Today is International Children's Day, and I'd like to express that no child deserves to live at risk or in crisis. No child should have to face the horrors of war, poverty, famine, or discrimination. No child should be unable to evacuate a crisis zone to keep living. 1/

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On or around #Juneteenth, 1934, Becky Elzy and Alberta Bradford sang 10 spirituals for American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, who recorded them. Both women had been born in slavery and emancipated after the Civil War. One of the songs they sang that day was "Free at Last." 🧵

Happy Juneteenth! Here’s “I Shall Not Be Moved” from Other Voices a few years back. In the wake of the last surviving members of the Tulsa Massacre being denied reparations, it’s a stark reminder of how far we have to go.

Just yesterday I was at the 56th Session of the Human Rights Council, talking about the escalating violence and renewed threats #Rohingya have been facing. Already today, both the #MyanmarMilitary and the #Arakanarmy (AA), are targeting Rohingya villagers in #Maungdaw Township.

Remember and honor Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner and the price they paid when they were murdered in Mississippi exactly sixty years ago today while fighting for all of our voting rights:

6:29 pm in #Kyiv I’m in the bookstore. Saw a book display and noticed that there were books in English. By the way, we have never had so many books in English in our bookstores before (it is just a small amount in the video). I love that. What am I looking for today? I want

Kinky Friedman, Texas songwriter, satirist and folk hero, dies at 79 wapo.st/3znvaMf

I heard so much about this book from you, so when I saw it today in the bookstore, it was a call for me: get it! It won’t be a pleasant reading, of course. Join me if you haven’t read this book, too.

Another crime. Today, russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia Oblast killed seven people, including two children, and injured 18... A critical infrastructure facility, a shop, and residential buildings were damaged in the city of Vilniansk. When I looked through the photos I

In Alikhali Rohingya Refugee camp, 79-year-old Shaini, a deaf and blind Rohingya woman, relies on her daughter's meager earnings from begging to survive. Their struggle embodies the urgent need for support and compassion for the most vulnerable. 📸 Hossain photographer

I've been off twitter for a while, and changed my computer. Now the background here is black; is that true for everyone? I really hate it. Hurts my eyes.

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Does anyone out there know why my screen on X is so dark these days? The black background makes it impossible for me to read posts so I haven't been using twitter for weeks.

Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters. wapo.st/3NLoj30

It's clear that the administration and the right-wing are exploiting the death of Charlie Kirk to attack their political enemies.