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Anya Hope Medlin

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Hind is constantly tweeting about being overwhelmed and hopeless. Bisan is sharing videos of children dying--literally someone trying to give a child chest compressions before giving up, the camera lingering on the child's limp, dead body. Today, Motaz posted video of his bombed out neighborhood--footage of a hand that does not end in an arm but ends in frayed and tattered meat. His neighborhood lost 45 people, his cousin also died.

His last tweet, 16 minutes ago, is him in the rain, the caption begs for the genocide to stop. "Please god, stop this."

Things have been dire and are getting more bleak. Using these people as inspiration porn--repeated lines of "Palestinians haven't lost hope, so we shouldn't other"--grows useless as it is clear it is very hard for them to manage hope. Hind has flat out admitted to being overwhelmed and losing feeling. The dead child, whose face was drenched in blood, cannot hope. It is not their fault, it isn't a matter of them not trying enough. It is a sign of Israel's cruelty.

How bad it is gotten--how much worse it is getting as Israel faces little resistance from the international community, as lack of food and medical care and sanitation spreads disease, how much the rain and cold sucks out the capacity to do anything other than survive and stress--means we should push harder. Fueled by righteous fury at injustice and needless suffering, not human beings turned into mascots, we must push and pull things harder until the system of suffering breaks.

I don't even know what that means. Every call to action feels so pathetically weak in the wake of all of this. But we must figure out what pushing harder means and fast.

Every day spent doing nothing or the bare minimum is more lives lost, more hope lost.

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"A Child’s View from Gaza" was an art exhibition showcasing drawings created by the children of Gaza.

"The captioned illustrations were created by Palestinian children who lived through the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008-09. The pictures were drawn as part of an effort to help children deal with the horrors they had experienced. A Bay Area nonprofit, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), arranged to display a collection of these pictures at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California. However, under pressure from the Jewish Federation of the East Bay and other organizations, the museum backed out of the agreement at the last minute."

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safety, health, liberation for the people of palestine……that is the goal. everything else is just noise.

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RWT 2023: LAS VEGAS (1ST NIGHT)

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Titus Andronicus: performed in Japanese, it is a 2006 production by the Ninagawa Company staged in Stratford-upon-Avon. There was no stage blood used in this production, instead ribbons of red silk come out of mouths,throats and hands,

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Do you know I could break beneath the weight

Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you?

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good omens: s2e2 the clue || s1e1 in the beginning

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good morning cnovel readers you are not immune to anti northern/central asian racism

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Tears can be so good for those who dive in them.

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I know who you are. I can see you.

POLLY WALKER as ATIA OF THE JULII  ROME (2005) | 2.10: de patre vostro

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It’s a bad idea and I’m all about it Give it one more chance and then I finally had it When you wake up, I’ll be gone again Motorcycle in the front lawn

It’s an all night drive from your house to Reno To the T-bird graveyard where we play with fire. In another life, we were arsonists.

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I think the shot of Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng in the grass field after Lotus Pier burned is a reference to Bai Juyi's Grass poem, which is--hrrggfhh!!!

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My Neighbor Totoro Stills

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everything

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I love you (many of you!) and hope you're safe, internet people.