“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work.”
— Plotinus, The Enneads (via philosophybits)
Once the second-largest saltwater lake in the Middle East, Lake Urmia attracted birds and bathers to bask in its turquoise waters in northwest Iran. Then beginning in the 1970s, nearly three decades of drought and high water demands on the lake shriveled the basin, shrinking it by 80 percent. Recent torrential rains have replenished the water levels of this aquatic gem once known as “the turquoise solitaire of Azerbaijan.”
The animation above shows Lake Urmia on April 9, 2018, and April 12, 2019. The images were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on our Terra satellite. Officials report that the lake’s surface area reached roughly 3,000 square kilometers (1,200 square miles) in April 2019—expanding its volume nearly two-fold from a year ago.
I can tell which T^ump picks are criminals just by seeing their name on a list being nominated by the DiP.
The choice of somebody who would say something like that is deliberate, and the intent is clear. Removing the need to have actual evidence of a crime – and extending this procedure to literal children – is a white supremacist regime paving the way towards the day when it can disappear people of color wholesale and without any sort of due process.
People like that don’t belong in positions of power, they belong in an unmarked grave.
