Marjane Satrapi is the woman who looked at the absolute ruins of war and the suffocating weight of tyranny, yet chose to draw it with the tender, aching ink of a child’s memory. She didn't write Persepolis to state political facts;
It’s always baffled me that I have never seen anyone, left or right, use a different photo of this guy. I thought it was just the only decent picture that’s publicly available but no there’s a bunch of others
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.
NEW: Louisiana has the nation's highest share of residents living in poverty & the nation's highest incarceration rate
Now the state wants to subject unhoused people to fines, jail time, or unpaid labor if they are found sleeping outdoors.
FULL STORY: https://t.co/tpX5fjm8oT
This is *insane.* Even if you are too tired to follow the news you have to understand this. The Louisiana governor has *suspended an active congressional election with 42k votes already cast* — it's insane.
Louisiana just canceled our elections. I am speechless. Early voting was 2 days away. All of this is happening because our governor, Jeff Landry, is still angry that the ENTIRE STATE rose up against him and voted against him trying to REWRITE our constitution in weeks last year
My entire college experience was truly about meeting ppl with leftist politics who loved the idea of class struggle as an aesthetic but were horrified to learn my dad had a ninth grade education and I was in the same class as them