In a rare show of unity, the U.S. Senate voted 100–0 to suspend all military and financial aid to Azerbaijan for two years, passing the Armenian Protection Act amid growing concern over Azerbaijan’s treatment of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. The bill, spearheaded by Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), conditions future aid on improvements in human rights and allows humanitarian groups continued access to the region.
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They turned her into content. A stranger’s face, ripped from context, passed around like a punchline no one thought could bleed. The laughs were loud; the damage…
They crowned her before she could speak, then spent years tearing the crown from her head. Applause became a weapon, praise a leash, beauty a sentence she…
He said it like a wound. Like the word itself had teeth. “Fire.” It stuck in my throat, in my clothes, in the spaces between us that…
Your veins don’t change for nothing. One day they’re barely there; the next, they’re bright ropes under your skin, pulsing after a shower, after a sprint, after…
Some stars don’t fade. They choose to disappear. She walked away at the height of her power, when every door was open and every camera was waiting….
You felt holy, then emptied. The kind of hollow that makes silence roar and every unread message feel like a sentence passed. You gave pieces of yourself…