As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand.

To be a writer, do something else—then write about it.

Winston Churchill, a WW2 anti-Nazi hero was also a racist colonizer who was responsible for millions of Indians starving to death. The Allies, while being heroes to many marginalized communities by opposing the Nazis & Fascists (white supremacist colonizers) were also the

The victims of Grenfell were of mostly minority, migrant backgrounds, maybe asylum seekers. The report states they’ve been ignored by govt and the panel describes how residents were not treated as people. Britain should hang its head in shame for treating fellow humans like this.

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD Men say “not me.” But what men do is accept - from childhood to college to work - other men saying sick, sexist things about girls/women. They don’t say “knock it off” or “ I have a wife and daughter.” Men, it starts with you.

Sometimes a stranger steps in and gives love you never expected but definitely need

BREAKING NEWS: It turns out that Trump and his team didn't just illegally film a campaign commercial at a military cemetery and assault (and then slander) cemetery staff—they also brought Gold Star families to the cemetery explicitly to lie to their faces. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

It’s 2040. Rent is due on your latest monkey-grown kidney implant, a requirement to stomach even the cleanest Earthwater, but you were just autodeducted Living Points for another vet bill for your AI pet, so you’re going to have to sell your memories again. You grab a SmileBox

chris evans This aged like an un-wanted fine wine.

We are thinking of our friends in Georgia today. ❤️  Seeing or hearing about violence in the community can be scary for children and adults, but there are ways to support little ones during troubling times: sesameworkshop.org/topics/violenc….

Elon Musk, a major US defense contractor, pushed Russia-funded disinformation. Is he really this dumb? Or is this something far worse?

BBC Breaking News SEENinJournalism Mediocre, resentful male kills successful woman whose only mistake was having taken a chance on a mediocre, resentful male.

Since “SSRIs” and “school shooting” are trending together, here’s your periodic reminder that neither mental illness nor medications for it cause school shootings. School shootings are a result of sexist / racist entitlement and unfettered access to weapons of mass destruction.

So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you,    the world or life or death,    or the present or the future:    all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God. -St Paul (1 Cor 3:21-23)

The bottom line is that you can choose to be an anti-Semite or you can choose to be a faithful Catholic. You cannot choose to be both.

#TBT 1944 Butter Knife

B/w the Ugandan runner being murdered by her boyfriend & the Frenchwoman who was drugged, then raped repeatedly by her husband & others, I WISH I had a call to religious life bc it’s scary out there. “Not all men” my eye. How r we supposed to know which are the “not all”?

Ending a sentence with a preposition is generally not something I have a problem with

I’m just exhausted