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You see how women go hard at girl bullies. That’s how we men must confront rapists and abusive men.
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Dear African academics,
cite 👏🏿 each 👏🏿 other’s 👏🏿 work. 👏🏿
Context matters. Representation matters. Citation matters.
Let’s build African scholarship by making African scholarship visible. 🌍📚
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In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
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I was about to go to the bathroom, so I pulled a tampon out of my purse. My male coworker looked at it and said, “Wait… you use tampons?” I said, “Yeah, why?” He immediately made a face and said, “Those are so gross. I don’t get how women can put those inside themselves.” I asked, “What’s so gross about them?” He said, “They go inside you and come out covered in blood.” I said, “So is it the blood that’s gross, or the fact that they go in a vagina?” He paused and admitted it was because they go in a vagina. I looked at him and said, “You know what else goes in a vagina? A penis.” He just stared at me. I shrugged and said, “Exactly. And boys never seem to stop talking about those.”Funny how a vagina only becomes “gross” when it’s associated with women’s health.
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Decades of growth destroyed in minutes. Giant lobelias, some of the rarest alpine plants are being damaged. This is heartbreaking for Kenya’s natural heritage.
@KWSKenya @Kenya_Forestry please step in.
The destruction of giant lobelias is unacceptable.
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في عام 1965، اختُطفت فتاة تبلغ من العمر 17 عامًا في صقلية، واعتُدي عليها، واحتُجزت لأكثر من أسبوع.
ثم عرض عليها المجرم صفقة:
أن تتزوجه، ويُغفر له كل شيء.
في ذلك الوقت، كان القانون الإيطالي يسمح للمغتصبين بالإفلات من العقاب إذا تزوجوا ضحاياهم.
كان يُطلق على هذا "الزواج التعويضي".
كان المنطق مروعًا:
كانت "شرف" المرأة أهم من موافقتها.
إذا تزوجت الرجل الذي اعتدى عليها، فمن المفترض أن تُستعاد سمعتها، ويُطلق سراح المغتصب.
لم يكن أمام معظم النساء خيار حقيقي.
مارست عليهن عائلاتهن ضغوطًا.
وتوقعت المجتمعات منهن الطاعة. وشجع القانون نفسه على الصمت.
لكن فرانكا فيولا رفضت.
في سن السابعة عشرة، وبعد صدمة نفسية وعار علني، رفضت الزواج من الرجل الذي اعتدى عليها.
هذه الكلمة وحدها غيرت إيطاليا إلى الأبد.
أثار قرارها غضبًا عارمًا في بلدتها.
انقلب الجيران على عائلتها.
وأُحرقت كروم العنب وبساتين الزيتون انتقامًا.
لكن والد فرانكا وقف إلى جانبها ودعم قرارها برفع دعوى قضائية.
في عام 1966، أدلت فرانكا بشهادتها علنًا ضد المعتدي في المحكمة.
في وقتٍ كان يُتوقع فيه من معظم الضحايا التزام الصمت إلى الأبد، تحدثت بصراحة أمام البلاد بأسرها.
تابعت إيطاليا الأمر بصدمة.
أُدين المعتدي، فيليبو ميلوديا، وحُكم عليه بالسجن.
لأول مرة في التاريخ الإيطالي، رفضت امرأة علنًا "الزواج التعويضي" وانتصرت.
أصبحت القضية خبرًا عالميًا.
لكن القانون نفسه ظل قائمًا.
لمدة 15 عامًا أخرى، كان بإمكان المغتصبين في إيطاليا، من الناحية النظرية، الإفلات من العقاب بالزواج من ضحاياهم.
ثم أخيرًا، في عام 1981، ألغت إيطاليا القانون تمامًا.
وأشار العديد من الناشطين إلى قضية فرانكا فيولا باعتبارها اللحظة التي بدأت فيها البلاد بمواجهة قسوة ذلك القانون.
بعد سنوات، تزوجت فرانكا من صديق طفولتها الذي ساندها في قضيتها لأنها كانت تستحق الحب والكرامة وحياةً تختارها بنفسها ."
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This is Bernadette Keziah Matuki
She was 8 years old. A pupil at Little Angels in Kilifi
Keziah went missing yesterday at her home in Mwenzagombe (Bofa) and her family spent most of the day and night looking for her. Her little body was found today dumped near Saint Patrick dumped by the road.
She had been defiled, her hands broken , injured , bleeding and dumped naked. She was in that exact outfit when she disappeared. Her body was taken to Kilifi Hospital for postmortem.
Her family is asking for justice. Help us amplify to the authorities.
This is Femicide
Keziah Matuki 🥀🕊️🥀 we remember you
Keziah Matuki 🥀🕊️🥀 we speak your name
#justiceforKeziah
#Usikimye
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Yesterday at 8PM thugs Stormed into Ghost Burgers on Hendred Avenue behind Valley Arcade
They robbed everyone inside at gun point including the cashier
Sped off on nduthis
Y'all be safe 🙏🏾
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Gladys Shollei is pushing a dangerous amendment, and Kenyans should pay attention.
Yesterday, during a debate on the Public Participation Bill, she proposed removing a key safeguard: the requirement to publish public participation outcomes.
Right now, Section 12(2) requires that once public participation is done, the results be made public, for example, on a website, so citizens can see what Kenyans actually said.
Her proposal? Remove it completely or
Keep that information private.
If you want it, you must apply to the same authority that collected it.
Let me be honest, we already know how this ends.
We have been requesting NHIF, Housing levy, and capitation data for over 6 months. Letters sent to MOH and MOE. No response. Total silence. We are now heading to court soon.
Now imagine this:
A bad bill is rejected by Kenyans during public participation.
The authority then claims: “Kenyans supported it.”
How do you verify?
You write to them, and they ignore you.
That’s the trap.
This amendment would legalize secrecy and make it impossible to hold the government accountable.
Public participation without transparency is just a rubber stamp.
MPs must reject this amendment.
Kenyans deserve a public portal where participation outcomes are visible, verifiable, and permanent.
Enough hiding.
Article 35 on access to information is becoming ceremonial, and soon, we will prove that in court.
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If you're the guy driving the white car that was just hit at the junction of Thigiri Ridge Road & Redhill Road by a BLACK XTRAIL that took off, another car and I tried to chase it, we lost it near Rosslyn Riviera but here's its number plate:
KCB 576M!
I hope this helps! Pls RT
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A young man named Rengstar has decided to clean road signs in his area as a way of combating road accidents in the region!
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I was in line at the grocery store when the guy in front of me asked the cashier, “Do you guys hire?” She looked up. “Yeah, we’re always looking. Apply online.” He nodded. Paid for his ramen and left. Something about the way he asked made me follow him to the parking lot.
“Hey, you looking for work?” He turned. Surprised. “Yeah. Got laid off two months ago. Applications everywhere. Nothing yet.” I could see his car. Backseat full of stuff. Blanket. Pillow. He was living in it...
“What kind of work you do?” “Warehouse. Forklift certified. Anything really. I just need something.”
Pulled out my phone. Called my buddy who manages a distribution center. “You still hiring?” Put the guy on the phone. They talked. My buddy said, “Come in tomorrow. Ten AM. Bring your forklift cert. We’ll try you out.”
The guy hung up. Stared at me. “Did that just happen?” “Yeah. Show up on time. Work hard. It’s yours.” He grabbed my hand. Shook it hard. “I’ve applied to a hundred places...
Nobody calls back. You just… made one call. Why?”
“Because I’ve been unemployed. I know how it feels when nobody gives you a shot. Now you got one. Don’t waste it.”
Got a text two weeks later. Unknown number. “It’s the grocery store guy. Still working. Got my first paycheck. Getting a place next week. Thank you for making that call. You changed everything.”
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Tell me this isn't true. You start work at 25 and retire 35 years later at 60. How does anyone in their right mind expect you to have your first payslip?
"Pension Shocker: Retired teachers asked to produce first-ever payslip to get payment" - The Standard share.google/DQmeG5j3orQvIdE…
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1. Residents on Nairobi Dam need to be evacuated.. we have no money.
2. KNH cancer clinic on its knees… government has no money.
3. Teachers salaries need to be paid… there’s no money
4. Doctors salaries need to be paid… there’s no money.
But let’s allocate 450m for fucking hospitality!!
If this doesn’t upset you… I don’t know. 🤷🏽♀️
DP Kithure Kindiki’s office wants extra Sh450m for choppers, hospitality nation.africa/kenya/news/dp-…
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Lakini @KenyaPower_Care how do you keep my friend in the dark for 5 days? Hata Yesu alifufuka after 3 days, lifting the whole darkness of the world…
Mbona mnapenda Giza hivi? Please sort!!!
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