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environmental racism (noun) /en-vI-rO-menTAL—rAY-sism\ - the scientific study of plants getting sad when you call them slurs (dangerous)

environmental racism isn't a thing. God how can people be so stupid. Plants don't have fucking opinions.

I’m … legitimately blown away that you think environmental racism is about the marginalization of plants.

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Zelensky is throwing children into the meat grinder. These kids aren’t allowed to evacuate, because Zelensky banned men 18-60 from leaving the country. Three days training is not enough even for the absolute basics of ‘point and shoot’. This is forced martyrdom.

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jerry rubin , 1970

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“‘You see,’ I said, ‘I’m a socialist. I don’t think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.’”

— H.G. Wells, In the Days of the Comet. (Ariel Pr April 1999) Originally published 1906. (via The Vale of Soul-Making)

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So apparently six (6) days into the invasion of Ukraine and as many as 6000 Russian soldiers are dead, and the Russian army is just leaving their bodies where they fall. Ukrainians are taking photos of the kids’ faces and posting them to Russian social media asking “is this your son?” because if they don’t, it’s possible their families may never know what happened. 

Putin sent these Russian soldiers, many freshly conscripted with ZERO experience, on “training missions” to regions bordering Ukraine, where they zipped around the countryside in their USSR era tanks, wrecking barns and tearing up sod. 

Next thing they know, their orders are updated with a new training mission along with new coordinates. The new coordinates were inside Ukraine itself.

That was six days ago. The trainees shrugged, set course for the new coordinates and drove over the border not even realizing they were an invasionary force. Others were told they were “rescuing” Russian separatists trapped in Ukraine. 

So Imagine their surprise when they begin to encounter Ukrainian citizens who are absolutely fucking furious to see Russian tanks driving around. Some of those Ukrainians were armed with state-of-the-art Javelin anti-tank missiles.

A Russian soldier in Ukraine texts his mother moments before his death:

“Mama I’m in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I’m afraid. We are bombing all of the cities together, even targeting civilians. We were told that they would welcome us….”

“And they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the wheels and not allowing us to pass. They are calling us fascists. Mama, this is so hard.”

Moments later, he died.

6000 soldiers dead in six days, many of them unaware they were at war. Sent to die by Putin in an absolute shitshow of hubris & cruelty. For comparison, America spent 20 years fucking around in Afghanistan and the total US body count was 2,500.

Absolutely incredible.

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Ways to support Ukraine 🇺🇦

More than 500,000 people have already left Ukraine due to the invasion by the Russian Federation. The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management estimates that roughly 18 million Ukrainians will be affected by the conflict in humanitarian terms, with 7 million internally displaced and 4 million seeking refuge elsewhere. To help those still in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian refugees, we’ve compiled this list of resources.

HelpUkraineWin.org has a collection of vetted and trusted resources, charities, and organizations to help Ukraine.

Some additional ways to donate:

Vostok SOS provides immediate evacuation support.

Malteser International provides essentials for Ukrainian refugees.

Ukraine Crisis Media Center provides fundraising links and a list of tips for sharing information.

Misinformation spreads fast on social media. It is more important than ever to share accurate, verifiable news and information. Here are some resources to learn how to identify misinformation:

This link from the nonprofit WITNESS shares tips for identifying authentic video sources (available in English, Spanish, Ukranian, Russian, and Arabic).

These visual verification tips, also from WITNESS, provide information on verifying images and videos (available in English and Spanish).

This interview with NPR contains tips for identifying fake TikToks.

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“Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.”

- Teju Cole

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Faith Ringgold, All Power to the People - Free All Political Prisoners, 1970

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Abbie Hoffman. Always WAY ahead of the curve.