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Can people understand that’s i’m like them I don’t get donations and not the one who make people donate…

Sometimes I feel I’m going crazy because of what’s happening and overthinking stressing about my brother and my responsibilities

Every time i say i want to stop sharing and helping i go back and a lot of scammers even people of gaza some of them are scamming and do more than one campaign.

I’m sorry for anyone I didn’t respond to and shared i have been doing that for one year

I’m not good at speaking and speak out how i feel and what i think.

Tumblr is a family for me .. I still need your help for my brother because isarel weaponized hunger against the people of gaza you need fortune to buy some food like canned food if you found it and there’s no flour.

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Whooping cough cases have surged in the US since the beginning of the year, infecting Americans at a faster pace than any time since the mid-1950s as national vaccination rates decline and protection wanes. The bacterial infection also known as pertussis has sickened 8,077 people in the US through April 16, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than double the same period a year ago, when the agency confirmed 3,847 cases, and rivals the 2012 outbreak that was the biggest in half a century. At least four people have died from whooping cough this year, including two infants in Louisiana, an adult in Idaho and a child in South Dakota who was infected with both influenza and pertussis. April 23, 2025

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It sure isn't here, at Project Gutenberg, in multiple formats.

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More people die by cars than by plane.

More people die by fossil fuels than nuclear energy.

More people regret pregnancy than changing gender identity.

Actual freedom of choice for young people and women, public transportation for isolated and poorer areas, renewable clean energy will keep us alive and wanting to live. All these especially help people with disabilities or preexisting conditions.

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Trump admits AGAIN to rigging the election

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JIMMY CARTER: ISRAEL TICKS APARTHEID BOXES

In this 2007 clip from a @democracynow interview, former US President Jimmy Carter (1977-81) highlighted how the state of Israel is not only like the South African apartheid state but more restrictive.

In 2022, Amnesty International declared Israel an apartheid state in a 280-page report that documented how Tel Aviv controls Palestinian territories and people. Other groups, including Human Rights Watch and Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, came to the same conclusion a year prior.

Since the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Palestine-Israel conflict, Israel has killed nearly 32,000 Palestinians and injured more than 73,000 people. Because Israel controls movement into and out of the Palestinian territories, it has blocked the entry of foreign aid and Palestinians’ attempts to flee Israel’s military attacks.

However, the United States has provided the most foreign aid to Israel than to any other country since 1948. That funding continued during Carter’s term.

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Political cartoonist does her job makes cartoon about media kowtowing to dictator. Cartoon is killed by editor b/c one media figure is paper’s owner. Political cartoonist quits job on principle. This is not a case of “biting the hand that feeds you”, this is demonstrating a threat to free speech.

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Save the Earth

Coal, oil, and fracking kills more and leads to more long term cancers and other illnesses than nuclear could. You can be against nuclear weapons and support nuclear power for its renewable, low price, low casualty potential.

I'm Appalachian, I get the fears, I get how dependent many are on dirty energy. The more we understand and listen about the structural foundations of nuclear reactors and the actual machinations of fission and chain reactions.

Scientists are among the most trustworthy professionals who don't get paid NEARLY as exorbitantly as even low level energy companies, let alone the conglomerates that are fine having pennies at the expense of thousands dying, which grows massively in poorer places. What do they have to gain by betraying us compared to CEOs who live by the dollar and our harm?

Nuclear energy is clean and green energy. We'll continue to make earth less like a barren wasteland and more like a planet that surpasses what we grew up in if we cut carbon emissions.

It is ethical, practical, and necessary for the safety of the majority and the most vulnerable living here. We still can make a difference and act! ✊

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Trump is cutting programs that most economically poor children use as a source for educational programing, and a news station that plenty of adults use every morning. He never hid the fact he was going to do this.

Notable that PBS Kids also tends to have more diverse shows, things for developing critical thinking skill, learning to read and write, getting along with peers who aren't the exact same as you, basic science and math skills, history too.

Trump has already dismantled the Department of Education. He has been in the process of getting rid of museums and libraries. Trump is making sure kids stay helpless and dependant so that they can do what he wants. It's a codependency that would effectively raise a generation on only his words and ideals with nothing to correct or fact check. Don't let the public education sources die. Don't burn books.

Donate to NPR.

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british 'gender critical' domestic abuse activist found guilty of abusing and molesting multiple children over the span of 20 years, including one child whom she referred to as "a tranny"

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happy mayday everyone!

made in 2025

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I cannot take "fraud" talk about benefit programs seriously because I know what can get labeled as fraud. Taking a tupperware of leftovers home from a friend's birthday can be argued to be food stamp fraud. Exchanging SNAP for cash is fraud, that makes sense, except in many cases, people will let someone else use their leftover SNAP at the end of the month (it doesn't roll over) in exchange for cash they need for shampoo, toilet paper, Tylenol, or other essentials not covered by SNAP. Paying the nurse or attendant for the full shift even though you asked them to leave early because you wanted to go to bed is fraud, even though the alternative is either they get less pay for no fault of their own, or they have to hang around while you sleep. Meanwhile, paying someone for the full shift when the jobsite has to shut down early is policy in many workplaces. Giving your attendant or nurse cash to go pick up your medicine and letting them keep the change is fraud. In some states packing your kid lunch if you are on free lunch is fraud. Because of how strictly benefits programs are defined and regulated, for the recipients, basic human acts and impulses are defined as fraud.

If people want to talk about benefits fraud, they should be talking about third party administrators, nursing homes, and farms. That's where big ticket fraud that is malicious, deliberate, and with the aim of ripping off the government happens. It's the province of large scale service providers and contractors, not people who use benefits or the workers directly assisting them. So unless you're explicitly talking about that, shut the fuck up about "oh I'm sure there *is* fraud."

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"Inequality has worsened, with the top 10% of earners accounting for nearly half of all consumer spending," [Diane] Swonk said. [She's the chief economist at a big accounting firm.] "Low- and middle-income households lack the cushion on savings triggered by COVID-era stimulus, which leaves them the most vulnerable to those losses."

I think what disturbs me the most is that a recession is pretty much entirely out of the hands of 90% of the country. What the top 10% of earners feel like spending is just as important as the choices made by everyone else aggregated together.

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buds, this is the wrong article to put under an email gate.