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The level of sexual aggression I witnessed while living in India for several years was unlike anywhere else I have ever been. Once a total stranger, a British woman, asked to sleep in my bed and pretend to be my girlfriend on a train ride because a man walking by in the hall had…
a travelvlog couple trying to visit every country in the world decided to go to India as their latest destination.
11 hours ago they announced they were at the hospital because he had been beaten up and she had been gang raped by 7 men.
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"Defaming whole country?" I literally wrote, "I love India. It is and always will be one of my favorite places in the world" and she accuses me of defaming India for addressing the plight of women in the country.
I also wrote, after someone who read my post made nasty remarks…
Did you ever report the incident to Police? If not than you are totally an irresponsible person. Writing only on social media and defaming whole country is not good choice.
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@Western_Trad
Well for one thing France doesn’t rape foreign lands quite like it did under Napoleon III. All that marble ain’t cheap.
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@nytimes
"Listen, we can't let you guys go after Russia for war crimes cause that might set a really bad precedent."
What precedent?
"Of going after countries for war crimes."
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My Indian brothers and sisters, I have written about some of the factors that create the problems that women in India face regarding rape and other forms of sexual abuse. I have mentioned honor killings, which makes women reluctant to come forward, and I have mentioned shaming…
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We all know
@sharmarekha
has a history of blaming rape victims. Now she attacks me for speaking out on their behalf. They should rename
@NCWIndia
the National Commission for Rapists. Thanks to
@SoumashreeS
for reporting.
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For
@thenation
, I wrote about the genocide in Tigray—where Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have killed up to 500k civilians—and why it’s being ignored.
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@ShadayaKnight
The idea that it is emasculating to walk on the beach with your wife, holding and kissing your baby, is itself the most emasculated nonsense. Personally, time with my love, kissing my baby girl, loving and caring for both, is peak manhood.
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Here’s another story. In August 2023 a minor who gave birth after being gang raped in Rajasthan was raped again at the hospital.
Raped again at the hospital.
I have dozens and dozens of stories like this. Too many to list. Meanwhile
@sharmarekha
victim-blames the women then…
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Except Shatner won’t be the first Star Trek actor to actually go to space. That honor belongs to Mae Jemison, who also the first black woman to do so. She was a mission specialist on the Endeavour in 1992, and appeared in TNG episode “Second Chances,” directed by LeVar Burton.
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Biggest ongoing conflicts - deaths
Afghanistan - 2 million
Tigray - 500k
Yemen - 380k
Myanmar - 200k
Ukraine - 25k
Now ask yourself which one you know the least about and go learn.
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Painful to watch
@piersmorgan
shout over
@AyoCaesar
, put words in her mouth, toss out a red herring and then full-body tackle a straw man.
In an extremely fiery debate, we discuss the thousands of people who are expected to protest against President Trump...
@piersmorgan
@susannareid100
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#TigrayGenocide
protesters have reportedly shut down traffic on the George Mason Memorial Bridge in DC. Amazing how long this community has patiently and peacefully protested. Please share to help make sure their voices are heard.
#DC
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@lhkuroda
The Frances Gage version we know not only gives her fake Southern slave diction for minstrel effect, it adds things like claiming she could take a whipping as well as any man or that she had 13 kids instead of five. Gage later said Truth spoke before an angry mob, another lie.
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My profile pic is a Tigrayan from Hawzien with a coptic cross tattoo. Photo by Trevor Cole (IG: trevcole).
Tigrayans speak Tigrinya and live in north Ethiopia. Most are Orthodox Tewahedo Church members. There are 7 million—4th largest ethnicity in Africa’s 2nd largest nation.
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I initially found Trump's remarks offensive. But Phoenix TV's chief is a CCP puppet. Worse, she claims HK for credibility but after the HK bookseller abductions, Phoenix aired the struggle sessions. That makes her an enemy of Hong Kong and its people.
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@lhkuroda
Reminds me of Frederick Douglass, who was so well-spoken folks didn't believe he'd been a slave, a racist catch-22 whereby slaves were considered either too dumb to be citizens or too smart to have actually been real slaves.
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“When this ends...” mural in front of Parque Kennedy in Lima. Each line begins “I want...” One asks for the end of the dictatorship in Venezuela.
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An Indian rape victim wrote to me describing her life in Indian society. One thing she said really stood out.
"The same men who are mad at you for speaking up against rape, if they were mad at the rapists like that then all of us would've gotten the justice we deserved."
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@drboycewatkins1
Pretty sure zero ladies out there look at Jonathan Majors and think “defeated and weak.”
Or, for that matter, at an Ebony magazine cover and think “Hollywood.”
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I spoke to
@DrTedros
this weekend and other Tigrayans about the situation in Ethiopia to better understand his position and what's happening in the Tigray region. Words can hardly describe the suffering there.
So
@DrTedros
says the world cares more about Ukraine than Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria—bc racism.
But the US gives more to those four than any other. Ethiopia is the top recipient! Ukraine, not even top 7. And 8x more refugees from Africa v Europe.
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@benonwine
1. The leopard was old.
2. She wasn't poaching. She dropped $40k to get all the permits and do this by the book.
3. She wasn't bragging. She didn't post this on instagram, she submitted the photo to Safari Club International's private server. An activist posted it.
4.…
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Hi
@elonmusk
, congrats on Twitter. Personally, I think SpaceX sending internet to Ukraine was even more impressive. There are 7 million people cut off in Tigray. Reconnecting them with humanity, you’d deserve a Nobel.
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After Ethiopia's federal government cut its own Tigrayan people off and starved them out for more than a year now Eritrea, author of some of the worst atrocities in this war, is apparently sending its entire army to finish the job. Stand strong, Tigray.
Eritrean forces have launched full scale offensive in all fronts today-all the way from Tekeze through to Irob. Heavy fighting in May Kuhli, Zban Gedena, AdiAwala, Rama, Tserona and Zalambessa. AbiyAhmed’s Eastern command, significant elements of Northwestern command and three
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Today I want to write about wartime rape in the two greatest ongoing wars: Ukraine and Ethiopia. You may be thinking, Ethiopia? Ukraine has the direct involvement of a major power, risk of nuclear conflict, global economic impact, echoes of WWII and is in Europe. So why Ethiopia?
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Tigrayan women are among the most persecuted people in the world right now yet here they are celebrating Ashenda this past weekend with bright, happy hearts and unbreakable spirits. Here's to you, women of Tigray, every one of you, the brightest light in the darkest night.
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To all my new Tigrayan followers,
ሰላም; ፅቡቅ ሌላ ይግበረልና
እንኳዕ ብደሓን መፃእኹም
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Tigray's healthcare system, serving over 7m people, is in ruins. A study out today by
@ProfMulugeta
finds only 4% of facilities are fully functional in the west, 4% in the SE, 7% in NW...and this data is as of June 2021—BEFORE the siege.
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I just finished an interview series with a Tigrayan gang-rape victim who now lives in a metal shipping container in Sudan. Khartoum was 100°F today, the lowest it's been all week. Imagine how much hotter it is inside a metal box. Just you, the boiling heat and burning memories.
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Tigray is one of the world’s worst ongoing armed conflicts but unlike Ukraine or others, largely unknown, and we should know, and
@elonmusk
, who wants Twitter to be a source of info, can get 50k eyes or more on Tigray with a single tweet, so let me just say, hi Elon.
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The main hospital in Tigray, where the Ethiopian govt is starving the people, ran out of food last week and sent home 240 patients incl babies and a 14-yo boy with HIV. “The families said, pray for us, instead of dying here let’s go home and die there."
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if kidnapping children and gang raping women is your fight against oppression then you should be oppressed forever
solidarity with people fighting oppression anywhere on the planet.
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I hope members of the Tigrayan community take care of their mental health as best they can, as this invisible genocide continues. This is something Tigrayans have kindly told me to do while reporting on atrocities, and fellow journalists regarding my work with Ukrainian refugees.
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@Koreaboo
You have to REALLY squint to see what might be offensive here. Turns out, it's the harmless, respectful line about "the sacrifices of countless men and women." China, like some drunk at the end of the bar, is shouting, "you didn't mention OUR sacrifice, which was BIGGER!"
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@WSJ
We could have saved so many lives had we acted faster. But we have a president who denied it, called it a hoax, said it was “totally under control,” that it would disappear before summer—all while privately telling Bob Woodward coronavirus is “deadly stuff.”
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In Geneva we had a very special doctor’s visit with one of my favorite Tigrayans —
@DrTedros
, whose grandpa skills came in handy when he was able to instantly calm my daughter.
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Police recorded 31,516 rape cases in India in 2022, a 20% increase from 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
That's terrifying. But do you really think there were less than 32,000 rapes in a nation of 1.4 billion?
To put that in perspective, there were 140,902…
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Powerful words from Abune Isaias, the Ethiopian Orthodox patriarch of Mekelle:
“They believe Tigrayans should be exterminated. They saying, 'it is their land we want. It is their heritage we want.' They want the land. They want the heritage. But they don’t want the people."
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One Tigrayan woman says she was gang raped by Eritrean and Ethiopian troops while pregnant, another was raped until she could not walk (she had to crawl away), another and her 89-yo grandmother were raped, so many rape cases it's beyond medical capacity.
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@realPhoenixFire
Aside from every other part of that claim being false, it’s also interesting to note that China did in fact trade African slaves.
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The Time 100 came out last week, in which
@arynebaker
describes how Nobel Peace Prize winner and Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed went from inspiring hope to waging a genocidal war against his people in Tigray.
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Good morning, the biggest story in Africa remains Ethiopia where the gov't and Eritrea continue their genocidal campaign against the people of Tigray and 13 million are now desperately in need of aid, meanwhile 22 million across the Horn of Africa are at risk of starvation.
Satellite images show a rare glimpse into resurgence of fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region
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Disappointed to see Biden watching sports with the genocidal Abiy like two pals. Even if unintentional, avoidable.
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You have my support—how about using it as a lifeline for the 7 million people of Tigray?
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Hey
@elonmusk
, Ethiopia’s Tigray region of 7 million people remains cut off from the outside world. Excellent candidate for StarLink, no?
Petition for Free Satellite (StarLink) Internet for Tigray Region of Ethiopia - Sign the Petition! via
@ChangeOrg_India
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@AdityaRajKaul
@TajinderBagga
@MOFA_Taiwan
Glad to see this. Beijing telling Indian media what to do was pathetic and offensive, dangling access in exchange for compliance.
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The UN voted to extend its monitoring mission in Ethiopia, where it believes war crimes may have taken place in Tigray.
This is great news, but the vote also reveals something disturbing about African politics and when we choose to intervene generally.
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Perhaps the greatest writers in modern Ethiopian history are Haddis Alemayehu, known for his 1968 masterpiece Love to the Grave, and Baalu Girma, known for his 1983 work Oromay. But my personal favorite is the Ethiopian Dante—Tigrayan writer Sebhat Gebre-egziabher.
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“This is one of the … worst sieges of modern history,”
@DrTedros
told me. “There are 7m people sealed off from the outside world for 18 months now. I haven’t spoken to my relatives bc telecoms are cut off. They are starving. But I can’t send money because banks are closed.”
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"The blockade is a war crime" that deprives Tigrayans of essentials for survival and thus not a bargaining chip for holding talks, TPLF head Debretsion writes in a letter to
@Macky_Sall
,
@UhuruKE
,
@CyrilRamaphosa
,
@antonioguterres
,
@SecBlinken
,
@AUC_MoussaFaki
and others.
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Thread on how Trump—who put us all in peril by ignoring Covid—predictably got sick himself, exposed military families, then shit on those families by suggesting it was THEIR fault.
According to Meadows, Trump tested positive for Covid on 9/26. On 9/27 he held event w/military families. Here’s what the Post said about it: “At Trump’s insistence, few were wearing masks…He wasn’t worried about others getting sick, but he did fret about his own vulnerability”
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@missmayn
It’s amazing how many people think “diamond” means “mined” instead of cubic crystal carbon.
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Given the unbelievable outpouring of support for my recent remarks on rape and sexual assault in India, I have written down some further thoughts on the matter.
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Seven men raped his wife and the cops gave him $12,000. I’m sorry but no. On so many levels no.
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Mos Def in a shirt from his 2019 Brooklyn Museum exhibit Negus, which means “ruler” in Ge`ez, an ancient Ethiopian language most closely tied to Tigrinya, the language of Tigray, whose people I deeply admire as they fight for their freedom. Happy holidays to my Tigrayan friends.
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Introducing our new UN ambassador Kelly "both sides of the science" Craft. Trump again hires an incompetent filler for a post he doesn't really respect/understand. But her husband is a coal baron and the two give generously to the GOP so shut up.
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@lhkuroda
Another similarity is how white abolitionists handled Truth and Douglass, controlling the narrative, even their diction, in fact Douglass was limited in what he could say in speeches—no talk of modern slavery, just stuff about his past—which is largely why he wrote his book.
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64% of Americans are unaware the CCP is responsible for more deaths than Nazi Germany.
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Hello to the thousands of followers I have gained since yesterday. Allow me to introduce myself.
I am of Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian-Polish descent. I am also of Bahamian descent. As we say in the islands, I'm a potcake. A mutt. I'm also a proud Southerner, a proud father, a…
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Ethiopia continues to restrict access to Tigray as its genocidal campaign grinds on.
Paula Gil, President of
@MSF
Spain tried to visit Ethiopia’s Tigray region in recent days to meet the grieving families of colleagues killed last year. She was not granted permission from the authorities to visit them and was unable to meet any representatives from the government
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Good news, folks. Russia has welcomed the Biden admin’s offer to extend the New START nuclear arms control treaty, set to expire next month.
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Abiy supporters want Tigrayans to stop complaining because there's a peace deal but the reality on the ground is, the suffering continues as food aid workers still lack full access—and remember, food denial was always central to Abiy's genocidal siege.
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Never fails to somehow manage the worst possible take even when the issue is as simple as these things ever get.
This is the moment when US journalists really get to shine. They put on their toughest war rhetoric. Tell Americans about the virtues of sacrifice. And summon the courage to all unite to denounce Putin and assure everyone all the blame lies with him and him alone. It's inspiring.
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The Tigray genocide has been ongoing for 1.7 years and so far Russia, China and India have said MYOB, Canada asked for "restraint," Norway is "deeply concerned," the UK and UN urged peace, but other than a US slap on the wrist...nothing.
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Symptoms include fever, fatigue and a dry cough in most cases, shortness of breath for some.
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The US condemned the atrocities as ethnic cleansing and imposed sanctions on Ethiopian and Eritrean officials. But little has changed for Tigrayans since, who are enduring one of the greatest humanitarian crises in the world with up to 500,000 killed.
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In addition to using hunger as a weapon of war, there have been multiple massacres, systematic rape, and efforts to shatter the Tigrayan economy. They are now completely cut off from the global community and plunged into darkness.
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Ethiopia refused the UN investigation team access to Tigray so instead this delegation of special envoys went and issued a statement politely asking for immediate access, meanwhile the govt's genocidal campaign in the region continues uninterrupted.
The
@EUinEthiopia
& U.S. Special Envoys for the Horn of Africa H.E. Annette Weber & H.E. Mike Hammer traveled on their first joint mission to Mekelle, Tigray to encourage the launch of talks between the FGoE and the TPLF under
@_AfricanUnion
auspices.
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Similarly, the food crisis, not just in Tigray or Ethiopia but the entire Horn of Africa, was already bad enough to demand global attention long before President Abiy began using genodical famine tactics.
Yet here we are. And they're still waiting.
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@pawelwargan
It’s a U.S. military port to speed up aid to Gaza, you chucklehead. But you’re right, aaargh evil aaaah!
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An air strike in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, killed at least four including two children.
The Ethiopian gov't then warned Tigrayans to avoid military targets. Meanwhile the head of the local Ayder Hospital said the strike hit a children's playground.
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Gregory Stanton of
@genocide_watch
has famously noted 10 stages of genocide. The 8th stage, right before extermination and denial, is persecution, which involves forced displacement and concentration camps.
Thousands of Tigrayans have been detained without trial as Ethiopia’s government battles an insurgency, Reuters finds. Ethiopia’s government and police insist they only target suspected supporters of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front
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This story about Tigrayans in Westbrook, Maine, and the loved ones they mourn but cannot reach shows no matter how far away they are, Tigrayans are never fully safe from the horrors of ongoing violence back home.
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If you think the Ghost of Kyiv is gangster af this is Kyiv's mayor saying he and his brother are going into battle.
For over a decade, the Klitschko brothers dominated heavyweight boxing so hard folks called it the "Klitschko era." He's still the longest-ever heavyweight champ.
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, plans to take up arms to defend against Russia's invasion along with his brother, Wladimir.
More:
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Sounds like "infantruppen" — infantry + German "truppen" (troops). Next he'll congratulate our fine Luftwaffe.
.... goodness gracious, what did Trump just try to say here? "Infantroopen"?
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Nor should we forget the Central American migrant caravans can be traced directly back to US support of death squads under Reagan.
During the trial of a man charged with aiding undocumented migrants, the prosecutor accused him of doing almost verbatim what the Bible calls on Christians to do
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One reason the conflict isn’t getting the same attention as Ukraine is simply racism,
@DrTedros
said last month. “I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way. Some are more equal than others.”
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Except Clinton met Kim in 2009, its first nuclear test was in 2006 during Bush's presidency and its nuclear weapon program started in 1956.
That moment when North Korea was unleashed to start its nuclear weapon program.
#ThankYouRapistBill
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wife takes me for drinks and we are chatting up the bartender when my lenin column comes up, bartender has read it and i say most critics told me the column was bad bc no one respects lenin—bartender leans in, says he is communist, loves lenin and then we are asked to leave
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My grandfather was a traumatized prisoner of a horrible concentration camp who also broke free.
But he didn’t rape any girls, slaughter any families or burn any babies. Because he was not evil. Your argument is repulsive.
I find nothing less morally or philosophically interesting than pontificating on how the traumatized prisoners of a horrible concentration camp should have conducted themselves once they broke free of its confines. As far as I'm concerned everything that happened on that day was…
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Per capita COVID deaths, cause:
1. Peru, healthcare system
2. Belgium, counting method
3. Andorra, access to aid
4. Spain, denial
5. Bolivia, political infighting
6. Brazil, denial
7. Chile, premature reopening
8. Ecuador, denial
9. Mexico, denial
10. US, denial
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Excellent piece by
@AgnesCallamard
and
@KenRoth
about the Tigray genocide, stressing the need for access by aid orgs and AU-led peacekeeping forces, calling on African Union and UN security councils to take action, and for US and EU to investigate abuses.
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Hello to the thousands of followers I have gained since yesterday. Allow me to introduce myself.
I am of Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian-Polish descent. I am also of Bahamian descent. As we say in the islands, I'm a potcake. A mutt. I'm also a proud Southerner, a proud father, a…
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"Such an injustice has never been seen before in Tigray. Even now, may God say to us, 'let this be enough!' The leaders of the world should continue their efforts with Ethiopia, with Tigray. They have to save this country. Tigrayans are being strangled by the throat."
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@AG_knocks
@sharmarekha
In 2022 police in Kolkata, the seventh-largest city in the country, registered 25 cases of sexual harassment.
Is this because Kolkata has somehow found a magical formula for curing the problem?
No, it's because the vast majority of cases go unreported because victims often feel…
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And the result was literal genocide.
23. In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.
Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up, and did not ban the prime minister.
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Nothing to see here, just the GOP treating thousands of brown children like political pawns—live or die, whatever helps Trump.
After the second presidential debate, the Trump admin. admitted they’re in possession of contact information which would facilitate reunification of children and parents ripped apart by Trump’s zero tolerance family separation policy. They’re confessing they are monsters.
#Maddow
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Plus the language barrier. “It’s been super difficult to share Tigrayan stories, bc few speak the language,” says
@asmelashteka
, creator of . “It takes months until big media outlets pick up news of massacres or rape and give them attention, if any at all.”
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Heartbreaking and infuriating to see the UN Women representative for Ethiopia dismissing rape accounts by women in Ethiopia.
.
@unwomenethiopia
under the leadership of
@ChiwaraLetty
said “The sexual violence that was happening in
#Tigray
was a media sensation” UN Women didn’t take an action, rather she became the rep in Malawi.
UN Women doesn’t have a moral clarity to post this
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@RichardHanania
@KeithOlbermann
@DrewPavlou
You have a point about elites but you dodged the point about your math. The correct answer is 0.2% not 40%. If you miscalculated the population of Haiti by the same factor then you would think it has more people than China.
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