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"If anyone has survived this starvation, it is this chicken. She survived my knife through nine displacements. Every time I reached for her neck, someone stopped me: my wife, Ayloul, and Zein [my children], who found in his chicken friend something worth saving. In a tent whose thin strips were colder than the hunger surrounding it, she felt she was a burden to us—eating anything, moving so lightly no one could hear her. Even her clucking was faint, and her gaze seemed to apologise for still being alive. But what truly saved her wasn’t us. It was the egg. Every three days, she laid one egg—warm— in a time when even a loaf of bread had disappeared. We would divide it: half for Zein, the other half for Ayloul, and I would postpone my hunger, filling myself just by watching them. And between one egg and the next, a question circled in my mind: Do I slaughter her, so we can eat for two days, or keep her alive… so we can endure longer? Even when my friend Hamed broke his arm and needed any protein in this void, I decided to slaughter her for him. He looked at her for a long time, then said: “No, Malek… I can’t bear this guilt. I won’t drink her broth… I won’t be the reason.” In that moment, I understood: we were saving ourselves from ourselves. It was a test of the last part within us that had not yet turned savage. We could not bring ourselves to harm a chicken— yet this vile world found it easy to abandon our children." - Malek Shinbary, Palestinian from Gaza

@Romazehari Life

What's it called when you're not lesbian but you are no longer attracted to men?

@atrupar I do not have to show ID to check books out at the library

Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."

@EN0CX Scaffolding is an abomination even the glitterati can't escape

Serena Williams & Venus Williams steps out in New York with their husband

Big meeting at Pier 39 🦭 Two massive Steller sea lions came face-to-face, drawing crowds as they shared the dock with their much smaller neighbors.

@adammocklerr Getting flashbacks 😫 So many horror stories from the minefield of career advancement as Gen X. Any career dependent on political class or civil society for advancement was just a shredder for visibility and innovation. The geriatric hoarding was real.

I’m sorry, but I’m not gonna be nicer about this. Neocon boomers are mortgaging my generations future by amassing trillions in debt, turning America into a pariah on the global stage, and getting our troops killed for another failing war. I have to watch these neocons lie about the state of this war on TV every single day. Then, the moment I push back and assertively ask, “hey, what’s the actual goal here?” I have a legion of neocon boomers telling me I should know my place. Or I should wait my turn to talk with the grown ups. Fuck that, genuinely. I’m not claiming to have all of the answers or be all knowing. But young people deserve a seat at the table to fight for our interests as well. 95% of media is made up of boomers in suits who created these problems, and being nicer isn’t going to fix them.

@Inplainsightyyy @wethefifth @DavidAFrench Troll

@wethefifth @DavidAFrench Did it ever occur to him that it’s his circle of elitist wealthy private school jerks that are the problem and not the rest of America?

Adopting a child from Ethiopia changed David French's perspective on the state of racism in America. From our new episode with @davidafrench.

@dog_rates This might be hard if you are a single Mom or Dad!

This is Franklin. He prefers plain whipped cream, but his humans keep putting sprinkles in first. Can't complain about the serving size though. 14/10

@SydneyLWatson Ok what is your solution?

Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.

Two massive Steller sea lions are making waves in San Francisco, paying a visit to the city's famous Pier 39 — with video showing the smaller seals and sea lions who usually hang out there scrambling for somewhere else to sunbathe. abcnews.link/MsUJ74H

@magachrchpastr For a Dad joke about their May December marriage? How humorless and borish do you have to be to believe a tame little joke somehow triggered some nutjob into shooting up the dinner some 3 days later?

So many Libs are defending Jimmy Kimmel's tasteless jokes by pointing to President Trump's many derogatory and inflammatory statements over the years. But how about if you apologize first? Extend the olive branch, and I bet President Trump will respond in kind🙏🇺🇸

@ScottDFricano @nickimoraa Yes for a short flight. But family or airline needs to compensate the traveler in that case. Solo should not be expected or shamed into subsidizing other adults' logistical problems. Yet another single tax they have to pay instead of chilling like everyone else.

@nickimoraa You should have moved for the family: That is what defines Class.

Flight attendant comes up to me before takeoff, very gentle voice: “Hi, would you be willing to switch seats to help a family sit together?” I already know. I just know. Me: “What seat is it?” Her: “It’s a middle seat toward the back.” I said, “I’m happy to help if it’s the same type of seat or better.” She smiles that tight customer-service smile and goes, “It would really mean a lot to them.” I said, “It already means a lot to me. That’s why I paid for it.” She just nodded and walked away. Respectfully, too. Because what argument is left?

@Bunny_ngl Sloan, Summer, Bronwyn, Muffy

What’s a baby girl name that screams generational wealth and private school tuition?

@CNviolations How do I get my kid chores? I don't have a donkey.

Wholesome

@7uu7aa @OGsDontFold

@OGsDontFold It appears that you did not roast it for 8 hours straight, but for 8 hours gay.

@AJD20201 @WeedSnob420 @atrupar Did Democrats try to assassinate Trump multiple times?

@WeedSnob420 @atrupar But it was ok when Republicans did it

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

@NYCMayor Thank you for your hard work. Is there a path to addressing constant and usurious taxes, fines, assessments and late fees that HOAs are using to push brown folks out of their condos? Please check what is happening in BKLYN

Scammers are stealing homes from New Yorkers — and Black and Brown homeowners are being targeted the most. We're launching the Mayor's Office of Deed Theft Prevention, led by Director Peter White, to defend vulnerable homeowners. And we are pausing the tax lien sale for the next six months as we review and fix a broken system. We are using every tool at our disposal to help New Yorkers stay in their homes in the city we love.

@PorkiShikari @BinoPieere @jauntyhaart @HinduAmerican @POTUS Yeah...And also why aren't Black people speaking up for us more?!? I don't get it

@BinoPieere @jauntyhaart @HinduAmerican @POTUS Unlike niggs and crackers like you, Indians do way more for the US economy. Were 1.6% of the US population and pay 6% of taxes. Get your deadbeat mom off fenty before coming for Indians.

We are deeply disturbed by @POTUS sharing this hateful, racist screed targeting Indian and Chinese Americans. Endorsing such rants as the president of the United States will further stoke hatred and endanger our communities, at a time when xenophobia and racism are already at an all time high. We ask @realDonaldTrump to reconsider, delete this post & recognize the indelible contributions of Asian Americans to our great country.

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

You're probably wondering how I got mixed up in this. I was just minding my business, collecting the souls of the damned, just a regular regular sub-demon...