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[bleaksqueak]

Partial hand bank for Elias from my files. Some flats and some finished/lit ones, so good stuff with light differences!

[queenofshilla]

THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECIATION WEEK -- day 2 - quotes/lyrics - THE HUNGER GAMES

[a-n-i-m-a-t-i-o-n]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Captivity is a constitutive part of Palestinian life under occupation. Prior to Hamas’s attack on October 7th, Israel incarcerated more than 5,200 Palestinians—most of them residents of the West Bank and East Jerusalem—across two dozen prisons and detention centers. Some West Bank residents are incarcerated due to a still-operant military order issued following the 1967 War that effectively criminalized civic activities (e.g. gatherings of more than ten people without a permit, distributing political materials, displaying flags) as “incitement and hostile propaganda actions.” There are currently hundreds of such military orders, which criminalize anything that might be construed as resistance to the occupation. This surfeit of activities made illegal for Palestinians authorizes mass imprisonment: According to a recent estimate by the United Nations, one million Palestinians have at one time been incarcerated by Israel, “including tens of thousands of children.” One in five Palestinians, and two in five Palestinian men, have been arrested at some point in their lives, and, as of 2021, more than 100 Palestinian children faced up to 20 years in prison for throwing stones.

Not all who are arrested face charges. Israel often and increasingly makes use of “administrative detention,” a relic of the British Mandate era, which allows for indefinite incarceration without a charge or trial, ostensibly for the purpose of gathering evidence. It was a hallmark of apartheid South Africa and has been used to repress opposition in Egypt, England, India, the United States, and elsewhere, especially in the context of anti-immigration and “counter-terrorism” programs. “Since March 2002, not a single month has gone by without Israel holding at least 100 Palestinians in administrative detention,” the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem notes; often the number is much higher. Prior to October 7th, more than 20% of Palestinian prisoners were administrative detainees; 233 of the 300 Palestinians on Israel’s release list negotiated last week were administrative detainees, Al Jazeera noted. According to the Palestinian prisoner organization Addameer, imprisoned Palestinians report being beaten, threatened, strip searched, and denied healthcare and contact with their families. Palestinians currently incarcerated, as well as those freed in recent days, report that conditions have worsened since October 7th. Meanwhile, even as this prisoner release proceeds, Israel continues to ramp up arrests: As of Tuesday, 180 Palestinian prisoners have been released as part of the ceasefire exchange, but during the same period, it arrested Palestinians at nearly the same rate. Today, more than 7,000 Palestinians are incarcerated in Israeli prisons.

Nowhere is Israel’s carceral regime clearer than in Gaza, the 140-square-mile area often described as an “open-air prison.” Gaza’s residents, now an estimated 2.2 million people—80% of whom are refugees or descendents of refugees forced to flee in the mass expulsions surrounding the founding of the State of Israel that Palestinians call the Nakba—have been hemmed in by a land, air, and sea blockade since 2006. As with Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons, who for years have waged hunger strikes, protested, and written about the horrors of incarceration, Gazans have struggled mightily against their confinement. In 2018–19, they held weekly nonviolent protests at the border under the name Great March of Return. Israel responded with brutal violence, killing 260 people and wounding 20,000 others, many of whom were permanently disabled. A week into Israel’s current assault on Gaza, Ahmed Abu Artema, one of the co-founders of the Great March of Return, wrote an impassioned plea in The Nation, calling for the world to “help us tear down the wall, end our imprisonment, and fulfill our dreams of liberation.” On October 24th, an Israeli airstrike severely wounded Artema and killed five members of his family, including his 13-year-old son.

It is precisely in such contexts of radical asymmetry that we find the history of hostage-taking: In the last half-century, under-resourced combatants from Palestine to Brazil to the United States and beyond have used hostages to gain political leverage. Militants, whose own lives are not valued by the powers they face, capture those whose lives they assume are deemed more valuable. This strategy often succeeds in shifting the terms of the conversation—asserting the previously dismissed hostage-takers as political actors whose demands must be negotiated. But the same dynamic that leads militants to take hostages is why the tactic so often fails: The prison state fundamentally devalues life, and ultimately may sacrifice hostages to preserve its rule. Israeli officials have said as much. “We have to be cruel now and not think too much about the hostages,” finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a cabinet meeting as Israel launched its war.

[spitblaze]

personally i think us politicians shouldnt need to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to fund their own campaign to even have a shot at having a seat in the capitol. i think that perhaps having a barrier that requires ludicrous amounts of money to even be a viable candidate is a shitty system, especially when the people most likely to already have that kind of money tend to lean very hard to the right in the first place. perhaps political campaigns should be subsidized by the government in order to ensure politicians both have time to do their job and all have a fair shot at getting their position regardless of social strata, like in most other countries that are not the United States.

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Ward is so fake-kind and fake-accepting, I know that if Rafe came out to him he’d be holding back slurs and just either say “you’ll find the right girl eventually, Rafe” or act like he understands and accepts him while constantly trying to set him up with women saying “she’s really nice, just go on a date with her, it might work out! You never know if you don’t try”

He wants to call him slurs but instead he’s somehow worse about it by just ignoring the fact that he came out at all

[buckevantommy]

—first appearance with shades! @sunglassesmish​ this might interest you? 😎 

..the dirty baseball cap is a lewk 🧢 

..he works the controls 😏🕹️

he’s the boat pilot but also the first one aboard to apprehend their guy. a man of many hats. 

that song: i like the way you move! is in my head. he cuts a fine sihlouette..

also: i am losing it at his accent saying neville?? repeatedly 😂 

THE SCRUFF IS SO DELICIOUS 👅

he. he shot at neville twice, but neville protected himself using a castiron pan. bloody genius. 🍳💥🔫

..the kerfuffles are mostly blurry and not great for screenshotting but i grabbed this bc of his sweaty hair 💦🤤

..broad boy. 👐

..he’s looking for his gun that pan-man whacked out of his hands.

..he found it, but so did the kid who threw sand in his eyes.

..step on me, ryan. 👟🫠

..this guy is always asking men to get on their knees for him. kinky. 🧎‍♂️

..he is filling out them khakis..

..there was a few seconds of this view. and jostling. i blacked out. 😵

..he grabbed da butt! honestly, i would’ve too. love that jj’s shirt says ‘sex wax’ on the back of it. 👌

..it’s okay, he was due for a bath anyway. 🌊🛀

[feral-and-or-horny]

So I'm having some money problems. I'm trying to pull some strings with friends to get me a recommendation for a good job on campus, but even if I started tomorrow, I wouldn't get paid until late next month. I just need enough to tide me over for the rest of this month, so anything would help.

My venmo is @Allison517

My cashapp is @AllieCat517

[drewseph]

tanguyonakoy: Archive Drew photographed by me

[kply-industries]

[fantasticalleigh]

"PUNK, I WANT YOU RIGHT NOW. I KNOW WHERE YOUR FAMILY LIVES"

please tell me this is going to lead to a segment where Drew attacks Punk in his own home just like Rey Mysterio vs. Dominik Mysterio + Ripley or LA Knight vs. AJ Styles

[reebasaurusbex]

The Holy Trinity

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

Sam Campbell X Slow Horses continued

[Part 1] [Part 2]

[probablyasocialecologist]

On one level, it is obvious that this weekend’s violence began with the surprise assault from Hamas. But this line of thinking presupposes that everything in Gaza was peaceful until Hamas decided to disrupt that peace, or that no Palestinians have been dying at Israeli hands before the last two days. The reality is that Israel has been slowly killing all 2.3 million people in Gaza for the past 16 years, systematically subjugating Gazans to a series of apartheid policies that have affected the most basic details of our lives. Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are also subjected to daily violence and degradation. The aim is to dispossess the Palestinians to the point that the people are left stranded with nothing but mere calls for the outside world to end what so many have called a form of “collective punishment.” Israel does everything it can to make life in Gaza unbearable. It controls all of Gaza’s water resources. It imposes illegal barriers on all the entry points to the strip, effectively trapping Gazans inside (though some of those barriers have been breached in the last two days). It controls the flow of goods and services in and out of the strip, leaving it with the unilateral power to cut those services off, as it is doing now. It purposefully throttles Gaza’s economy. Palestinians who require medical attention outside Gaza often face insurmountable obstacles in obtaining necessary care. Similarly, young Palestinians are routinely prevented from pursuing their academic dreams at international colleges simply because they had the misfortune of being born as Palestinians in Gaza. The people of Gaza endure daily hardships and injustices, yearning for a resolution that will allow them to lead dignified lives free from the burden of occupation and blockade. And when they do attempt to peacefully protest these conditions, Israel slaughters them in cold blood. So the real question should not be “Why is this happening now?” It should be “How did this not happen sooner?” No people can be expected to endure the kind of oppression and discrimination that Palestinians face at the hands of the Israeli government forever without any kind of response. While Israel claims to be waging war against Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions, it seeks to justify its war crimes and engages in collective punishment against the Palestinian people.

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Elizabeth Banks was THAT bitch as Effie

[weirdlookindog]

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