"every healthcare worker I know is enduring significant psychological distress from the callousness we perceive around us in the world, the oath we have taken to maintain compassion in the face of it all, and the crisis of reconciling these two realities."
aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/…
"The healthcare workers who hold the hands of our elderly as they pass, and then on their way home pass bars crowded with people – they will remember."
"Those who are isolating themselves from their loved ones, only to read text chains of extended friends and family members gathering – they will remember."
"And those who sweat all day under layers of PPE, never touching their phones, who at the end of the day see their social media filled with pictures of friends taking selfies on their holiday trips, their unmasked faces pressed heedlessly together – they will remember."

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27 Dec
"He died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.”

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I’m sorry!” is the accused rapist’s immediate plea.

“How sorry?” we ask. “Sorry enough to make billionaires pay their fair share of taxes? Sorry enough to raise the minimum wage to $15? To pass #MedicareForAll and #GreenNewDeal?"
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#LekkiMassacre
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In 2005, a French court banned a fashion ad that depicted Christ's Last Supper with Jesus and his disciples as women.

The ruling called the ad "a gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost beliefs."

#JeSuisSamuel

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"Rape cartoons are funny if it’s inconceivable to you that you could ever be raped. If you live in a bubble that insulates you from all consequences of rape culture.

"AIDS jokes are funny if you’ve never loved someone who died of AIDS."

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thenewinquiry.com/blog/the-funni…
October 15, 1957. The French chained her to a truck, dragged her through Algiers, warning through loudspeakers that this 'reward' would befall all resisters of French occupation. Then they tortured her for 10 days, and threw her out of a helicopter to her death. #JeSuisSamuel Image
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Today in welfare for billionaires.
"The Queen will receive a £3 million pay rise this year, as a result of laws that guarantee her taxpayer-funded income never decreases. The combined earnings of the monarch and her eldest son have more than doubled since the financial crisis of 2008"
members.tortoisemedia.com/2020/06/29/roy…
"Despite increasing costs, so much money has come into Buckingham Palace in recent years that its reserves have swollen to £65.8 million.

"In other words, the Queen is flush with cash."
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