Tammaye

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

When I first learned the details of the school bombing in Minab, I thought right away about an American tragedy that was both very different and yet in a few ways eerily similar. On a weekend morning in September 1963, children walked into a Birmingham church to learn about the Bible, and also had their innocent world rocked by an explosion that came from nowhere. The four schoolgirls who died in the 16th Street Baptist Church - Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley - were children of God, and so were Salma Zakeri, Fatemeh Taherifard, Zahra Ansari, and Fatemeh Fadavi. We as American taxpayers are paying a staggering $1 billion every day for the bombs that are being dropped on Minab, Qeshm Island, and Tehran. Soon, the Trump regime will come to Congress begging for mor dollars so that someone can sit at their game console and target more Iranians. We must urge our representatives to stop this insanity, right now. Not one more dime for these war crimes. After that 1963 Sunday school bombing, an Atlanta newsman named Eugene Patterson won a Pulitzer Prize for his column that urged a sick society to look not just at the rabid Klansmen who triggered the bomb, but deeper inside itself. "We know better," wrote Patterson, in words that should be heard 63 years later by anyone who thinks a robot murdered those little kids in Minab. "We created the day. We bear the judgment."

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Like clock work. Whenever Republicans run the government, they trash the economy for working people. Prices go up. 10 of the last 11 recessions were under Republican Presidents.

Good for the mega corporations and billionaires, bad for everyone else.

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., 1991

Looking forward to you live posting 😂

You’re killing me Smalls. I lived in my beloved MPLS for 6 of the best years ever and Chicago is the funnest city enjoy!! Can you take the train?

halloumi pursue me 💪🏽

had not - thanks again 🥰

Sun’s still up and I’m annoyed

This is the way! Let’s do it everywhere!

Split the difference has been my stance yeah BC!

Thank you for this! 😘

thanks!

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

but then what to do with all the war machinery? think of the defense contractor shareholder class won’t you?

that eshuru thread is an eye-opener

between this and the media takeovers it seems like the tycoons of the 20th century are gleefully seizing the dying business models of that century - congrats i guess

‘My idols are dead and my enemies are in power’ over a woman’s hand holding a cigarette in front of dejected pose of knees touching and calves splayed out as if in sitting on a curb late at night with regrets

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I see the same for other real life pursuits like local live music, restaurants, parks, and other third spaces of community

It's also a classical journey through the warped mind of a bully- they really thought because they hit first and hard the other side was gonna curl into a ball and beg for it to just end because that is their response to being punched every time

Did you drive one?

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

One of my faves as well - not because I’m any expert on sports cars they’re just cool!

*Ioniq 🥴

I got my Ionic 5 the day after the US bombed Iran last summer. It’s as fun to drive as everyone says!

[Exit Murderer.]

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Funny what we have no problem affording