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The child is not even two pounds, he is in the intensive neonatal care unit. He is blind, may be unable to walk and he may not survive at all. Adriana Smith's mother, April Newkirk has affirmed that the decision to stop life support should have been the family's. The baby's name is Chance. Fuck Brian Kemp, I hope he gets sepsis.

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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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[Start ID: A digital illustration featuring a side view of Maki Sonomura from Persona sitting at the grassy base of an Agastya Tree with her knees pulled up. Pink foliage from the tree surrounds her as she looks upwards, holding a black pencil in one hand up to a white drawing pad resting on her legs and being held in her other hand. /End ID]

honestly i don’t need persona 4 remake give me my girl in 4k please please please

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[Start ID: A screenshot of a post on Bluesky by Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net. It reads, "BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts granted class status to trans people in the passport gender marker change case and extended the prelim. injuction to the class. Trans people will be able to update their gender markers on their passports immediately." Attached are a link to and screenshots of the court decision, which can also be found here. /End ID]

Trans friends, go get your passports immediately!!

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RNN: Internet has been completely cut off in the central and southern Gaza Strip. This outage comes ahead of the zionist cabinet meeting that will discuss escalating the Gaza ground operation tonight.

Israeli Chief of Staff: We are issuing tens of thousands of call-up orders for reserve soldiers to expand the operation in Gaza.

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[Start ID: an oil painting of a colorful river lined by yellow-green trees that block much of the sky which gently shines through in dabs of light blue and yellow paint. The river contains many dabs and wavy strokes of yellow, green, purple, and white, reflections of the surrounding landscape. The river flows up the painting torwards a lavender bridge then ends in the center at a light purple house next to a wall of dark green and black hedges. An impasto technique was used, resulting in visible brushstrokes and providing texture to the piece similar to an impressionist painting. /End ID]

Sergiu Ciochina (Moldovan b.2001), Normandy #3, 2025, Oil on board

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By Lǐ Chúnxióng

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buying microsoft products funds genocide

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quilt beetle

watercolor on BFK Rives paper

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Postage stamps

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florida natural spring water

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As of 06/17/25, Gaza Soup Kitchen is at 94% of their goal! Keep donating!

Support Mokhtar Camp Chef here

Their last donation was 3 days ago, and they are currently at 12% of their goal!

Support Thamra here

Your donation helps Thamra provide fresh produce, build urban food gardens, and restore water access!

A little late posting this, but Hani Almadhoun has posted the weekly update on the Gaza Soup Kitchen fundraiser page!

They're operating pop-up kitchens, delivering food and medicine to medical posts, and running water trucks wherever they can.

You should read about the good they're doing and donate if you can!

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Read this horrific account shared by Mo Zraiy, which describes the death trap that is disguised as "aid distribution centres" in Gaza:

"It felt like I was in an episode of Squid Game. Thousands - tens of thousands - sleep near the gate waiting for sunrise, because the amount of food being distributed is so limited. I arrived at 2 a.m., and as dawn broke, a quadcopter drone approached the crowd and spoke in broken Arabic: 'You will now enter to receive the food. There is a limited time — you must all leave before it runs out. You must all stick to the time.'

Everyone gets up, taking off their shirts to turn them into makeshift bags for cans of beans and sacks of rice. An employee from the American company waves his hand for people to enter. People rush in screaming — it felt like the Day of Judgment.

We enter a large yard surrounded by iron fences. U-shaped tables are stacked with everything Gazans long for - rice, oil, sugar, chocolate, flour. And because the supplies can only feed a few hundred people, the yard turns into something like a Roman gladiator arena. Whoever loses... their family will sleep hungry tonight.

When the time runs out, the quadcopter comes back again, ordering people to retreat and leave the yard immediately.

No one listens - everyone is busy picking food off the ground. I saw a woman and her child collecting grains of rice mixed with sand, pouring them into a sack they were carrying.

Then an Israeli tank takes position on a nearby hill overlooking the distribution point. It opens fire on the crowds. People scream and run. No one cares about anyone else — they step over the bodies struck by bullets. Everyone is just trying to survive."

This evil is incomprehensible. What fucking apocalyptic hell is this?

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please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

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[Start ID: A Twitter screenshot of a post by Clash Report @clashreport. It reads, "The home of one of the assassinated Iranian commanders was hit during last night's Israeli strike.

The missile pierced the wall and exploded in the bedroom." Attached below is a photo of a multi-storied residential building with a hole in its side but which is otherwise intact. A long, black smudge streaks upwards from one of the windows. /End ID]

The fact that they can target an individual room without killing dozens of civilians proves what is happening in Gaza is genocide

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[Start ID: A 3x4 set of Japanese postage stamps from the 1966-67 fish series. They each feature a different aquatic creature, including: a Japanese spiny lobster, common carp, red sea bream, skipjack tuna, three ayu sweetfish, Japanese eel, chub mackerel, chum salmon, Japanese amberjack yellowtail, tiger puffer, multiple Japanese flying squid, and two horned turbans. Japanese text on each stamp reads "nihon yuubin," or "Japan postal service" in kanji, "NIPPON" or "Japan" in romaji, the name of the aquatic creature featured on the stamp in hiragana, the cost of the stamp (in this case, either 10 or 15 yen) in Arabic numerals, and an unidentified kanji. /End ID]

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