Yes USAID workers would like a word
Yes USAID workers would like a word
All the posters to Charlie Kirk around Israel after his death! Just !! Hello.
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
10000%. people going out into the streets to protect their neighbors with the threat and punishment of actual death. F off Canadians and Europeans on Bluesky complaining about lack of resistance! It makes me so angry!
“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”
These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.
Republicans want women and children to die from diseases.
If bigoted American voters can't be honest about how we got here? We're staying here. Because of them.
The situation in Lebanon is truly bleak, Israel effectively occupying the south, regular strikes into civilian areas of Beirut, half a million people displaced and even if the strikes on Iran slow down or cease this is likely to persist. It's horrific the news continues to fail like this.
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.
"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."
I feel this SO STRONGLY, it is so frustrating!!
@nschwalbe.bsky.social is the best option here!!
Grandmothers: nurse, teacher.
Pilot (wwii then commercial); odd jobs and ended up as manager of a musical instrument store.
I don't hate this war because it wasn't "authorized properly," or because I am not a fan of the specific President waging it. I hate this war because it is a war.
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We are moving outside the US soon and I explained to my kids where we’re going there aren’t lockdown drills in schools and they genuinely do not believe me. 😞😞😞
(I mean successful in the sense of their stated goal of regime change)
Right but also the Maduro regime is still in power just without Maduro. It’s not as if Venezuela was entirely successful??
This movie was very influential for me as a 19 year old who had grown up in a certain type of household. If helped me question prevailing narratives in a way I hadnt before! Really important film.
You were 18F! Amazing! 💔 hope you’ve landed on your feet somewhere.
I lay all of this at the feet of the people with power who did not act. So many people tried. The USAID effort turned into aidonthehill.org. Tho it’s still all volunteer run.
romance explored working class or disability etc” I’m like oh no, Balogh was the OG. (And Pamela Morsi- have you ever read her?? Her books give me similar just devastating draw my heart out feels like Balogh)
YES! I think the Bedwyn series is great but like the prologues and books around the series better than the core ones! Ha! Tho Alleyne’s book is great, I love how positively she presents sex workers in her books! And like, from the 90s and early 2000s! When people are like “only recently has historic
We did get congress to recommit to funding aid in the 2026 spending bill. But 800,000 people died because the people with power didn’t act because they were afraid of losing their seats. I feel comfort tho that they cannot plead ignorance, they knew- we told them daily for months what was happening.
I and hundreds of fired USAIDstaff were on Capitol Hill meeting with staffers and members everyday from February 2025 onwards, sounding the alarm. We wrote op-eds, collected constituent letters etc etc. It wasn’t enough for 2025, to reverse what happened in the moment. But we really did all we could
Ahhhh how to choose?? “Simply Love” devastates me. I love the survivors club series, and her stand-alones “Longing,” and “Secret Pearl.” Precious Jewel is up there too tho!
YES. Damn. Balogh!!!!! She is unmatched
I really do not enjoy the newer historic romances where the hero’s only main feature is adoration of the heroine! It’s so boring and not compelling! And it’s seemingly everywhere!
THIS BOOK. So good
Balogh excels at the hero redemption arc! She writes many real complex people. I adore her