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regularly getting tags like this on my posts about horrific abuses wrt detentions and deportations by the trump administration and just to be clear. you are all baby brained. do you think every single one of the thousands of jackbooted thugs in dhs and ice were hired in the last 3 months. do you think nothing the democrats did had anything to do with leading us here. the road to hell is paved with lesser evils

obama 2010

obama 2011

obama 2012

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obama 2015

2018 report on CBP under obama between 2009-2014

obama 2016 before the first trump presidency

biden 2024

report released in 2024 documenting louisiana ICE detention centers under biden 2022-2024, same ones currently being used to disappear migrants and pro-palestine political dissidents by the trump admin now:

everything in this post i made 8 months ago about biden & harris admin policies and harris's proposed policies during her campaign when she bragged that she would be tougher on the border than trump. of course you cannot beat trump at this but the fact is she tried to claim that she did as vp and would as president in order to court centrists and moderate republicans, like many democrats last cycle she ran by trying to outflank republicans on the right and in doing so moved the overton window so far that you had liberals happily cheering for border police on stage at the dnc. if you refuse to acknowledge that that is in any way connected to what is happening right now? that democrats also condemning student activists because of their defense of palestine and calling militarized police in to brutalize them for over a year was a direct line to this? that the fact of the palestine exception causing democratic leadership to fail abysmally to respond to early abductions by the trump admin bc they agreed with those disappearances ideologically just at most not in procedure is the very reason those activists were among the first most high profile targets? there's a reason fascists target those people first! because you will blink when it's time to defend them! it's in the fucking poem!! my god

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Once upon a time there was a girl whose wicked stepmother forced her to clean the entire house for Pesach all by herself. So while her stepmother and stepsisters left early for the grand seder at the Prince's palace, the girl spent the afternoon sweeping and dusting and washing and polishing. As she finally burned the last crumbs of chametz in the fireplace, she saw the sun setting and knew she would never make it to the Prince's seder on time, so she began to prepare her own meager dinner: a little Passover pizza. But miraculously, her fairy godmother appeared and transformed the pizza into a flying carpet to take her to the palace, and the cheese into a beautiful dress for her to wear. And to commemorate this story, to this very day, that cheese is named after that girl: they called her Matzah-rella.

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THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!

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The ‘Solar Do-Nothing Machine’  designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1957 as a kinetic aluminum sculpture

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Should I put $10 towards food, or towards education and development in Gaza?

This is a real question, not just theory or philosophy… a question I face every day, and I found myself needing to answer it clearly.

Today in Gaza, people are hungry… but also, people are lost. There's a graduate sitting on rubble with no laptop to even work on. There's a university student studying by candlelight, without internet to continue their education. There's an engineer, who instead of building, is searching for a box of aid to feed his family.

Do you know what this means? It means the occupation doesn't want to kill us with bullets, it wants to kill us with ignorance, with helplessness, by turning us into just people waiting for a bag of flour, waiting for aid… and that's the biggest crime against us. Today we all in Gaza need a bite to eat… but tomorrow? Do I want to spend my whole life depending on others to live? This is the question that worries me the most!! Or should I be able to provide for myself and my family and rebuild my life from scratch?

That's why, instead of that $10 being a meal for one day, let it be an investment in a student who will emerge from under the rubble, will learn, and will be able to provide their own food forever.

Let it be a share of Esnad, not just so Gaza can live another day… but so that Gaza can rise, stand, and persevere forever.

Help us build a future for the coming days in Gaza. We at ISNAD Foundation provide free scholarships for students. Help us rebuild Gaza by building its students and empowering them to have a suitable learning environment.

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The way the world treats us, the way we've been punished in every possible way since the beginning of our lives, and now they move us around like chess pieces. They wanted us there, then they wanted us to leave, then to stay, as if we have no will of our own. Can you imagine what that does to us, as the people of Gaza? As if we're not human beings. Some people romanticize our suffering, turning us into symbols or superheroes, while others see us as nothing, as objects to be moved from place to place. Can you imagine the impact of this on those who have physically survived this genocide? How we see ourselves?

How we see the way the world sees us? We are treated as everything except human beings.

My family are living now on the rubble of our destroyed house since they returned to northern Gaza without the minimum necessities of life, with no shelter or tent, without food or water! They just light a fire and gather around it to keep warm. Please don’t leave us alone with this suffering. This is not a human life and everyone has abandoned us and the people.

Vetted | Details about my sister situation

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day 1 at the communal puzzle club: i see a puzzle with a sign next to it that says "please help with our communal puzzle" and i say to myself "don't mind if I do" and did the whole thing

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okay who put my country in massachusetts that wasn't funny >:I

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This is an extremely important quote. It is well established that Ben Gurion intended on colonizing Palestine with the help of the Jewish Agency and its organs. But it's especially important to highlight the fact that the Arabs he faced were friendly. Although orientalist in his wording "big children", it refutes the myth of ‘Aravim Hetikifu Ottanu’ – ‘the Arabs assaulted us’ narrative, which often described Arabs as provocateurs, barbarians or assailers.

Furthermore, the conflict was not a matter of antisemitism or prejudice against the Jewish people in general, but rather, tension grew between the Jewish and Arab community as a result of Zionist colonizers purchasing land (with the help of the British), replacing Arab labour with Jewish ones (often Yemenite Jews) and expelling them from their villages. The Sursuq purchase was done for that specific purpose. Given the increase in settlements and eviction of Arabs from their villages, resentment towards the Zionist settlers grew, which would lay the basis of the Arab national resistance movement.

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one of the most thursday-like tuesdays I've had in months

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kind of hate my stupid caustic pussy for dissolving my underwear over time but it's kind of cool, like, scientifically

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We've lost some of the greatest posters of our generation to employment

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i think we shouod terraform earth to make it completely flat because itd be fun

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Rainy day in Kyoto

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I am writing something with some heft about the state of everything, but atm I just have to download some ??? from my brain about clothing sizes

I know for a fact that I wear pants ranging from a 28 to a 30 inch waist size. I have pants in all those sizes which fit in a variety of ways. This is extremely reliable.

However, I just measured myself to check an unfamiliar size chart and my waist measurement came out to ~32. I did measure my actual natural waist. Now, I am not delusional about whether my pants fit or like, really into everything being super tight. I have a pair of 29s loose enough on me I considered exchanging for a different size before deciding I'm just going to alter them. I have a pair of MEN'S pants in size 30 that fit perfectly. So like, I know that "women's" sizing is all complete occult chicanery and nothing is consistent across or within brands, but still, you know, there's usually some kind of an anchor point that your clothes range to either side of (and again, menswear is much more consistent and there you go, 30). I don't understand how my waist measurement comes out to a size of pants I was wearing years ago when I know I was bigger than I am now, or how my size comes out to a measurement that is smaller than anywhere on my torso. I feel bizarrely paralyzed by this information. what does literally anything mean

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there are a million possibilities to worry about At The Moment, but certain specific ones tend to occupy my mind more than others. this could probably be the basis for a uquiz. What Your Specific End of American Hegemony Bugbears Say About You. mine are:

food safety going to shit and specifically how much time that would cost me every week at the grocery store

no more mangoes (generally this means the end of out of season produce year round but literally i only think about mangoes)

the end of the US dollar as the global reserve currency and/or general dollar destabilization

wtf is going to happen to MA with the losses to research and academic funding and the fact that I must suffer the indignity of rooting for harvard

me personally getting sent to el salvador because i have tattoos. ancillary ever-present thought: i always think about how ordinarily i would happily visit el salvador

whether my specifically white english friend will make it back from attending his sister's wedding and how bizarre it is to worry about someone like him in these terms after decades of worrying about my arab and persian and desi friends

not whether one of said latter friends will leave for good--he will and he should--but whether and how infrequently i'll ever be able to visit him after almost twenty years of friendship