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#bigger groups are safer for everyone #just dont be an idiot and get people killed #never trust a cop

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Pray for everyone in rafah there's heavy bombing right now there. I can't sleep thinking of my family 😭

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if you’re in denver please come to the auraria college campus, theres a protest on tivoli quad and they need bodies, there is about a 2-1 cop-protestor ratio right now. any help is appreciated if you can make it there, they blocked the entrances but it’s a big campus and you should be able able to get in, i’ll update if we hear more

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Gold swivel ring with amethyst frog, Egypt, New Kingdom, 1550-1229 BC

from Christies

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I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.

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Me: you can't vote your way out of fascism.

Tumblr randos I've never spoken to a day in my life, suddenly coming out of the woodwork: ok but have you considered that if EVERYONE votes, maybe we can get rid of the fascism that way?

#fascists are always going to listen to the will of the people of course

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I know as an ecologist I'm supposed to hate invasive species like European Starlings but last night when I was driving home from work the sun was just going down and as I stopped at a red light I looked out the window and saw three starlings splashing in a puddle on the side of the road, and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I've seen in a while. They didn't choose to be here any more than any other creature did. I can't fault the birds for living.

#the water looked like gold I wish I had taken a picture #but then I dont because its better than a picture #like that time I saw wild dolphins a picture would not have been so right #maybe I'll paint the starlings sometime #naturalist #ecology #I'll give up my starlings when the rest of you give up your honeybees

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do you find palestinian voices to be unbiased?

you do understand that everything the settler entity that is israel has done to us and our personal experiences with the occupation is what very much shapes our opinions and views right?

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Passover seder at UC Berkeley’s Gaza solidarity encampment (via twitter)

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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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Those who protest against Israel's genocide are punished for antisemitism.

But for some strange reason, authorities have never cracked down on antisemitism any other time. Any other time, antisemitism is considered free speech.

It's almost as if they know damn well that protesting against Israel is not antisemitism.

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This GFM campaign belongs to Fadi Alshrafi, who you can find on TikTok here. His family is one of hundreds who are on the Operation Olive Branch spreadsheet. He is one of 9 family members trying to evacuate Gaza; as of 2/19, his brother was injured during bombings, his pregnant sister-in-law needs urgent prenatal care, and his father needs medication for Congestive Heart Failure (if you're in healthcare you know how dire it is to go without CHF medication; if you're not in healthcare: heart failure means heart FAILURE. If it goes untreated for too long it will become fatal).

I've checked today (2/28) and Fadi's campaign has reached about 22% of its goal, not even 1/3 of the way there. Please donate what you can, and spread this campaign to help Fadi and his family.

Actions you can take after sharing:

Call your reps and demand a ceasefire and safe passage of aid entry into Gaza (US)

Gaza Action Toolkit

Global Protest List

Millions March list (protests on 3/2 in Puerto Rico, US, Canada)

EDIT: For some reason tumblr isn't letting me hyperlink Fadi's tiktok so I'll add it here:

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“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

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It’s crazy to me to like know people who actually got arrested like it was literally in the schools “free speech” zone not to mention IU LITERALLY cancelled an exhibition of a Palestinian artist like 3 months back