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StillIRise1963

@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world

Interested in politics, race, culture, class and language. African American. Mother of twins. Former Entrepreneur, Editor, Translator, Proofreader, College Advisor for NYC educational nonprofit. Caretaker of elderly parents. Work in College Admissions and as EF Coach. Atheist. Cannabis user. Traveler. Lived in Spain for years, miss it. Occasional foul mouth. Avatar is a pic of my great grandmother, background is a blue and white antique Arabic mosaic roof tile from Andalucia. #nobridge

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StillIRise1963, to random
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I was just reading about Russian soldiers raping men and women captives. wtf humanity.

AGT,
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@StillIRise1963 We should arm Ukraine to the hilt. The west has been too slow, and Putin needs to learn his pathetic attempt at rebuilding the Soviet Union will never succeed.
The Russian army are a bunch of drunken thugs lead by a mafioso hiding behind a desk in Moscow.

kimlockhartga,
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@StillIRise1963 It seems significant that during WWII people drowned themselves rather than being captured by the Russians.

SailorDisco,
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@AGT @StillIRise1963 We should have gone in united with our allies and pushed Russia out of Ukraine from the start then immediately let them and any former Soviet country that wants to into the UN. Instead we’re doing the bare minimum to help Ukraine and allowing arms manufacturers to profit by stringing this war out.

TCatInReality,
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@AGT @StillIRise1963
We shouldn't just arm Ukraine, NATO should defend the civilian airspace and waterways, away from the front line so Ukraine can focus on fighting.

NATO technical teams should be at every major dam and power plant helping ensure these key civilian infrastructures are not targeted.

annietime,
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@AGT @StillIRise1963 😡 the opportunity was in that first year! Ukraine came strong, determined, but the weapons they were asking for were either too slow to arrive or denied. Opportunities missed! Now Ukraine is depleted and Russia has had time to get strong. Wtf. Stealing children, rape, terror, torture, total destruction. This isn’t a fight to a stalemate, NATO countries need to buckle up and commit to WINNING.

kalfatermann,
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@StillIRise1963

But we're sticking with it! With heart, good will and education, we will build a road that leads to a better future, at least for the children of the future. And that is why despots like Trump, Putin, Musk and all the other piles of dung must not win. Even if we cannot always stop them, they may despair at the resistance of decent people.

kalfatermann,
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@StillIRise1963

Exactly, we won't allow it!

annietime,
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@AGT @StillIRise1963 Russia doesn’t have a problem with strikes beyond Ukraine.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/europe-on-high-alert-after-suspected-moscow-linked-arson-and-sabotage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

lin11c,
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@SailorDisco @AGT @StillIRise1963
YES! And we were obligated to as we forced them to give up all their weapons giving them an assurance that we would protect them.

GottaLaff, to random
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This will further endear him to his racist cult followers.

Via Norm Eisen:

: Slate reporting there is another tape like Access Hollywood—but this time is using the N-word!

Per The Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, in 2004 Trump asked of contestant Kwame Jackson, “would America buy a n—winning?” https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

GottaLaff, to louisiana
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law criminalizes approaching police under certain circumstances

Critics fear law could stop bystanders from holding police accountable by preventing them from filming officers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/louisiana-police-law

kalfatermann, to ukteachers German
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[Quote:] @StillIRise1963 "It’s too late for us, BUT IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR OUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS. Fight for them."

https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/112530245647886081

Further thoughts:

kalfatermann,
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@StillIRise1963

I may no longer be able to make much of a difference in my life, but today I was able to learn again what I had forgotten.

It is important to fight for those who are not yet able to, unless they are too young or not even born yet.

We all have some problems in life, and so it is very easy to focus only on them and forget that we are part of a community.

President Barack Obama had a slogan:

“Yes We Can”!

🌻 Thanks for reminding me of this too! 🌻

StillIRise1963, to random
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When you help people in a half-assed way, you don’t really want to help them. You just want to say you did.

ikuo1000,
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@StillIRise1963 Yeeeeessss!!! I say this to my kids - and my husband! - all the time. If you do something half-assed and grumbling, you don't get credit for doing it. I'd rather you NOT do it at all than spoil / ruin whatever it is.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I want to partake in other cultures, learn and understand. I don’t want to impose mine. Why not just stay home if you want to do that.

JimRI,

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  • Mark Twain
StillIRise1963, to random
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"Texas delegates voted on a 2024 platform at the state’s GOP Convention on Saturday and aim to tally the votes by Wednesday to finalize their platform for the coming year. The proposal called for new legislation to solidify fetal personhood ideology into law, define abortion care as homicide and criminalize in vitro fertilization, first reported by feminist writer Jessica Valenti.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-gop-appears-to-put-death-penalty-for-abortion-patients-on-2024-wish-list_n_665765b4e4b05212274abd0b

philip_cardella,
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@Jonathanglick @StillIRise1963 while I absolutely agree there should be I will be that guy and remind folks that there are millions of people suffering in those states that did not vote fascist and did vote for Dems.

I'm in Florida. We have more people who voted Democrat than most states have people.

But there absolutely should be targeted boycotts. Florida fascists destroyed most of the economy that's not tourism. Boycott the tourism maybe one industry at a time. As a suggestion.

Jonathanglick,
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@StillIRise1963 It is astonishing to me that there's still no progressive plan to boycott fascist states.

philip_cardella,
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@Jonathanglick @StillIRise1963 frankly, the cruise ship industry is one of the biggest threats to the environment. And it's essential to the economy here.

Boycott that. And absolutely no conferences here.

YouGiveMeFever, to random
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Women and their physicians may face the death penalty for abortions under a proposed Texas Republican bill. THIS COULD HAPPEN THROUGHOUT AMERICA IF THE GOP ARE ELECTED IN NOVEMBER‼️

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-gop-appears-to-put-death-penalty-for-abortion-patients-on-2024-wish-list_n_665765b4e4b05212274abd0b

randahl, to random
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“I want children. I want a house. I want to plant tomatoes... but the most important thing is to end the war.”

These were the words of Ukrainian medic Iryna Tsybukh.

Yesterday she was killed on the Kharkiv front.

Source: Ukrainian Medical Volunteer Battalion.

dangillmor, to random
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"In Beltway journalism, as in all the other major redoubts of American power, the prime directive isn’t to report the truth without fear or favor; it’s to seek plausible deniability at all costs—even three years after you’ve blown a story your readers needed to know about in the immediate aftermath of a right-wing coup attempt."

The Nation pounds -- with, ahem, justice -- the Washington Post's journalistic malpractice in the Alito flag corruption.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alito-flag-washington-post/

StillIRise1963, to random
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WaPo has NO ETHICS. Keep that in mind when you pay them.

TomSwirly,
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@StillIRise1963 And if you don't want to pay them, https://archive.is is your friend.

I also use this for the New York Times - thanks for the Iraq War, "Grey Lady".

drcaberry, to random
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I have 3 book events in June! Come Through people!!! Number 2 is at Indianapolis Public Library cblc.indypl.org on 6/15/24 Indianapolis Public Library @rebellion_reads NoireSTEMinist.com/childrensbooks
https://CarlottaArdell.com

peterjriley2024, to random
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Friday 31st May 2024

Kinsale – 6.30pm, Solidarity Sounds, Hamlets
Dublin – 1.30pm-3pm, ‘Boycott AXA’, AXA HQ, Wolfe Tone Square
Sallins – 7.30am, M7 Motorway Bridge
Kildare – 7.30am, Aldi Bridge
Newbridge – 7.30am, Ballymany Bridge
Dingle – 6pm, The Old Boatyard
Bantry – 1.30pm, March, The Square
Bantry – 5.30pm, The Square
Cobh – 3.30pm, Belvelly Bridge
Mahon – 3pm, Mahon Bridge
Ballincollig – 4.30pm, Ballincollig Bypass
Wexford – 12.30pm – 2pm, Info Stall, The Bullring

charlotteclymer, to random
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"Political reporters have given Nikki Haley pass after pass after pass all these years. She lies and misleads and obfuscates and flip-flops, and still, they do it... Why? Because she’s nice to them at cocktail parties, and they need access from a Republican with her influence. Lucy and Charlie Brown. Every time. Without fail."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-ballad-of-lucy-and-charlie-brown

guncelawits,
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@Blinxeto @charlotteclymer @StillIRise1963 Yes and, “Dear American billionaires, all your wealth is Trump’s wealth the moment he wins. Enjoy your polonium.”

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