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I have all the words that have gone missing to say that I am thankful for being in the August 2021 run of Poem-A-Day at poets.org as guest edited by Kazim Ali
poets.org/poem/soonisms
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barton smock
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barton smock
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He/Him, poet, father. Most works are self published, and are pay what you want. Full-length 'Wasp, gasp.' (2023) is here: https://t.co/EeuIV9oFQ8
columbus, ohio Inscrit le Haziran 2011
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One of the most detailed testimonies I've heard of the Israeli torture and systematic sexual abuse of Gaza Sumud Flotilla activists abducted in international waters while attempting to bring aid to Gaza
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Israel spent 2 years running an elaborate lobbying campaign to have Hamas added to this UN sex-abuse blacklist, making the case that the UN designation was thorough, evidence-based and widely respected, which was why it was so important for them to get Hamas added to it.
Now that Israel has been added to it, they say the whole thing is a sham.
Israel Foreign Ministry@IsraelMFA
The shameful and absurd UN decision to include Israeli entities in the annex to the CRSV report is further proof of the UN’s true nature: a politicized and corrupt organization that has abandoned its founding principles and systematically targets Israel as its primary mission. This decision is yet another example of the UN’s long-standing, institutionalized hostility toward Israel. Today’s decision must be understood in its true context: an attempt to create a fake symmetry between Israel and the real sexual atrocities committed by Hamas. This is its sole motivation. The person behind this farce is @AntonioGuterres. This is the same Guterres who sought to "contextualize" the October 7 massacre, who covered up the involvement of UN employees in those atrocities, and who has dragged the UN to its lowest point. Guterres is now exploiting his final months as Secretary-General to fabricate baseless accusations against Israel, completely devoid of any factual merit. Israel has comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted these allegations. Given that António Guterres has chosen to violate every standard of honesty, integrity, and professionalism, Israel has decided to sever all ties with the Secretary-General’s Office and will wait until a new UN Secretary-General is appointed.
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I think the only explanation that makes sense is that I had my words with me that day
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sorry that i used to write in all lowercase and put two spaces after periods. i can see how that looked now.
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barton smock retweeté
Israeli Jewish society in a nutshell:
She turns to me & says: "Netanya is a very good place to live in, because the mayor doesn't let Arabs rent apartments here."
@the_andrey_x "That threw me for a loop...the fact that you can say this to a person that you don't know & expect that to be ok" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The public thinks preparedness is waste, because success looks like inactivity. The fire truck polished in the station house is called civilization. The missile buried in a Midwestern silo is called deterrence. Yet a WHO lab sitting quiet, a CDC epidemiologist waiting for an outbreak, or stockpiled PPE, suddenly is “bureaucratic excess.”
That is the idiocy of modern politics: we praise insurance in war, fire, and finance — but mock it in public health because the catastrophe did not happen this week.
Pandemics are not prevented by improvisation. They are prevented by long stretches of expensive boredom interrupted by moments of terror.
Cutting basic science and cutting preparedness means we will try to offload our problem on Kenya and volunteers at airports. That isn't a strategy, that is a bandaid for a gunshot wound
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Wow does anyone understand how insane this is
We have an entire system of biocontainment units where they have planned and prepared for over ten years for this scenario
Now we are sending PHS staff who have been training for three days, many without clinical expertise to staff a unit in another country for high risk American #Ebola patients.
This is going to have awful consequences
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Members of the U.S. Public Health Service have already begun training at Joint Base Andrews to staff the facility, according to people familiar with the response. One person expressed concern that the training period was only three days, which experts say is not sufficient. wapo.st/4dxCt5E
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genitalia 14
Noon, moon, none. Time loses itself in the drone company’s rabbit hole of plainness. Touch reaches an age. Love no one.
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