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I don't know how long this will last, but all I hear is: Iran, Israel, America... as if Gaza doesn't exist, as if the world has forgotten the people suffering there.

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“Award,” Ray Durem (black poet, activist, and member of the Communist Party), in Dudley Randall’s “The Black Poets”

A Gold Watch to the FBI Man who has followed me for 25 years.

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Horrifying to think about the impunity of the West. Horrifying to witness Western terrorists dehumanizing whole communities and then audaciously couching it as a necessary stepping stone to peace. A city was continuously bombed and put under seige for over 21 months in the name of Jewish safety, and the West upheld the opinion that this is not a genocide.

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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DONATE TO THE SAMEER PROJECT 🕊️

Mosab Emad Ali, part of the heart of the Sameer Project, was also martyred recently. The organizers could use all the support they can get right now.

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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here is Gil Scott-Heron performing his poem "Whitey on the Moon"

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A 14 year old girl flushing her miscarriage down the toilet can be charged with mutilating a corpse, but keeping a dead woman on life support for 120 days then cutting her open to extract a 2 pound fetus because her dead body was decaying too fast to sustain the pregnancy any longer is not only legal but compelled by law. America/the world/men hate women so much.

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It's Juneteenth, I'm a Black Texan, descendant of enslaved Black Texans. Texas is the only state that fought two different wars to protect slavery and chattel slavery ended the last for it. Juneteenth to me is to celebrate that part of overt white supremacy coming to an end, but it was not the end of white supremacy. It did not stop, with the lynching, the police violence, the redlining, the environmental racism, the segregation. Juneteenth represents a good win aganist the fight against white supremacy, but it's not over.

And for this Juneteenth, I ask for help for my friends that are the victims of this same US white supremacy. Not just today, but everyday Gazans deserve any type of help that you can give them. The technology that is used to segregate and attack and police and destroy Palestinians is the same technology that is sold to Texas to be used for the border patrol and to harass and control immigrants and border communities. This is one, connected fight aganist white supremacy and US control and destruction of Black and Brown bodies. So I ask today if you could donate this, or share, to help provide for a mother and her 2 now fatherless children in Gaza, or anyone else in Gaza who needs help. Like this family with a sick baby. Just do something, especially if you got the day off.

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If you say shit like this to a questioning trans girl, you're committing transmisogynistic violence. Like what the actual fuck is wrong with you?? You see a girl expressing fear and pain and your response is to tell her to shut up and deal with it??? You're not helping or warning anyone, you want this woman dead.

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New pinned post, I am going to be offline more nowadays for the sake of my physical and mental health. if you have any scam inquiries, you can check my scam list and/or direct your concerns to @kyra45 ! Remember that most Palestinian fundraisers are genuine, remember to double check to see if the user is vetted or not, and if you are truly unsure, simply do not interact.

Below are some Palestinian fundraisers that are vetted & verified, and that I have adopted and have been helping out. Be sure to share their donation posts and donate, if you can!

If any one of them should request your help, I ask that you fulfill that request to the best of your ability, these people are my friends and I care about them.

Ghada Nabil: vetting (#6) / Gofundme (very low on funds)

Ibrahim Yaser: vetting (#25) / Gofundme

Safaa Jad Al-Haq vetting by 90-ghost / Chuffed NEW CHUFFED / paypal. (Both Gofundme AND Chuffed had wrongfully removed or halted funds transfer from Safaa's fundraiser and now she had to make a new campaign for a THIRD time. The paypal linked is someone helping Safaa with her fundraiser and all funds go directly to Safaa. Low on funds.)

Hani Yaser: vetting (#5) / Gofundme / (low on funds)

Mahmoud Baalousha: vetting by 90-ghost / gofundme

Nader Al-Anqar: vetting (#4) / gofundme / New GFM (gfm has also made it so that Nader cannot access his funds on the old gfm.)

Hana Jad Al-Haq: vetting by 90-ghost / gofundme / Chuffed (once again, Gofundme halted her funds transfers so she had to start over on chuffed)

Ola Ahel: vetting (#205) / gofundme

Falestine Yousef: vetting by 90-ghost / Chuffed

Eyad Al-Anqar: vetting (#24) / GFM (Eyad runs a charity that gives out aid to Palestinians!)

Jamal Al-Dahdouh: vetting (#647) / GFM (extremely low on funds, slow in receiving donations)

Abdulrahman Al-Anqar: vetting (#652) / GFM

Zina Al-Anqar: vetting (#213) / GFM

Musab Ahmad: vetting (#520) / GFM (very low on donations)

Mohammed Al-Anqar: vetting (entry 174, row 178) / GFM

Amina Yaser: vetting (#19) / GFM

Fidaa: vetting by 90-ghost / Chuffed

Kholood Smeer: vetting (#337) / Chuffed (VERY low on funds)

Siraj Abudayeh: vetting (#219) / Chuffed (Siraj is a former journalist and has had to recreate and start his fundraisers from scratch FOUR times now because of unfair, forced deletion.)

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so bECAUSE OF THE UPDATE I WENT OUTSIDE AND STARTED SCREAMING AT 12AM SO NATURALLY SOMEONE THOUGHT I WAS BEING MURDERED AND CALLED THE POLICE AND WHEN THEY GOT HERE I HAD TO GIVE THEM MY EXPLANATION FOR SCREAMING AT 12AM SO I JUST SAID HOMESTUCK AND ONE OF THE COPS EYES SUDDENLY GOT REALLY BIG AND THEN HE SAID “IT UPDATED??!?” AND THEN HE READ THE UPDATE ON HIS PHONE I HAVE A GROWN POLICE MAN SITTING IN MY DRIVEWAY CRYING AND CURSING AT HUSSIE UNDER HIS BREATH HIS PARTER GAVE HIM A SHOCK BLANKET OH MY GOD 

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If you voted, please read the rest of the post:

I am making this post on behalf of a trans woman named Magala (@lovelyimuhshin) currently living in Gorom refugee camp, South Sudan.

She has been organizing aid for a group of transgender and other queer refugees who have been under constant threat of violence on top of the dangers inherent to life as a refugee. Some members of the group also suffer from health conditions such as HIV and cancer.

Your solidarity should not only extend to the western queer community. Magala and the rest of the queer refugees in Gorom are just as deserving of your solidarity and support as anyone else, and they need your help badly. Information provided to me regarding contact and donations can be found below:

Phone Number: +254794011191

Name: Mukisa Davis

Country: Kenya

City: Nairobi

GoFundMe Link

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-lives-of-lgbt-sudanese-refugees

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a lot of people could stand to start viewing the nakba and the holocaust as a continuum rather than as competitive binaries

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i think that what’s problematic about the word detrans specifically is that it implies that transitioning does irrevocable and irreversible damage to yourself - which is a major terf talking point! it very easily plays into the idea that transitioning turns you into this monstrous other that goes against nature (or god’s plan or whatever else). some cis women grow facial hair for various reasons, some cis men grow breast tissue for various reasons, that does not put them into an othered category of cis - why should detransitioning, if it’s not to serve a certain agenda?

if you tried out transitioning and it wasn't for you, i think it's great you explored that and discovered something important about yourself. i think you have a unique and valuable experience with gender that should be taken into account and is worthy of discussion. But you cannot be going around calling yourself "detrans"

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this picture is so funny to me like the faggot radiating off this image is so warm i could heat my home… he literally went to home depot and bought the finest grade finnish wood 1x12 that cost at least $15 and then put it in a tiny plastic bag…. camp