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Stefan Simanowitz
@StefSimanowitz
"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte
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    Wow! Archaeologists working on a site in Southwark Street have uncovered the largest area of Roman mosaic to be discovered in London for half a century london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1062…
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    The Mechanics of History by Yoann Bourgeois. Performed at the Pantheon (via @fguzfguz)
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    SUNAK: Do you work in business. DEAN: No, I’m homeless. I’m a homeless person SUNAK: Is banking or finance something you’d like to get into? DEAN: I’d just like to get through Christmas Excruciating! @RishiSunak goes for photo op in a homeless shelter
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    Replying to @StefSimanowitz
    4/. If you're cold tonight, imagine what it must be like to be sleeping rough #TakeOneLeaveOne rails can help in the immediate term, but they are a sticky plaster, not a solution Ending homelessness is not a Utopian dream What is needed is govt action👇
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    PHOTO 1: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the #Taliban enter #Kabul from all sides. #Afghanistan (2021) PHOTO 2: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the PAVN & Viet Cong capture of Saigon, Vietnam (1975)
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    If you’re fond of donkeys & like a bit of Georgian polyphonic singing accompanied by a panduri, check out @MandiliTrio
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    TRIO MANDILI
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    An impromptu haka by a small group of #Christchurch schoolchildren in tribute to 2 of their murdered classmates becomes a powerful & cathartic expression of grief & anger as scores of students join the deafening chorus. #NewZeland #ChristchurchTerrorAttack
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    “Happy birthday, Hugh Janus...er...” @Nigel_Farage
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    Balcony Shirts
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    Replying to @kumailn
    One racist down. Many more to come Racism destroyed in less than a minute by the brilliant Dr Jane Elliot. #BlackLivesMattter
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    Replying to @StefSimanowitz
    Trump keeps repeating that the US has so many cases because they test so many people, but he is unable to answer why the US has so many deaths TrUMP: “When I took over we didn’t even have a test” SWAN: “Why would you have a test? The virus didn’t exist.” x.com/ParkerMolloy/s…
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    “Do you own shares in Moderna #RishiSunak, ‘cos if you do, are we now talking about insider trading?” @carolvorders Sunak co-founded a hedge fund that invested £1b in Moderna shares & refuses to say if he holds assets in the hedge fund & therefore Moderna
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    PPE SCANDAL WORSENS Losses rise to £14.9 billion Be sure of one thing The rich get richer in a crisis It happened in the global financial crash in 2008 & not a single person went to jail And it happened in the pandemic & so far nobody has gone to jail either @GoodLawProject
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    Wow! In the Netherlands, a train has run through the buffers in Spijkenisse, onto an artwork called Whale Tails. The train driver was taken to hospital for a check-up.
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    1/. On 19 March, it’ll be 20 years since the start of the #IraqWar 50 days before war, #OTD in 2003, Bush said “the 16 words” “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” It was a lie, based on a forgery
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    A church in California has created a nativity scene putting Jesus, Mary & Joseph - the most well-known refugee family in the world - in separate cages. It is intended to make us ask ourselves: “What if this family sought refuge in our countries today?”
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    Replying to @StefSimanowitz
    "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." (George Bernard Shaw) The Mechanics of History by Yoann Bourgeois. (video via @fguzfguz) #Afghanistan #Kabul #Taliban #AfghanistanBurning #KabulHasFallen #Afghan_lives_matter
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