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Hey guys, please show some support for @save-mohamed-family!

His entire family - parents and brothers - are martyred, and he is trying to protect the only family he has left, his wife and children.

His wife is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and needs help paying for her treatment. From what I understand she is on one of the last doses of the chemotherapy and they need help paying for this shot.

We should be doing our best to support situations of medical emergency to maximize best use of our impact.

(#192 on our verified list)

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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[“Chow was the activity around which the whole prison revolved. The sections took turns going first, with twenty minutes for each one to make it all the way through the line. The guards controlled the speed with which the units were called, and one day at lunch, shortly before a big inspection was set to take place, one of the guards decided to assert his power by slowing down the food line so that section three didn’t get fed. Everyone flipped out, holding their empty trays, yelling bloody murder. This guard did the same thing at dinner, and the next day, again, at both lunch and dinner, until it became crystal clear that this was deliberate, someone acting on orders.

Meals were the only good thing we got every day, and the prison was fucking with them. It messed with our heads, created hostility between the sections, and generally tempted us to engage in behavior that would land us in the SHU. Prison is about control and dominance. On the second day of the crisis, the military police investigative unit (MPI) arrived. They’re the guards who cultivate confidential informants. They sat back and watched the panic, waiting for someone to misbehave in an actionable way.

Fort Leavenworth had a prison inmate council, something like a student council for prisoners. After three days of this deliberate baiting, I went to the council with a plan. Following chow time, prisoners had the option of either going directly to their own housing unit or heading to the medical window to pick up medications. There was a rule that prisoners could always get Tylenol, no questions asked. I suggested that every single prisoner go to the window and ask for a dose, which would overload the line dramatically and slow down the whole cycle of the day. We would be fighting back, while still following the letter of the law. It would only work, though, if all eighteen housing units got on board.

By lunch the next day, everyone was in. Every twenty minutes, more people stood up and moved from the dining hall to the pill line, in unison. The line wrapped all the way around the prison. My unit was the last one, so I got to see the reaction in the dining hall. The guards were panicked. They called for reinforcements. Riot cops came in with their kneepads and shields, arrayed like storm troopers all around the line.

As the investigators walked toward me, I grabbed my forehead. “I have the worst headache of my life!” I said.

I was shocked. Both that it had worked and at the extremity of the response. The commander of the prison was there, as were what looked like civilian cops from the outside. I started to worry they’d crack down on me. I worried they had seen me organizing. I was sweating. I actually did then get the worst headache of my life. Finally, at 4:00 p.m., the last people in the line, including me, took their Tylenol.

That night, the prison called a lockdown. For dinner, we were served sack lunches in our cells. Some people were thrilled at the success of what we’d done, how we’d stood up to our captors, but a lot of other people were pissed. Yes, we’d avoided the SHU, but instead of solitary confinement, we’d gotten stuck with group confinement, which could be its own version of hell, too.

The next morning, they released the lockdown. At chow, the commandant of the facility stood watching us, flanked by his deputy and a large group of investigators. I was ready for the deliberate baiting of inmates to begin again, but instead, something wondrous happened. Chow proceeded exactly as it was supposed to.”]

chelsea manning, from readme.txt

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Left-wing Israelis. This is the best that Israel can offer.

It's a given that Israelis have dehumanised Palestinians to a level beyond being sub-human to them, but it's seems that they have now abstracted Palestinians to the point of nonexistence so they can pretend Palestinians don't occupy the places they inhabit.

Red the full article.

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404+ Palestinians MURDERED in less than a day.

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Such a good whore, asking to kneel under my desk. Your mouth feels amazing, but it’s going to feel even better when I’m inside you and bending you over it instead to have my fun with you. After I punish you for distracting me, of course.

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I know, baby, I really tired you out, didn’t I? You might want to keep that in mind next time when you ask me to use you as if you were one of my toys… but you’re always such a good slut for me.

What? I can barely understand you, cutie. Let me clean you up and I promise I’ll lay with you. Of course I’ll hold you. I’ll always hold you. Yes, and kiss you. Duh! You were so good. You sounded so good. Everything about you always makes me want you more. I love you.

No, no round two, I know you’re tired. That was like… four rounds, if you ask me, technically.

We can watch whatever you want. I’ll massage your wrists and get you water– okay, and I’ll put chocolate chip cookies in the oven. And play with your hair.

…Are you sure that was all good? You’re still shaking. Okay, good. No, you’re the best!

You’re so cute.

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90% of posts chiding or dunking on "BookTok" seem to be pretending to think that BookTok = everyone on the internet who reads or is interested in books, when everything that's highlighted suggests it's a community of people who read a lot of romance, erotica, and/or YA paperbacks as a hobby. That's why they skim their books and haven't cracked Tolstoy and whatever else, if you polled Harlequin paperback buyers in 1985 you'd probably get similar results. It's a perfectly harmless hobby. There's also a weird gender-war undercurrent to the whole thing, attacking random young women as illiterate morons for liking His Dark Princess or whatever, as if all the video porn you watch comes from the Criterion Collection. Just stupid stupid stupid. Complete discourse slop.

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As always, disabled people bear the brunt of the injustice during crises.

This is why I'm begging you to spare anything you can for @noor-yashour who is fundraising for her disabled son, Muhammad, 4 years of age. He was receiving physical therapy in order to be able to walk but with his treatment on hold during the genocide, his condition is rapidly deteriorating.

LOW ON FUNDS.

VETTED HERE BY 90-GHOST

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Help Mohammed & Farah Escape Death and Finish Their Educations

Mohammed and Farah are twins and college students — or, at least they should be. Mohammed and Farah have suffered extremely under the genocidal occupation and siege which has been increasing in intensity relentlessly. They have been month to month asking for help to make rent, and we have all supported them, and Mohammed and Farah thank you deeply for that. But now they have their sights set on escape, with hope that the borders may reopen. They hope to meet their next goal within September.

They need a bare minimum of $10,000 to escape to Egypt.

@mohammedhaboubsblog

https://www.instagram.com/mohammed_haboub?

https://gofund.me/1eac8b24

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I wish age gap discourse hadn't spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say "Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren't predators, they're just fucking losers"

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the exaggerated threat of “not like other girls” circling back to just vilifying women who don’t conform to femininity. but this time it’s #feminist to ridicule them bc they’re the real misogynists for not liking makeup and pink

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learning latin bc no dead roman can call me a pocha

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Bro… 11 THOUSAND YEARS???

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reblog if you unironically love art that makes you feel weird, confuses the mind, wises to destroy the canon, mocks the concept of values, spits on beauty and celebrates ugliness

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moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.

[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]