@PopHemingway ... I hear the screen door with the spring on it swapping shut behind me coming into the kitchen. The smell of fresh bread just out of the oven.
... Percolator coffee pot perking away, my grandfather at the kitchen table reading the morning newspaper, and grandmom smiles ๐ฅฐ
@atrupar Now he wants 47 trees in Lafayette Square - all Maple - his favorite tree
~ does this mean he'll cut down the Bald Cypress about 185 years old? There are fossilized stump of the same @ 17th & M to the late Pleistocene and the Walker Interglacial?
https://t.co/jtUWaPSjfu
After years of being banned from entering a stadium in my own country, for no crime other than being a woman, this is how I walked in.
This was the World Cup FIFA 2026 between England and Panama but for me, it was beyond that.
You have to be a woman from Iran or Afghanistan to truly understand this emotion.
For whom this simple act, walking into a stadium, moving with joy, showing my hair, sitting next to men, was not just forbidden. I was beaten for it. Imprisoned for it. Humiliated for it. Exiled for it. And even in exile, I became a target for multiple assassination plots.
And now people lecture me: "Don't politicize football."
I have a question: which part of my body hasn't already been politicized by the Islamic Republic? My hair? My voice? My seat in a stadium?
They turned our entire existence into a political battlefield. Every inch of a woman was a crime scene under their law.
And now I'm supposed to just sit back, eat a hot dog, and enjoy the game?
I did enjoy the game. England won. But walking through those gates, that was the real victory.
@GBC_Press It's said of the rainbow that it's god's promise to not destroy the Earth by water again.
The next time is said to be by fire
Also, lemme go look up Nostradamus' prophecy again about all'a this