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I can't stop thinking about the news out of Palestine. Israel is sieging al Shifa hospital. Videos of people's limbs being severed off are haunting (graphic video tw). The hospital has ran out of fuel and 39 babies in incubators are fending for their lives by themselves, because Israel has stationed snipers around the hospital and is shooting all medical crew that walks into their sight.

First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.

And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.

This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.

This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.

The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.

Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.

You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:

Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate.

Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.

Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.

Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.

Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.

Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!

FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Feel free to add more.

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Isn't this basically Sophie from howl's moving castle?

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not me finally getting myself anew phone like four months later

when your phone breaks and you resort to your moms laptop to log into your socials

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when your phone breaks and you resort to your moms laptop to log into your socials

#help #i have no idea whats going on rn #day four of no phone #random #energeticsirens #at least i can still read fanfiction #hi yall

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lets just talk about the levi squad and how they must've all ACTUALLY changed by the time it's almost s4

levi, who's just beginning to understand that he doesnt cause death everywhere he goes and is much easier to understand the feelings of, even if he still doesnt vocalize it. you can tell in the way his gazes arent as harsh anymore depending on the person, and how he brings armin tea that's actually supposed to help him sleep, or how he tries to make sure sasha's plate always has a little extra because he knows food makes her feel like she's at home. he hasnt changed much, but if you know him well, you notice the difference letting go has done.

hange, who's erratic nature has simmered down after moblit lost his life to save theirs. their best friend, commander, and nearly every scout gone. hange is quieter, and its noticable, but what's more noticable is how they desperately try to find something to remember their loved ones with in case they pass unexpectedly. any outside world technology yelena, niccolo, or onyakopon could provide. cameras, if they exist in aot. hange still gets extremely excited about studying titans, or testing an idea out, but it's not their main priority anymore. not without moblit.

historia dreams of her cadet days constantly. of giving sasha food and water after she's gotten into trouble, of eren being genuine with her and not trying to coddle her after what happened in s2, of punching levi and making both him and mikasa actually smile from that, of ymir. she understands her duties, and she loves her daughter, but she can't help but feel trapped in control when she didnt have control over anything in her life. she looks into her husband's eyes, but knows that as good as a guy he is, she just can't swing that way in more than business.

eren is self explanatory. he sees the future, he closes himself off and is stuck between enjoying what time he has left before the war takes over and he has to pass on his titan shifting, or escaping and finding a way out. he knows what happens now, but he didn't know whether lying was better than the looks he'd get if he admitted the truth. he's so tired.

armin doesnt sleep, not when he can help it. he's so caught up in this web of proving to himself that him being saved wasn't a mistake, that he needs to prove hes everything erwin said he was despite already being there. he knows his childhood dreams are true, but he also knows that when he saw that ocean, his childhood ended too. he doesn't know what to believe anymore, let alone who.

sasha, before she died, wondered if she was really the heart of the group like her friends probably said, or if she meant that much to people as eren claimed, or if she was just loud to assure others she was still there. to assure herself. she doesn't know whether she's a good person or not, but she's beginning to think that there's no good people, not even herself, and not even her friends.

connie tries not to change. he tries to continue being who he was as a trainee, as his early cadet days. but he knows that nothing he does will bring back 10-15 year old connie springer. he's scared, but no one needs to know that yet. he wants to at least give his friends one less person to worry about.

mikasa knows who she is, and she knows that holding a leash against her friends won't stop bad things from happening. she doesn't want to talk about the nightmares, or her own self doubt lingering at the back of her head. she wants to be strong, and she wants to trust that her friends will call for her when they need her. but why does it still feel so wrong to be alone?

jean wants to be dependable. he wants to give the impression that he's unbreakable, that he'll be someone who you can rely on fully without any doubt. marco....reiner...he doesn't want more regrets. he just wants to be ready, but being ready also includes being ready to lose everything you have. he isn't sure if he's the kind of person who could keep on going after that.

#aot #attack on titan #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #levi ackerman #connie springer #armin arlert #historia reiss #hange zoe #aot headcanons

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With the Twilight Movies out on Netflix please considering donating to the Quileute tribe as they are trying to move to a safer zone on higher ground for their community

https://mthg.org

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I like wendy, i really do, but i don't think she's really suited for the type of game survivor's become in the past five years AT ALL. the chicken thing was so unnecessary, and her caring more about that than the game OUT OF NOWHERE was so weird.

I understand her suddenly not feeling comfortable eating the chickens now that she'd be there to watch them be cooked, even if she ate them before coming to the island. but refusing to let her STARVING teammates eat them, and setting them free in the middle of the night, when she was already on the outs, was one of the worst survivor decisions ive seen.

i don't blame her for her ankle, because she didnt use it as an excuse to get out of challenges or let it hold her back, but when you have a setback in challenges added to already being on the outs socially on the tribe-- the last thing you want to do is let people know who exactly you want off, let them know everything about your old tribe which will come back to bite you in the ass if you stay in long enough, not communicate with your tribe, and you most definitely don't want to RELEASE CHICKENS AND NOT LET YOUR STARVING TEAMMATES EAT THEM

#survivor cbs #wendy survivor #miss girl those chickens aren't going to give you eggs just from feeding them rice or sumn #if she had been old enough to play WAY earlier seasons she'd probably have a bigger chance in the game

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amber is a lot smarter than people give her credit for. she played the social game crazy in all stars, and openly admits to flirting with rob as a strategy for the first part of the game, and so does he

(and then they kind of called that quits near the merge when they were like . shit im in love with u . and kind of just kept it at "I really think you're the only trustworthy person in this game and I'd literally cry if I blindsided you bc u keep me sane." POINT IS, they were honest to each other for literally 99% of the game except for like the first week when they were strictly alliance from attraction)

she recognized that he was the best player to be aligned with to get to the merge, and literally took part in a huge part of decisions they both made. she was put here giving him a lot of strategic ideas in his ear, and no one even noticed until around the final seven or final eight

do I think she would get another win? no. her win in season eight was largely due to her social game over rob's. she made sure people liked her even if they wanted her out, and rob focused majorly on strategy. a good half of the jury didn't think she deserved it because they didn't realize she wasnt just leaning on rob for survival. her social game is what got her that win, and more recent games are way more focused on strategy than actual social connections with all of these additions and game changes (like eoe, rare clues for idols, etc)

amber deserved her win, but plays very differently than the players in the fifteen most recent seasons, where so much as a relationship or act of kindness on the first day would get you booted quick. survivor is essentially a whole new game now, and her way of playing is far more adjusted to the older seasons

i love her sm and her slander by fans is completely bogus

#survivor cbs #AND THE FACT THAT SHE DOESNT REALIZE SHE DESERVED HER WIN IN ALL STARS MAKES ME SO SAD #miss girl's way of playing isnt the same as the recent winners #amber survivor #boston rob

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Calling a canon bisexual woman a lesbian becuase she has a female love interest or is in a wlw relationship is bisexual erasure and biphobic!!!!

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the French senate is currently voting a law banning minor girls to wear a hijab, hijabi women to chaperone their kid's school trips and the burqini at the beach. their excuse is that "hijab is not just a clothe, it's the symbol of islamists", and "we want to forbid any sign that could show a situation of superiority of men over women".

this is absolutely revolting. this is Islamophobia in its pure form. Muslim are being prived of their rights because of the simple idea that "islamists want to control france by showing their religion". this is also very sexist, since no one wants to understand that the hijab IS NOT a symbol of submission to men.

as a muslim girl who lives in france, and wanted to wear the hijab, and lives with women who wear it, I just want to say it's ridiculous. and outrageous, because no one in france seems to be against that idea. where are the ones who said that every women should wear what she wants to? where are the ones who said that the state would protect every religion in france?

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So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.

So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.

This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages

This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe

This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages

This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors

This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords

This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone

This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school

This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad

This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore

This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it

This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing

We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens

This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.

This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.

This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house

This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.

But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.

This was not a time that we came together

This was a time that we survived

Not all of us made it

And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us

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BEAUTIFUL?? BAE

answer some questions about love and i’ll tell you why you intimidate people

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Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

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the way (ahsoka tano x reader)

pairing: ahsoka tano x fem!reader warnings: mutual pining! god angst but SO MUCH FLUFF a/n: i love ahsoka so much so i knew i had to write something about her. this is super fluffy and just rly sweet overall. your master is also non binary and uses they/them pronouns!! hope you enjoy!! the reader’s species isn’t specified, but female aligned pronouns are used. requests are open! posted on november 27th, in honor of the new episode of the mandalorian! 

you knew it was wrong. 

you knew it was against the jedi code and everything you stood for, but when you met her all of the code flew out of your mind and the only thing you could think of was her. the way her eyes shown bright with determination and passion for learning, the way she carried herself with confidence and the grace and poise in the way she walked. the way she looked at you for the first time, welcoming and friendly, and the way her hand stuck out to meet yours. the way her hand felt warm, enveloping your whole body in a sense of comfort.

you knew it was wrong, but that didn’t stop you. 

her name was ahsoka tano, you learned from your master, the day you met her. it fit her well. she was beautiful. everything about her was. you were afraid your master would be able to tell that you liked her, but they never mentioned it to you. 

but you still knew it was wrong.

Keep reading

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Reblog if you 100% okay with a transgender person correcting you if you accidentally misgender them or use their dead name.

please do

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JUSTICE FOR CASEY GOODSON

On December 4th, 2020, Casey Christian Goodson Jr. (23 years old) was shot three times in the back and murdered by a Sheriff’s Deputy as he was entering his home in Columbus, Ohio. Goodson’s family stated that he was returning home from a dentist appointment, holding a Subway sandwich, his face mask, and his keys, when he was shot.

Two days later, the Columbus Police Department made a statement alleging that James Meade, the deputy responsible for Goodson’s death, saw a man believed to be Goodson with a gun while driving. Meade then approached Goodson after he exited his car and walked home, where he was shot.

Hours after the shooting, the US Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, Peter Tobin, confirmed that Goodson was not the fugitive they were searching for. However, Tobin also added that he believed that the shooting was justified, claiming that Goodson was shot after he refused to drop his “weapon.”

Yet another Black man murdered by the police.

DEMAND JUSTICE.

art credit: @alex.albadree on instagram

graphics credit: @worldawarenessassociation on instagram

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