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Watching the birds, they have big multi species dinner parties, some stay on the ground while others r in the trees, keeping a look out, then they switch

@intheWildHills @susanabulhawa at least 1314 ppl were killed without a trial by US police last year, many thousands more died in our jails and prisons

@susanabulhawa @MaeveWriter They have gender affirming treatment because homosexuality is illegal. At last count there are hundreds of women in torturous conditions in prisons in Iran for not wearing head scarves. 900+ people were executed in Iran last year. 75% of global executions. Including dissidents.

This post is for everyone trying to use the mantra of saving Muslim women, the tired bullshit the west has used to actually destroy the lives of Muslim women for decades. Here are some statistics specific to Iran. LITERACY AMONG WOMEN. Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the literacy rate for women under the western-backed Shah was 42%. In less than a decade of the revolution, that number climbed to 98% STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) GRADUATES. In Iran, ~70% of STEM graduates are women—far exceeding U.S. levels, which stand at 53%) PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE. About 58% of students in Iranian professional doctorate programs are women. In contrast, that number in the U.S. is 56%. FEMICIDE (homicide of females). In Iran, the rate of intentional murder of women is 0.59 per 100,000. In the US, that number nearly 4 times higher, at 2.1 per 100,000 women (with stark racial disparities: Black & Native American women: 4.3–4.8 per 100k vs White women: ~1.5 per 100k PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT. In Iran, women hold 27% of ministerial-level posts, ~1,121 female judges, and ~25% of managerial roles in government (these values are from the early 2000s, and are surely much higher now). MATERNITY LEAVE & BENEFITS. In Iran, Law on Family & Youth Support mandates 9 months PAID maternity leave for public & private sectors, plus an optional 4 months remote work during pregnancy, job security protections for extended unpaid leave, and 2 weeks paternity leave. In the US, the only federal guarantee is 12 weeks of UNPAID maternity leave. Furthermore, the following benefits are available to Iranian women, but not American women. 1. Free maternity care and subsidized infertility treatments: Nationwide free maternal and delivery services, including for uninsured women; infertility treatments are heavily subsidized (~90%). 2. Labor protections: Pregnant women reassigned from hazardous jobs without pay loss; nursing breaks offered until child is 2; workplace childcare provisions required. 3. Family support policies under demographic law include: housing assistance, loans for married couples, job prioritization for parents, childcare subsidies, and retirement benefits for mothers with multiple children. GENDER AFFIRMING TREATMENT. Iran legalized gender-affirming surgery (SRS) in the 1980s! The government subsidizes surgeries and hormone therapy for trans individuals who are at least 18 years old and have completed an approval system that requires psychological counseling and hormone therapy for 1–3, and professional filtering panels that evaluate gender dysphoria vs homosexuality, including family interviews, DNA tests, and potential coercion. In the US, SRS is a for profit industry with no subsidies and no checks and balances to protect minors.

@punished_daniel it's almost as if it were written specifically to be funny :-0

@BeijingTaxis @ahabstanaccount did u read the story

Eugenic figure skater, MFA white boyfriend, I kinda start to think there is actually something weird going on. Like spending $200K to have a genetically-selected European-looking baby, or starting a 2-year literature fellowship with a self-racializing neurosis about "my white boyfriend," like at what point does it cross into "weird?" I think it's at best "colorism", at worst it's admiration for "white supremacy." Orienting your entire life in admiration of white supremacy is at least a little weird, no?

for the mfa white boyfriend thing obviously that was published and so it’s not unfair to criticize it in public but on the other hand the way the internet dogpiles on things, especially anything with a racial or gender angle, is just really gross

@AlvinTheMage @httpsmongrel @NobleQAli are you fucking stupid?

@httpsmongrel @NobleQAli i hated it more after reading it, the egg is a metaphor for what? the angst of some millennial asian american?

This author landed a 2-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford, which pays $75,000 per year. Every flat surface. Slick as babies.

@norse____god @NobleQAli did u read more than two paragraphs?

@NobleQAli It went downhill from "my white boyfriend"

@NobleQAli it's almost as if the opening narration is written stylistically to communicate something about the story the character is about... Nope! better stop reading now

@Brytondrums @venicebitxh ambiguous because ppl use moon to mean a month

@venicebitxh Am I the only one who has said ‘two moons’? I mean I’m taking the piss when I say that but it still works

it’s wild that the english language doesn’t have a word for the day after tomorrow like how

I Looked Non Binary Af Last Night. I Was Scared! I Couldnt Change It. 😭

Peter Thiel, René Girard, and the Algorithmic Scapegoating of Palestine. open.substack.com/pub/thejasonjo…

MY ALBUM ‘STARS’ IS OUT NOW

@BluebriarArts 💀💀💀

@jewish_yinzer #InterestingThatYouSayThis

What could they be possibly filling the rest of that big ass thing with

@sexytwerp betrand russell "a history of western philosophy", is split into three parts, the middle of which covers catholic philosophy. it helped me understand the intellectual history of catholicism and europe more broadly

like history on catholicism and theology stuff like that. yes i know what the bible is

@magattew l think ur confusing Africa with your bank account

I genuinely think Africa will develop faster once we stop idolizing Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah, Jerry Rawlings, Patrice Lumumba, and stop falling for the Ibrahim Traoré propaganda that's going on right now.

@SGWug absolute humiliation

Bullet does the unthinkable to Matata at Friday Amazon

we've failed

@CommonSentiment @AlphonsUnem being the elected leader of a state is not political?

@AlphonsUnem Not political.

Challenge: Try and find a current example of an American citizen, born and raised in the USA, serving in an official political capacity in ANY other country. Good luck.

@leftypol_org yes lots of ppl didn't. having role models is extremely important as a young adult

why do you need a role model as a grown ass adult? did you guys just not have a father?

@GordonMurdock6 @MosabAbuToha do u consider bombs a form of torture?

@MosabAbuToha How many 10/7 hostages died under torture?

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs announced that three Palestinian hostages from Gaza just died under torture in Israeli prisons.

WWE is basically Tomorrowland and AEW is basically berghain

@noellearchives 🙌🙌🙌