Jackie Barbosa

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Romance writer/reader. Trained Classicist (MA U of Chicago 1988). Lefty (both kinds). HEAs forever. Find my books at https://jackiebarbosa.com

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Props to the dude who brought his homework to the game! #Padres

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Jackie Barbosa

And the definition of indigenous is below. Palestinians are absolutely indigenous to Palestine.

How many times are you going to be confidently, factually wrong today?

"Continuous connection to a culture" is not required for a people to be indigenous. That is simply NOWHERE In the definition of what it means to be indigenous. Stop making up meanings, Humpty Dumpty.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth

Actually, Palestine is a direct derivative of Philistine.

You just keep being loudly wrong.

You're wrong.

I'm not arguing that cognition doesn't involve pattern matching. I'm not arguing that it doesn't involve building symbolic representations/models of experience. I *am* arguing that LANGUAGE is a word that MEANS SOMETHING and cognition leads to language, not the other way around.

Anglo-Saxon IS Old English, lol.

Are you saying the Carnegie Endowment for Human Rights is lying?

For some values of "free," I suppose. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/0...

I'm thinking a lot about this contemporary criticism (1852) of Uncle Tom's Cabin these days. [Sorry, not enough room for all the text in alt text but I think you'll get the gist.]

Just sharing some fabulous photos from my kids' recent trip with his friends to Horseshoe Bend, Antelope Canyon, and Monument Valley.

Who are you, Humpty Dumpty?

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PickMeSquirrel 🍉

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Alon (they/them)

Did you even read the link? Support for Hamas has gone UP in the Gaza Strip since December. I mean, I wish it hadn't because I think Hamas are terrible actors and harming the Gazan people immensely, but the data you just shared don't match your claim.

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Alon (they/them)

Unless things have changed pretty dramatically in 3 mos., Hamas is still pretty popular among Gazans. Which makes sense. Hamas isn't the one dropping bombs on them. This doesn't mean all Gazans belong to Hamas but the idea that Gazans are eager to sell out to Israel seems weak.

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Alon (they/them)

Doesn't seem either of those things is factually accurate.

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Alon (they/them)

Netanyahu says 15k of 31k casualties were combatants. The UN's verified stats show 40% of casualties are men, 32% children, 20% women, 8% elderly. If that ratio is accurate, the only way the math works is if Netanyahu is claiming every man and 8% of the children, women, and elderly are combatants.

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Alon (they/them)

Look, "all the Gazans need to be destroyed" is pretty darn unequivocal.

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Alon (they/them)

The overall US violent crime rate is down by half since the 90s. The rate of homicide by police is up by almost double since 2000. It might be worth interrogating why that is.

Birthday fun at Petco Park!

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)

I need the DNC to stop talking to the base like we are naughty children. I just got this text and there is NO WAY this is going to motivate me to do anything but block and report spam. Do better, Democrats.

Sending Bluesky a deck pic. This is what my husband and I built today

I want y'all to appreciate how quickly this guy went from "lunch counter sit-ins were nonviolent protests we can all get behind" to "lunch counter sit-ins are illegal and beating up people who stage them is to be expected." Truly an astonishing volte-face.

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Chinmayi

If you'd like to explain how Israel's actions in Gaza aren't genocide under the UN's definition (posted below), be my guest.

Every genocide starts with the saying the victims "started it/asked for it." The US govt's support doesn't make it not genocide. Israel's actions meet the established UN definition of genocide as far as I'm concerned, mass graves or no.

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Straw

Lmao, yes it has.

Perfect Mother's Day with my MIL, who's 91. Started with a homemade afternoon tea (photos attached) followed by a 4-0 win by the Padres over the Dodgers with her favorite pitcher (Darvish) starting and getting the win. Now I get someone else to make dinner for me!

Er, what gives, White House?

This is where you can write to President Biden to tell him his remarks on student protests and continued support of genocide are inexcusable: www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

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