Stephanie Ricker

Capitol Building hit with lightning on NYE… @capitalweather #weather #lightning

"If we get rid of ICE how will we enforce immigration?" I simply do not give a fuck about doing that. Countries and borders are fake and regulating human movement is violence.

Hundreds gather on ⁦@UVA⁩ Lawn to insist that the Board and interim president not sign onto Trump’s corrupt ‘Contract’ for colleges. Unfettered free speech matters at Jefferson’s University.

@the_Rick_Saban @UVA Go ahead, bookmark it. Maybe it won’t in the way someone like you would notice. But students like me will feel it and suffer. He’s flawed, but he made UVA better. His resignation, and how it came about, is an assault on the foundational tenets of UVA and of this country.

@stephricker @UVA Bookmarking this post! I guarantee you that the University doesn’t skip a beat.

Though he isn’t perfect, @uva has greatly benefitted from Jim Ryan’s presidency in many areas, especially his efforts to uplift first generation and low-income students like me. He’s led with compassion and truly cares about the students. UVA will deeply suffer from this.

Yesterday, at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, a girl-child came into this world, and the world rejected her. She had no brain. Not in the poetic sense of innocence or purity, but anatomically, literally: anencephaly. No cerebrum. No future thought, no dreams, no memory to be made. A skull empty of purpose. She was full-term. Her mother carried her for nine long months, through burning nights and weeping mornings, through dust, grief, and sirens. And then, birth. But no life to save. Only silence. The doctors stood helpless, mocked by the limits of their hands. I saw them, people of medicine, their skilled, sterile fingers trembling. Not from confusion, but from recognition. Teratogenic damage. Developmental failure. Genetic disfigurement, not by chance, but by war. Bombs struck not only buildings, but chromosomes. The weapons, steel, shiny, American, fell not just to destroy the present, but to corrupt the womb. To poison the idea of tomorrow. What do we call this horror? Radiation? Dioxins? Depleted uranium? Invisible toxins that do not kill quickly, they wait. They embed, cross placental walls, and twist the neural tube. They disrupt life before it begins. There are more cases. Miscarriages. Premature births. Malformed limbs. Cleft palates wider than sorrow. Spinal cords like broken scrolls. The doctors whisper now, this is no cluster. It’s a pattern. A Lancet study warns of up to 200,000 indirect victims, not from blast wounds, but from genetic harm passed down to generations unborn. But the world is deaf. It counts the dead by explosions, not deformities. It tracks casualties by limbs lost, not genes shattered. And here, beneath the rubble, the deepest wound is in the womb. I saw her yesterday. The mother. She didn’t cry. She only looked. Her arms were empty. She had carried a daughter with no brain. But the child had eyelashes. Fingers. And that’s the most terrible thing: that life tried. That the body obeyed. That, even in apocalypse, the cells kept building. Somewhere, another child may be born marked by air their mother once breathed. And they won’t know why. They say war ends. That ceasefires come. That healing is possible. But how can it end when it lives in cells? When the placenta becomes a battlefield? When biology becomes the archive of war? This is not just a war of fire and steel. It’s a war against life. Against women. Against the act of birth itself. I have seen death, bodies torn, lungs gasping under broken ribs. But never have I heard a silence as loud as when a mother delivers a child already condemned by the sky above her. And so I write. Not to accuse. Not to weep. But to remember. Because some weapons do not explode. They incubate. #GazaGenocide

i’d love to see even one american politician have a spine. speak proudly against this slaughter without including qualifiers. no one has had a spine. the majority of the american people are against this, you cowards.

THEM

we didn’t get Roe codified, we didn’t get healthcare, we didn’t get affordable housing or groceries, we didn’t tackle climate change, or gun violence, we didn’t increase minimum wage. But we did get a genocide, students thrown in jail, and handing the country over to fascists

Genocide and war crimes have no statute of limitations. No ceasefire, no soldiers remorse, no excuse or explanation, will replace the call for justice in a courtroom.

In the past 24 hours, US-backed Israel has: - killed over 70 Palestinians across Gaza in 40 strikes - co-ordinated attacks with settlers in occupied West Bank - besieged Indonesian Hospital - set up a new checkpoint southeast of Bethlehem - intensified ground invasion of Gaza

A joking fight between K’Andre Miller and Matt Rempe

@Mary_Wasson @capitalweather Hi, as long as I am credited, you have my permission. Thank you!

@stephricker @capitalweather Amazing!!! May I use this with credit? Thanks and Happy New Year! - Mary

Capitol Building hit with lightning on NYE… @capitalweather #weather #lightning

lots of people are interacting with my account so lemme just say this: free Palestine and end the US-funded genocide in Gaza and the countless other atrocities this country funds around the globe in the name of capitalist greed!!

Hey, this is my video. Credit me or take it down. Thanks. Also it’s “lightning.”

@MailOnlineVideo @MailOnline As long as I am fully credited for these then yes, you have my permission. Thank you!

@stephricker Hi, I work @MailOnline Can we please use your video & screen grabs in our MailOnline video player, website, apps and social accounts? We’ll fully credit back to you. Please find our terms here:dailymail.co.uk/home/article-1…… Thank you. -MC

This is my footage. Please credit me.

@stephricker @capitalweather Hi Stephanie, is this your video? TWC would like permission to air your video with credit to you. If you agree, please reply #yestv. weathergroup.com/ugc. Thank you, MaryG