#girlemployee

Trying to win stuff.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@GameChangerSam Katie Marovitch stopping by the sexy car wash before dropping off valentines at the twin's school

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine. Children are starving.

Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza and put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.

Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

The end of humanity as we know it. The death of humanitarianism as we know it. Israel is committing genocide and the international community allows this to happen. Gaza is being forcibly starved by Israel and the international community allows this to happen.

[MSF International @MSF]

Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them.

Israeli forces are systematically destroying Palestinian life and showing a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical workers:

https://t.co/aZj5YcgudI

[ally @missmayn]

i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.

daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.

[Colleen Grablick @colleengrablick]

It Happened To Me: I Thought I Was Too Cool To Care About The Eclipse Last Week But In Doing So I Denied A Fundamental Truth About Myself (Loving Being A Part Of Things) And Now It's Today And I Don't Have Glasses

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

On March 7th, President Biden announced plans for the US military to build a temporary pier on the coast of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea in order to help deliver humanitarian aid.

Today the US also issued a joint statement with the European Commission, the Republic of Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom announcing the activation of a "maritime corridor" to support humanitarian assistance.

Our statement from @avrilbenoit:

""The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege.

The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies.

This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem.

Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist."
https://t.co/gVPgb2X9L6

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

This is unbelievable. The maternal mortality rate for millennials aged 25 to 34 is 230% higher than it was for Gen Xers and 300% higher than it was for baby boomers of the same age

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@fernetadette I see new daddy got this baby some shoes

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@calebsaysthings It's messyyyy: https://t.co/wD3TcCZQq6

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@glennsrowley @jonasbrothers @TODAYshow @nickjonas Okay your interviewees have been 🔥 lately

[Cardi B @iamcardib]

I’m not as mean as I could be and I want people to be more grateful for that.

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@jpence19 @KamianCoppins You need the bananas to stop the diarrhea!! (help.)

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@sbstryker

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

@glennsrowley @RecordingAcad Say hi to Bey for me

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

This is just so incredibly important to understanding the world right now

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: The NY Times reveals that low-wage restaurant workers have been unknowingly funding the industry's powerful lobbying arm, the National Restaurant Association, as it worked to kill minimum wage increases around the country.

Here's how the scheme works:

[#girlemployee @sunshine_mint]

Every Provo couple

[Chris Girard @chris_girard13]

Pete Davidson walked so I could run🥹💍