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2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

Fermi-liquid-like phase driven by next-nearest-neighbor couplings in a lightly doped kagome-lattice $t$-$J$ model
Xu-Yan Jia (School of Physics, Beihang University), Fan Yang (School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology), D. N. Sheng (Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge), Shou-Shu Gong (School of Physical Sciences, Great Bay University, Great Bay Institute for Advanced Study)

Fermi-liquid-like phase driven by next-nearest-neighbor couplings in a lightly doped kagome-lattice $t$-$J$ model
Due to the interplay between charge fluctuation and geometry frustration, the doped kagome-lattice Mott insulator is a fascinating platform to realize exotic quantum states. Through the state-of-the-art density matrix renormalization group calculation, we explore the quantum phases of the lightly doped kagome-lattice $t$-$J$ model in the presence of the next-nearest-neighbor electron hopping $t_2$ and spin interaction $J_2$. On the $L_y = 3$ cylinder ($L_y$ is the number of unit cells along the…

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Liebe
Alkmaar//Niederlande

"Buttplug Gnome" steht für des westlichen Konsumverhalten.
Rotterdam

Der Führerschein wird also billiger, da nach bestehen die Regeln eh nicht mehr gelten?
Chapeau! Vor dieser Erkenntnis

Ist Anwohnerparken an die Inflation gekoppelt oder steigen immer nur die Preise für den ÖPNV und Bahn wie selbstverständlich.

Wennse nicht in die Breite gehen können, gehens doch in die Höhe!
Doppelstöckige Brücken, find ich gut.

#FotoVorschlag
'Perspektivwechsel'
Breakdance anno 1870

Wir sind gerade auf der Autobahn unterwegs – diesmal ordnungsgemäß mit einem Auto. An einer Baustelle sind zarte Pflanzen, teilweise kleine Pionierbäume, zwischen dem neuen und dem alten Asphalt zu beobachten.
Merz meinte, dass wir im Sommer die Veränderungen der neuen Regierung spüren werden.
Er hat recht: Deutschland wird grüner.
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