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Mother, filmmaker, feminist. I believe in Democracy.

The most democratizing aspect of social media is that we get to watch in real time one man destroy the carefully crafted myth that billionaires should run everything.

https://fortune.com/2023/03/07/elon-musk-bodyguards-twitter-office-restroom/

Elon Musk’s bodyguards follow him around the office—even to the restroom, Twitter employee says

The employee at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters said he feels Musk doesn’t trust his workers.

Fortune

Girls in Iran continue to be chemically poisoned at school while the world looks away. Nothing scares despotic theocrats more than free, politically active girls and women.

#MahsaAmini
#WomenLifeFreedom
#SaveIranianSchoolgirls

Hasan Minhaj Quits Twitter ‘Hellscape’ Live on ‘Daily Show’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hasan-minhaj-quits-twitter-hellscape-live-on-daily-show

Hasan Minhaj Quits Twitter ‘Hellscape’ Live on ‘Daily Show’

“What happened to the mass exodus when Elon took over?” the guest host asked before deciding to lead the charge himself.

The Daily Beast

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

George Santos was questioned by U.S. Secret Service in 2017 credit card fraud probe - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-santos-questioned-by-secret-service-2017-credit-card-fraud-probe/
George Santos was questioned by U.S. Secret Service in 2017 credit card fraud probe

The future congressman was questioned after his address was found in a car tied to the suspect in an ATM skimming case.

CBS News
DAILY REMINDER: Today's GOP is a white nationalist, FASCIST movement that seeks to impose their religious beliefs as law. We must politically destroy them in order to save our freedoms and our Republic.
I was reading about the silent film era and thinking about how silly the word "talkie" is, and was then forced to really consider, for the first time, the word "movie"
Transgender rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.

This is literally in the text of the #Texas bill:

"the following may not purchase or otherwise acquire title to real property in this state:…an individual who is a citizen of China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia"

See it for yourself at https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB147/id/2612943 and https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=SB147

I can't speak for the others, but there are *tons* of Chinese immigrants with green cards, H1B, H4, and student visas living in Texas.

Barring them from owning a home is sick

#NoToSB147 #StopAsianHate #txlege

Texas SB147 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

Bill Text (2022-11-14) Relating to the purchase of or acquisition of title to real property by certain aliens or foreign entities. [Filed]

LegiScan

"I do believe that both in Iran and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijab is being used as a means of exerting violence and meting out violence against women, bruising and hurting women, and then covering them in a veil to hide all the bruises and the hurt.”

Nasrin Sotoudeh,
Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer,
Iran.

#IranRevolution
#WomanLifeFreedom

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/08/middleeast/iran-protests-nasrin-sotoudeh-amanpour-interview-intl/index.html?s=09