 Our hearts break for Nealy 💔 We tell him he'll have a family, but when?
He keeps getting overlooked 🥺
Nealy's only 4 yrs old, has lots of doggy pals & he is adored by the kennel crew, given all the love they can - but kennels aren't a home 💔
Pls share 🙏
#AdoptDontShop
A baby chimp was born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had trouble getting oxygen so had to be kept at the vet. This is a clip of mom reuniting with her baby after almost 2 days apart.
Israel has dropped almost 65,000 tons of explosives - this means that Israel has dropped 28 kilograms of explosives on Gaza for every man, woman, and child.
It’s not war. It’s genocide.
Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.
https://t.co/SJXMywTXb5
Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children.
And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights.
I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."
Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.
It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.
(Location: Bournemouth Beach)
An end product of my research on femicide.
I tried to document all violent deaths of women and girls, then mapped the location of their deaths and the sentences given to their killers.
This thread is for 574 women and girls killed in the 1922 - 2022 century in Ireland.
A few asked could I put a link to the femicide map I created in its own tweet, as it might get lost in the long thread.
This is the map with the names of women and girls violently killed in the last 100 years in Ireland.
https://t.co/sZeSwT4MYQ
A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."
She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."