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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
So I was conversing with a dear friend about how much the inauthenticity of social media bothers me deeply. I have a visceral response to it, which causes me to skulk off in a corner and stay quiet. But, she rightfully pointed out that if I don't speak my truth—if I don't show up as the authentic presence that I crave— then I am just contributing to the current dynamic. A non-vote is a vote, especially this year.
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Anyone who murders civilians is evil. There is nothing to celebrate. Celebrating murder is evil.
Politics becomes so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment when ideological victory becomes more important than human life. And what is lost is human life.
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I finished teaching a course on evil last Thursday. The last reading we discussed was Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking and Moral Considerations.” In the essay Arendt asks how politics can become so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment.
Dessy Levinson retweeted
“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”
Italo Calvino (who titled the record of his first visit "An Optimist in America") on abortion and the meaning of life themarginalian.org/2013/06/0…
Have spent the past few weeks experimenting with #midjourney and the past two days with @OpenAI's #dalle2. #AIart is consciousness-expanding, therapeutic, and a whole new portal to two of our most healing emotions: curiosity & wonder. #AI Image thread >
Moving story of how we can be brave, even while being terrified. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Dr. Fryer's speech, which changed DSM classification of homosexuality. I'm a member of the APA, yet never knew one person had changed its course. nytimes.com/2022/05/02/healt…
Dessy Levinson retweeted
I talked to @ZelenskyyUa yesterday. He needs your help. Please do something, however small, to help Ukrainians in their fight against evil.
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we will prevail over those langoliers for you, sir
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Remember “Mriya”, the largest plane ever built by humans?
It’s destroyed by Putin’s invaders.
That’s what Putin does: sowing destruction, lies, death.
RIP, beautiful bird, we loved you.
#PutinHitler #PutinIsaWarCriminal
Dessy Levinson retweeted
In 48 hours, countless Ukrainians were forced to flee their homes to neighboring countries. They need protection. When you donate, we’ll match it up to $1,000,000, creating double the support.⬇️ unrefugees.org/SupportUkrain…
Right now, the crisis in Ukraine is forcing families to flee their homes.
Please make a donation today to send lifesaving aid to displaced Ukrainians, and @VancityReynolds & @blakelively will match your gift $1-for-$1 up to $1,000,000.
unrefugees.org/donateukraine
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YMCA Moldova has been working today with local partner Daac Hermes to prepare packs of necessities for people fleeing Ukraine. Please, support us by donating here buff.ly/3JXA56n. Thank you.
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Ukraine. Women joined defense too. A school teacher is crying before departing to the frontline of the defense of Kyiv.
Photo: @nytimes
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In Russia, a planned partial Facebook shutdown; Twitter appears to be shut in Moscow too; media watchdog on a warpath against any media reporting anything from non-state sources about this conflict. Russia is being cut off from the truth
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Ukraine is fighting the invader with weapons in hands, defending its freedom and European future. Discussed with @vonderleyen effective assistance to our country from 🇪🇺 in this heroic struggle. I believe that the #EU also chooses Ukraine.