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where it’s windy on a winter’s day – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Đinh Thị Như Thúy
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


I’ve not told you when I’ll leave.
Perhaps it should be left unsaid.
Perhaps it will be a day far away.
Perhaps it will be soon.
I want to safeguard this for myself.
Like the few secrets, I’ve saved.
*
Sometimes there are all these questions.
Is the end scarier?
Or scarier is the way there?
Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by such uncertainty.
About the days long gone.

WHERE IT’S WINDY ON A WINTER’S DAY

June 2022

Source: where it’s windy on a winter’s day – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

National broadcaster axes Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf over Gaza social media post · Global Voices

Antoinette Lattouf - TedX Talk 2022

Antoinette Lattouf – Screenshot: TedX Talks YouTube video ‘Reverse Discrimination? It doesn’t exist…but ‘tokenism’ does’ October 2022. Fair use.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has caused a furore down under after firing Lebanese Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf  on December 20, 2023 for sharing a post on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Her employment as a short-term radio host was abruptly ended for allegedly breaching social media policy by reposting a Human Rights Watch (HRW) video on Instagram.

Source: National broadcaster axes Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf over Gaza social media post · Global Voices

La Terre et les peuples autochtones meurent pour notre obsession de l’or ! S’il vous plaît, Choisissez le droit à la vie plutôt que les profits sur l’or et la vanité !  | Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: La Terre et les peuples autochtones meurent pour notre obsession de l’or ! S’il vous plaît, Choisissez le droit à la vie plutôt que les profits sur l’or et la vanité !  | Barbara Crane Navarro

Open Thread | Immigration: The White Supremacist Fear Mongering Issue That the GOP Will Never Give Up | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Fear mongering of the Others. Those ‘ others’ are invading the country. A White Supremacist trope long used by the GOP.
Never forget – George W. Bush was able to lie us into TWO wars.
But, he couldn’t pass genuine, sincere Immigration reform.

Republicans don’t want Immigration reform. Because running on the racism of anti-immigration is all that they have left in their arsenal.

…So, I want you to get clear. Because, a resolution at the border would take that issue off the table for the GOP in November. And, if they don’t have the brown hoards at the Southern border on the verge of invasion, what else do they have to run on?

Time and time again, the Republican Party is showing you who they are. They are shirking their duties as elected officials to do the bidding of this Orange Criminal.

Manu Raju (@mkraju) posted at 0:08 PM on Thu, Jan 25, 2024:
Anger and confusion on Hill as Trump appears to have blown up delicate compromise on immigration — and with it, aid to Ukraine and Israel. Senators now scrambling to figure out what’s next.
Thune says they’re getting close to seeing if they need a “Plan B” after months of talks.…
(https://x.com/mkraju/status/1750581530806624440?s=03)

It’s only blowing up because actual elected officials are REFUSING TO DO THEIR JOBS AND SERVE THIS COUNTRY.

Source: Open Thread | Immigration: The White Supremacist Fear Mongering Issue That the GOP Will Never Give Up | 3CHICSPOLITICO