Rebecca Katona

Dancing Queen. Cook. Friend. Dreamer. Lover of Life. Bringer of the fun. @nationaljournal. Married to @JoeyKatona + mom to Calvin, Winston + Truman

[thucksgiving @TylerHuckabee]

Timeline Cleanse: Rio de Janeiro's stunning giant doctor statue

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

This is yet another good example of why men are too emotional to be in leadership.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I don’t deny the power of my father’s most well-known speech, ‘I Have a Dream.’

However, its power and popularity (with focus on its conclusion) have been misused to weaken its clear messaging about ending racism, stopping police brutality, ensuring voting rights, and eradicating economic injustice.

Why didn’t Pastor Lorenzo Sewell pray these parts of the Dream during President Trump’s Inauguration?

Because the inconvenient truth (that disallows embracing the pipe dream that racism no longer exists in this country) is that Project 2025 and some of the plans that his voters encouraged POTUS to roll out on day one are reflective of an ‘America’ that denies the comprehensive King.

That’s why those who quote Daddy out of context and without the spirit of nonviolence don’t pray using my father’s ’The Other America,’ ‘The Three Evils of Society, ‘Beyond Vietnam’…or ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’

It’s simpler to distort the rousing conclusion of #IHaveADream and twist it to push a narrative that authentic, compassionate work to prevent and stop discrimination is actually discriminatory.

It is much harder to distort #LetterFromBirminghamJail’s call to conscience to #Christians and its powerfully relevant teaching on nonviolent direct action, injustice anywhere, devotion to order over justice, doing what’s right, and disobeying unjust laws.

Who can validate inhumane legislation by integrating prayers about civil disobedience and freedom being demanded by the oppressed, both topics covered in LFBJ?

We need to get Daddy’s Dream right, while also realizing that, in his other speeches, sermons, and writings, including LFBJ, he provides the love-centered strategy and courageous path for realizing his Dream.

And we haven’t collectively embraced that strategy or started on that path. In fact, several of the Executive Orders rescinded by President Trump this week blatantly disregard both the strategy and the path.

So keep praying…but don’t pray the Dream in pursuit of false peace, which cries for unity while decrying inclusive and equitable policies and practices.

Pray the Dream in tandem with work for true peace, which, as my father said, is the presence of justice.

#MLK #MLKDay #MissionPossibleMLK

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Bin Laden wasn’t a tragic antihero who grew up under the boot of occupation. He was the son of billionaire developers from a powerful clan and grew up globetrotting only to found a murderous organization that destroyed Muslim lives from Morocco to Indonesia. That’s the “context.”

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

For every super Zionist Jewish friend I’ve lost and every scholar who won’t allow nuance in the conversation about Israel and Gaza I’ve gained a Palestinian or israel critical Jewish friend. Solidarity ❤️

[Rebecca Katona @ShaBecca]

This whole thread….

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Time for bed and I've wasted a day arguing with seemingly every useless, part-of-the-problem, I-know-half-of-this-story shitmonger on this hellscape of a platform, and by that I mean every mook who thinks you can rationalize the barbarism of Hamas, or every scrote who thinks...

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Time for bed and I've wasted a day arguing with seemingly every useless, part-of-the-problem, I-know-half-of-this-story shitmonger on this hellscape of a platform, and by that I mean every mook who thinks you can rationalize the barbarism of Hamas, or every scrote who thinks...

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

Jews are in danger all over the world and .2% of the world population isn’t the 2nd most powerful anything. Islamophobia & antisemitism are rising worldwide. I would love to just focus on Palestinians but bigotry won’t let me

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

Can the people justifying the violence in Gaza at least condemn the heightened settler violence?? Like surely none of you can claim that’s about Hamas or anything other than stealing more land

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

This should not be happening and it is inexcusable.

We can be a part of multiple just, humane things simultaneously.

If we are committed to true peace, that must also include defeating antisemitism, which is a devastating blight against humanity.

#Cornell #TakeCare

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

Many of those killed in the Hamas massacre were not white and we don’t know the final death toll yet. Every life lost in this war is a tragedy. The Israelis & foreigners killed by Hamas and the Palestinians killed by Israel

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

Erasing the victims of the Hamas massacre will not help Palestinian liberation. The justification for Israel’s actions is that Jews aren’t safe anywhere else. I’m begging people to see their antisemitism supports Netanyahu. Prove Jews are safe & Netanyahu is wrong

[Rebecca Katona @ShaBecca]

Your biggest fan ⁦@Preston⁩ ready to be you for Halloween!

[Rebecca Katona @ShaBecca]

Thank you @cmclymer for so clearly stating what's been pinging around in my mind and heart.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

In the past 72 hours, it’s been incredibly disturbing to watch the attempted justification or rationalization for the terrorist group Hamas brutally murdering more than 900 people in Israel and taking 150 hostage in a coordinated attack that targeted civilians.

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[Rebecca Katona @ShaBecca]

⁦@Preston⁩ ⁦@BriArsement⁩ your number one fan Calvin from DC is so excited to come see you tomorrow!!!

[Jason Selvig @jasonselvig]

Republicans pointing their little guns to the sky at a balloon that’s 66,000 feet in the air is very funny to me. Great job, guys.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

We have to abolish police. I don’t know what more people need to see to understand. We can have mental health units, car crash response units, rely more on tech for traffic safety… We have to begin the process of removing armed police from the streets

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We don't know for sure what new 2023 will bring us. I want to wish all of us one thing – victory. And that's the main thing.

Glory to Ukraine!
Happy New Year!
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