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We need to bring back children’s programming that focuses on reading. I’m so serious
WE NEED THEM BACK ‼️‼️‼️
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Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.
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The ground invasion of Rafah has started amid heavy bombing in Rafah and Central Gaza
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Day 5 - Family/Friendship/Romance
""Hana?" Their voice cracks in nervousness. "Uh, can I...maybe kiss you?" Hana's lips part in surprise but she eagerly nods. Raelyn slowly leans toward Hana, giving her time to change her mind but Hana tilts her head and meets Raelyn's lips with her own."
Their first kiss in this school story AU 🥰 that's what inspired me to draw Raelyn, @masked-alien-lesbian nonbinary OC, they're a very incredible character and super in love with Hana, I drew them in the TRR universe where they're already married, I think this kiss happens when they get home after dancing tango 😏 Thank you very much Mx. Alien for letting me draw Raelyn 🥰🙏 I hope you like it 🤗
Thank You!🥰 @hanaleeappreciationweek and @lizzybeth1986
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so much coverage on met gala but they’ll try hard to hide that there is a huge crowd of protestors outside the met rn in support of palestine that have been marching across the city all day. meanwhile israel is bombing and enacting their invasion on rafah as we speak
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May the 4th be with You: A Poem for Star Wars Day
Image ID attempt:
Text “Roses are” next to a red rose
Text “Cloaks are” next to a brown cloak
Text “it’s” above a red horizontal line, above a photograph of an adult Anakin Skywalker holding a blue lightsaber
Screenshot of Obi-Wan Kenobi from the lava battle scene in Revenge of the Sith, holding a blue lightsaber, with his mouth open
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Anonymous asked:
Have you met any tumblr friends in person?
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“Saying things like “we’ve gone from white hoods to business suits” is one way to seem to speak to contemporary racism’s less vocal, yet still insidious nature. But it does a disservice to the public understanding of racism, and in the process undercuts the mission of drawing attention to contemporary racism’s severity. It wasn’t the KKK that wrote the slave codes. It wasn’t the armed vigilantes who conceived of convict leasing, postemancipation. It wasn’t hooded men who purposefully left black people out of New Deal legislation. Redlining wasn’t conceived at a Klan meeting in rural Georgia. It wasn’t “the real racists” who bulldozed black communities in order to build America’s highway system. The Grand Wizard didn’t run COINTELPRO in order to dismantle the Black Panthers. The men who raped black women hired to clean their homes and care for their children didn’t hide their faces. The ones in the hoods did commit violent acts of racist terrorism that shouldn’t be overlooked, but they weren’t alone. Everyday citizens participated in and attended lynchings as if they were state fairs, bringing their children and leaving with souvenirs. These spectacles, if not outright endorsed, were silently sanctioned by elected officials and respected members of the community. It’s easy to focus on the most vicious and dramatic forms of racist violence faced by past generations as the site of “real” racism. If we do, we can also point out the perpetrators of that violence and rightly condemn them for their actions. But we can’t lose sight of the fact that those individuals alone didn’t write America’s racial codes. It’s much harder to talk about how that violence was only reinforcing the system of political, economic and cultural racism that made America possible. That history indicts far more people, both past and present.”
This is all true, but also, a lot of those people were klansmen, as well. It was a respectable thing to be. They were considered heroes and they had good ties with officials, because many of them were those officials, as well.
Sen. Robert Byrd got into politics due to heading a Klan chapter and he just died in 2010 a sitting US senator.
Don’t think the klan ever was operating outside of the system.
Source: thenation.com
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Stephanie is not a Wayne kid but she is Damian's older sister...yes I know this contradicts, no I will not be explaining further. It's just IYKYK.
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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.
Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”
LET'S SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE
It is very rare that posting actually is activism.
But in this case, getting this man's name trending on multiple platforms could literally save his life.
Exactly this ^^^
This is one of the very rare cases where the only thing we are being asked to do is make something go viral.
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watch the WHOLE video
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Hana Lee: Cordonia's Most Influential Courtier
Title: Hana Lee: Cordonia's Most Influential Courtier
Pairing: Hana Lee and Kiara Theron
Book: The Royal Romance
Rating: G
Word count: 1,522
Tagging: @choicesficwriterscreations for fics of the week, @hanaleeappreciationweek, @lizzybeth1986, @cassiopeiacorvus, and @thecapturedafrique
Globe Cordonia
Hana Lee: Cordonia's Most Influential Courtier
Since she stepped on the scene, few have attracted more interest than Hana Lee, whose rise to notoriety has been unparalleled, rising from obscure suitor to a plum position on the Royal Council. I sat with her to discuss her upbringing and elevation to the upper echelon of Cordonian high society.
By Larkin Andoh
Dame Hana Lee GotR, RC glides into the room a few minutes early, before I’ve even gotten the chance to settle myself.
“I’m sorry to have kept you waiting,” she apologizes politely, despite the fact that she’s early (Cordonian aristos are famously punctual). While she explains that she was on a phone call relating to some work she’s been doing, I give her a quick one over. As usual, she’s dressed impeccably, wearing a smartly tailored jumpsuit in her signature floral print.
I compliment her attire and ask her who designed her jumpsuit, and she suddenly becomes very shy, reminiscent of when she first made her debut. “Oh, I did. I still have to modify it a bit though,” she says completely self-effacingly, though from where I’m sitting, I see nothing wrong with it.
Despite a few stumbles in her debut season, it’s easy to forget that Dame Hana Lee was not born in Cordonia, and that her debut season was the first time in her life she’d spent extended time in the country.
A wonderful work as always! I’m a little pissed at Larkin for the shade even if it’s totally befitting of a reporter, yet Hana handles it as gracefully as we’ve all come to expect of her. And I love the detail about her eyes sparkling while she gushes about Kiara. It’s so sweet to see how you write their relationship as one where feelings don’t need to be carefully detailed, and I imagine being able to just love and be loved is such a relief for them both. Thank you for sharing this lovely interview with us! 🩷
