I'm gonna need NAFO to criticize women's Russism, not their poverty or ethnicity. Russia likes people like you making women traffickable.

1940. gada 15. jūnijā Lavrentijs Berija atgriezās no Kremļa un savā dienasgrāmatā rakstīja: "Koba (Staļins) pieņēma galīgo lēmumu par Baltiju. Teica - gribi vai negribi, bet [viņus] vajag sovjetizēt. Atstāt nevar. Arī nāksies pārvietot." Gadu vēlāk - 1941. gada 14. jūnijā - viņi to izdarīja. 15 424 cilvēki vienā naktī. 5263 arestēti un nošķirti no ģimenēm. Vairāk nekā 650 vēlāk nošauti. No bada, slimībām un cita iemesla dēļ nomira vairāk nekā 3400, bet izsūtījumā nomira vairāk nekā 1400 cilvēku. | Šodien viņus pieminam. Un arī skaidrojam, jo faktus vēl aizvien cenšas sagrozīt. Viens no visizplatītākajiem mītiem: ka izsūtāmo sarakstus esot sastādījuši vietējie – “greizsirdīgie kaimiņi” vai vietējie “stukači”. Tā nav patiesība. Visus izsūtāmo sarakstus sagatavoja čeka un zem katra lēmuma par deportāciju ir čekista paraksts. Operāciju vadīja PSRS valsts drošības komisāra vietnieks personīgi. Šis mīts ticis mērķtiecīgi izplatīts, lai tā novirzītu atbildību no Kremļa uz Latviju un tā pārvērstu padomju impērijas okupācijas režīma organizētu noziegumu par "savstarpēju rēķinu kārtošanu”. Šodien mēdzam dzirdēt aicinājumus “to visu atstāt pagātnē”. Nē. Mēs savu vēsturi nedrīkstam atdot tiem, kuri grib “atmazgāt” padomju okupāciju, relativizēt komunistisko teroru un pārrakstīt Latvijas vēsturi tā, lai agresors izskatītos pēc “atbrīvotāja”. Šodien Krievija Ukrainā dara to pašu. Kopš 2022. gada Ukrainā pārvietoti ap 4,7 miljoniem cilvēku. Ukrainas bērni nolaupīti, deportēti un nodoti adopcijai krievu ģimenēs, Krievija mērķtiecīgi mēģina izdzēst ukraiņu identitāti. 14. jūnijs ir piemiņas diena. Tā ir diena, kurā mēs sargājam patiesību - nosaucam vārdā noziegumu, okupāciju un atbildīgos. Kamēr to darām, tikmēr Latvija nav zaudējusi ne atmiņu, ne mugurkaulu.

🚨SCOOP🚨 Remember the 'Dancing Girl' from your history textbooks? Arms akimbo, bangles & necklace, she is the defining face of Indus Valley Civilisation. But kids opening textbooks today will see a diff image. NCERT's new Class 9 Arts textbook shades over her nude torso, which had appeared uncovered in book for at least 25 yrs, including under previous NDA govts. Just over a year ago, NCERT tried to drop her from a Class 6 Social Science book over nudity concerns. An expert pushed back. Now, it appears to have found another way. indianexpress.com/article/ed…

Also the Mystetski Arsenal art and culture museum, in Dnipro the house of Organ and Chamber music damaged. Where is all condemnation of our cultural heritage destroyed, our memory our identity.

Notre-Dame was built from 1163–1345. Kyiv Pechersk Lavra was founded in 1051, with the Dormition Cathedral being built from 1073-1078, predating Notre-Dame by over a century. When did launching missiles into major Christian cathedrals become normalized? Russia wants to destroy Ukrainian Christianity. Anyone pretending otherwise is lying to you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_P… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormit…

Nicely said @Lisab09231 I suffer chronic pain and with you speaking the way you just did, brought tears to my eyes, its so true, they dont listen, Fords doing the same thing to Ontario

A member of the disability community in Alberta died by suicide because of the actions of the Alberta Provincial government…

Tomorrow, Ukraine and Moldova will take a major step on their EU journey. The first Intergovernmental Conference will take place in Luxembourg. We will begin work on the Fundamentals cluster, which deals with values, democracy and the rule of law. The foundation of our Union.

Is this what men mean when they say they want us to be more feminine?

This.

Muhammad Ali response to an interviewer who called him a ‘Negro’.

That’s why some of us moved to Canada.

Many people in Canada are living in this situation. Readers who see a better Canada than this writer should still care about preventing situations like this. Or else they don't have a whole country. Just their little club of enfranchised people.

Amazing find at South African University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg: the 1636 “Evangelion” of 🇺🇦 scholar Petro Mohyla, printed in Lviv. One of the earliest 🇺🇦 prints. A couple of dozens copies worldwide. Rarely in such a good condition. South Africa is incredible.

There are many CanAmerican interests hoping to control what underlying values Ukraine fights for instead of humbly supporting Ukraine and democratic-thinking Ukrainians Post-WWII Soviet escapees "recovered" in a twisted way to think hating Commies means hating human development

It's a definition game. You hear homeless, you think guy in the street, not couch surfer. They're both homeless but one is functional and one isn't.

yup, i grew up middle/high class and was homeless as a teenager due to abuse and needing to get the hell out of that situation, then only narrowly avoided it happening again later in adulthood due to incredible friends helping me out for a bit

Literally had a 96 year old man in the ER a few months ago for suicidal ideation... he and his bedridden 95 year old wife were being evicted and for some reason, he was feeling existential despair. What jobs should they get to pull themselves up by the bootstraps?

When you forgot to complete your Spanish lesson on Duolingo😅

Painting of Rania with her beloved twin babies, Wesan & Naeem, in burial shrouds - by Irish artist and activist Anne-Marie Farrell. Rania waited for them for eleven years of infertility, they were her little miracles. At 6 months old they were murdered along with her husband & 11 family members when the IOF bombed the Al-Salam neighborhood in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on March 3 2024. I have no words to describe the loss this mother, endured... her entire world decimated in a second like so many.

On bronze statues of women all over the world, there is one spot worn smooth and shining gold while the rest darkens with age -- the breasts.... Decades of hands reaching out, again and again, have polished the metal bright. In Germany, the women's rights organization Terre des Femmes looked at that phenomenon and saw something most people walk past without registering: a public record of unwanted touching, etched into the statues themselves. In April, for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, they built a campaign around it called "Unsilence the Violence" -- installing placards behind three well-known statues with a single line: "Sexual harassment leaves its mark." The three they chose -- the "Enchanting Juliet" in Munich's Marienplatz, "Frau Rhein" at Berlin's Neptune Fountain, and "The Youth" in Bremen's Hoetgerhof -- each carry the same worn, gleaming marks, and the point is the parallel. Two in three women in Germany experience sexual harassment in their everyday lives, the organization noted -- and the numbers elsewhere are no better. A 2018 nationally representative survey by the U.S. nonprofit Stop Street Harassment found that 81% of American women have experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault in their lifetime, with 51% reporting they had been touched or groped without consent. Yet the assaults are too often trivialized, dismissed, or simply looked past -- by perpetrators, by bystanders, by society. "The marks it leaves behind are visible on the statues, but not on the victims," said Marielle Wilsdorf of Scholz & Friends, the agency behind the campaign. "It's not a trivial matter, it's a criminal offence." At each site, a QR code let the statue speak -- short audio recordings giving voice to the women these figures stand in for, alongside information on counseling and where to find help. The installations stood for only three days before permit issues took them down, but the images traveled far past Germany. What makes the campaign land isn't the statistic -- it's that the evidence was always there, hiding in plain sight, on monuments people pass every day. The marks on a statue are easy to see once someone points at them. The marks on the women walking past those statues are not. That was always the point: the harm doesn't disappear because it leaves no visible trace. It just goes unwitnessed. © A Mighty Girl #drthehistories