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i've been feeling incredible anger and frustration lately with these posts lamenting what the next four years will look like in the u.s., how much "worse" things will get under the trump administration, as if we haven't been witnessing a holocaust for the past year funded by the biden administration. if you have seen a single video from gaza, a single picture, read a feature from a gazan journalist, spoken to a single person in your inbox when they plead for your attention and help, words like "worse" or "better" turn to ash in your mouth. just yesterday my friend hilda texted me that even when her family manages to get food, smoke from the fire needed to cook aggravates her sinus allergies, making it difficult to breathe. this is how she's been living for the past year and a month, under a democrat-funded genocide.

below is a small fraction of the palestinians who have reached out to me for help with their campaigns. it is a huge source of shame to me that i can't keep up with all of the people in my inbox. please go to their accounts and read their stories. and please give what you can spare.

hilda @hildanasr1 / GFM - 5%

dina @dina179 / GFM - 33%

yousseff @youseffamily / GFM - 92%

suad @suad-khaled / GFM - 51%

nada @nadamd44 / GFM - 1%

asma @asmaayyad2 / GFM - 62%

shehab family @reemshehabnew / GFM - 90%

yahya @yahyabkheet-blog / GFM - 21%

mohammed @mohammed-hassouna1 / GFM - 19%

abdulrahman @3bdulra7manosama / GFM - 9%

mai @abuhamdasblog / GFM - 5%

ibrahim @aburakhiaibrahim / GFM - 22%

mona @mansh99 / GFM - 13%

ahmed @najah-meshal5 / GFM - 16%

noor @noor-yashour / GFM - 10%

*ALL CAMPAIGNS ARE VETTED*

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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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Mohammed was able to get a solar panel for his space heater with a partial down payment, but the shopkeeper only gave him four days to complete the payment or he will repossess it!!

it is outrageous that infrastructure has been destroyed to the extent that parents are forced to jury-rig shit like this just to try to keep their children alive. if you have heat in the winter I hope you will pitch in a few dollars to help get this family set up.

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$634 / $1,445 by November 19

🍓 get a tatreez piece or a poem for your donation 🍓

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Hey guys! I hagen't updated you on Mona's initiatives in a while, because I'm hoping many of you already follow her on Instagram. But since the last time we fundraised, Mona has been able to do a whole host of initiatives to distribute goods in Khan Younis! From diaper distribution to the distribution of hygiene products, soaps, shampoo, clean water? Food, hot meals, ingredients for cooking, etc... please do not hesitate to donate! Every dollar helps more than you know! P*ypal link.

G*f*ndme for distribution of basic necessities in Ghazzah.

G*f*ndme to help Mona and her family.

G*f*ndme to help Mona's sister and niece.

Instagram to keep track of initiatives.

(If you live in India or Pakistan and want to donate, contact her through the means listed on her account).

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I'm not actually sure if posts / fundraiser pages that contain photos and videos of children tend to raise more money, but god, I almost hope not

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Food emergency!

Bashaer needs $50 USD to purchase milk and diapers for Ayla. This is not a large amount, I think we can meet this goal very quickly.

We are setting a new short term goal of $50 to help Bashaer @bshaeromars-blog get everything she needs. Bashaer also needs to buy winter clothing for both herself and for Ayla. Ayla was not born during last year’s harsh winter, and Bashaer’s winter clothing was lost or destroyed due to frequent IOF attacks and displacements. Extra funds beyond the $50 will be used toward this goal. REMEMBER that they are living in a makeshift tent, and are extremely vulnerable to the cold and harsh conditions.

Please help her and baby Ayla out!

$0/$50

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Mohammed was able to get a solar panel for his space heater with a partial down payment, but the shopkeeper only gave him four days to complete the payment or he will repossess it!!

it is outrageous that infrastructure has been destroyed to the extent that parents are forced to jury-rig shit like this just to try to keep their children alive. if you have heat in the winter I hope you will pitch in a few dollars to help get this family set up.

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$634 / $1,445 by November 19

🍓 get a tatreez piece or a poem for your donation 🍓

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my favorite video of all time ever

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when Trump says "no restrictions on Israel" this is bad because and will definitely make Israel go into war crime overdrive (unlike what is happening today) but when Harris says "no restrictions on Israel" this is good because behind the scenes they're actually keeping Netanyahu on a tight leash to make sure he doesn't do his worst.

we are not QAnon-like at all, what do you mean?

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I am calling on my followers and anyone else reading this post to take time to donate at least 10 euros to Nader's family's campaign, especially if you stopped scrolling to vote in the poll. It is vetted (#4 on the list).

Nader has gone through unimaginable pain and conditions continue to worsen. If you cannot donate, at least share this campaign, including on other social media sites if you have a following there.

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Lmao they deleted it

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been off social media for a while cause work and life and being broker than usual have just been a lot but now I'm back to emopost and be dramatic as always.

I keep working to keep my friendgroup together, it really feels like it's just me and one other friend putting in that effort and even then her anxiety keeps her from reaching out some of the time so a lot of it really is me working to get us together for game night and keeping the groupchat going, and we keep having friends drop out of the group

There were a couple like two or so years ago that I don't wanna talk about, it's mostly my fault

One who just stopped talking to me specifically but hangs out with the others still and I have no idea what's going on nor do the others, and I've tried to reach out and get a feel for if we're still friends and I truly have no read on the situation I'm just baffled

One who was one of my lifelong best friends who like a year ago broke up her girlfriend (my other best friend in the group) and got a bunch of new friends and stopped talking to all us out of the blue and left the dnd campaign which her ex was not even in with barely a word and now just recently she told another friend who I guess she's still talking to that she's feeling "abandoned by the group" even though she never even replied to the last text I sent and it really seemed by the messy way she broke up with the first friend that she was kind of trying to burn bridges anyway so I don't fucking know what to do with that!

And a couple other friends who have just been distant and unreliable for a while which I get, they have lives outside the friend group and even closer friends in another group, it's fine, I just wish getting them to communicate when I'm trying to schedule my goddamn 30th birthday party wasn't like herding cats (especially considering the party was literally going to be 5 people with them included, and ended up just being 3 of us in the end)

And now today we got another very close friend who's been busier and busier which again I get and she hasn't been able to make game nights which I get and she just said tonight that she definitively won't be able to make future game nights or other hangouts because things are still getting busier which I get and then without saying she's leaving just dropped out of the server (which is a small friend group server of like 6 people now) and when I messaged her asking if she was okay she said yes and said we should stay in touch and I'm like that's the whole reason why the server is there it's literally there so we can keep in touch, but whatever I'm not getting passive aggressive about it, I'm being an adult

But inside I'm frankly upset with her and the others (not the last friend for having to leave because at least her reasons aren't immature bs, but for just being out of the blue and not really saying anything or giving us a chance to see her off or respond at all). I know I have two rocks of friends who genuinely want to be around me and each other and they don't create a bunch of drama, and they do occasionally initiate. But damn it really feels like I'm just straining to keep this friend group together and it isn't even working. And I'm bad at scheduling things, I'm bad at keeping up obligations, the fact that it's falling on me means it is *dire*, but I'm doing what I can and it's still not enough! I know it's not fair on them or myself to compare how the group is now to when we were younger and all unemployed, or during lockdown when we were all furloughed and could just be in chat all the time. But I still feel like it shouldn't be this hard! If I don't schedule something, if I don't initiate, we practically never see each other! It's just disheartening and I just feel like the collapse of the entire friend group is inevitable. I'm gonna lose the two really close friends I have left, and I'm gonna miss them and be distraught about it (and rationally I know they'd miss me too but my brain is telling me they wouldn't), and I guess the one silver lining in that scenario is there'd be almost nothing stopping me from just moving to a bigger city and starting over which honestly! I've been tempted to do anyway, I've been getting the destructive urge to just throw a torch onto my current life and move to Chicago or NY or smth. Stop worrying about if the group will or won't collapse and just let it you know? But gfdi I'm being strong and *trying* to hold onto the friends I still have

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Lmao they deleted it