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@edenxmm

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At Northwestern: average Karen tried to walk her dog through the encampment & called the police although she was there voluntarily & was always FREE TO LEAVE. She clearly weaponizes her Jewish identity to make a mockery of actual victims of antisemitism. NUPD told her to leave.

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3 years

Just got accepted to Northwestern’s political science PhD program!!!!! Welcome to my political scientist era 😌🥲

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@edenxmm

3 years

Now that I am done with college I’d like to formally welcome you all to my flop era

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Good morning from Northwestern’s liberated zone 🌞 #FreePalestine

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3 years

I’ve officially accepted my offer to pursue my PhD in political science at Northwestern in the fall! On the other hand, I have not officially accepted that I need to purchase a winter coat and will be for the first time living somewhere it snows regularly 🤨

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@edenxmm

3 years

In 2012, I was in 8th grade. Now, I am a college graduate and incoming PhD student. In the 8 years I have been able to live my life, Ciham, an American citizen, has been imprisoned in Eritrea without ever being charged or tried of any crime. #FreeCiham

Amnesty International

@amnesty

3 years

Hey @SecBlinken , Ciham Ali, a dual citizen of Eritrea and US, has been in jail for over 8 years. She turns 24 today. The US government has STILL not intervened in her case. It’s time to take action and #FreeCiham .

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@edenxmm

7 months

Chicago PD wastes your tax dollars not only by intimidating protestors but by closing CTA stations to block people from attending and leaving peaceful protests #FreePalestine #GenocideJoe

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@edenxmm

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hey, that's me! you can read more about my research and why i do it 🤭

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@TGSatNU

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Eden Melles is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science @WeinbergCollege , exploring the dynamics of race, ethnicity, & identity, w/ a specific focus on Black immigrants and diaspora, social movements, and political behavior. Read more here:

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@edenxmm

3 years

Celebrating Independence Day feels particularly weird given all of the events that have taken place in the horn this past year. I hope one day being Eritrean doesn’t require carrying so much generational trauma. We’ve liberated ourselves once & I have faith we will do it again

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1 month

The least @NorthwesternU could do after 7 months of torture in Gaza is adhere to these demands & stop profiting and innovating for genocide. I urge every Northwestern affiliated person to sign and continue pressuring for divestment.

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@edenxmm

3 years

Why do grad schools have DEI initiatives to recruit underrepresented students and then…never support them? Why am I being financially depleted before the semester even starts! Why am I as a broke person…trying to support my other broke friends…academia…count your days…

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@edenxmm

3 years

Now that I am done with college I’d like to formally welcome you all to my flop era

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3 years

the flag: the face:

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@edenxmm

3 years

#EscapingEritrea really hit me in the gut. I can’t believe hgdef weirdos can sleep at night knowing they’re supporting the destruction of innocent people, their futures, and our beautiful country for absolutely no reason. Everyday I pray my ppl will be free. Is*as count ur days

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@edenxmm

1 month

Northwestern Student Government just passed emergency legislation supporting the People’s Resolution, calling for divestment from Israel and public disclosure of investments, amongst other demands.

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1 month

The least @NorthwesternU could do after 7 months of torture in Gaza is adhere to these demands & stop profiting and innovating for genocide. I urge every Northwestern affiliated person to sign and continue pressuring for divestment.

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@edenxmm

8 months

This is actually one of the most disgusting, vile statements I’ve seen from a US public official. Fear mongering to Americans who will never feel the repercussions of brazen US/Israeli militarism is sick. Palestinians are people and this rhetoric is nothing short of genocidal.

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

8 months

This is not just an attack on Israel—this was an attack on America. Finish them, @Netanyahu . They should have hell to pay for what they have just done.

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1 month

Literally the boy who cried wolf lol imagine working for a university that militantly dispersed and arrested students peacefully protesting genocide and still crying like a baby that they’re “Khamas” 😭 this maniac wishes what’s being done in Gaza would happen to kids at Columbia

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@HilzFuld

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I’m gonna tell you right now, @ShaiDavidai will go down in history as a hero who stood for what’s right against the mob mentality of US universities. Hats off.

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@edenxmm

3 years

Whenever I see horn leftists beefing on this bird app about how raising awareness for #TigrayGenocide makes you a supporter of western imperialism I have to log off because some of y’all did none of the reading but love to talk

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@edenxmm

3 years

Moved into a new apartment

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@edenxmm

3 years

I am moving to Chicago tomorrow and today my landlord informed my roommate and I (after ghosting us) that our apartment won’t be ready to move into for another 2 months 😐 her current lease just ended 😐

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@edenxmm

4 years

My 8 year old neighbor asked me to watch his goldfish while he’s out of town and now it’s dead and no pet store is open. Merry Christmas!

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@edenxmm

4 years

Feeling excited because I just finished designing a survey that will build on this initial project by measuring how COVID-19 has impacted nonprofits & their decision to pursue a financial relationship with the government. Check out the results and context of my original study!

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@murap_iaar

4 years

In case you missed it: ⚡️ “MURAP Research Talkback Series: Eden Melles” @edenmelles

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@edenxmm

3 years

Just got my second dose of the vaccine 🥲

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@edenxmm

3 years

I woke up today thinking about how bleak things are now that it’s March again....BUT I also submitted my first paper for publication, my brother passed a big exam and is getting a professional license that will advance his career, and it’s my mom’s birthday! So maybe we win today

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@edenxmm

14 days

@NorthwesternU : Zionist Karen #2 , who instead of faking a 911 call, espouses anti Arab racism & calls us terrorists for protesting genocide. She destroys several art pieces in the name of alleged "Jewish friends" like a coward. Thx NU for allowing us to experience SO much racism!

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@edenxmm

1 month

The richest police department in the largest city in the US arresting nonviolent student protestors brought to you by useless admin & Eric Adams who closed libraries and slashed education budgets so you could go to jail for showing solidarity and protesting GENOCIDE

Layla 🪬

@itslaylas

1 month

NYPD JUST ARRESTED EVERY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT AT THE GAZA TENT ENCLOSURE!! JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED AT ONE POLICE PLAZA!! #cu4palestine

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@edenxmm

2 years

There’s no harsher reviewer than a habesha parent lol I let my dad read one of my final papers that I wrote on Eritrean politics and I woke up to him saying “ I read your paper and I have comments. Let’s meet and discuss them later”

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@edenxmm

3 years

So many people lack the critical thinking skills to understand what the praxis of justice actually looks like. Some people are so willing to accept a deeply violent system that a small act of accountability feels like a genuine win. What is justice if a man was still murdered?

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@edenxmm

3 years

about to walk into my Eritrean household with a freshly pierced septum what do y’all think my chances of survival are

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@edenxmm

4 days

“I will not support any academic boycotts or divestment that targets Israel” - Northwestern University President Michael Schill

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

4 days

Exclusive: Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [ @AqsaUniversity ]’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.

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@edenxmm

2 years

I just got mistaken for a certain tenured professor by another professor while walking down the hall at UMich lol. As if it wasn’t bad enough getting mistaken for the wrong grad student in my own department 😭 being black in academia is tiring

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@edenxmm

3 years

Why has the Eritrean government detained Ciham for 8 years? Why has the US government not intervened in Ciham's case, despite her being a US national? Why is the world silent about Ciham's suffering? Join me in pressuring @SecBlinken to act now. #FreeCiham

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3 months

The National Conference of Black Political Scientists having this event as a part of their conference programming is unbelievably insulting. To many Eritreans & Ethiopians, the continued romanticization of Selassie is a direct ERASURE of the violence many generations endured

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@edenxmm

21 days

journalism is in the US is over

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@PulitzerPrizes

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@hannahdreier @nytimes @stillsarita @NewYorker @sarahanneconway @city_bureau @invinst @Reuters @washingtonpost Congratulations to @nytimes . #Pulitzer

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3 years

I am moving to Chicago tomorrow and today my landlord informed my roommate and I (after ghosting us) that our apartment won’t be ready to move into for another 2 months 😐 her current lease just ended 😐

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3 years

This country is still going to hell

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@edenxmm

4 years

All I do is look at spreadsheets, send emails, go on Zoom, complain, and stare at the wall. At this point I don’t even know if I could have an intelligible conversation with someone if I saw them in person

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@edenxmm

4 years

I’m tired of seeing tweets like “how could this happen again? What’s wrong with us?” ..like gee I don’t know we live in a racist society where white supremacy is embedded deeply into every structure & institution of this country since its inception & accountability isn’t real?

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@edenxmm

4 years

I’ve been in a breakout room for 15 minutes now and everyone is muted with no camera on. It’s truly no thoughts just vibes 😌

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@edenxmm

4 years

Being a political science major is like top 5 worst things I’ve ever done to myself

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@edenxmm

1 year

could have never predicated the degree to which Morocco’s win would cause my entire timeline to devolve into the most useless discourse about whether Moroccans are Arab or African, if Arabs exist in Africa or if North Africans are African 😭 wallahi my head hurts

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@edenxmm

2 years

I credit being able to apply to grad school to a generous professor who offered to pay for my application fees. More professors (esp at elite institutions) should consider redistributing some $$ to pay for the absurd application fees that almost deterred me from applying at all

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@cmMcConnaughy

2 years

How did you all apply to so many places?

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@edenxmm

4 years

#NewProfilePic

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@edenxmm

1 year

My parents always invite our Turkish neighbors over for dinner on Christmas and today their young son came over to tell my mom that the food she made (doro wat & injera) was amazing and asked if she could teach his mom how to make it. He specifically loved the egg 🤣

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@edenxmm

3 years

A lot of you are very anti Black and probably shouldn’t be doing REP work or any research in general. Perhaps try seeking prayer or something idk, but at the very least, as reparation, should be keeping a very far distance form me.

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@edenxmm

3 years

collectively, we have to start beating rich people up idc

Rap All-Stars 🏆

@RapAllStars

3 years

Michael Rubin, Meek Mill, & Jay-Z sent Robert Kraft his dream Bentley for his 80th birthday 🙌🏾

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@edenxmm

1 year

CALL FOR PAPERS: AfriSem @NU_PAS is hosting their annual conference this year around the theme "built environment". With this conference being hybrid we strongly encourage scholars from the continent and outside the US to apply! Please feel free to circulate and share widely.

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@edenxmm

8 months

One of the sickest things about the West is that it truly sees this genocide as a means of not only physically erasing Palestinians, but also permanently regarding them as invisible by culturally and historically erasing their stories.

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what even is the point of book publishing

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@edenxmm

3 years

As Black people and members of the diaspora, it is our duty to not let them be forgotten. The United States has an obligation to protect its citizens, & Ciham's case serves as an unfortunate reminder of the precariousness of citizenship for Black people. @SecBlinken DO SOMETHING!

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@edenxmm

1 month

are the Sudanese civilians in the room with us ?

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1 month

It was a pleasure to close the civilian seminar of the #SudanConference in Paris alongside envoys from France and Germany. I am encouraged by the spirit of dialogue and commitment to sustainable peace by this diverse group. We will remain steadfast at the side of 🇸🇩 civilians.

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@edenxmm

4 years

Some history professors slip into “role playing” fascists and racists and legitimize their beliefs a lil too easily for me 😐

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@edenxmm

2 years

why did they spend all that time teaching us contractions in school just for it to be “unprofessional” in academic writing? Growing more convinced everyday that grammar rules are just arbitrarily enforced and created to sow the seeds of division in society!

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@edenxmm

2 years

I can’t believe this was 8 months ago and I was so hopeful 😭 got boosted today, school online for the first couple weeks of the quarter, and unfortunately the streets will not be seeing me for who knows how long. I would like the time loop to end 🥲

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@edenxmm

3 years

Just got my second dose of the vaccine 🥲

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@edenxmm

2 years

thinking about how I should’ve never deleted my tumblr blog and that there needs to be serious research done on the cultural impact that website had from 2012-2015

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@edenxmm

2 years

Anyway, a lot of you academics need to put a lot more effort into respecting your colleagues because it’s embarrassing!

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@edenxmm

4 years

No offense but why

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4 years

Hollywood Critics Association has named Kristen Stewart the Actress of the Decade (via @LAOFCS )

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@edenxmm

2 years

I’m trying to craft an independent study on social movements and protest (with a special interest in REP work) and would much appreciate if anyone has syllabi or recommended readings they’d be willing to share!

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@edenxmm

1 year

When France wins don’t let anyone but Mbappé touch the trophy

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@edenxmm

3 years

My last week of college starts today time to start some chaotic discourse in the Zoom room one last time

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@edenxmm

3 years

I need someone to reimburse me for the damage this semester did to my already terrible eyes

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@edenxmm

4 years

How does it not frighten some of you that cops get paid to engage in behavior that regular people get arrested for?

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4 years

2/. An aerial shot of the same incident. It doesn’t appear that anyone was injured...luckily. #BlacklivesMaters #brooklynprotest #riots2020 #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd (Via @pgarapon )

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@edenxmm

1 month

Few moments have made me as proud to be apart of a university as today when I attended a free Palestine & divestment rally organized by undergrads to intentionally disrupt admitted students day only to see one of my former students giving the most eloquent speech

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@edenxmm

3 years

And no I will never be moving again. They can drag me and my stuff out of here when my lease ends this is too much!

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@edenxmm

3 years

I fw Phoebe Bridger’s but the whole donate to a murdered man’s family and I’ll send you a written note is not giving what she thought it would give and is very tasteless.

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@edenxmm

4 years

until my university cuts me a check i have decided to stop making comments and doing the labor of having to teach some of my peers who have clearly never used google or read a book once in their life

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@edenxmm

4 years

Some of y’all really posted a black square on Instagram and said that’s enough activism for the rest of my life 😌

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@edenxmm

3 years

I swear every time I accidentally rip out my nose ring while I’m drying my face I think about ending it all like i know beauty is pain but pls ive had enough

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@edenxmm

3 years

seeing my parents for the first time in a month just sitting in my room with them listening to the new records I’ve picked up since I’ve been gone and chatting is not something I would’ve cherished a year ago the way I do now 🥺

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@edenxmm

3 years

I hope everyone who goes to thrift stores and buys clothes then resells them for an absurd amount has a terrible day

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@edenxmm

4 years

Jeff Bezos is being awfully quiet right now

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@edenxmm

5 months

@badgualriri ayney, my mom says it to me all the time and it feels like the most endearing to be called

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@edenxmm

2 years

Like this man actually just said he had a student in his office raving about one of my classes 🥲 meanwhile I am dressed in a Chicago Cubs t shirt, a beanie, and wearing a mask looking very much like a grad student just staring back at him speechless

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1 year

81st minute is when France realized they were actually playing in the World Cup final

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@edenxmm

3 years

Why are we all still pretending anyone gets anything done working from home. All I’ve done today is open a data set, pick which album I want to listen to while I work, and then done everything I possibly can to avoid looking at my computer. I’m tired!

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@edenxmm

3 years

No matter who wins both teams are losers to me

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@edenxmm

3 years

people get on clubhouse everyday and choose violence!!!!

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@edenxmm

3 years

#BlackLivesMatter not only reminds us to remember the Black lives that have been violently taken from this earth, but also those that have been unjustly imprisoned and subjected to social death through the carceral system at home and abroad #FreeCiham

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@edenxmm

3 years

I can’t believe I went to college and graduated only for my university to beg me to donate money I don’t have and cut off access to my Google accounts unannounced

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@edenxmm

4 years

Every day I ask God to reveal to me what I need to do in order to end up in the same room as SZA, Solange, and Rihanna at the same time

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@edenxmm

3 months

My Arabic professor saying "ارتريا أم ال��نيا" & telling me they invited him to join the ELF when it started in Cairo as an apology for accidentally calling me Ethiopian 😭 this is the only form of allyship I accept

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@edenxmm

4 years

This is the same guy who is overseeing an absolute atrocity of a response to a pandemic responsible for the loss of more than 100,000 lives claiming enthusiastically to use military force against citizens and take who knows how many more...

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@edenxmm

4 years

I mean he said it

Donald Trump Jr.

@DonaldJTrumpJr

8 years

Dear Clintons, You know what's deplorable? Being Impeached!!! #BasketOfDeplorables

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@edenxmm

8 months

“international human rights lawyer” you have no humanity. I pray the digital footprint of all you genocide enablers and supporters comes back to bite you in the ass.

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@edenxmm

3 months

maybe they should abolish tenure

Agnes Callard

@AgnesCallard

3 months

You must go back in time: would you prefer to live the life of a slave owner, or the life of a slave?

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@edenxmm

4 years

iMessage would be elite if they revamped the voice memos feature and allowed you to @ people in group messages. For now, the foreign moms on WhatsApp are really winning

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@edenxmm

4 years

Netflix and Hulu fumbling their own bag by cancelling Patriot Act and High Fidelity in the same month is a lot for me to take in considering there’s still a pandemic and both platforms have minimal content with bipoc leads

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@edenxmm

4 years

Being a politician is just becoming an old white dude who made a bunch of unfavorable choices and then lying and saying you have no recollection of wrong doing and the best part is people will actually believe you

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@edenxmm

4 years

All I know is pain.....😪

Yamiche Alcindor

@Yamiche

4 years

Prayer for his family. Alex Trebek of "Jeopardy!" dies at 80 after cancer battle via @USATODAY

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@edenxmm

2 years

If there’s one thing about American Airlines they’re gonna have you run through the airport just to ruin your day. I should’ve paid more attention to that lawyer from tiktok 😐

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@edenxmm

2 years

Wordle 206 2/6 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My greatest accomplishment of 2022 so far

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@edenxmm

3 years

Can’t believe I’ve moved the past the time of my life where going to appointments was a nice break from work and is now a massive inconvenience to my day

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@edenxmm

5 months

Immense and unwavering sadness for all the Palestinian & Sudanese families who cannot find comfort in proper burials/funerals/gatherings as the world watches unprecedented numbers of their families ripped apart and murdered, while putting their victimhood on trial.

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@edenxmm

5 months

Being amongst grieving family this week reminds me how viscerally Eritreans, and others from similar cultures, mourn the loss of relatives, friends etc. Being amidst community through a death is a privilege that often helps to cushion the pain momentarily. I can’t help but feel

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3 years

My timeline for the past 24hrs...anyway happy Independence Day 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

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@edenxmm

3 years

shaytan works hard but US imperialism works waaaay harder. #FreePalestine

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@ajplus

3 years

BREAKING: The U.S. blocked a UN Security Council statement demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, reports @AFP . It is the third time the U.S. has blocked a resolution. Israeli airstrikes have killed about 200 Palestinians in Gaza including 58 children.

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@edenxmm

4 years

Not Joe saying he was raised in the suburbs like that’s a flex and then saying they’re largely integrated??

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@edenxmm

4 years

They gave him a step-by-step guide that gives directions for all scenarios at fifth grade reading level and he still managed to screw everything up. He went out of his way to make things astronomically worse and some of y’all want four more years of this!?

Dan Diamond

@ddiamond

4 years

EXCLUSIVE: White House national security officials prepared a “pandemic playbook” — a step-by-step guide to ensure testing, check on workers’ equipment, even consider the Defense Production Act. The Trump administration ignored it. with @nahaltoosi

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@edenxmm

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One of the most endearing things about Eritrean culture (& probably many others) is that we are always going to beef about who’s paying. Like the look of disrespect when your advance to pay loses is so 😭always feel bad for the waiters but it’s such a funny display of affection

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@edenxmm

3 years

@TheGreatIsNate yes 😭 my dad says it’s kinda cool and my mom….we’re still working on her

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@edenxmm

2 years

@KitchaFitFit1 this sounds like a mess…I want in

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@edenxmm

3 years

not my mom telling me one day when I’m president we’ll be drinking boon in the White House please 😭

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