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Dreamer, farmer, writer, reader, human being. Want to spend my days making good food, good music, good conversations and leveling the playing field.

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Timeline cleanse 😁😂

May 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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If you need to cleanse your feed, here's what's going right:

🇨🇴 Colombia formalized local Indigenous governments in the Amazon w/ self-governing authority over lands (AP)

🐕 Dogs are sniffing out 200,000+ spotted lanternfly eggs to remove the invasive pests before they damage crops (Guardian)

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May 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Read what Hossam, a 24-year-old Palestinian journalist, wrote just hours before he was killed today.

There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the times you and I are sharing.

Passage from Hossam Shabat:

When I arrived on the scene, I wasn’t ready for the horror before my eyes. The streets were filled with the dead. Under every stone lay a martyr. Dozens were crying for help from underneath the rubble of their homes but there was no one to respond. Screams filled the air while everyone stood helpless. My tears didn’t stop. The scenes were more than any human being could bear. The ambulances were filled with corpses, their bodies and limbs piled on top and intertwined with one another. We could no longer distinguish between children and men, between the injured and the dead.

At Al-Andalus hospital the scene was even more painful. The hospital was filled with martyrs. Mothers bid silent farewells to their children. Medical staff worked in horrific conditions, trying to treat the injured with only the most basic means available. It was an impossible situation with massive numbers of dead and wounded being brought in at a terrifying rate.

Israel’s aggression continues. Massacre after massacre, leaving only the screams of mothers in its wake and the dreams of children that have turned to ash. There is no justification for this. Everything is being crushed: the lives of innocent people, their dignity, and their hopes for a better future.

March 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Mar 24

They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.

"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."