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Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.
I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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Indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe called Britain’s Queen Elizabeth a “colonizer” during her swearing-in ceremony in parliament v.aa.com.tr/2651173
©nowthis
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We need to move beyond discussion of what is “legal” to a more productive discussion of organized power. People are not protected by laws but by organized power
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I will explain this to you slowly: exercising our right to protest is not obstruction of Congress nor an attempt to overturn democracy.
If one were a heinous enough person to do that, they’d likely seek a pardon for it too.
But only one of us here has done that. And it ain’t me
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The more I read these panicked articles about places like NYC and San Francisco being 'unsafe', the more I realize it's not about crime at all - just discomfort with poverty being more visible
