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GoFundMes for people evacuating gaza, please share and donate

~2k out of 62.5k USD raised, including a child under 1 years old, very low on funds

75 out of 20,000 EUR, very low on funds

65k EUR out of 70k, very near goal, family includes a young child

40k EUR out of 80k, family includes a young child

11k GBP out of 50k

16k EUR out of 40k

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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>wake up in treehouse >hungover from root beer >late for my job as ice cream taster at candy mountain >stumble to cardboard box to drive to work >don't have enough imagination to make it go >try to take my bike >get pulled over by toy soldier for having a girly bike >get sentenced to a saturday of homework and to watch baby shows like barney >thank him for his service >fired from job >go to candy store >stumble home hyper >wake up for another big day

I LOVE LIVING IN KIDWORLD, THE ONLY FUN COUNTRY ON EARTH

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

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Jean Descole period cramp mood board

#LOOOL #pl

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Hey y’all the uni im at is doing an encampment until our school divests from companies funding Israel’s attacks on palestine and u can donate for food and other supplies here:

https://givebutter.com/h2NTYZ

Wanted to use my platform to help get some eyes on action happening near me 🙏🙏 Ty for reading and to any generous souls who donate

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Pitcher in the form of a dragon, Vietnam, 15th century

from The Ayala Museum, Manila

#dragons

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A highly important and magnificent rhinoceros horn 'Dragon' vessel, Holy Roman Empire, late 16th–early 17th century;

powerfully carved as a mighty winged dragon depicted poised on all four feet, bristling with latent energy, its long scaly body boldly carved in relief with ribbed neck and naturalistic scales, its entire form suffused with impending movement, the splendid long tail depicted curling once and then more gently undulating upwards, tapering to a narrower tip, the ferocious head depicted raised with gaping jaws as an aperture framed by sharp fangs, its staring bulbous eyes fixed in an acute expression, flanked by two prominent wings depicted outstretched in anticipation of impending flight, the grain of the horn of a rich amber-yellow brown.

Courtesy Alain Truong

#dragons

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thanks grandma

#does anyone remember. #loud

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#TBH over the hedge. #tags

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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.

These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:

Here's an ongoing fundraiser:

I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.

I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:

But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).

You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.

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It’s really heartening how much people on this site came together to help Ahmed @90-ghost. He’s in Egypt now with his younger brother waiting on his mom and older brother to join them. The issue now is living expenses. Life is extremely difficult for displaced people, and the future is uncertain. If you’ve ever wondered how you can help a Palestinian displaced by the genocide, here’s one way to do so.

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israelis love being like "how dare you accuse us of this crime? this is so unthinkable. we would never do that. we investigated, have fabricated fake evidence, and have found this claim baseless."

only to immediately commit the exact same crime they were accused of again, but this time with zero pretense

works cited:

israel killing journalists: - how dare you accuse us of killing a journalist? (shireen abu akleh) - we investigated and found this claim baseless - israel killing over 95 palestinian journalists in gaza

israel bombing hospitals: - how dare you accuse us of bombing a hospital? (al-ahli hospital bombing) - we investigated and found this claim baseless - israel bombing multiple hospitals in gaza and then shelling and invading the rest

israel killing starving palestinians trying to get food: - how dare you accuse us of shooting palestinians trying to get food? (flour massacre) - we investigated and found this claim baseless - israel killing palestinians trying to get food again two days later

worth noting also in every single case not only is the original accusation always proven true, albeit to much less fanfare from western media that originally amplified the israeli denial, but it's occasionally proven indisputably true after they've already done it again. just really impressive levels of "what were you gonna do about it, anyway?"

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i had a crush on him when i was like 10 years old

#yaps #NOT the guy. the cartoon. #i wasnt aware that the animated series was of a podcast. or what a podcast was.

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#yes... layto.... yes...! yes!!!! #pl

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At least 5 Palestinians, including a 16-year old child, were killed in an Israeli raid on the city of Tulkarem. This marks one of the most violent raids in the West Bank, spanning several days and still ongoing. Israeli settler violence is also seeing an all-time high, aided and abetted by IOF forces that have not only been shooting Palestinians and beating them to death, but also blocking ambulances attempting to rescue them.