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A huge win for NYC! A better world is still possible

Next stop: general election

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I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺 .

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This poor boy...

The Gazan journalist Hossam Shabat has been killed.

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

He was so young and had already buried so many colleagues and suffered so much.

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The Gazan journalist Hossam Shabat has been killed.

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

He was so young and had already buried so many colleagues and suffered so much.

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In less than a day.

Despite ceasefire negotiations still going on, Israel has resumed its large scale bombing.

I specify large scale bombing because, as usual with Israel, they killed more than 150 people during the ceasefire too. Separately from the people dying from starvation and lack of proper healthcare and shelter.

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Despite ceasefire negotiations still going on, Israel has resumed its large scale bombing.

I specify large scale bombing because, as usual with Israel, they killed more than 150 people during the ceasefire too. Separately from the people dying from starvation and lack of proper healthcare and shelter.

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Hey everyone,❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙏⬇️

As many of you know, I’m AshleyPhil, a queer refugee advocating for the rights of LGBTQ+ refugees in East Africa. I’m also a leader and representative of my group currently in Sudan.

Today, I’m reaching out to ask for your kind donations to help LGBTQ+ refugees in East Africa survive. Whether you’re queer or an ally who cares about our community, this is the perfect time to support us.

We are facing extreme challenges lack of food, medical care, clean water, and shelter. Lesbians here also struggle to access basic sanitary products. Your donation, no matter how big or small, can make a real difference in our lives.

If you’re unable to contribute financially, that’s okay! You can still help by sharing our fundraiser with people who might be able to support us. Even a simple reblog goes a long way in spreading awareness.

Your kindness and solidarity mean everything to us. Thank you for standing with us. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍🌈🙏

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Last night was momentous for Gaza: for the first time in Palestine's history, people who had been mass expelled were allowed to return to their homes.

From the start of the genocide, in October 2023, northern Gaza was especially targeted. The news covered the huge "evacuations", where everyone was told to go to the south, a million people given hours to take everything they had to go south, which as it turned out was also not safe.

As the months went by, north Gaza was squeezed further, receiving scant aid, people eating grass, any person still left treated as a combatant. The IDF created the Netzarim corridor and controlled the area between the north and south, killing many of the people who tried to pass.

As bad as things already were, in October 2024, they got even worse. This is when the General's Plan was enacted in all but name, a siege that trapped and starved and bombed and destroyed so much, with the eventual goal of cleaning out the area of Palestinians so Israelis could settle there. This was a brutal thing to follow online, in conjunction with the US elections, as people in the north begged daily for any kind of help at all.

Part of the ceasefire deal that started last Sunday was for people to finally be able to return the north this Saturday, but a dispute delayed that, so for two nights, people slept on the ground and the roads and waited.

And then, finally:

Three years ago, children in Gaza were asked their dream:

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Ashley reached out to me to boost the plight of LGBT refugees in East Africa.

I know that a concern for people is that accounts like these aren't real, and I can't guarantee that this one is, as I can't guarantee anything online, but I will include a link to someone else's efforts to vet Ashley's account: https://www.tumblr.com/ashleymilesphil/769030585382518784/thank-you-much-evpath-for-sharing-this-and-to

I myself have followed Ashley and have donated:

Again, the gofundme link is:

I don’t want to sound desperate, but I feel like so many of you don’t care or have stopped caring about the struggles of LGBTQ refugees in East Africa.

We are a group of queer refugees living in a very hostile refugee camp. Every day, we fight to survive amidst starvation, a lack of clean water, and the constant threat of disease. Some of us are battling malaria and HIV without access to proper medication. Our stories are heartbreaking, but they barely reach the world.

It has now been 4 days since we last received a donation. Many of us are running out of food, and clean drinking water is a luxury we can only dream of. Some members of our community, including children, are dangerously malnourished. We live with the reality of illnesses that could be prevented if we had access to basic healthcare.

What will it take for the world to care about us? As LGBTQ refugees, we have been silenced, abandoned, and persecuted, but we refuse to lose hope. We need your support to make it through another day.

Please, if you’re reading this, consider donating to help us. Your contributions will go directly toward food, clean water, and essential medication. Every little bit helps. If you cannot donate, reblog this post and spread the word. Your kindness and generosity can save lives.

The very fact that we are still here, holding on, is a testament to our resilience. But we can’t do this alone.

Please, share, reblog, and if you’re able, donate. Together, we can bring hope and relief to a community that has been forgotten by the world.

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This is Israel and Palestine under a ceasefire.

Laila was killed today.

The below is from June 2023, several months before October 7th.

Since the ceasefire started on Sunday, at least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israel across the West Bank and Gaza.

This is what peace means in Israel and Palestine.

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Lots of ominous news nowadays, but there are good things too! Thailand's Marriage Equality Law took effect today!

This tweet takes you to the top of a thread that lists all the changes, like replacing gendered terms like husband and wife with spouses, same-sex marriages have full legal status, same-sex couples can adopt and use IVF and create pre-nups, just a whole lot of steps to make them equal.

It's all just so amazing and joyous. They hosted a parade for the newlywed couples!

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First the ADL gives him a pass, now Netanyahu defending him.

Well, yes! Explicitly trying to use Zionism to shield himself from criticism of being a Nazi, but the two aren't incompatible at all.

Criticism of Israel has been treated as antisemitism and been used to censor, fire, suspend, expel, and blacklist people, but as long as you're pro-Israel, you can do a literal Nazi salute. So many journalists, politicians, and institutions who've used their platform to call out support for Palestine are now downplaying a NAZI SALUTE from the richest man in the world who has the ear of the most powerful man in the world.

Same person:

This ignoring, excusing, and even defending of antisemitism has been applied to American Republicans, the Germany's AfD, the UK's Reform, France's RN, far right groups that are dangerous but getting a pass and even boosted because anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, anti-trans, and pro-Israel all currently go hand-in-hand.

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I read the article, wondering if this might be a case of two terrible things coinciding, i.e., the Nazi salute AND the mass firing of meteorologists from local news stations and replaced with a feed of the Weather Channel but no, CBS 58 has quietly removed her and is looking for a replacement. It seems she was directly fired for this:

She worked there for five years and had just posted in support of the other fired local meteorologists.

People are already starting to reach out to CBS 58.

Twitter: https://x.com/CBS58

Address: 809 S. 60th Street Milwaukee, WI 53214

General Information: (414) 777-5800

Tip Line: (414) 777-5808

Fax: (414) 777-5802

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That lasted two days. The focus has indeed shifted to the West Bank.

Israel has launched the "Iron Wall" operation:

When I wake up, there are already multiple reports from various times through the day in Palestine, so I see different tweets for each increase in the death count. By the end of the day, it was 10 dead.

Which incursions and which attacks are allowed? Israeli settlers also stormed through, setting fires and attacking people. Israel took its hostages too:

The name of the operation is deliberate, it seems.

I suppose this is how you deal with the native populations:

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I'm not very good at text posts, I never know where to start, it's why most of what I write are tags on gifsets and replies to asks. It helps me to have something to go off of.

Yesterday, I wrote a bit about the first day of the ceasefire in Gaza, but I left out some events in the West Bank. I saw this tweet today and I think it gives me a good starting point:

A few people in the replies asked: what about the ceasefire?

This IS Palestine under a ceasefire. This is Palestine before Oct 7th. They don't have the right to defend themselves, the peaceful status quo that creates no headlines is the steady hum of Palestinians being attacked and killed as their homes and livelihood are destroyed, kidnapped and held for possibly years on "administrative detention", which means no charge or trial.

And "It begins."? I searched Google news for "West Bank killed" and picked a random page:

To be clear, this is the West Bank, not Gaza. Hamas is only the ruling party in Gaza and ostensibly the target of Israel's "war", but that clearly hasn't protected Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel increased their attacks after October 7th and might yet escalate now, with Gaza quiet, but for those that say "there was a ceasefire on October 6th", there is this headline:

As astute observer might note the date.

To go back to current events, this happened yesterday in the West Bank:

This child was killed.

This detainee died in Israeli prison, held for months without charge:

A youth injured:

Did you hear about any of that? Did the media and world governments talk about Palestine's right to defend itself or how it can possibly live with a violent, hateful neighbor like this?

Today, day 2, back to Gaza, more aid is getting in, thankfully:

Finally! Imagine the number of young children going without candy or even fresh fruits and vegetables for so long.

Rebuilding continues:

The recovery and identification of bodies continues:

We also have Israeli forces firing on Palestinians who get near to Rafah, killing two. Yes, already on day 2 of the ceasefire in Gaza, two people (just in Gaza) dead. There's video of their deaths here, a child being shot and the man who tried to help him. Apparently instead of warning him off, they decided he was a threat:

There continue to be new attacks in the West Bank today, the ones referred to in the very first tweet. They tend to come from any combination of Israeli settlers, police, and the IDF.

Currently, the police have shot two settlers they thought were Palestinians and the whole area has now been locked down.

They've arrested many Palestinian men...for what? When will they let them go?

So ends day 2 of the ceasefire.

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At Trump's inauguration today, Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. Or an awkward gesture. Or it was because of Asperger's. I've included quotes made about the video first, then the video at the end.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the civil rights organization formed to combat antisemitism and that works with the US government and institutions, has recently been in conflict with Wikipedia.

In June of last year, Wikipedia's editors marked the ADL as unreliable in matters concerning Israel or Palestine, given its pro-Israel stance.

Yesterday, following arbitration, Wikipedia banned certain editors for spreading antisemitic rhetoric.

After Musk's salute/gesture today, the ADL posted:

... edge. In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

The Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon, formerly progressive, but having shifted somewhat lately, and who is publishing this book:

Posted this:

This man has consistently boosted literal Nazis on his site, through his algorithm and payments and actually by responding and retweeting! He's a friend to Israel, which gives him a pass for everything else. You'll see that happen often, that conservatives who are pro-Israel and also antisemitic are praised for the first part and ignored on the second.

Am I blaming the antisemitism itself on Zionists? No. But are watchdogs and institutions allowing a scary amount of right-wing behavior because their focus is on criticizing anti-Israel sentiment? Well, see for yourself what the gesture he does twice is.

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So the first day of the ceasefire ends.

The mood is bittersweet. There's celebration:

But so much destruction:

So many dead :

I won't attach the multiple pictures of skeletons, some unidentified in the streets, some with bullet holes in the skulls left in family homes.

This is the first day of a very, very long journey, still perilous because Trump can't be trusted either. Please continue to boost Palestinians and donate to fundraisers.

Leaving you with Jehad Abu Shamala raising the call to prayer in Gaza this morning.