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Jamila khan retweeted
She is 56 years 🇺🇸
When she was 8, she came home from school and saw police taking her dad away in handcuffs. That was the day her family life changed forever.
She later lost her father to a sudden death 🕊️
She has endured more than a dozen surgeries for severe fibroids, a partial hysterectomy, and failed IVF rounds in a long, painful struggle with infertility
After years of waiting and testing her faith, she and her husband Derek adopted four children (Lance, Langston, and twins Lincoln and Lennox) ❤️
She has spoken movingly about how Black boys are often "the last chosen" in the adoption system, and she is the proud mother of three sons
Keisha has described her father's sudden death at 55 as a wake-up call that made her question how she wanted to spend her own remaining years.
Her early childhood included ballet lessons and international travel thanks to her dad's music career (he once opened for the Beatles), until addiction and prison took it all away.
While her mother worked multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, young Keisha spent weekends driving across Georgia to visit her father in different prisons.
After losing a judicial race, she sat on the floor surrounded by bills and maxed-out credit cards, asking God, "You told me to go do it. So now what?"
Determined not to fail again, she and her mom knocked on doors from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m daily until she won her city council seat without a runoff.
During the 2020 protests, the mother of Black sons tearfully pleaded with the city:" If you care about this city… go home," fearing for her own children's safety
While serving as mayor, she, her husband, and one of her children all tested positive for COVID-19. All four of her kids have asthma
She received racist hate messages during the pandemic, including one while her daughter looked over her shoulder
She is the first person in Atlanta history to serve in all three branches of city government: as a judge, city council member, and mayor.
In her memoir The Rough Side of the Mountain, she opened up about her father's addiction, her own eating disorder struggles, and being molested, saying sharing those parts of herself was liberating.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms is the first black female governor in the history of United States. 🎉
But you can see how rough and hard her path has been.
How she has been tested in literally all major aspect of her life. In her marriage, her parenting, her career, her political office, her childhood and growing up, etc
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But today, she triumphs and stands high above her challenges. She is a winner today, all because she didn't stop when the going got really hard. She didn't quit.
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And that's exactly what I want you to do today.
Don't stop pushing for what you believe in.
Yes, I know you've gone through a lot. You've faced somethings that would break other people. You've endured challenges that many others can't.
But I tell you today, that if you keep your motion going, then one win is all you need to close your eyes and say to yourself "Yes, I triumphed"
So like Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms, I want you to keep pushing for the life you so much deserve.
You will get there. Certainly. Definitely
Hang in there and keep the motion going, no matter how small 🫂
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Thank you very much for reading
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist
Jamila khan retweeted
To Pakistanis celebrating a Muslim’s election to the U.S. Senate: perhaps start by allowing Ahmadis to vote & be represented in the Pakistani senate.
If that’s too much to ask, how are you different from the far right Americans who think Muslims don’t belong in America?
Jamila khan retweeted
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, James Talarico just went on Fox News and blew them away. This guy is a generational talent.
Jamila khan retweeted
HISTORY MADE! 🪶💜 Deb Haaland has become the first Native American woman elected governor in U.S. history of NEW MEXICO! A member of the Pueblo of Laguna and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Haaland has spent her career advocating for Indigenous communities, environmental justice, public lands, and the protection of our natural resources. Her historic victory represents a powerful milestone for Indigenous representation in American politics. 🐺 CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉
Jamila khan retweeted
More positive news! To be clear, I’m not celebrating merely because she’s Muslim, hijabi, or Palestinian. I’m celebrating because her victory represents something bigger: pluralism, inclusivity, and democracy.
It shows that even in the face of relentless smears and propaganda, a candidate can still prevail on merit. America belongs to ALL Americans. 🇺🇸
Jamila khan retweeted
He built a Full Modern house on the narrowest plot in the UK Town
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Jamila khan retweeted
A Muslim man in Medina once stole a suit of armour and framed an innocent Jewish man.
His Muslim clansmen rallied to his defence, appealing to Prophet Muhammad to protect their own.
Then came a Quranic revelation:
“Whoever commits a fault or a sin and then blames it on an innocent person has certainly burdened himself with slander and manifest sin.”(Quran 4:112)
The revelation condemned the Muslim wrongdoer and defended the innocent Jewish man.
Think about that. For fourteen centuries, Muslims have recited verses that, according to classical accounts, were revealed in part to defend a Jewish man against a Muslim and his tribal supporters.
The Quran did not ask whose tribe he belonged to. It asked who was innocent. That is what principled justice looks like.
Justice is not loyalty to your religion, your nation, or your tribe. It is loyalty to what is right, even when the wrongdoer is one of your own.
That is the Islam I believe in.
Jamila khan retweeted
Thank you @londonsoc for this thoughtful piece on the Fazl Mosque at 100.
London’s first purpose-built mosque has lasted by never stopping: daily prayers, a WWII air raid shelter, a Covid vaccine clinic in 2021.
#FazlMosque
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Jamila khan retweeted
El sexto sentido funciona!!!
Un niño de 3 años fue secuestrado de una biblioteca pública, y menos de una hora después, estaba sentado en un autobús urbano junto al hombre que se lo había llevado. El pequeño niño lloraba, y los otros pasajeros no tenían idea de que había sido raptado. Pero cuando el conductor del autobús miró al niño, de repente se dio cuenta de que coincidía con la descripción del niño desaparecido que la policía buscaba desesperadamente.
Ocurrió en Milpitas, California. El conductor de autobús Tim Watson había oído la alerta policial sobre un niño de 3 años desaparecido esa misma mañana. Cuando un hombre subió a su autobús con un niño que lloraba, algo no le pareció bien. Cuanto más miraba Tim al pequeño niño, más sospechaba que era el niño que todos estaban buscando.
Pero Tim no podía arriesgarse a confrontar al hombre. Si era el secuestrador, un movimiento equivocado podría poner al pequeño niño en un peligro aún mayor. Así que Tim ideó un plan astuto. Anunció a los pasajeros que alguien había reportado una mochila verde perdida y comenzó a caminar por el autobús, fingiendo buscarla.
Mientras pasaba junto al hombre y al niño, Tim se acercó más y confirmó sus sospechas. Contactó discretamente con la central para alertar a la policía, luego regresó a su asiento y continuó conduciendo como si nada hubiera pasado. Todo el tiempo, el presunto secuestrador permaneció a bordo, completamente ajeno a que el conductor había reconocido al niño.
Tim mantuvo la compostura hasta que la policía pudo interceptar el autobús. Los agentes subieron a bordo, arrestaron al sospechoso y llevaron al pequeño niño a un lugar seguro. Gracias a un conductor de autobús observador que se negó a ignorar sus instintos, un secuestro terrorífico terminó con un niño siendo devuelto a su familia.
Tim Watson no era un oficial de policía ni un rescatista entrenado. Era simplemente un conductor de autobús que reconoció a un niño en peligro y encontró una manera de salvarlo sin ponerlo en mayor riesgo. Démosle a este hombre increíble el reconocimiento que se merece.
Jamila khan retweeted
The most beautiful thing I’ve seen on the internet today. These little stars from Lahore have won our hearts ❤️
Jamila khan retweeted
In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
